We are happy to announce the “Only me” option for “Who can bypass lobby?” setting is now available for Teams meetings. Details on the new lobby option can be found here, https://support.microsoft.com/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e.

Thanks!

We are happy to announce this feature is released to the public.

This item is still completed, HOWEVER many of you have reported a new issue: drag/drop does not work when you are taking a file directly from email (i.e. Outlook) and trying to drop it into Teams. I experience the same problem every day, too!

If you’d like this function, please add your votes to this UserVoice item for that specific drag/drop ask: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/16927345

Thanks and hope you’re having a great day.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

Muting of conversation threads is available to the public. Just like muting a chat, turning off notifications to a channel conversation will stop you from receiving updates for that specific conversation.

To turn off notifications for specific conversations

• Go to the beginning of a conversation in a channel
• Go to the top right corner of the original message in the conversation thread and select More options … > Turn off notifications.

Great news, this feature request has been completed and now available to the public!

Thank you for all your feedback and suggestions. :) Enjoy the feature!
-Warren

Slight correction. This is being flagged as completed as it is now in the public ring.
Teams cloud meeting recording is now available world-wide as a Preview! Please try this feature out in your Teams meetings and let us know how we can improve it!

Additional information.
Admin doc is located at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/cloud-recording
(Biggest thing is to be sure to check the pre-requisites.)

End User docs: http://aka.ms/recordmeeting

Thank you for all the support and feedback!
-Warren

Thank you for your feedback – Presence for Teams users is supported on Outlook/Office 2013+ and the latest Teams desktop build. Skype for Business is no longer required to be installed on the machine.

Removing people from group chats is available on desktop and mobile. Please see this article for details: https://support.office.com/article/leave-or-remove-someone-from-a-group-chat-7db55a67-0ba4-4409-a399-5ed502a1d094.

Note: Your admin will need to turn on this setting to allow members to remove each other from a group chat.

Enjoy!

This item was completed.

From within a meeting the share control can be found at the dropdown at the top of the screen if you are currently sharing as well as the floating control box that exists when you are in a meeting.

Thank you for all your feedback.
-Warren

1. - #7 are available today. Please see details here: https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/teams-analytics-and-reports/teams-reporting-reference

For Channels analytics, please upvote or comment on this item: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/37398805-channel-analytics.

Thanks!

As stated last week, based on the volume of recent feedback, we fast-tracked adding the ability for meeting organizers to end a meeting for all participants with the click of a button. This was released to the public ring today.

In addition, the team has begun working on an option requiring everyone other than the meeting organizer to go thru the lobby. Once that feature is available, attendees will be placed in the lobby when rejoining the meeting. (Please see this UV item – https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38309602).

Thank you,
Alex & the Teams team

Just like in a regular Teams meetings, you can now include your system audio when presenting in a live event. Currently, this feature is only available for presenters and producers joining from the Teams desktop app for Windows.

Read more about how this works here: https://support.office.com/article/share-system-audio-in-a-teams-meeting-or-live-event-dddede9f-e3d0-4330-873a-fa061a0d8e3b

The fix for this is officially completed! For the specific issue of status changing to away in Teams when you are still active on the device, there was still a small % of users who saw the broken behavior, but as of today, all should be working correctly. Please note this was a backend fix, so no client update is needed.

If you believe you are still having an issue, please feel free to capture logs by typing Ctrl + Shift + Alt + 1, and send the file from your downloads folder along with detailed repro steps to teamsml@microsoft.com.

Thanks everyone – and enjoy!

You can now remove yourself from group chats! Just click the overflow menu next to the chat and select Leave. You’ll still have access to chat history up until you left.

-Suphatra

We have begun rolling out the fix for Teams to honor the OWA Mailbox Policy setting configured by tenant admins to control whether users can change their profile picture.

Please se https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/exchange-teams-interact for details. If you don’t have it quite yet, sit tight as it can take time to roll out fully.

Thanks!

The redesigned and expanded message actions have rolled out to all users. If you are still not seeing this, please reach out to teamsml@microsoft.com.

Users can now pin their personal apps right where they can readily access them – on the Teams app bar. Simply find the app, right-click the icon, and select “pin”. Even after you navigate away, the app icon will remain so you can easily return to it. You can also customize your app bar further by dragging and dropping apps to your desired position, or unpinning apps.

This feature is in addition to the Teams Admin’s ability to establish tenant-wide policies for the apps that appear on everyone’s Teams app bar.

Muting both a channel and a chat are now available to the public.

When you mute a channel, you will continue to get notifications for the following:
- @Team mentions in that channel
- Replies and reactions to conversations which you have taken part in that channel
- @Channel mention of other channels in that muted channel

What you will stop receiving notifications for are:
- All new posts in that channel
- Replies to those posts in that channel
- @Channel mentions of that channel

To mute a particular channel,
- Go to the channel overflow menu (triple dot) and choose “Channel notifications”
- Select “Off” for all the menu options you see in that “Channel notifications” dialog box

Thanks!

Thank you for your feedback. We’re happy to announce the ability to upload files directly into channel folder in Teams iOS app is now available with the latest update.