December 2021 Weekly Newsletter – Week 3

Queue View in Microsoft Teams Bookings app

Bookings app in Teams enables various organizations to schedule virtual appointments with external attendees and manages staff availabilities in a shared calendar experience.

Contextual Views in Message Extensions and Link-Unfurled Cards (preview)

Now in preview, this feature will enable Adaptive Card v1.4 for Message Extensions which will allow users to send refreshed, up to date cards that will update with new information.

Changes to Microsoft Teams applications native permissions in the browser

In order to better secure Microsoft Teams third-party applications that request native device permissions – such as camera, microphone or location access – we will be requiring users to manually opt-in for these permissions per app in the Microsoft Teams web browser experience. We are already doing this on the Teams desktop and mobile clients.

Meet now and call app update for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

Teams Rooms on Windows are making an alignment for Meet now and calling experiences to Teams desktop replacing “New meeting” control on the Teams room console with Meet (aka Meet now) and replacing “Dial pad” control on the Teams room console with Call.

Teams channel and corresponding SharePoint folders

As previously mentioned (MC280294 – August), this new release will update the channel rename experience in Teams to simultaneously rename the corresponding folder in SharePoint sites whenever a channel in Teams is renamed.

Azure Updates – December 13-17 2021

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