Everything new for Microsoft Teams from October 2022
Microsoft improved meetings, calls, chats, and more for Teams last month.
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What you need to know
Microsoft Teams is used by millions of people each month, and it regularly gains new features to deliver a better experience. Each month, Microsoft gathers together all of the new features for the app in aroundup. To start of November, Microsoft delivered its usual recap.
Sit down and grab your favorite beverage because it will take a while to run through everything that shipped to Microsoft Teams last month.
Meetings
As meetings are the core experience of Teams, Microsoft added several features for them last month. Meeting organizers and presenters can now assign seats within Together Mode. It’s also possible to pop shared meeting content out to separate windows.
Teams Premium now supports real-time translation for 40 spoken languages as well.
Calling
Teams now features a more detailed call history, including showing how a call arrived and if it was forwarded or transferred. The call history can also show recordings and transcriptions.
Certified Devices
A few certified devices for Microsoft Teams rolled out last month, including a conference room companion, a pair of earbuds, and a frame.
Chat & Collaboration
Microsoft combined the best of Microsoft Teams templates with SharePoint site templates in October. The company also added the ability for tenant admins to set Adobe Acrobat as the default app in Teams admin center for PDFs.
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Suggested replies are now available in Teams, allowing users to select generated messages with a single tap or click. Teams also gained support for video clips, which are short videos that you can quickly edit directly in the app before sending them.
Power Platform and custom development
Developers have some new tools to utilize in Teams as well.
Management
Usage analytics for Teams admins and users have been updated. Microsoft updated Teams admin center usage reports and end user analytics in Teams to have the same data source as Microsoft 365 Admin Center Teams usage reports.
Teams for Education
Microsoft has an entirelyseparate blog postfor Teams for Education, but it also highlighted a single feature.
Frontline Workers
Microsoft added a small handful of features for Frontline Workers last month. Approval creators can now save a request as a PDF and easily print it. Lists users can now create and manage approval requests within SharePoint Lists as well.
Government
Quite a few features rolled out to government clients of Teams in October. As a reminder, most options make their way to other versions of Teams first and then later ship to government users. The following are shipping to customers in US Government Community Cloud (GCC), US Government Community Cloud High (GCC-High), and/or United States Department of Defense (DoD).
Sean Endicott is a tech journalist at Windows Central, specializing in Windows, Microsoft software, AI, and PCs. He’s covered major launches, from Windows 10 and 11 to the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT. Sean’s journey began with the Lumia 740, leading to strong ties with app developers. Outside writing, he coaches American football, utilizing Microsoft services to manage his team. He studied broadcast journalism at Nottingham Trent University and is active on X @SeanEndicott_ and Threads @sean_endicott_.
