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Skype and Teams Feb 25th Updates

News

• Training modules for IT Pros
• Microsoft Teams keeps employees connected during epic snow event
• New Office 365 licensing options for Surface Hub
• Microsoft Teams community call–February 19, 2019
• NASCAR racing team Hendrick Motorsports finds competitive edge with Microsoft Teams

Documentation

• Admin training for Microsoft Teams
• Location-Based Routing (now in preview)
• Add a Yammer page to a channel in Teams

What's new in Microsoft Teams

• Mobile devices: February 19, 2019 - A bunch of new updates here including the following:

iOS

• Dark theme support!

• Record and send audio messages.

• Improved support for iPhone XS Max and XR devices.

• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Android

• Dark theme support!

• Record and send audio messages.

• Improved PDF viewing experience.

• Improved file upload experience.

• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Skype and Teams Feb 17th updates

Here is the weekly roundup including the big news about Exchange Unified Messaging in Exchange Online being set to retire in February of 2020.  This is significant for many organizations both large and small and they will need to take steps to move to Azure Voicemail Services. 

News

• Microsoft Teams Devices at ISE 2019
• Empower healthcare organizations with NEW capabilities in Microsoft Teams
• Integrate electronic health records into Microsoft Teams care coordination through FHIR
• Retiring Unified Messaging in Exchange Online
• Introducing Surface Pro 6 Support for Microsoft Teams Rooms Devices

Documentation

• Deploy Microsoft Teams with Office 365 ProPlus
• Exchange Unified Messaging Online migration support

Roadmap

• Automatically access Microsoft Teams in new installs of Office 365 ProPlus
• General availability of live and on-demand events in Microsoft 365

Skype and Teams Feb 4th updates

Blogs

• Updated IT Pro and Admin documentation
• The Rise of Drop Failure Rate and Unclassified Streams: Explained
• Microsoft Teams meetings and calling news roundup: The latest features and new upgrade tools
• NEW! An Enhanced Experience with Atlassian’s Confluence Cloud is Now Available!
• New! Jira Server Integration for Microsoft Teams
• Shelly's Take on… new MS Teams Firstline workers features for Healthcare

Skills Enablement

• Updated: “Foundations – Core Components” session: http://aka.ms/teams-foundations
• More sessions: http://aka.ms/teams-playlist

Documentation

• Update: Oracle SBCs certified for Direct Routing
• Update: Manage who can create Office 365 Groups
• Teams Government and GCC
  • Plan for Microsoft 365 Government - GCC High deployments
  • Office 365 US Government
  • Plan for Microsoft 365 Government - DoD deployments

Teams Roadmap

• Supervision

Skype for Business on Mac – latest release 16.24

• 16.24.0.191