There is a lot to dislike about Microsoft Teams, but Microsoft is continuing to make significant changes and additions that may just start to pull the software in a direction that is more pleasing to you. This month, Microsoft has made numerous developments, and has shared details in a monthly blog post.
A particularly useful change is the ability to forward multiple messages as one, helping to speed up workflow. There are also new views to try out, trust indicators to improve security, and much more.
Explaining the significance of multi-message forwarding, Microsoft says: “You can now forward multiple messages at once in Microsoft Teams. Choose up to five messages from a chat or channel, and send them together in a single message, preserving both context and order. Whether you’re sharing key decisions, project updates, or helpful resources, this streamlined experience makes it easier to keep everyone in the loop”.
Trust indicators are an idea ported across from email platforms, and Microsoft says:
Trust Indicators are visual badges next to external users in Teams that help you quickly assess who you’re working with. Group chats and meeting chats that include external users are also marked as “external” to drive clarity and security. These labels include external-familiar, external-unfamiliar, guest, email verified, and unverified, and are automatically assigned based on the user’s relationship with your organization. For instance, if a user is from a trusted domain, their label will be marked as “external familiar,” while those outside of known or trusted organizations are labeled “external unfamiliar.” This process helps provide context and enhances security by clearly indicating the nature of external relationships.
Microsoft has also made numerous changes to meeting recap summaries to make them more customizable – and by extension, more useful. Among the changes are new visual references:
AI summaries in meeting recap now include the visuals that shaped the conversation. When a screen is shared during a recorded meeting, key on-screen moments are captured and placed directly alongside the relevant sections of the meeting summary, so you can see the screen as it appeared in the discussion. The notes themselves remain focused on the conversation, but now they’re paired with the visual context that brought those ideas to life. The result is a more intuitive, scannable recap that helps teams quickly reconnect decisions to what was presented, without scrubbing through the recording.
With the addition of new views and more, Microsoft really does seem to be trying to make Teams better suited to more people, eliminating frustration, and moving away from a one-size-fits-all model.
You can check out the full blog post here.
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