Today at Microsoft Ignite 2021 Microsoft introduced quite a lot of new options coming to Microsoft Teams.
Interactive Webinars
Microsoft Teams helps a spectrum of communication wants, from small inner conferences to giant digital occasions. Now with Teams, you may simply set up and conduct interactive webinars for folks inside and out of doors of your group with as much as 1,000 attendees. Webinars embody end-to-end experiences—like customized registration, wealthy presentation choices, host controls corresponding to the power to disable attendee chat and video, and post-event reporting. And in case your webinar grows to over 1,000 attendees, Teams will seamlessly scale to accommodate a 10,000-person view-only broadcast expertise. Plus, throughout this time of elevated distant work, make the most of even bigger 20,000-person broadcasts by the top of this 12 months. These new occasion capabilities are included with lots of the Office and Microsoft plans your group makes use of at present.
Coming quickly, new integrations will carry collectively Teams occasions with the sturdy attendee administration experiences from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing. Managing attendee data throughout Microsoft Teams and Dynamics 365 Marketing to nurture attendees earlier than, throughout, and after the occasion is now simpler than ever earlier than.
Microsoft Teams Connect
Microsoft introduced Microsoft Teams Connect, which lets you share channels with anybody, inner or exterior to your group. The shared channel will seem inside a person’s main Microsoft Teams tenant alongside different groups and channels, making it simple for everybody to entry it of their workflow. In the shared workspace, you may leverage Microsoft Teams wealthy collaboration capabilities: chat, meet, collaborate on apps, share, and co-author paperwork in real-time. Admins have entry to granular controls, permitting their group to remain in charge of how exterior customers entry information and data. Microsoft Teams Connect is offered at present in non-public preview and can roll out broadly later this calendar 12 months.
Microsoft PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams,
Presenters usually share their desktops in digital conferences, creating an inconsistent presentation expertise and limiting the power of the viewers to work together. Today, Microsoft is saying Microsoft PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams, which can allow presenters to ship extra impactful and fascinating shows. Presenters will now have the ability to lead conferences extra confidently with notes, slides, assembly chat, and contributors all in a single view. Meanwhile, attendees can personalize their expertise by privately navigating the content material at their very own tempo or utilizing the display screen reader to make content material accessible. PowerPoint Live is now obtainable in Teams. Learn extra about PowerPoint Live.
Presenter Mode
The new Presenter mode empowers presenters to customise how their video feed and content material seem to the viewers. The first mode, Standout, reveals the speaker’s video feed in entrance of the shared content material. Next, Reporter will present content material as a visible help above the speaker’s shoulder, identical to throughout a information phase. Third, Side-by-side will present the presenter’s video feed alongside their content material as they current. Presenter mode will probably be obtainable quickly.
Dynamic View
Today, Microsoft can be saying Dynamic view, which intelligently arranges the weather of your assembly for an optimum viewing expertise. As folks be part of, activate video, begin to converse, or start to current in a gathering, Teams mechanically adjusts and personalizes your structure. We’ve additionally added a brand new possibility to position the participant gallery on the prime of the assembly window, serving to you keep a pure eye gaze. Dynamic view will probably be rolling out quickly.
New Gallery views
Microsoft is bringing new gallery views to Microsoft Teams Rooms, together with Together Mode and enormous gallery, to make it simpler to see everybody within the assembly. And whether or not the room has one display screen or two, you’ll have the ability to see…
