In this episode such as episode 36 , we recap some of the major features that were announced at Sharepoint Conference 2019 around SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Planner, Stream, Search, Office. We definitely had to search multiple sources for some more details on these announcements see below for the references.
In this episode which is similar to Episode 29, we cover are massive amount of features in Microsoft Teams that have been launched, rolling out or announced in the past 90 days. We've pulled all this information from Office 365 message center, Microsoft Tech community, Office 365 Roadmap with Teams filter and Enterprise Connect Announcements.
Here is the list of features covered:
General Teams/Management
Add up to 100 people to a group chat
"Announcements" Feature - ability to format a threaded conversation Banner
Manage Discoverability of Private Teams
Sharable File Links
Flow can now notify individual users within Teams - Rolling out
Microsoft Teams desktop app coming to new Office 365 ProPlus installs
Calendar App replaces Meetings App In Teams
Teams PowerShell Module now GA
Private Channels
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Teams App Setup Policies - what order of the apps shows in Teams
Teams Groups Size now support up to 100
Org-wide teams have higher size limits, so they can have up to 5000 members in a team. Admins, feel free to add away! Create that big team you've always wanted
Show and hide teams to stay organized
Calling
Music on Hold
Secondary Ringer
Busy on Busy
Teams Calling for Everyone
Dynamic E911 , Location based routing
Device Ecosystem - EC more items certified now and showing off next wave of devices
Call park policies
Auto attendants / Call Queues
Meetings
Single toolbar for controls in Meetings and Calling
Share system audio in a Teams meeting
Live Events – Formally Skype Meeting Broadcast is now generally available
Microsoft Whiteboard – Allows users to ink together in a whiteboard you share in a Teams meeting
Outlook mobile supports Teams Meetings - create and join a meeting from Android or iOS
Desktop Sharing in Teams Meetings now available in the Chrome Browser
Bring analog whiteboard into meetings – allows you to put a camera on an analog whiteboard and teams converts it into digital ink
9 square video
Background blur with custom backgrounds is coming
New-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy to manage meetings chat
Live Captions – ability to transcribe speakers voice into text in a meeting. English is in preview now with other language support rolling out
Teams support for Meeting Migration Service
Surface Hub 2
Industry Vertical
Multiteam Support in Shifts - This only affects users that are on multiple Shift teams. These users will now be able to navigate to other teams via the top header. Shift features will now allow users to select the correct Team before performing team specific actions.
Time clock in Shifts - This feature is available to be enabled on Teams Web/Desktop and will be opt-in. Ability to start and stop shits within a geo fence.
Firstline Worker capability - Graph API for Shifts allows for integration with Enterprise workforce management systems.
Firstline Worker capability - Praise - With Praise, your users will be able to recognize their colleague’s contributions by sending various badges their way. “Leadership,” “team player,” and “problem solver” are just a few options.
Priority Messaging Health Care - priority notifications allow an urgent message to send alerts to the recipient every two minutes for up to 20 minutes, and ability to integrate electronic health records built with the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard with Teams
Templates
Education templates such as Class, Staff, and PLC teams
Retail templates such as Store and Manager Collaboration teams
Healthcare templates such as Ward and Hospital teams
You can design your own templates, but Microsoft has also provided a number of industry-specific templates to get you started
In this episode the team discusses the migration of Auto-Attendant & Call Queues administration from the legacy Skype for Business Online portal to the Microsoft Teams Admin Center.
What do I do if I have Auto-Attendants and Call Queues?
As part of our mini series on Office 365 Analytics and Reporting, in this episode we are speaking with John White , Ed Senez and Dean Swann from tyGraph to speak about their tyGraph suite of products .
As part of our mini series on Office 365 Analytics and Reporting, in this episode we are speaking with Adam Curry from Unify2to speak about PowerSuite.
In this new mini series the team tackles Microsoft Office 365 Analytics and Reporting. This introduction recording we discuss the out of the box analytics and reporting capabilities provided by Microsoft, and the 6 vendors we had separate podcasts with to see how they have taken data analysis and reporting to the next level.
Microsoft Native Tools - Usage Reports, Teams Reporting, Graph Api, Powershell, Power Bi.
