Microsoft Teams regularly gets new updates and features, which is excellent for companies that incorporate collaboration tools and online communication with their work projects for teams to stay connected throughout the process.
January 2023, Microsoft published yet another detailed changelog, as it does at the end of each month of all the new capabilities added to Teams.
What’s New in Microsoft Teams 2023?
Here are all the latest features in Teams as presented by Microsoft.
Meetings
- View video recordings and attendance reports inside LMS
- Teachers and students will be able to access video recordings and attendance reports inside their LMS itself.
- The Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI app has enabled the availability of these artifacts inside LMS. This feature will be available for all the LMSs incorporating the Teams Meeting LTI app.
Paging on Video Gallery
- When you are in Gallery view, there are more videos than can be shown at once on the meeting stage.
- Navigation controls will appear below the Video Gallery to see other videos of the attendees.
- You can use these controls to view more video participants.
Meeting Toolbar Usability Improvements
- The Meeting toolbar in Microsoft Teams just got a usability upgrade!
- New features include dedicated buttons for raising hands and switching between view modes, and navigating your next meeting just got a little easier.
Live stream Teams meetings and webinars to Meta Workplace Live
- Live stream your Teams meetings or webinars directly to Meta Workplace Live using the new Workplace Live app integration.
- Allows attendees to watch live meetings and webinars within their Workplace groups or catch up later by watching a recording on Workplace.
- Simply add the Workplace Live app to your Teams meeting or webinar, sign in using your Workplace account, and select the Workplace Event you’d like to live stream.
Webinars
- Enhanced webinar management experience with customized options
- When you select the webinar template, you’ll see a new structure and expanded opportunities to customize registration details and settings specific to each event.
- With the unique management experience, you’ll be able to configure your webinar with the following capabilities:
Calling – Federated group calling
- Quickly start a group Teams call from a chat with federated colleagues outside your organization, including video and screen sharing — all over an internet connection without any PSTN usage charges.
Chat and collaboration
- View the entire chat conversation thread after clicking on the search message results.
- Search for a chat message in Teams and click on a message result. Search will now display the full context of the conversations related to the redevelopment regardless of the age of the messages.
Management
- Edit and delete events support for messages in user: bot chats
- Currently, message events can be accessed by developers.
- This feature allows developers to access, edit, or delete event updates on messages in user: bot chats.
Upload files to your approval request via the Power Automate portal
Files uploaded within the Power Automate portal will now show within the view details window of an approval request within Teams.
Notification granularity
Admins can use Intune to determine the types of content a user can see in a notification on their mobile lock screen.
