Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
Teams
- Launched (1)
- Rolling out (4)
- In development (11)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments app for GCC – The Virtual Appointments app provides a single location where professionals and administrators can create and manage scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in Microsoft Teams, view valuable appointment insights and analytics, get real-time status updates in a queue view, and send appointment reminders. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=121360
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Teams: App search improvement in Teams store – Improvements to search in Teams app store allows users to find the right apps and workflows quickly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122521
- Microsoft Teams: New capability for users to share apps directly to chats or channels – This new feature will allow people to share apps from Teams app details page directly to chats or channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122536
- Microsoft Teams: New channels experience – New channels experience, built with an intuitive design that help teams focus and actively engage. The new channels experience include: compose box and recent posts will appear at the top of the page, every post will now have a conversation view and a new right pane with the channel’s key information. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=91683
- Microsoft Teams: Give Feedback for GCC and GCCH – Users in GCC and GCCH can give feedback via the Help icon in Teams regarding their experience with the product. This drives how Microsoft addresses trends and influences future features and product updates. From the help icon, click on give feedback to provide verbatims on your product experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123972
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – June 2023
- Microsoft Teams: Export API Support for Teams Control Messages – Control Messages are system generated messages on Teams client when an activity or event occurs. For example, User A was added User B to a chat and shared all chat history. Export API, a compliance archiving solution for Teams, goes beyond user generated Teams message and provides support to archive Teams control messages. As part of this release, Export API will support member add and member remove messages in the context of Teams, chats, and channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122517
Rollout starts – July 2023
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: meeting participants time-zone – When scheduling a meeting with people from different time-zones, the user will be prompted with suggested start times and additional insights that correspond to the participants respective time-zone, ensuring a more suitable time for all meeting participants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123963
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report for user access – Users who are not designated as admins, now have access to the EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report through the Virtual Appointments App in Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138229
- Microsoft Teams: Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer – Users are now able to click through the annotation layer to interact with content in meetings without restarting the current annotation session. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127900
- Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Stageview – With Collaborative Stageview, app content opens in a new Teams window where users can engage with content and chat with other team members, side-by-side. Collab Stage lets users share links and collaborate on content, right from within Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93769
Rollout starts – August 2023
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teacher-led announcements for parents – The Parents App inside Teams will now allow educators to send broadcast messages (announcements) to all the parents of a class. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124683
- Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meeting Recordings – Microsoft Graph meeting recording API allows developers access to Teams meeting recordings once the meeting is completed. Recorded media output is in MP4 audio+video format. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95787
- Microsoft Teams: Mixed grid view in meetings – Mixed grid eases the transition from video on to video off and places everybody in a 16:9 ratio. Users can also change their grid size by choosing one of the predefined options. As the new version of Gallery, this is the default view users will have upon joining meetings. Users can choose to go back to this view through the view switcher as desired. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118467
Rollout starts – September 2023
- 🆕 Outlook: Apps for Teams meetings available in Classic Outlook for Windows – Now, you can configure or add an app for Teams meetings while scheduling a meeting from Outlook. This app will be ready to use when you chat or join the meeting in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=96633
- Microsoft Teams: Teams Connect chat enhancements – IT admins will be able to add external partners with phone-based Teams accounts not managed by an organization to their organization’s extended directory. These external users can have a company curated user profile including location and job role. Users in the organization, who are enabled for Teams external access, can search for these external users by name and establish 1:1 or group chats, just like they do with internal users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=119789
Rollout starts – October 2023
- Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations – All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=89975

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