6 new features in Microsoft Teams for Spring 2024

📝 Table of contents
0:00 Introduction
0:10 Images for Custom Announcements
1:16 New UI for Posts
1:54 Forward a message
2:24 Audio/Video drop down controls
3:27 Annotations in Whiteboard, etc.
4:16 Right click on icon to set status


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[HippieP]

These are cute and all. Microsoft, PLEASE enable a multi-user screenshare functionality!! 2 people's screens, side by side.

[.Golden]

Great info, keep updating us and thank you!

[marelimp]

Great features. Really.
I'm just missing one feature. Since I was force-updated to the New Teams, I can't JOIN A MEETING! The same with others in my company who have been forced to use the new Teams. And don't let me start with notifications...oh boy. So maybe, just maybe, Microsoft should fix bugs with BASIC functionalities before working on fancy stuff like annotations. Just saying...

[anuragtumane]

New Microsoft Teams has replaced the Classic one on 01 July this month.

[mariaviotto]

When is the sync option going to be reinstated?

[carmelcream]

Is there a reason why a good majority of my fellow Co workers can't see gifs on the new teams but shows when you switch back to the old teams?

[atsvok]

Hello Mike, help is needed. Please show how to switch the tabs of Edge or other browsers that are hidden behind presenters mode. It's very annoying at the moment

[Munards]

Don’t delete old messages. That search feature is key

[deanh]

The hiding gifs emojis etc in a pop up then a see more is unnecessary added clicks, when first appeared on my client I thought gifs had gone rather than just been hidden away. Any chance you’d fix the “what’s new in Teams” modal pop up that is illegible if you have Teams in a dark mode, and in a chat hit enter it will send you first have to move to the text box or you just make a title, more added clicks to make a quick post! Inconsistent posting experience that bugs me is if you are making a chat message you need to shift enter, enter will send it, to get a new line but in channel posts hitting enter is carriage return so you have to then click the paper plane to send it.

[kennymcdowell]

Can forwarding a message from a meeting breach the confidentiality/ permissions of the members in the original meeting?

[louiseboyle]

Hi Mike, thanks for all the helpful videos.
I'm looking for a bit of help.
When attaching a OneNote page to an assignment, I used to be able to select the page from the Teacher only section of the OneNote and place it in each student's class folder. In the last month I have not been able to do this.

When I click on the option to attach a OneNote page and it asks me which part of the class notebook I want to get the page from, I select the teacher only section but it gives the impression that it is loading the pages from that section but they don't load. I've tried from various devices but encountered the same problems. Any ideas on what the problem may be? (Any help gratefully received 😊)

[Metzanine]

Any improvements to notifications? Between laptop and mobile it's a mess. Unreliable.

[Koroodetto]

I would like to see a function for education to preview a student post before allowing it to be posted. Microsoft doesn’t assist teachers with inappropriate comments. I can only delete it once it’s been posted.

[ArthurVaccarino]

We would be much more likely to want to add a file than an emoji or gif. We're business users not children. Do the developers actually use this software?

The AV settings changes are a HUGE improvement.

[faucillon]

2nd, as if that matters. Did I see this correctly? Mike uses MacOS?

[lenevee]

Some of these new features are unnecessary. I noticed that I no longer get notifications whenever someone status changes.

[tiongah]

am I the only one that still hoped for creating subchannels in a channel?

[summoner]

"everything else is behind the plus"... yes, so it makes multiple clicks to do the same thing as one in the previous. What is with Microsoft doing this lately? It's the same as the stupid combined wifi flyout in the taskbar. Multiple clicks to do the same crap