04/07/2020 - Teams Meeting experience improvements

Summary

Announcing new features to improve your Microsoft Teams experience.

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We are pleased to announce the following features will be available to improve your Teams Meeting experience:

  1. Background effects in Teams meetings – Roadmap ID 62890
    • Rolling out beginning in mid April
  2. New experience for launching instant channel meetings - Roadmap ID 62904
    • Rolling out starting in late April
  3. Improved Teams meeting join launcher experience - Roadmap ID 62905
    • Rolling out starting in late April

[How does this affect me?]

Background effect in Teams meetings: Users will be able to select Microsoft provided background images prior to or during a video call.

  

New experience for launching instant channel meetings: Users will now see the Meet Now button in the Channel header in the top-right corner.

 

Improved Teams meeting join launcher experience: When launching a Teams meeting from a link, users will be provided with clearer options for how they would like to join the meeting.

 

[What do I need to do to prepare?]

You may consider updating your training and documentation as appropriate.

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Article ID: 104698
Created
Tue 4/7/20 5:34 PM