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New in the Microsoft 365 suite: the software giant announced a new setting to mute notifications. It will soon also be possible to chat on Teams between a work account and a personal account.
Mute mode during meetings
The ability to mute notifications during meetings is expected to arrive by February, according to a message Microsoft sent to users of the office suite. The software giant confirmed the update to ZDNet, saying the change is slated for next month in the company’s roadmap.
“Users will be able to mute notifications during their meetings, which will allow them to concentrate better. They will be able to choose to activate the mute mode for the notifications for all the meetings or for each meeting ”, explains Microsoft.
This change was added to the roadmap on 1er November and last updated at the end of December. Originally, Microsoft wrote to office suite users that they were aware that receiving notifications during a meeting was “very distracting” and “painful”, but there was currently no “easy way to turn off these notifications ”.
As soon as this new feature is deployed in February, users will just have to go to general settings, accessible by clicking on the ellipses next to the profile picture, and deactivate notifications. It will also be possible to deactivate notifications through the uBar. Handy if you want to choose a different setting for each meeting.
The wall is falling between pro and personal accounts on Teams
It will soon be possible to communicate between Teams for individuals and Teams for businesses. This novelty should be available mid-January.
This feature was available in preview since November. It should have been deployed at the end of 2021, but has been postponed until this month. “Thanks to this new feature, Teams users in your organization will be able to initiate a one-to-one or group chat with Teams users who use their personal accounts, and vice versa,” the company explains in its center. messages. It will therefore be possible to invite any Teams user to a chat, using a simple email address or a phone number. Within the limits of the policies of its organization in terms of security and compliance of course, specifies Microsoft.
This capability will be available both on desktop and mobile applications as well as on the web version.
Microsoft specifies that it will be possible for administrators to activate or deactivate this feature. However, it will be enabled by default. To remedy this, they will have to go to the Teams admin portal, in the “External access” section, or use PowerShell commands to disable it for all users.
This new feature will only concern chat, says Tony Redmond, Office 365 expert, and not calls or file exchanges. However, it should be remembered that until then, any chat attempt between a Teams for individuals user and a Teams for businesses user turned into an email.
As a reminder, Teams users can chat with Skype users and call them, and vice versa, since 2020. Last year, still in the desire to democratize the very personal use of Teams, Microsoft has integrated a chat button for the application in Windows 11.
Last December, Microsoft also rolled out many new features for Teams, including end-to-end call encryption.
Source: ZDNet.com [1,2]