- Welcome to Microsoft Mechanics.
Coming up, we'll look at the recent updates
to Microsoft Teams.
As more and more of us are working remotely,
Teams has become the go-to app
for digital collaboration, online meetings,
and the unified canvas to deliver powerful
integrated app experiences.
Now, let's start with what's new in Meetings.
First, we've increased the number
of simultaneous video streams from four to nine
of the most recently active.
Now we've also added raise hand
and with that, you can raise
or lower your hand using the icon that you see here.
Now, it's great for impromptu polling or asking questions
and getting the attention of other participants
or the presenter.
Now, once you've raised your hand,
you'll be able to see all the different hands
that are raised in the People tab
and you will be able to see if multiple people
have their hands raised at once.
Another thing that we've improved
is the pre-join experience.
So now, when you join a meeting, you'll be able to choose
from your device settings with the gear icon.
You can also choose to enable or disable your camera.
You can change your audio settings before you join
through these buttons on the right,
and even your background filters.
So here I can, for example, decide to blur my background
or I can use any number of the built-in room configurations
that we have as part of background effects in Teams.
When I'm ready to join, everything that I've configured
has been configured and the meeting just works.
And another new capability, especially great for teachers,
using ad hoc or channel meetings, is the ability
to run meeting options as part of that meeting.
So here, I'm going to join another meeting
and you'll see that once I join,
I can expand out the People tab.
And now, I can go in
and see a new button here with a check X,
that basically will open Meeting options.
Now, that's going to allow me to
pick only me as the presenter.
This is great if you saw my tip
for preventing participants from removing each other
or muting each other during a meeting,
this actually expands that control
into non-scheduled meetings as well.
And to make it easier to manage more tasks in Teams
during meetings, the meeting window itself
can actually be popped out, and you can resize it
and also place it outside of your Teams app.
Now, this is great here for being able to
have full real estate across multiple monitors.
In future Meetings, by the way,
we'll remember this preference
and pop out Meetings by default
as I just showed in the demo.
Now, beyond enhancements to the meeting experience,
let me show you a few other
new capabilities when using Teams.
First, to make it easier to build new teams
we've added templates in Teams.
Now, when you create a new team,
you'll be able to just go through the normal process,
but here, you'll see templates
that are both from my organization
and built-in templates for hospital, retail, or an event.
Here, we'll see the channels are pre-configured,
as well as apps as part of this template.
When I tap on Start,
I'll be able to make it private, public, or org-wide.
I can give it a name and I can even give it a description.
Then, when I tap Create, it's going to go in the background
and create that team.
Once it's finished, I can start to manage that team
with members or additional customizations
I want to make to the team.
Now, to manage templates from the Teams admin experience
in the Admin Center, all you have to do is go to Teams,
Team templates, then you'll see all the different
team templates that you have here enumerated.
If you wanted to add another one, tap the Add button.
You can create a new template using an existing team
or modify an existing template.
In my case, I'll do that
and I'll modify the Manage an Event template
that I've already got.
In here, I'll just rename it,
so I'll call it Contoso Event Management,
and now, I can click or I can give it a description,
and I can click Next.
Now, I have all the channels that we just saw,
but I'm going to add another channel,
so here, I'll add a vendor management channel,
and then, I can additionally add an app.
So in this case, I'll add Excel to this
and then, I'll give that tab a name.
So we'll call it Vendors
and that's going to be able to display
our vendors through an Excel app.
Now, when I apply the changes, I can go back to my list
of all my team templates,
and I can click in, make any changes I might want to make
to the team template, and it's ready for me to use.
Now, we've also focused on search within Teams.
Let me show you.
So here, if I just hit the Control+F key,
it's going to scope search to just
the team channel or chat that I'm in.
So here, you can see I've searched for guidelines
and I can see all the different results
and that will take me directly to those different chat items
within that channel in this case.
And another great way to work together
is to use Microsoft Lists.
It's a new capability in Microsoft 365
and it's an app that helps you track information
and organize your work.
Now, Lists are simple, smart,
and flexible, so you can stay on top
of what matters most to your team.
Now with ease, you can track issues, assets, routines
and contacts, inventory, and more
using customizable views like you see here,
and also smart rules and alerts
if you want to keep everyone in sync.
Now this, for example, is a list of job applicants in HR.
Now if I want to, I can easily click into
Aaron's line item here
and I'll see all the different status
and the related chat from the team.
Now, here, I'm just scratching the surface
on what you can do with Microsoft Lists,
but you can learn more at aka.ms/MicrosoftLists.
Let me show you another pop out experience.
So here, we have an app that's been pinned
to my left navigation,
and what I can do is pop out the app as well
and get a nice resizable windowed view of my application.
In this case, it's an in-house developed Power App.
Now, if you're keeping score at home,
that means we can pop out chats, meetings,
and even apps as resizable windows within Teams.
So those are updates to some of the core
built-in Teams experiences, but let's switch gears
to the ways that Teams can be customized
with your own apps and services.
I'm going to start with pro developers.
So we've built Teams integration into Visual Studio.
So here, when you set up a Microsoft Teams project,
you can do everything you need to,
including setting up the project to be either a tab, a bot,
or a messaging extension as an app
extensibility option for Teams.
We can also validate
and test our apps from within Visual Studio directly.
And finally, the great thing is we can publish directly
to our organizational app store
ar we can publish to Teams in the public app store as well
for other organizations to be able to use our apps.
Now, if you're not a pro developer,
what we like to call citizen developers,
Power Apps is a great way to build rich
and scalable apps to target mobile devices,
your internet, and of course, Microsoft Teams.
So here, from within the Power Apps Designer,
I can easily create my app.
This is a Service Desk app that I've created.
Now, to publish that into Teams,
we've made that easier than ever.
So first, when we go to publish the app,
we just have to click on Add to Teams.
And then once we do that, we can actually
go into our store, we'll add that app so that others
will be able to view the app from within their experience.
And now, as a user, if I click on the ellipses or if
I add a tab, I can search for my app and add that here.
And here, you can see the same Service Desk app
that we just saw within Power Apps
here in the context of Teams.
And for IT, we've also extended
the management controls for your custom apps.
Now, before, you could curate apps that were published
to the team app gallery by Microsoft partner developers.
And now you can do the same thing
for your in-house developed apps.
Let me show what that looks like.
So here, I have all the different apps
that I manage in my organization.
If I just sort the custom apps here,
you can see these are all the ones that I've uploaded
or published directly into my Teams environment,
either from Power Apps or from Visual Studio,
and that's going to show up right here
in the Management Console.
And as I showed you earlier, you can now use Teams templates
to provision apps out for your users
as part of team creation.
So that was a quick overview of the new capabilities
in Microsoft Teams as we approach the halfway point of 2020.
For a comprehensive roundup for all the new capabilities
in Microsoft Teams, check out aka.ms/Teams2020Updates
and thanks for watching.
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