Microsoft has recently made several changes to Microsoft Teams. The company has been putting a lot of effort into creating a good conversation app for both personal and business use. There are plenty of new things that have been rolled out lately for the free version of Microsoft Teams. The desktop app has also received a treatment; it is now more optimized and almost 70% faster than the previous version of Teams.
This includes the new app badges on the app, which makes it easier to see which app has new updates or notifications appear next to the app’s icon. Additionally, there is the ability to share videos with the community. To do this, you need to click on the share button in the app and then choose the community you want to share the video with, and add a message to the video.
The #MicrosoftTeams app has new updates that can help you keep track of things. In the desktop app, the app badges are now more visible, share videos with your community, and provides better protection against harmful content.
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Last quarter, Microsoft Teams received a good list of features that you can try to make your experience better. The features include improved notifications, support for playing videos with the community, sharing content through the native sharing option, accepting invitations to communities within the app, and an improved experience for inviting people to meetings through SMS. Today, in this article, we will be sharing all the important features that you can use with the new Microsoft Teams.
App Badge
There is new content to show in Windows 11 Chat and Teams. A new red dot on the taskbar appears next to the Microsoft Teams app icon on the taskbar. This makes it easier for users to keep track of new notifications for unread messages or notifications from their contacts or channels. This content or feature comes within Microsoft Teams on Microsoft Windows 11. To tweak these settings, you can open Settings and click on Personalization. From there, check the Taskbar and then Taskbar behavior to check or uncheck the box for the Show badge (Unread Message Counter) on the Taskbar apps.
Video Sharing in Communities
You can share videos beautifully in line with the community in Microsoft Teams without having to leave the community. This is a great improvement, making it easier to watch videos. To watch the video, click on the video thumbnail to start playing the video inline within the community. You can control the pause, play, rewind, fast forward, and volume controls to adjust the volume of the video. You can also view it in full-screen by clicking on the Full-screen button.
Inviting Users to Meetings via SMS
You can invite users via SMS, which you can set up during scheduling a new meeting in Microsoft Teams (Free) on Windows 11 by entering the phone number as the recipient. When the meeting time arrives, you will have set simply enter your phone number as the recipient so they can receive the meeting update via SMS, which also includes the meeting link to join meetings. To do this, open Teams on your Windows and click on the New Meetings button. There you need to enter the person’s mobile number that you want to invite to the meeting and then click on the Send Invite button. That person can simply click on the link to open Teams and then join the meeting.
High-five Emoji
There is a new high-five emoji that you can use with your contacts when you want to have fun or share something cool in Teams. They will see a small animation of your character giving a high-five, which is a fun and interactive way to add personality to your conversation.
Easy Sharing
Sharing content is now easier with the native sharing option on your mobile device. Simply open the Teams app on your mobile device, head over to the content you want to share, tap on the share button, select Microsoft Teams from the list of sharing options, choose the community you want to share content with, and then tap on the share button.
Safeguard Update
To protect its users from piracy or malicious content, the new automated mechanism will remove harmful content and notify users about content removal.
Invite Acceptance
If someone invites you, you will receive a notification on the Microsoft Teams app. Simply click on “accept” to join the community. When you launch the Teams app, click on “communities” under “recent” on the left navigation panel to see all your community invites.
This update is currently available in preview and will roll out in phases. If you don’t see these features, check again later or contact your Microsoft Teams administrator. Additionally, the app is now faster, and more responsive, has improved performance for large meetings and calls, and supports multiple languages while maintaining memory usage.
