New Features in Teams
On this page, we list key new features that have been added to Teams recently, and some which are coming soon to Teams.
Some Useful Features Already in Teams
You can add up to 10 co-organisers to help manage your meeting. They're displayed as additional organisers in the meeting participant list and have most of the capabilities of the meeting organiser. Microsoft offers information about the capabilities, limitations, and guidance on how to add co-organisers to a meeting in Team
Co-organisers will be granted many of the capabilities of the organiser in the meeting, including being able to:
- Access and modify the meeting options for the meeting
- Admit users from the lobby
- Lock the meeting
Co-organisers will not be able to do the following:
- Create and manage breakout rooms (if you want another user to be able to do this, you need to set them as a breakout room manager following the steps given on our Breakout Rooms webpage)
- View and download attendance reports
- Manage the meeting recording
- Edit the meeting invitation
Users who prefer to use the Safari browser can now initiate a 1:1 call with another Teams user while using Teams on Safari.
Users can now view real-time captions coming from a CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) provider within the Microsoft Teams meeting window. Meeting organisers and participants will be able to ask their CART captioning providers to stream captions to Microsoft Teams.
You can now record your 1:1 calls in Teams.
Notifications can be distracting while in a Teams meeting. You can now easily mute notifications while in a meetings by clicking "More actions" then "Mute notifications".
Microsoft are adding a feature which will allow you to customise the number of chat messages you see on the screen.
Use the compact setting to fit 50 percent more messages on the screen. Comfortable setting keeps the chat display as it is in Teams today.
Soon you will be able to mirror your video.
This feature will be particularly useful where users are writing something on a whiteboard in their video.
Users will be able to pin a specific message in a chat as a header, providing chat members with quick access to an important message, link or file.
Before joining a meeting, you can use filters to adjust lighting levels for your video feed in a Teams meeting. This may be particularly useful if you are in a dark room for your meeting.
New Features Coming Soon to Teams
Rolling out
With the following update, if multiple users are participating with laptops from the same location, Teams will notify user that another Teams device has been detected nearby and is already included with audio in the current meeting. Teams will automatically mute other microphones that joined when a user's audio is already on and in use.
Preview: Microsoft will complete preview release in late February.
Standard Release: To begin rolling out in early March and is expect to complete.
Prior to this update, when PowerPoint users insert captions to videos in the slides, the captions would not appear in Teams meetings. With this update, meeting attendees will be able to turn on closed captions for any video that includes embedded captions.
How to add closed captions in PowerPoint Live – Microsoft Support
Meeting organizers and participants will soon be able to add apps in channel meetings when scheduling a meeting or in an ongoing meeting.
Add apps in Microsoft Teams channel meetings – Microsoft Support