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Less Clutter coming to Teams!

Do you belong to too many Microsoft Teams?  Well Microsoft has announced that they will be rolling out changes to Teams to automatically move Teams you have not visited in 45 days to a “More” category at the bottom of your left rail in Teams.  This is a great new addition for those that a members of many teams and find the Teams list in the left rail a bit cluttered.  

These changes will begin happening to all tenants in May 2019 and gradually hit all tenants worldwide by end of June.  There is no action required on your part to enable this feature. 

Once this change takes effect in your tenant, you will receive a notice like the one below indicating inactive teams have been moved.

Skype and Teams April 4, 2019 update

Microsoft have released the following updates for the Skype for Business Windows Desktop Clients

Skype for Business 2016 MSI

Release Date: April 2, 2019

Version: 16.0.4834.1000

This update includes the following fixes (Roll Up KB4462234):

KB	Title
KB4495279	Skype for Business stops responding when receiving a toast notification of an IM or an incoming call in Citrix VDI environment
KB4495280	Skype for Business 2016 doesn't display the "accepted by" information for a Call Queue call that's picked up by one of the call agents
KB4495278	Skype for Business online user can't access the voicemail messages left on Azure voicemail from the Skype for Business 2016 client

Skype for Business 2015 MSI

Release Date: April 2, 2019

Version: 15.0.5127.1000

This update includes the following fixes (Roll Up KB4462207):

KB	Title
KB4495279	Skype for Business stops responding when receiving a toast notification of an IM or an incoming call in Citrix VDI environment
KB4495282	Update the country name from "Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of" to "North Macedonia" for Skype for Business 2015 (Lync 2013)

These fixes are for MSI clients; C2R updates for the O365 channels are documented on the Office 365 client update channel releases page. 

Visit the Overview of update channels for Office 365 ProPlus page for more information about the O365 channels.

Skype and Teams March 7 updates

News

• You've invested in Microsoft Teams, how do you use it to deliver superpowers to your people? (pt. 2)
• New Microsoft Graph APIs for automating team lifecycles
• Driving Adoption: Monthly Community Call Resources & Call Dates

What's new in Microsoft Teams

• Desktop and Web: February 22, 2019

Documentation

• Microsoft StaffHub to be retired

Roadmap

• Teams Calling for Everyone
• New Calendar App replaces Meetings App In Teams
• Microsoft Teams - Add up to 5,000 members to a team

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

Teams Jan 28, 2019 Update

Blog Posts

• Introducing the Preview Release of .Net Teams Bot Builder v4 SDK
• Introducing Microsoft Teams Rooms
• Updated guidance for upgrading from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams
• Office 365 Network Performance tool POC release

Documentation Updates

• Using the Meeting Migration Service (MMS) – Teams now in TAP
• Anynode certified for Direct Routing

Roadmap

• Auto Attendant / Call Queues Administration Enhancement

What’s new in Teams

• Desktop client, January 25, 2019

Skype and Teams Jan 14, 2019 Updates

Happy New Year Everyone! 

There’s a lot of new updates for Teams and Skype coming out of the gates in 2019! 

Blogs

· Microsoft Releases the Service Adoption Specialist Certification

· 3 new ways Microsoft Teams empowers Firstline Workers to achieve more

· Empower your Firstline Workers with new capabilities in Microsoft Teams

· Update! Harnessing machine learning and natural language processing to improve employee productivity

· What’s new in Microsoft Teams – December round up

· Microsoft named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for UCaaS and UC

· Teams Toolkit is Live - An online flipbook to accelerate adoption

Roadmap updates

· Microsoft Teams for Firstline Workers

· Microsoft Teams Availability for Office 365 Government DoD

Yealink phones now available for Teams

· Software: http://support.yealink.com/documentFront/forwardToDocumentFrontDisplayPage

· Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/buying-and-deploying-teams-ip-phones

Documentation

· Microsoft telephony solutions

· Upgrade Microsoft Teams free to Office 365 subscription version

· Call park and retrieve in Microsoft Teams

· Call sharing and group call pickup in Microsoft Teams

· Shared line appearance in Microsoft Teams

End user documentation

· Park a call in Teams

· Share a phone line with a delegate

· Call forwarding, call groups, and simultaneous ring in Teams

Lync Server 2013 CU10HF1 and Skype for Business Server CU8

· Skype for Business Server

· Lync Server 2013

Skype for Business MSI Desktop Client January 2019 Update

· 2016: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4461586/january-2-2019-update-for-skype-for-business-2016-kb4461586

· 2015: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4461557/january-2-2019-update-for-skype-for-business-2015-lync-2013-kb4461557

Skype and Teams Dec 14th Updates

Blogs

Additional Voice Features for the New Year

Accelerate your Microsoft Teams adoption journey with our Teams Toolkit

Improve collaboration with visuals using Lucidchart for Microsoft Teams

Getting the best audio and video experiences in Teams with devices

First Line Workers Webinars

https://aka.ms/TeamsFLW

Documentation

Plan for governance in Office 365 Groups

Calls to Subscriber Access or Auto Attendant fail with fast busy and “500 Server Internal" error after moving contact objects to Skype for Business Server 2019

Skills Enablement

Here is a great video series from the Teams IT Pro Academy on migrating to Teams:

• Introduction to Upgrade (Upgrade part 1 of 4)
• Plan your upgrade (Upgrade part 2 of 4)
• Coexistence and Interoperability (Upgrade part 3 of 4)
• Administrator experience (Upgrade part 4 of 4)

and some further modules you can access here..

Skype and Teams Dec 1st Updates

Blogs

• NEW! Teams Adoption Hub - Enhanced guidance for user adoption projects

Microsoft Graph community call

• Starting December 4th at 8:00am
• Series invite: https://aka.ms/microsoftgraphcall

Teams PowerShell Module

• Teams PowerShell Module 0.9.6

This update includes a bug fix to ensure that owners are added as members when creating the team, allows users with the appropriate permissions to create groups on behalf of another user.
Additionally, at the time of publishing Global and Teams Service administrators can get and set information about all teams in the organization using all modules, and admins do not need to be licensed for Microsoft Teams to run these commands.

Documentation

• Overview of dynamic membership for teams
• Skype for Business 2016 MSI client doesn’t display emoticons or emojis

New Office icons announced!

• Announcement Blog post
• Announcement Video