Hello YouTube, I'm Matt and this is the Roadmap Radar for August.
In this show we look at all the new updates in the Microsoft 365 roadmap coming your way soon.
It's a relatively quiet month.
There's an update for SharePoint. But let's get started with Teams.
This change allows us to choose how our Office files open.
Currently Teams is the default,
so when you click on the file to open it in Teams
it will open in the Teams app.
This feature will allow us to choose which way to open the file.
You'll be able to go to the ellipsis,
choose "open", and then you'll see the default.
Here the default is Teams.
I can choose "change default"
and then change to either Teams desktop app or browser.
I can also do this from the settings page
by going to the ellipsis in the top right,
choosing settings,
and on the general page I can scroll down to the bottom
and make a choice in the "file" section.
This update is for Office files that are shared in Teams
and the desktop setting can be chosen
if you have Office version 16 or newer installed and activated.
And the update is rolling out through August
and will complete in September.
This new update to Teams will give us an attendance report...
...that we can view after the meeting is finished.
This report will appear as a tab in the meeting details
and it will show us a summary of the meeting and the detail of who joined and when
and how long they stayed for.
And if the meeting is a webinar, it will also show us registration information.
So this feature will not be turned on by default
so your administrator will have to turn it on using PowerShell
so check the description below for the cmdlet and how to do that.
Teams meeting attendance reports are rolling out now
and should be complete by the end of August.
There has been an update to the breakout rooms feature in Teams.
Now there'll be a new window that will make it easier to manually assign large groups to our rooms,
and that will help speed up the whole assignment process.
The new assignment window will show us a list of everyone who's joined the meeting
and let us pick and assign them to each room in bulk.
This update is rolling out now and should be complete by the end of August.
With this new feature for Teams desktop, meeting organisers will be able to lock the meeting
to stop unwanted people attempting to join.
We'll be able to go to the participants panel,
choose the ellipsis and then lock the meeting.
Now when anyone attempts to join a locked meeting by app or phone,
they'll see a message to say that the meeting is locked.
The lock meeting feature is rolling out now and should be complete by the end of August.
This new feature will let us chat in Teams in line and in real time.
We'll be able to send a chat message to Teams
and it can be edited at the same time by everyone in the chat.
It's similar to how we can co-author files in Word or Excel.
This feature is enabled by a Fluid Live component
which will be added to the chat to make this inline editing possible.
Fluid is Microsoft's new system for collaborating in real time
from different apps or devices, and this is the first time that fluid components
have been rolled out into an existing app.
And we can expect more examples in other Office apps like Outlook in the future.
The new Fluid Live component is rolling out to Teams now
and should be complete by the end of August.
This new feature will enable Teams to broadcast high fidelity music.
We'll be able to run online music lessons
and even performances in Teams meetings.
In the new high fidelity music mode.
Teams will support up to 32 kilohertz sampling rate mono audio
at 128 kilobits per second.
Microsoft say that to use music mode
we'll have to use professional microphones and headphones
or built-in mics and speakers on laptops should also be okay,
but bluetooth devices are not going to be good enough.
We'll be able to turn this feature on and off from the device settings page in Teams.
So high fidelity music mode is rolling out at the end of August
and should be complete by the end of September.
Now an update for SharePoint.
With this new feature you can control your email notifications sent from SharePoint.
Currently you'll be getting automatic email notifications
when someone likes or comments on a page or a news post that you created.
You'll also see them when you are @mentioned in a comment or reply
and when someone replies to your comment.
There's also an email that's sent out each week of news items that you might have missed.
With this new feature, we'll be able to choose which emails we receive.
From the SharePoint home page you can go to the settings wheel,
choose the "email notification settings",
and then toggle off the emails you no longer want to receive.
Email notification settings rolled out during July
and should be available to everyone now.
Okay that's all we've got time for this month.
Thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you next time.
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