New Delhi: Microsoft has recently rolled out its latest set of updates for Teams across various categories. According to the company, the latest changes focus on how the users organise their workspace, join teams, handle multilingual meetings, manage calls and stay protected from impersonation risks. In addition, there are updates for frontline workers and admins managing large Teams deployments. The company stated that these features are now available to the users. Teams now lets the users open key functions such as chats, calls, calendar, activity and applications in separate windows.
This is meant to help with multitasking and enables users to arrange their workspace the way they prefer. The users can keep chats open in one window while checking call history or their calendar in another, without constantly switching tabs. Users can pop out these sections by right-clicking on them or using the application flyout. Microsoft has stated that joining private teams with code will now require approval from the team owner. The company has noted that this change adds an extra layer of security by ensuring that every new member is reviewed, even if they have joined the code.
This update is intended to prevent accidental or unauthorised access while keeping the joining process simple for approval users. Teams has improved Interpreter support for multilingual meetings. When enabled, the spoken language is automatically detected and synced with live captions and transcription. If the interpreter is turned off, captions and transcription will still work, but participants must speak in the language manually selected in the meeting settings for accurate results.
The latest preparation status also appears when the Interpreter is getting ready, helping the participants know when it is active. With this update, Interpreter settings now include clearer, shorter explanations for each option and field, making the setup process easier to understand. Users can now open Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat directly in the Teams Calls application. Copilot can create all summaries, highlight key points and suggest next steps using information from Microsoft Graph and the web.
Teams Phone now supports third-party compliance recording at the call queue level. This means all calls routed through a queue can be automatically recorded, which the company stated could be helpful for organisations with large or changing support teams. Teams can now flag cases where an external may be impersonating an organisation’s domain during their first interaction in Teams messages. The system checks the sender’s identity and domain authenticity in real-time, alerts users to suspicious activity and helps reduce the risk of phishing.
