News in Microsoft Teams: 6 new functions available

The latest update to Microsoft Teams once again brings with it a variety of useful functions. Among other things, Microsoft Copilot is now available in Teams. We provide you with the most important information and other news in this blog post. Discover the news in Microsoft Teams now!

1. Simplify your activity feed

You can now easily delete notifications from your activity feed for a better overview. Navigate to your activity feed:

And click More options > Removeto delete the respective notification. If you would like to completely deactivate certain notifications, please continue reading to the next point.

 

2. Optimize notification settings

In the activity feed you also have the option to customize your activity notifications. Change the settings as you wish so that only the information relevant to you appears. To do this, click in the activity feed More options  > Notification Settings. In this view you can turn the options you want on or off:

Other notifications can also be customized in the same settings. You can find detailed instructions from Microsoft on the available settings and their meaning here.

 

3. Breaking news in Microsoft Teams: The Copilot is available

The new Microsoft Copilot app is available in Microsoft Teams, but only if you have an appropriate Copilot license for M365. The Copilot provides personalized information about your meetings, files or colleagues and enables various queries about your chat histories, meetings or files. The Copilot appears as a new chat above your chat conversations with colleagues. They find out herehow our Copilot specialist tested the Copilot in Microsoft Teams.

 

4. Don't lose sight of meeting participants

There is now a new view in Teams meetings that allows you to easily view the meeting participants while sharing content yourself. When you present, you choose View  > Together mode out of. This will show other people directly below the shared content so you can continue to respond to their reactions.

5. Change meeting options when scheduling webinars and meetings

If you are planning a webinar or a town hall, you can Meeting options  Open and set various settings for the waiting area, permitted actions of participants (such as camera, audio, reactions, etc.) and the structure.

 

6. Improve webinar registration forms

Webinar registration form fields can now be rearranged. Even after adding, you can move it to another position using the up or down arrows.

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