9 new features in Microsoft Teams for Summer 2024

📝 Table of contents
0:00 Introduction
0:11 Group Chat profile picture
0:56 Thumbnail documents when pasting in Chat/Channel
1:42 Context of recent files
2:00 Slash commands
3:07 Meet Now in Group Chats
3:32 Enhanced sound notification controls
4:33 Hide General Channel
5:14 Turn Notifications ON or OFF on a Post
5:36 Custom Emojis (Public Preview)

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[Andreviaceu]

Onenote deserve more attention from Microsoft

[chrisbare]

Good stuff as usual! Any chance the left side bar, where all the different teams are listed, will be able to hide or reduce in the future? Similar to the function in the new Outlook.

[dennibrueggemann]

When is the ability to share the app from the task bar (works in Old Teams) in Teams Meetings coming back to New Teams?

[MarkNobleUS]

2:00 Slash commands don't appear to work in Teams Personal. 😒

[MarkNobleUS]

1:10 Why not just let people drag it to the chat button, which would expand to recent chats, and let the user drop the file there - instead of clicking 6 times like it's 1995 to move a file around within an app?

[beu]

Great updates, thanks!
Still having some issues in the EDU account. We created classwork with a bunch of assignments. Some of the assignments have copy/paste screenshots in the text, most texts are formated. When we reuse a classwork several times the formatting in the (copied) assignments is mixed up, the screenshots do not show up, … Whom/where to report this issue?

[kenb]

Is there any chance that Edu tenants will soon be able to enable video filters, like soft focus, for Teams? We have folks who insist on Zoom because it can touch-up their appearance. While there are pages (from March 2023) saying that Edu won't "initially" have access to these features, there haven't been updates or responses to user comments asking when we (I'm in higher ed) might get these features. (Note: We've also opened a Unified Support ticket.) Thanks.

[kristinflederbach]

HI- In teams I am doing an 8 hour class with power point. In order to keep everyone engaged- I'd like to have pop up questions throughout the presentation that correstpond with each slide. I tried polls- but it has to be initiated and will bogg down the chat. Do you have any suggestions?

[DavidParkinson]

If only you could switch to your corporate background without 14 clicks. Alas. No. We have group pictures. Woop.

[nikolatasev]

These are mostly frills and surface level things. What I want is to be able to pin more than 15 chats. To edit or disable hotkeys. To disable rich-text pasting. I've had numerous cases when I wanted to paste-without-formatting (Ctrl-Shift-V), but my finger slipped and hit Ctrl-Shift-C, which starts a call with the entire chat - not good.
How about removing UDP for text messages? When the network is bad messages simply do not get delivered - sometimes important and urgent messages. It is the worst feeling in the world to stroll yesterday's chat and in the middle of the conversation see messages that were not there yesterday.

[ShawnaXia]

Hey Mike, I really like your video! Can I ask you for a sponsored video?

[markpickwell]

If only the gradebook showed late work! All these fancy updates but Google winning on this one!