Important points
- Teams users can now enjoy an updated Copilot experience with improved prompts and access to Copilot Lab to view prompts.
- Teams Rooms on Android now offers advanced meeting protection features such as end-to-end encryption and sensitivity labels with the Teams Premium license.
- Teams admins can now configure leased lines for selected users, and a variety of devices are now compatible with SIP gateways for added flexibility.
New features are added to Microsoft Teams frequently, and the Redmond technology company is capitalizing on the online collaboration and communication tool’s popularity in the era of hybrid work. Microsoft regularly publishes an overview of all the features it’s added to Teams at the end of each month, and now they’ve done the same for February 2024. Teams received 37 features last month, the highlight of which was the updated Copilot experience.
What’s new in chat, collaboration, and meetings?
If you work for an organization that paid for a Copilot license, you should see the Copilot app above your chats. According to Microsoft, the software offers many benefits over Microsoft 365 Chat, including improved prompts tailored to your content, the ability to view your chat history, and access to Copilot Lab, where you can browse a library of prompts. .
When it comes to your activity feed, you can delete items and change notification settings so you can focus on the content you care about most. There’s also a new layout for Together mode, which displays all participants in a horizontal pane at the bottom of the video with a shared background.
What improvements have been made to the Teams hardware experience?
Teams Rooms customers on Android can now take advantage of advanced meeting protection features such as end-to-end encrypted meetings and sensitivity labels. However, accessing these features requires a Teams Premium license. The same Teams SKU also has a new calendar view that shows today’s and tomorrow’s schedule, a customizable meeting view, and a configurable daily maintenance resume window. You can also control Teams Rooms using your Windows PC and take advantage of all the features available in Teams Rooms with the Android 2024 Update 1 release.
Specifically, the following devices are Teams certified:
- Teams Rooms devices
- Audio code RXV81B10
- Teams Biamp Devio SCX
- personal device
- Yerink BH70
- epos impact 700
- Epos Impact 860T
Teams Phone customers aren’t left out in the cold either. Teams admins can now configure private lines that bypass certain restrictions for specific users, distinguished by unique notifications and ringtones. Additionally, the following devices are also compatible with her SIP gateway:
- Snom D735 IP Phone
- Snom D717 IP Phone
What’s new in webinars, town halls, and mobile?
On the Webinar and Town Hall side of Teams, hosts can configure meeting options through an inline window in the Teams scheduling form. Similarly, the fields in the webinar registration form can now be sorted according to the organizer’s preferences. Meanwhile, mobile customers can enjoy official support for Android Auto, sensitivity labels for Teams meetings, and pinning Teams app shortcuts to the Android home screen.
What can I expect when it comes to Teams apps and software solutions?
As of February 2024, the following vendor apps are now available directly in Teams:
- AI assist
- Bigtincan for Microsoft Teams
- culture amp
- EY Catalyst Connect
- SAP Sales and Service Cloud
- Smart Connect for Jira
- Teladoc health management
- work path
- Zoho CRM for team collaboration
Meanwhile, admins managing frontline worker solutions in Teams can deploy operational tiers through the Teams admin center and configure automated, targeted announcements based on frontline roles. Finally, you can now program her SMS notifications for virtual appointments in the US, UK, and Canada using the Microsoft Graph API. However, if you want to learn more about this implementation and all the features mentioned above, check out Microsoft’s dedicated blog post here.
