As Microsoft continue to evolve Teams as part of their Microsoft 365 offering they are rolling out a number of changes in June.
They will be enabling users to be able to view meetings and calls in separate windows along with the other recently announced features.
Once available, users will be able to view meetings and calls in separate windows from the main Microsoft Teams client. Additionally, meeting and call controls such as mute, video, chat, leave and others will now be located at the top of the meeting window so that they are always available and never block the underlying content.
This new experience will also include recently announced features such as 3x3 video, raise hands, and custom backgrounds.
This will roll-out OFF by default and users will have the ability to turn on the new experience via the user setting: General > Turn on new meetings and calling experiences.
In the future Micrsoft will enable this functionality by default, but they want to provide users extra time to become familiar with having meetings open in their own sperate window.
New meeting experience
New meeting/calls control location
Steps for Users to turn on the new experience
Step 1: Click on Avatar on top right of Teams and click Settings.
Step 2: Check the Turn on new calling an meetings experiences check box and then restart the Teams client.
To provide additional transparency Microsoft expect the new experiences to be enabled with the following timeline:
- June – New experiences are available and users can enable through settings.
- July – Experiences are enabled by default and users can disable through settings.
- August – Experiences are enabled by default and user controls are no longer available.
The team at Affinity can help you get this set up and answer your queries on Microsoft 365 and how it could benefit your business on 0114 362 7000.
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