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Microsoft Teams is widely used in small, medium and large enterprises for the corporate meetings as it connects employees, partners from multiple locations throughout the world. Apart from business houses, universities and educational institutions also using MS Teams. But due to lockdown, most work, study, meetings, etc. happening remotely and MS Teams play an important role here. During COVID-19 pandemic, MS Teams adoption/implementation in schools, colleges also relatively pretty high.
Recently at Microsoft Inspire(July 21-22, 2020), Microsoft announced the news about the new meetings and calling experience for Microsoft Teams, which will be rolling out for Windows and Mac clients. And July last week, MS Teams released new features – all these are available for the Teams desktop client on both Windows and Mac. New features are not available for Teams on the web.
Here are these new features and please leverage those during your next MS Teams Meeting:
- Enhance multi-tasking capabilities
When you start a Teams meeting, a new window will be pop-out – which is not within the same Teams window as earlier.
When you make a new audio or video call from Teams will pop-out into a new window.
Meeting notes option.
- Enriching meeting experience
Un-interrupted meeting/presentation window – Teams meeting key controls moved to top right corner, completely outside of the main meeting display area.
Meeting controls move from auto-hiding controls which generally superimposed over the video feed – now re-designed to top of the screen.
Time showing MS Teams duration now moved to top left corner.
Focus view, hiding all video streams and avatars when content is being shared. This option brings more focused approach on the shared content itself.
Together mode providing a unique experience of together-ness – showing same shared space with everyone in the meeting. This will also eliminate extra distractions originated from various backgrounds selected by individual participants.
End meeting option available apart from Leave option.
- Extending meeting participation view
Large Gallery view, now supporting up to 49 video feeds on-screen in a 7×7 view.
Note :
1. Focus is available only when a screen or PowerPoint presentation is shared.
2. Together mode is available once 5 people including the organizer have joined the Teams meeting.
3. Large Gallery view is available as soon as a meeting has 10 joined participants.
How to enable the new meetings experience in MS Teams:
One can enable the new meeting and calling experience using the following steps – it’s simple.
1. Select your profile picture at the top of the Teams app at the top right corner.
2. Select Settings and from there - General.
3. Scroll down a little, ticked on the checkbox for the option “Turn on new meeting experience”.
4. Then better to quit the Teams application (rather than simply close) and re-launch the client.
Hope that you will have now better MS Teams Meeting Experience !!!!
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