Sunday, June 7, 2020

Microsoft Teams May 2020 Releases

Teams is releasing capabilities at a fast and furious pace; here is what released in May 2020.

What’s New: Meetings, Calling, and Devices
  • Improved meeting join launcher experience
  • Easily access meeting options during a Teams meeting
  • Download a participant report in a Teams meeting
  • Set tenant-wide default selection for "Who Can Present" in meetings
  • Set background effects policy at a user-level
  • Better policy controls over screen sharing from chats
  • Teams and Skype Interoperability
  • Reverse Number Lookup (RNL) Enhancements
  • Microsoft Teams Rooms, app version 4.4.41.0 now available
  • Poly announces new solution for Microsoft Teams Rooms
  • Jabra PanaCast now certified for Microsoft Teams
  • Yealink, EPOS, and Jabra announce new Teams peripherals
  • Limited time partner offers available for Teams Devices: Creston, Poly, Yealink
What’s New: Chat & Collaboration
  • Templates in Teams
  • Microsoft Lists in Teams
  • Bring more people together in group chats and teams
  • Pop out chats into separate windows
What’s New: Onboarding your organization to Teams
  • New Skype for Business to Teams Upgrade Advisor
What’s New: Developer, Platform, and App management
  • Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Extension for Teams
  • Bringing low-code bots to Teams, with Power Virtual Agents
  • Simplified Power Apps and Power Virtual Agents “Add to Teams”
  • Enhanced workflow automation with Power Automate + Teams
  • Improved Power BI sharing to Teams
What’s New: Education
  • Change in meeting join experience for our education customers
  • Keeping distance learning engaging and secure
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-may-2020/ba-p/1423015