In today's fast-paced and interconnected world, it's crucial to have effective communication and seamless collaboration in your workplace. Microsoft Teams has emerged as a leading solution for businesses, organizations, and individuals seeking to bridge the gap and connect teams regardless of physical location. With each update, Microsoft aims to empower users by equipping them with innovative features and tools that foster productivity, streamline workflows, and enhance teamwork.
This Blog will explore some of the new and exciting features Microsoft Teams has recently introduced and what's coming down the pipeline.
In this blog, you will find:
New Features in Microsoft Teams
😎 Personalized Meeting Experiences
👍 Improved Experience in Teams meetings
What's Next Step: Modern Work Discovery & Assessment
New Features in Microsoft Teams
The new Microsoft Teams brings many exciting features and updates to help you stay connected, organized, and productive. Here’s what’s new in the latest version:
Improved Security
Ensure the security of confidential information by utilizing advanced meeting protection features that prevent data leaks, enhance encryption, and automate meeting safety options.
• Sensitivity labels - Extended capabilities for users to apply sensitivity labels to control meeting settings that the meeting organizer generally controlled. These capabilities include new settings to control lobby, chat, chat copy, presentation, and recording functions.
• Watermarking - Enforced through a sensitivity label. Watermarks display the email address of a meeting participant, which helps protect confidential information shared in meetings.
• End-to-end encryption - Enforced through a sensitivity label. End-to-end encryption provides increased security for meetings that require a higher level of protection.
Increased Flexibility
Microsoft Teams introduces flexible work options with innovations that streamline multiple tenants or accounts, offering increased extensibility and scalability. The authentication, synchronization, and notification systems have been improved to provide a seamless and consistent experience. Users can now stay signed in across multiple tenants or accounts, eliminating the need to constantly log in and out and ensuring that notifications are received regardless of the active account.
AI-Powered Meetings
You can work smarter with Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered meetings and stay focused on the meeting information that matters most with the intelligent recap.
Meeting Recap in Microsoft Teams
Access valuable AI-powered insights from previous meetings using the intelligent meeting recap feature, now available in Teams Premium.
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Open a meeting from your Teams calendar and navigate to the Recap tab to explore AI-generated notes, identify meeting participants, and gain valuable information. For more details, see Meeting recap in Microsoft Teams.
Personalized Meeting Experience
The latest version of Microsoft Teams features an improved meeting experience with a redesigned user interface that makes it easier to connect, collaborate, and share content in virtual meetings.
Avatars in Microsoft Teams Meeting
Stay engaged and maintain your presence during meetings even when you're off-camera by using avatars in Teams.
Customize your avatar to represent yourself and add the Avatars app from the left side of Microsoft Teams. Turn off your camera in a meeting and select More options > Effects and avatars to choose or create your avatar. Learn more in "Join a meeting as an avatar in Teams."
Improved Experience in Teams meetings
Microsoft Teams offers an enhanced user experience for Teams Meetings, featuring advanced virtual appointments within Teams. Let's explore more details.
Advanced Virtual Appointments in Teams
The new Microsoft Teams meeting allows you to use advanced virtual appointments. These features help track business performance, manage queues, and reduce no-shows. With the ability to schedule meetings, share files, and chat with colleagues on one platform, you can stay productive and efficient, even while working remotely.
• Deliver seamless customer experiences
You can enhance the customer experience by providing personalized services from the beginning to the end. This can be achieved by sending pre-appointment SMS reminders, creating a branded lobby room, and enabling a hassle-free method to join via a web browser.
• Get flexible scheduling and appointment management
You can easily keep track of your appointments, whether scheduled or on-demand, with a convenient queue display of Microsoft Teams meetings. Plus, use the chat feature to communicate with your provider before your appointment.
• Improve outcomes with reports and analytics
You can access reports that compile appointment data, including trends like missed appointments and wait times. This information can be used to enhance customer satisfaction.
• Let clients quickly join from a mobile browser
Clients can seamlessly join the Microsoft Teams platform without downloading Teams onto their mobile phones.
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What's Next Step: Discovery & Assessment
ProServeIT, a Modern Work Solutions Partner for Microsoft, is dedicated to supporting you throughout your Productivity Journey - from discovery and levelling up, to ongoing managed services.
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Content from: ProServeIT Academy 2023 Modern Work 1 by Tony Caporaletti & Microsoft Teams
Edited by: Betty Quon & Hyun-Jin Im
