If you are in the Microsoft Teams public preview program, you will have access to the Try the new Teams toggle right away once Microsoft Teams administrator turns ON the preview of the new Microsoft Teams Windows client. However, if you are in the Targeted release program, you will have access to the preview of new Microsoft Teams starting mid-April 2023.
Turn ON the Preview of new Microsoft Teams Windows client
As a Microsoft Teams administrator, you can control which users can see the Try the new Teams toggle to use the new Microsoft Teams. You can use the new setting available in Microsoft Teams admin center named as Use New Teams Client to enable the new Microsoft Teams Public Preview for users in your organization.
Follow below steps to roll out the Preview of new Microsoft Teams via Microsoft Teams admin center:
2. Select Teams > Teams updatepolicies from the left navigation as shown in below image:
3. You can select + Add to create a new policy or select an existing policy to open Update policy panel. For this blog post, we will select existing update policy named as Global (Org-wide default) which applies to all users in your organization:
4. Choose the appropriate option for Use new Teams client setting from drop down:
Not enabled: This option hides the new Teams toggle switch. Users won’t be able to opt in to the new Teams.
Users can choose: This option shows the new Teams toggle switch allowing users to opt into the new Teams, and switch back if they need to.
Microsoft controlled: This is a default option. This lets Microsoft control whether the new Teams toggle switch is shown or not based on product readiness.
5. Select Apply to save the changes
When you update the policy setting from Microsoft Teams Admin Center, the new setting will be applied to respective users immediately. The users don’t need to restart the Microsoft Teams desktop client.
In today’s inclusive and diverse workplace, it’s important to respect and affirm individuals’ gender identities and expressions, including their preferred pronouns. Pronouns are the words we use to replace someone’s name in a sentence, such as “he”, “she”, or “they” in English. Using correct pronouns is essential for creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and respected.
Microsoft is adding a new feature for adding pronouns to the profile cards in Microsoft 365. Users in your organization will soon be able to add pronouns directly to their profile cards in Outlook on the web (OWA) and Microsoft Teams.
This new feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86382 (Microsoft Teams) and 115511 (Outlook on the web).
Pronouns will be shown next to the name in the top section of the profile card in Outlook on the web and Microsoft Teams. After a user adds pronouns to their profile, the pronouns will be visible to everyone in your organization (including guest accounts having account in your organization). Users can’t control who can see their pronouns in Microsoft 365 in your organization. So, it’s not possible to hide pronouns from certain users in your organization. However, pronouns aren’t visible to people outside the organization.
Turn Pronouns ON or OFF from Microsoft 365 admin center
The pronouns feature is OFF by default for your tenant and requires configuration to turn on. As a Global Microsoft 365 administrator, you can turn ON pronouns feature that lets all users in your organization add their pronouns on their profile cards in Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Teams and Outlook Web).
Follow below steps to turn the pronouns feature ON or OFF from the Microsoft 365 admin center:
Select Settings from left navigation and then select Org settings (If Settings option is not shown by default, click on … Show all first)
From Org settings page, select the Security & privacy tab
Select Pronouns
To turn ON the pronouns feature, select the Turn on and allow pronouns checkbox from Pronouns pane. To turn OFF the pronouns feature, clear the checkbox
Select Save
Turn Pronouns ON or OFF from Microsoft 365 admin center
Note
If you change the Pronouns settings, it can take up to 7 hours to take effect.
If you allow pronouns and stop allowing them later, saved pronouns by users will be deleted from Microsoft 365. The data deletion process could take up to 30 days to complete.
If you turn ON the pronouns feature again before 30 days, any hidden pronouns that haven’t yet been deleted from Microsoft servers will become visible in Microsoft 365 profile cards in Microsoft Teams and Outlook on the web (OWA).
Microsoft 365 stores user pronouns in a hidden folder in user’s Exchange Online mailbox along with other data.
You can only enter up to 30 characters (including spaces) in your pronouns.
Add, update, or delete pronouns on Microsoft 365 profile cards
Follow below steps to Add, update, or delete pronouns on Microsoft 365 profile cards in Microsoft Teams and Outlook on the web:
Open your profile card in Microsoft Teams or Outlook on the web (OWA). To open your profile card in Microsoft Teams, select your profile picture from the upper right corner of Teams. To open your profile card in Outlook on the web (OWA), select your name or profile picture in Outlook Mail.
From your profile card, select + Pronouns or the pronouns listed below your name:
To add or change your pronouns, select from the examples (only available in English), or enter your own. To delete, remove your pronouns. In the example below, Elvia Atkins has chosen She/Her. The preview window also shows the chosen pronouns:
Select Save and then Got it. Changes will be updated immediately.
And that’s it! Now you know how to add, update, or delete pronouns on your Microsoft 365 profile card in Microsoft Teams. By using this feature, you can ensure that your colleagues and team members can address you with the correct pronouns, promoting inclusivity and respect in the workplace.
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On April 11, Microsoft announced that they will retire the AIP client, aka the Unified Labeling client, aka the AIP add-on for Office, on 11 April 2024. The add-on has been in maintenance mode since January 1, 2022, so its final retirement was only a matter of time. Once retirement happens, users cannot assign sensitivity labels to documents through the add-on.
A Long Road
In 2016, when I first started writing about how to protect Office documents with labels, the labels were called Azure Information Protection labels and users needed to install the add-on to add elements like the information protection bar and the code to apply rights management to documents. The situation was natural because Azure Information Protection was a separate product that targeted Office but had no formal alignment with Office development. The add-on was only available for Office on Windows.
Things changed when Microsoft decided that sensitivity labels were strategically important to Office 365, which meant that they needed to build support for sensitivity labels across the infrastructure in apps like SharePoint Online and Exchange Online and desktop, browser, and mobile apps. Sensitivity label support is now broad and deep across Microsoft 365, including for container management of sites, groups, and teams. Regretfully, sometimes Microsoft demands additional licenses for features that seem very basic, such using the Syntex-SharePoint Advanced Management license to control the assignment of default sensitivity labels to SharePoint document libraries.
In 2019, Microsoft started the process of removing the add-on by incorporating the code to handle sensitivity labels in the Office applications (native mode protection). The goal is to provide the same or better functionality in the out-of-the-box Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise (Office desktop) versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Microsoft says that the Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise “now have most of the capabilities found in the AIP Unified Labeling add-in for Office as well as advanced capabilities not possible with the AIP Unified Labeling add-in for Office.” The most important of these capabilities are:
Sensitivity labels can protect meeting invitations (including attachments) and responses.
Account switching.
Users cannot disable labeling controls.
Microsoft has long stressed that incorporating code from the Microsoft Information Protection SDK to make applications natively aware of information protection leads to better performance and increased stability. In other words, something that’s built-in is likely to work better than when an application needs to load in external code.
Native protection is only available with the subscription versions of Office. The functionality isn’t supported by perpetual versions of Office like Office 2019.
Making Changes to Ease Migration
Technologies that affect how people work are usually harder to migrate to new platforms than background processing is. Changes to Office applications are good examples of the truth of this assertion (as anyone who remembers the introduction of the ribbon in Office 2007 can attest).
As an example, the add-on features an information protection bar that people like. The Microsoft 365 apps don’t use the information protection bar. Instead, Microsoft has changed the menu and title bars of the Office apps to highlight labels in a different way, including displaying different colors for different labels. The latest tweak is in Outlook desktop, where the latest builds feature a prominent new button to allow users to more easily assign a sensitivity label to emails (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Applying a sensitivity label with Outlook
Other Azure Information Protection Elements
I stopped using the unified labeling client two years ago. However, I have installed the unified labeling client on PCs to get other elements that came with the add-on such as the Azure Information Protection PowerShell module and the ability to classify and protection files from the Windows Explorer. The PowerShell module is especially helpful when the need exists to remove sensitivity labels from files.
Microsoft says that they are not retiring these elements, nor are they retiring the viewers that allow people to view protected content on Windows, iOS, and Android, or the Azure Information Protection Scanner. Microsoft says that following the retirement of the add-on, they will remove it from the installable package available in the Download Center. User will be able to install the new version of the package to access the other elements, which will also be rebranded as Microsoft Purview capabilities.
Time to Move On
The unified labeling client or add-on for Office has served its purpose. It’s time to let it go and migrate as quickly as possible to use the built-in capabilities that exist in Office. Apart from the small fact about the retirement, it’s clear that Microsoft has poured engineering effort into building out the sensitivity label infrastructure across Microsoft 365 for the last several years. Benefit of that work isn’t available to the add-on, which is a good a reason to move on as anything else.
So much change, all the time. It’s a challenge to stay abreast of all the updates Microsoft makes across Office 365. Subscribe to the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook to receive monthly insights into what happens, why it happens, and what new features and capabilities mean for your tenant.
In today’s inclusive and diverse workplace, it’s important to respect and affirm individuals’ gender identities and expressions, including their preferred pronouns. Pronouns are the words we use to replace someone’s name in a sentence, such as “he”, “she”, or “they” in English. Using correct pronouns is essential for creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and respected.
Microsoft is adding a new feature for adding pronouns to the profile cards in Microsoft 365. Users in your organization will soon be able to add pronouns directly to their profile cards in Outlook on the web (OWA) and Microsoft Teams.
This new feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86382 (Microsoft Teams) and 115511 (Outlook on the web).
Pronouns will be shown next to the name in the top section of the profile card in Outlook on the web and Microsoft Teams. After a user adds pronouns to their profile, the pronouns will be visible to everyone in your organization (including guest accounts having account in your organization). Users can’t control who can see their pronouns in Microsoft 365 in your organization. So, it’s not possible to hide pronouns from certain users in your organization. However, pronouns aren’t visible to people outside the organization.
Turn Pronouns ON or OFF from Microsoft 365 admin center
The pronouns feature is OFF by default for your tenant and requires configuration to turn on. As a Global Microsoft 365 administrator, you can turn ON pronouns feature that lets all users in your organization add their pronouns on their profile cards in Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Teams and Outlook Web).
Follow below steps to turn the pronouns feature ON or OFF from the Microsoft 365 admin center:
Select Settings from left navigation and then select Org settings (If Settings option is not shown by default, click on … Show all first)
From Org settings page, select the Security & privacy tab
Select Pronouns
To turn ON the pronouns feature, select the Turn on and allow pronouns checkbox from Pronouns pane. To turn OFF the pronouns feature, clear the checkbox
Select Save
Turn Pronouns ON or OFF from Microsoft 365 admin center
Note
If you change the Pronouns settings, it can take up to 7 hours to take effect.
If you allow pronouns and stop allowing them later, saved pronouns by users will be deleted from Microsoft 365. The data deletion process could take up to 30 days to complete.
If you turn ON the pronouns feature again before 30 days, any hidden pronouns that haven’t yet been deleted from Microsoft servers will become visible in Microsoft 365 profile cards in Microsoft Teams and Outlook on the web (OWA).
Microsoft 365 stores user pronouns in a hidden folder in user’s Exchange Online mailbox along with other data.
You can only enter up to 30 characters (including spaces) in your pronouns.
Add, update, or delete pronouns on Microsoft 365 profile cards
Follow below steps to Add, update, or delete pronouns on Microsoft 365 profile cards in Microsoft Teams and Outlook on the web:
Open your profile card in Microsoft Teams or Outlook on the web (OWA). To open your profile card in Microsoft Teams, select your profile picture from the upper right corner of Teams. To open your profile card in Outlook on the web (OWA), select your name or profile picture in Outlook Mail.
From your profile card, select + Pronouns or the pronouns listed below your name:
To add or change your pronouns, select from the examples (only available in English), or enter your own. To delete, remove your pronouns. In the example below, Elvia Atkins has chosen She/Her. The preview window also shows the chosen pronouns:
Select Save and then Got it. Changes will be updated immediately.
And that’s it! Now you know how to add, update, or delete pronouns on your Microsoft 365 profile card in Microsoft Teams. By using this feature, you can ensure that your colleagues and team members can address you with the correct pronouns, promoting inclusivity and respect in the workplace.
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If you are in the Microsoft Teams public preview program, you will have access to the Try the new Teams toggle right away once Microsoft Teams administrator turns ON the preview of the new Microsoft Teams Windows client. However, if you are in the Targeted release program, you will have access to the preview of new Microsoft Teams starting mid-April 2023.
Turn ON the Preview of new Microsoft Teams Windows client
As a Microsoft Teams administrator, you can control which users can see the Try the new Teams toggle to use the new Microsoft Teams. You can use the new setting available in Microsoft Teams admin center named as Use New Teams Client to enable the new Microsoft Teams Public Preview for users in your organization.
Follow below steps to roll out the Preview of new Microsoft Teams via Microsoft Teams admin center:
2. Select Teams > Teams updatepolicies from the left navigation as shown in below image:
3. You can select + Add to create a new policy or select an existing policy to open Update policy panel. For this blog post, we will select existing update policy named as Global (Org-wide default) which applies to all users in your organization:
4. Choose the appropriate option for Use new Teams client setting from drop down:
Not enabled: This option hides the new Teams toggle switch. Users won’t be able to opt in to the new Teams.
Users can choose: This option shows the new Teams toggle switch allowing users to opt into the new Teams, and switch back if they need to.
Microsoft controlled: This is a default option. This lets Microsoft control whether the new Teams toggle switch is shown or not based on product readiness.
5. Select Apply to save the changes
When you update the policy setting from Microsoft Teams Admin Center, the new setting will be applied to respective users immediately. The users don’t need to restart the Microsoft Teams desktop client.
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Anyone Enabled for Teams Preview Can Test New Teams Client
March 27 marked a big day for Teams with the release into public preview of the Teams 2.1 client (code name Emblem) and mesh avatars for Teams (MC533652). The new client doesn’t support avatars at this point. You’ll have to run the Teams “classic” client to test out avatars in Teams meetings.
Teams 2.1 is a major advance because it is the first major end-to-end overhaul of the original client architecture introduced in 2016. Compared to the Teams of today, the original version supported very few features. Over the last six years, the Teams client swelled to accommodate major swathes of new functionality such as guest user access, shared channels, the Teams Phone system, radical improvements to Teams meetings like breakout rooms and webinars, thousands of first- and third-party apps, and expansions to the basic apps that constitute the Teams client like the Files channel tab (the window into SharePoint Online) and most recently, the Files app.
Figure 1: The Office 365 for IT Pros eBook Team use the new Teams client
Moving on from Electron
The Teams development group dedicates lots of effort to keeping Teams performance at an acceptable level and restricting the amount of memory demanded by the client. At best, tweaking kept pace with the demands made for additional resources by new features. At worst, the Teams client was a fat pig with poor performance, questionable reliability, and an insatiable demand for battery life. Even though Microsoft reports 280 million monthly active users for Teams, the Teams desktop wasn’t a client that anyone looked forward to running.
Changing software used by so many people is quite a task. Doing so while demand steadily grows and engineers continually add new features is doubly difficult. The first glimmer of what was going on came in the Teams chat client in Windows 11 (the 2.0 client) where the Edge WebView2 component and React gave a way forward from the original Electron-based foundation.
The Performance and Resources Question
Microsoft has been preparing for the debut of the new Teams clients for several months with limited availability to customers and MVPs through the Technology Adoption Program. I’ve been lucky enough to use the new client for quite a while and can attest to the claims of better all-round performance, especially when starting up and switching between tenants. Speaking of which, as someone who “lives” in multiple tenants, I really like the ability to be signed into multiple organizations and receive notifications for whatever happens in those tenants. The days of firing up multiple private browser sessions to run Teams in different tenants are finally gone.
In fact, switching between anything in Teams 2.1 (like chat to chat or channel to channel) is faster. Microsoft says that the average user (who’s that?) switches (presumably between different Teams components) 10,000 times monthly. In that context, creating a fast and seamless transition from one component to another is very important. Attention has also been paid to improved scrolling, something that you might not consider important until the need arises to scroll back several months in a chat to find a relevant message.
Microsoft says that the new app launches “up to” 2x faster (and joins meetings faster too) and uses up to 50% less memory. Your mileage will vary depending on what features you use in Teams, if you switch tenants, use of video in meetings, the apps you use, and so on. Figure 2 captures an example of the demand created by the Teams 2.1 client on a PC. Note the influence of WebView2!
Figure 2: Performance statistics for the new Teams client
My totally unscientific impression is that Teams 2.1 uses less memory on a consistent basis over a day’s work, but there are times when it peaks with a higher demand than the original client does. In practical terms, I suspect that the snappiness of the new client will make many forgive some minor sins of excessive demand – and remember, the new client is preview software that Microsoft is continually tuning to make it work better.
Using the New Teams
The preview is only available to commercial tenants. Switching over to the new Teams is via a toggle displayed in the top left-hand corner of the classic client. To expose the toggle, create and publish (or edit) an update policy to whatever accounts you want to access the new clients to allow them to use public preview and choose to use the new client (Figure 3). Classic clients must run version 1.6.00.4472 or later of the Windows desktop for the toggle to appear. Microsoft hasn’t released a macOS version of the preview client yet.
Figure 3: Teams upgrade policy settings to allow the use of the new Teams client
More about using the Teams update policy are in this article. Users can reset the toggle to switch back to the old client as they wish. The same data is available in both. To compare features and functionality on the same PC, you can run the new client alongside the classic app (in either a browser session or as a PWA).
Microsoft says that users “will likely encounter some gaps” as they use the preview. For instance, the work to implement breakout rooms for meetings is incomplete and developers of third-party apps will need to test their apps against the new client. Some minor glitches are also likely. For instance, the name I gave to the Yammer (now Viva Engage) communities app when I customized the app properties doesn’t display nicely in the app bar (visible in Figure 1). Overall, the preview is in good shape and very usable, especially for core Teams activities.
Microsoft isn’t saying when Teams 2.1 might reach general availability. A lot of work still needs to be done to fill in the gaps where functionality available in the classic client doesn’t work in 2.1 or is buggy. Microsoft is also not saying when end of life might happen for the Teams classic client. Given that Microsoft updates Teams clients automatically about once a month that time might occur a couple of months after the 2.1 client becomes generally available.
Nicer Looking and Better Performing
The size of the Teams user base makes the new Teams client an important event. However, even though it’s taken a long time for the new client to appear, this isn’t a strategic advance like the announcement of Microsoft 365 Copilot or the arrival of the Loop app in preview.
The new Teams app is a large but incremental step forward. The snappiness of the client and the visual overhaul that makes it feel more like a well-rounded Windows app instead of something that might have been built with Visual Basic makes Teams 2.1 a nicer place to work. I’ve enjoyed using the new client. I suspect that you will too.
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Pour les heureux bénéficiaires des fonctionnalités en mode "Preview" publique avec MSTeams, Microsoft à rendu disponible une nouvelle évolution intéressante permettant d'abaisser automatique de la main levée d'un utilisateur après avoir pris la parole. Comment bénéficier des fonctionnalités en mode "Preview" publique? https://microsofttouch.fr/default/b/christophe/posts/microsoft-teams-activer-le-mode-preview-publique-de-microsoft-teams Un utilisateur bénéficiant du mode Preview publique dispose d'un petit icône avec la lettre P au niveau de sa photo. Afin de minimiser le nombre de mains levées inactives durant les réunions, Microsoft Teams sera en capacité désormais d'abaisser automatiquement la main levé d'un utilisateur après avoir parlé lors de la réunion. Les utilisateurs qui lèvent la main pendant une réunion Teams et qui parlent lors de la réunion recevront une notification les informant que leur main sera automatiquement abaissée sous peu. Ils auront la possibilité de choisir de laisser leur main levée. Si l'utilisateur ne prend aucune mesure sur la notification, sa main sera automatiquement abaissée. Cette évolution permet de faciliter la gestion des réunions pour les organisateurs et les présentateurs. Roadmap: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=90022 Disponibilité en préversion: Maintenant Disponibilité global planifiée: Mars 2023 L'utilisation est très simple, suite à l'utilisation de la fonctionnalité Lever la main , le participant prend la parole Le client Microsoft Teams sollicite le participant pour déterminer la nécessité de conserver la main levée active. Sans action du participant, la main levée est désactivée automatiquement par le client MS Teams
Lorsque vous achetez une clé de produit pour les logiciels Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint ou encore Outlook) vous devez saisir cette clé pour valider la licence Office et utiliser pleinement l'application. Cependant dans certains cas c'est compliqué de supprimer une mauvaise clé ou de la remplacer. Dans ce guide je vais vous donner une méthode […]
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