Microsoft Teams will block clients older than 90 days to enhance security and promote timely software updates among users.
The reinstatement of the General Channel highlights Microsoft's responsiveness to user feedback, improving collaboration by maintaining familiar structures.
Deep dives
Enforcement of Client Updates
Microsoft Teams will begin blocking clients that are older than 90 days from accessing the service to ensure security and performance. Starting April 11 for Windows users and May 6 for Mac users, users will receive alerts prompting them to update their clients. This enforcement aims to encourage administrators to keep software up-to-date, ensuring that security standards are met. The update will also include reports to help administrators track the update lifecycle of their clients.
General Channel Returns
The general channel, previously scheduled to be removed, has made a comeback, allowing organizations to have a default channel named 'General.' Users can now rename their first channel back to 'General' if they previously changed it. This change reflects Microsoft's responsiveness to customer feedback and the importance of maintaining familiar structures in Teams for effective collaboration. The reinstatement simplifies the channel-naming process and aligns with user preferences.
New Features Enhancing Functionality
Teams is rolling out several new features aimed at enhancing user experience, including shared PowerPoint controls for all presenters in a meeting. This will allow multiple presenters to control a single PowerPoint deck simultaneously, alleviating confusion during presentations. Another notable feature involves detecting sensitive content during screen sharing, which will alert presenters if potentially sensitive information is being shared inadvertently. Such improvements are designed to enhance meeting efficiency and security.
Detect sensitive content screen shared in meetings
Share PowerPoint control with all presenters
New Unify Contact Center to Microsoft Teams Integration model
Enforcement of Teams Phone license checks for Extend Contact Centres and Attendant Consoles
M365 Copilot Chat will be pinned by default in Teams and Outlook
Teams Devices Updates
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