What’s new in

Microsoft Teams
Laurie Pottmeyer
Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group,
@lauriepottmeyer
Portland, OR, USA

Jessie Hwang
Product Manager II, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group,
/in/jessiehwang
Seattle, WA, USA
Continuously improving
During the past year, we’ve
Microsoft Teams thanks delivered incremental performance
to customer feedback improvements to classic Teams.

But we aren’t stopping there: we’ve

Over the past several years, we’ve collected
feedback from customers regarding Microsoft
Teams performance. That feedback has been loud
and clear: customers want continued innovation
around performance in Teams.
Top customer feedback
App responsiveness
been researching modern technologies
and building prototypes to reimagine
Teams from the ground up for a faster,
simpler, and more flexible experience
that addresses our customer’s most-
pressing performance feedback.

Memory consumption The result: the new Microsoft Teams.

Meeting experience
Introducing the new Teams
THE NEW TEAMS
Reimagined from the ground up for a faster,
simpler, and more flexible experience

Faster
The app will be up to twice as fast while
consuming up to 50% fewer resources1

Simpler
A more polished, responsive UX that’s
easier to navigate and get more done

More flexible
Innovations that streamline multiple
tenants or accounts, giving you more
extensibility and scale
1See the benchmarking slide for additional details.
Simpler UX that puts people first
We’re constantly aiming to provide a simple yet feature-rich
experience for our diverse and growing user base. That’s why
the new Teams makes it easier to do more in fewer clicks. Find in chat/channel
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Streamlined actions
Less clutter simplifies notifications,
search, messages, and channels
High five animation

Personalized experiences
Threaded conversations, customizable
group chats, and interactive emojis give Threaded replies
Auto suggest

users more expressive collaboration

Simplified meetings
Updates to the pre-join experience,
gallery view, and screen sharing remove
barriers to effective meetings
Collaborate across organizational boundaries
Teams users can easily switch between tenants and accounts
to collaborate and communicate across the entire org.

Eliminates silos
Brings users from across organizations and
multiple work or accounts in one place

Fosters collaboration
Users stay signed into multiple accounts
simultaneously and receive real-time
notifications

Increases flexibility
Seamlessly engage across multiple
organizations or accounts without
disrupting workflows
Multi-tenant (top), multi-account
The new Teams is a big deal, but switching isn’t
Here’s our guidance for BDMs and admins to get fully
informed about the new Teams app before switching.

Evaluate | Determine which Windows users would

benefit from the new app and help them switch now

Stay informed | Watch for in-product messaging,

public updates, and roadmap updates, and regularly
connect with your Microsoft account team1

Share the excitement | Communicate the benefits of

the new Teams to your users and create a plan that
will support them after they switch

When you’re ready, opt-in to the new

Teams app and ask users to flip the
toggle.2 They can always switch back
before the app is enabled by default.
1Review currently available resources. 2The toggle will be turned off by default at public preview.
Learn more about the new Teams

Make the switch

Check out Microsoft Adoption to get started

Stay informed
Microsoft 365 Blog and the Microsoft Teams
Tech Community Blog for the latest news

Get support
Admin documentation for IT Pros and admins,
support documentation for end user guidance

Share your feedback

Feedback portal for suggestions to improve the new
Teams experience
A few of our Favorite
New Features
Meet
Prepare for upcoming meetings and find recordings, chats, and recaps all in one place with Meet in
Microsoft Teams. In the Teams app bar, select More added apps, search Meet, and select it to add it.
To learn more, see Stay on top of meetings with Meet in Microsoft Teams.

October 2023
Meet: View upcoming meetings, prepare for meetings
Stay organized and up-to-date with Up next, a section in Meet where you can view upcoming meetings and their
latest details.
Bring everyone together with town halls
Organize large-scale virtual events like never before with town halls in Microsoft Teams. Town halls are optimized for
producing high-quality events and can host up to 10,000 attendees, or 20,000 in Teams Premium, for up to 30 hours.
To learn more, see Get started with town hall in Microsoft Teams. Additional capabilities with Teams Premium.

October 2023
Animated backgrounds
The dynamic background feature in Teams Meetings allows you to replace their existing background
with a dynamic animation for a more immersive virtual environment. It offers various options to
enhance meeting experience with creativity and personalization according to their preferences.

August 2023
Portrait blur
Apply portrait blur to your video during a Teams meeting to bring more focus to you and subtly blur
your background. When your camera is on, select Video effects > Portrait > Portrait blur.

October 2023
Compact chat enhancements
To get the most of your conversations, you can now switch into compact mode which customizes the
chat pane with time stamps, extra line breaks between each message and indicators informing who
sent the message. Compact mode also includes a compact chat list which hides the message preview
content and allows more chats to be viewed from the chat list.

August 2023
Custom channel banners
With the new Microsoft Designer integration with Teams channels you will now be able to create
custom images quickly and easily for announcement banners by typing a phrase that captures design
elements you would like to include.

[Teams Premium Feature]

November 2023
 New Features
Announced at Ignite
Decorate your background

When you need to be seen as well as heard, you can use new
generative background effects.

With decorate your background, use the power of AI to

generate unique and personal backgrounds that decorates
and enhances your real-world room. Instantaneously create
professional and personalized backgrounds, remove clutter,
or decorate and enhance the room you’re in by applying AI
generated effects.

[Teams Premium Feature]

November 2023
Voice isolation

Voice is a new Teams audio experience that suppresses all

background noise, including all voices except your own.

While background noise suppression removes background

noises, voice isolation can distinguish your specific voice
from other human voices, only letting other participants hear
what YOU have to say.

January, 2024
Teams Rooms speaker recognition

Speaker recognition coming to your existing mics through

Microsoft AI, which processes voices in the cloud. Leverage
AI-powered intelligent meeting recap and Copilot in Teams
by attributing a speaker’s words to them in the transcript.

Available for Teams Rooms Pro license customers.

January 2024
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) rooms
Shared display mode provides a smoother meeting join,
utilizes room audio, and ensures others only see what you want
them to see.

Intelligent Speakers previously only available in Teams Rooms,

now available with BYOD spaces.

BYOD device visibility with Teams Rooms Pro Management so IT

can keep a pulse on inventories across space types, monitor
health, and get usage data to help them plan.

Jabra PanaCast 50

January 2024
BYOD usage tab in Teams Rooms Pro Management portal
Microsoft Mesh

1. Immersive spaces in Teams: Immersive spaces in Teams

brings the power of Mesh into the place where people work
every day—Microsoft Teams. From the View menu in a
Teams meeting, users can easily transform two-
dimensional (2D) meeting into a 3D immersive experience.

2. Microsoft Mesh: With Mesh, create custom immersive

spaces tailored to specific business needs, such as
employee events, training, guided tours, and internal
product showcases. Using a no-code editor, customers can
easily customize an immersive event or the Mesh toolkit to
leverage the power of unity for fully customizable
experience.

Preview January 2024

Copilot in Microsoft Teams Meetings
Copilot helps you run more effective meetings, get up to speed on the conversation, organize key discussion
points, and summarize key actions.

November 2023
Copilot for Whiteboard

44% of Teams meetings are purely conversational, with no

shared content or visuals. This works great for some, but with
over half of meeting participants self-reporting as visual
learners, there’s a communication gap to be bridged.

That’s why we’re introducing the ability to visualize your

meeting discussion with the combined power of Copilot in
Whiteboard and Copilot in Teams meetings. Copilot
converts spoken words into a highly visual whiteboard,
shared across all meeting participants. Copilot detects when
your conversation starts to sound like brainstorming and
prompts you to automatically generate a whiteboard, pre-
populated to bring your ideas to life.

November 2023
Copilot in Teams chat
Communication has never been easier, but keeping up with
the volume can feel overwhelming.

Copilot in Teams chat helps you focus on what's important

and reduces the work of staying on top and responding to
chats. You can extract key information from your chats.

New Copilot prompts to see decisions and open items,

which help you catch up easily on a long thread and to follow
up on messages quickly.

The new Copilot compose box in Teams chat can help you
express yourself better. As a writing assistant, Copilot can
rewrite messages, adjust the tone, or make your words more
concise.

November 2023
Copilot for Teams Channels

We’re excited to enable Copilot for all your communication

and collaboration needs in Teams by adding Copilot to
Teams channels.

Next time you have a long post in a channel to catch up on,

Copilot can help you quickly digest the information and get
up to speed. If a project decision is being discussed, you
can ask Copilot to make a table summarizing the proposed
solution, who supports or opposes it, and the advantages
and disadvantages of the solution – allowing you to get the
context you need within seconds.

November 2023
Copilot with Teams Phone

Sometimes you just need to get on a quick call to get

alignment.

Copilot in Teams Phone helps take care of the busy work

by capturing key points, task owners, and next steps, and
lets you focus on connecting and collaborating with your
co-workers and customers. You will also now be able to use
Copilot from the Calls app in Teams to conveniently get
insights from your previous calls. To use Copilot in calls, turn
on transcription.

November 2023
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Teams sessions at Ignite
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