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Private Channels in Microsoft Teams Enhanced Capabilities

Microsoft Teams users will soon have enhanced Private Channel and Compliance capabilities. Responding to feedback #Microsoft has announced that they are making change to Microsoft Teams Private Channels which will increase their scalability, flexibility, and streamline compliance management. That is today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix !

Private channels in Microsoft Teams provide a controlled space for structured, sensitive discussions. The changes will be accomplished by transitioning the Private Channel backend storage mailbox to a group mailbox instead of a using individual mailboxes of private channel members to store messages.

After the updates to private channels in your tenant private channels will be capable of:

Feature	Current	New
Max private channels per team	30	1000
Max members per private channel	250	5000
Meeting scheduling	❌	✅ Supported
Simplified Compliance	At a user level	Group

Aligning private channels with group mailbox storage allows compliance policies, like retention, legal hold, DLP, and/or eDiscovery, to be set at the Team (M365 Group) level. This reduces complexity since a single policy can cover both standard and private channels within a Team.

These enhancements are in General Availability and will begin rolling out in late-September 2025 with a completion by mid-December 205 Worldwide!

During this timeframe, private channel data will gradually migrate from user mailboxes to the Team’s group mailbox. Private channels can be used throughout the migration normally. Microsoft will be providing a new PowerShell command to track progress and check whether the migration has started or is completed in your Tenant.

For more information see: New enhancements in Private Channels in Microsoft Teams unlock their full potential | Microsoft Community Hub

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Keep your Microsoft Teams desktop clients up to date

Microsoft has announced that it will block access to versions of the Microsoft Teams desktop client older the 90 days. Enforcement of this policy has been deferred several times but it is now proceeding and that is today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix !

Keeping Microsoft Teams up to date is critical to ensure devices remain secure and compliant. By default, Teams updates automatically which successfully updates most clients around the world without user interaction.

With this announcement Microsoft Teams desktop clients older than 90 days will be blocked. Users with these versions will see a blocking page and won’t be able to use the app.

The blocking page will be displayed:

Starting April 11th, 2025, for users using the Windows desktop app
Starting May 6th, 2025, for users using the Teams app in VDI environment
Starting May 15th, 2025, for users using the Mac desktop app

An in-app warning banner will appear 60 days beforehand (30 days before for VDI versions) to remind users they need to update.

To prepare for this change make sure you’ve updated to the latest version of Microsoft Teams either by going to the download page (listed below) or inside the Teams client under the ellipsis menu ( … ) -> Settings -> About Teams.

Administrators should make sure their users Teams application is automatically updating to stay current.

For more information see:

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Microsoft Teams interoperability with Skype to Retire May 1, 2025

Well, we have had a good run but Microsoft Teams interoperability with good ole Skype is set to retire on May 1, 2025. That is today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix !

Starting May 1, 2025, Microsoft Teams will no longer support communication with Microsoft Skype accounts, ending this interoperability. Microsoft announced in February their plan to retire Skype entirely and focus on Microsoft Teams (free), which now allows users to log in with their Skype accounts. For more details, read Jeff Teper’s article: The next chapter: Moving from Skype to Microsoft Teams  | Microsoft 365 Blog.

This retirement will happen automatically by the announced retirement date with no admin action needing to be performed. It is recommended to advise users and update any training documentation.

For more information about Teams and Skype interoperability:

Teams and Skype interoperability – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn

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Yet another Teams Mobile App new feature – Quick Capture Content!!!

Today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is yet another amazing new feature will soon be added to the Teams Mobile App in iOS and Android to quickly capture shared content!

Most meetings include shared content. When you are on the go participating in Teams meetings on your mobile device you may want to capture content to refer back to when your back at your desk or to share with other team members. Up to this point your only option was to use the mobile operating systems native screen capture.

With Quick Capture you can screenshot content shared in a Teams meeting on a mobile device, save it to your mobile photo gallery, annotate as desired, and then easily share in Teams and other apps subject to content sensitivity labels. Access is via the ellipsis (“…”) menu during the meeting.

Screen Shot of Teams Mobile Quick Capture

This feature is available in both the iOS and Android version of the Teams Mobile App. Deployment is scheduled to begin in early November 2023 and will be available in all Microsoft Tenants worldwide!

For more information see Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 171217

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Set ‘Out of Office’ from Teams Mobile App

You can soon set up your ‘Out of Office’ from within the Teams Mobile App itself on iOS and Android. That is today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix !!!

Previously you could only set your ‘Out of Office’ using the Teams Desktop / Web client or switch over to the Outlook Mobile App. With this capability users can now make this change on the go within the Teams Mobile App itself with configuration found under the same menu to set your availability status!

Screenshots of Teams Mobile Out-of-Office configuration

This is available in both the iOS and Android version of the Teams Mobile App. As always make sure your regularly updating your mobile app to have the latest version to get access!

This capability is already being deployed worldwide with an expected completion by late October 2023.

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Teams Calendar: Near real-time sync with Outlook Calendar

Your Microsoft Teams users will soon have a more reliable calendaring experience. That is today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix !

This update is intended to streamline calendar management helping users keep track of their schedules consistently across Outlook and Teams.

Contained within Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 138248 is an update where #Microsoft will enable calendar updates made in Outlook to be available in near-real time in your #MicrosoftTeams calendar in the Desktop and Web versions of Teams and vice-versa.

This feature has begun rolling out in September 2023 with a completion by mid-October and will be available Worldwide!

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Teams Meeting Add-in in Outlook Support for Multiple Accounts

Today’s #MicrosoftQuickFix is that the new #MicrosoftTeams meeting add-in for Microsoft Outlook now supports the ability to switch between multiple tenants and accounts to schedule Teams meetings. This a long awaited capability. Have you ever needed another reason to switch to the New Microsoft Teams Client!!!

If the user has the new Microsoft Teams client installed, the user will have the ability to switch between their tenants or accounts to schedule a Teams meeting through add-in in Microsoft Outlook.

Now their are some limitations namely:

This capability isn’t supported in Outlook Web or Outlook Mac
The account selected in the Teams meeting add-in dropdown in Microsoft Outlook must match one of the signed-in accounts in Teams before a meeting can be scheduled.
The account selected in the Teams meeting add-in dropdown in Microsoft Outlook must match the signed-in accounts in Teams before the organizer or the co-organizer/s can access that Teams meeting options.
If the user has multiple scheduling windows opened in Microsoft Outlook, it will honor the account selected in the Teams meeting.
If the user accidentally used the wrong account to schedule the Teams meeting they must use Don’t Host Online ribbon option to remove the existing meeting information. Simply deleting the information will result in a broken meeting scheduling experience.

This feature is available today as part of the the New Microsoft Teams Client!

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Valentine’s Day Microsoft Teams Love – Automatic hands lowering in Teams meetings

Happy Valentine’s Day ❤ Here is your #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix ! #MicrosoftTeams will soon automatically lower hands in Teams meetings if that attendee has spoken! You’re going to love this feature!!! 😉🥰

Users who raise their hand in a Teams meeting and then speak will see a notification informing them that their hand will automatically be lowered shorty. The notification will allow them to keep their hand raised if they choose to. If the user doesn’t take action on the notification, their hand will automatically lower.

This feature will ensure smoother meeting facilitation for organizers and presenters. Note: This feature will only be available in the desktop versions of Microsoft Teams

Per Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 90022 look for this new feature to be in public preview this month with General Availability roll out in mid-March 2023!

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Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams

Today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is that #Microsoft has completed the rollout of Advanced Threat Protection Safe Links in #MicrosoftTeams to production and government #Microsoft365 tenants!

With this update, Microsoft brings the premium security of Window Defender for Office 365 Safe Links into #MicrosoftTeams clients!

ATP Safe Links for Teams checks that the links people click on in Teams are safe the moment that an end user clicks the link. If the link is flagged as malicious, ATP Safe Links will show a block page. All links throughout Teams including in chats, channels, and tabs are protected.

thumbnail image 1 captioned Figure 1: Safe Links prevents users from accessing malicious sites

To enable ATP Safe Links to protect users in Microsoft Teams, create or modify a Safe Links policy in the Microsoft 365 Defender Portal under Threat Policies then Safe Links.

Check out this Microsoft Docs page for more details on Safe Links in Microsoft Defender for Office 365!

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PSTN Service Desk email support transition

Today’s exciting #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is that beginning July 22, 2021 #Microsoft has transitioned to a new process to interact with the PSTN service desk for phone number porting and order support!

If you have been working to port numbers to #MicrosoftTeams in the past you will appreciate the ease of now being able to open tickets, view tickets, and track communication in the brand new Phone Number Service Center portal (of course hosted as a #PowerAppsPortal) that is integrated within the Teams Admin Center!

To access the new Phone Number Service Center portal open the #MicrosoftTeams Admin Center and then select “Voice” and then “Phone numbers”. At the top right click “Get phone number support”

From the Phone Number Service Center portal you can get help with porting numbers to Microsoft, or if you require help purchasing net new phone numbers from Microsoft.

Check out this Microsoft Docs page for more details on the new PTSN Service Desk!