Microsoft have announced that they will be enabling users to be able to view meetings and calls in separate windows along with the other recently announced features. This is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 57294.
When this will happen
This will be rolling out in June.
How this will affect your organisation
Once available, users will be able to view meetings and calls in separate windows from the main Microsoft Teams client. Additionally, meeting and call controls such as mute, video, chat, leave and others will now be located at the top of the meeting window so that they are always available and never block the underlying content. This new experience will also include recently announced features such as 3x3 video, raise hands, and custom backgrounds.
This will roll-out OFF by default and users will have the ability to turn on the new experience via the user setting: General > Turn on new meetings and calling experiences.
Note: In the future this functionality will be enabled by default
New experience
New meeting experience:
New meeting/calls control location:
Steps for Users to turn on the new experience:
Step 1: Click on Avatar on top right of Teams and click Settings.
Step 2: Check the Turn on new calling an meetings experiences check box and then restart the Teams client.
Note: Microsoft expect the new experiences to be enabled with the following timeline. This is subject to change.
June - New experiences are available and users can enable through settings.
July - Experiences are enabled by default and users can disable through settings.
August - Experiences are enabled by default and user controls are no longer available.
Know limitations:
Meeting notes will launch to the main Teams client
Support for full screen content viewing will be coming in the future
Support for Invision Freehand Whiteboard will be coming in the future
Please contact us if you'd like to know more about this, or require assistance with this feature in Teams.
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