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Microsoft Teams Changelog

What's new in Microsoft Teams 1.4.00.4167

February 27, 2021
  • We've made history:
  • Quickly revisit previous areas you've been to in Teams with the Back arrow Back arrow at the top of the app. When you hover over the arrow, a history of conversations, channels, apps, activities, tabs, and files will appear. Choose an item from the list to immediately jump back to that spot in Teams.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.4.00.2781 (February 1, 2021)

  • Your agenda is now in Teams for free:
  • Now, when you schedule a meeting in the free version of Teams you have an agenda view that lists all of your upcoming meetings. With this new view you also get a way to copy an invite to share with others and a quick access to Meeting options. Get the full details at Getting started with meetings in Teams free.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.3.00.32283 (November 21, 2020)

  • Teams for your personal life, now on desktop:
  • Connect with family and friends on the new desktop app for Teams for your personal life. Now you can organize plans as a group, store personal information, and share memories whether on the go or from your computer. Get all the details at Introducing Microsoft Teams for your personal life.
  • Do more in meetings with apps:
  • Enhance your online meeting experience with apps. Just like adding a tab to a chat or channel, after you've sent an invite, open up the meeting details and select Plus sign icon at the top and choose an app, then select Add. Get the full details at Use apps in meetings.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.3.00.30866 (November 20, 2020)

  • Enhance your online meeting experience with apps. Just like adding a tab to a chat or channel, after you've sent an invite, open up the meeting details and select Plus sign icon at the top and choose an app, then select Add. Get the full details at Use apps in meetings.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.3.00.28779 (November 6, 2020)

  • Keep it secret, keep it safe:
  • To provide you with even more privacy, Teams now lets you turn off message previews in your desktop notifications. Message previews are on by default. To turn them off, go to your profile picture, select Settings > Notifications > Show message preview. From here, switch the toggle to off.
  • Appear offline in Teams:
  • You can now set your status in Teams to Appear offline, You'll still receive notifications if anyone messages you, but you'll be able to work in Teams while appearing invisible to others. Like magic!
  • Notification settings got a makeover:
  • Check out the new, simplified organization of your notification settings. To access, go to your profile picture, select Settings > Notifications and you're there.
  • Become a pro at notifications and learn more about the changes at Manage notification in Teams.
  • New industry-based team templates:
  • Use team templates created specifically for your industry to help you create teams optimized for the way you work. There are also some new templates for project management, employee in-boarding, and more.
  • Learn how to use templates at Create a team from a template.
  • Transfer meetings between devices:
  • Seamlessly switch between devices when in a Teams meeting. So if you join a meeting from your phone while making your morning cup of caffeine, you can transfer to your computer when you get to your desk and no one will be the wiser.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.3.00.21759 (August 22, 2020)

  • Real-time status updates in Teams:
  • We're excited to announce that Teams now provides updates to everyone's statuses as they occur. What does that all mean? You're looking at more reliable and faster updates when your status—available, in a call, etc.—changes in Teams, including turning on and off your out of office (aka Automatic Replies) in Outlook. You'll also get faster updates to events in your calendar.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.3.00.19173 (July 31, 2020)

  • More control in meeting options:
  • Now, you have the option to make everyone—even people from your organization—wait in the meeting lobby when they join a meeting you've organized.
  • To access this setting, open Meeting options. Then, where is asks Who can bypass the lobby?, select Only me. Learn how to access these options at Change participant settings for a Teams meeting.
  • Clearer options when joining a meeting via link:
  • When you join a Teams meeting via a link, you're provided three options for how you can join. If you don't have the app, but want all the meeting functionality it provides, select the first button to download the app compatible with your operating system. Want to join via web? Select Continue on this browser. And, if you already have the app, select Open your Teams app to join the meeting like you would from the Teams calendar.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.3.00.15561 (June 14, 2020)

  • Access pinned chats and channels while offline:
  • Your most recent conversations, as well as your pinned chats and channels, are now available when working offline in Teams.
  • Customize your background:
  • Whether it's outer space or your favorite cartoon living room, try out customized backgrounds in your next video call.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.3.00.13565 (June 5, 2020)

  • 10,000 teammates, all together:
  • Team sizes have increased to ten thousand, making it a little easier for larger organizations to let everyone join the conversation.
  • Meeting options button in Teams:
  • Once you send your online meeting invite, open your meeting options via the new button in Teams. Once you've sent your meeting invite, open the event and select Meeting options (at the top of the event). This will open a tab in your web browser where you can tweak your meeting settings, like lobby bypass and who can present.
  • Book appointments and online visits with Bookings:
  • The Bookings app in Teams offers a simple way to schedule virtual (and in-person) appointments, like healthcare visits, financial consultations, and educator office hours.
  • Schedulers can manage multiple department and staff calendars, as well as communications with internal and external attendees, from a single experience. The virtual appointments themselves are held via Microsoft Teams Meetings.
  • Pop out a chat for multitasking:
  • Double-click a chat in your chat list, or select Pop out chat icon in Teams to open a chat in a secondary window. Now, you're free to move about Teams while working in multiple chat conversations.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.3.00.8663 (April 18, 2020)

  • Announce when callers join a meeting"
  • Meeting organizers now have the option to announce when callers join or leave a Teams meeting, so you always know who is in your online meeting.
  • To access, select Meeting options and switch the toggle on for Announce when callers join or leave.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.3.00.3564 (March 9, 2020)

  • Tag, you're it:
  • Create tags and assign people to them so you can @mention a group, role, department, etc. Team owners, try it out for yourselves. Go to a team, select More options

New in Microsoft Teams 1.3.00.362 (February 22, 2020)

  • Pin your favorite apps:
  • Organize your apps on the left side of Teams to fit the way you work. Select the three dots on the left side of Teams, right click any app icon, and select Pin to add it for easy access.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.2.00.27559 (November 12, 2019)

  • Channel choicesStandard or private!:
  • Got a topic that needs to be discussed by a specific group of people in an existing team—and shouldn't be viewed by others? Use a private channel to keep the conversation restricted. Learn more about private channels.
  • Chrome video calling is here:
  • Do you use Teams on the web from a Chrome browser? Then you're in luck! Because now you can make and receive video calls from your teammates. Select the camera icon at the top right corner of an individual or group chat, and show your smiling face to the people on the other end of the call.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.2.00.17057 (July 9, 2019)

  • Share instantly with Teams on Chrome :
  • If you're joining Teams meetings online using Chrome, you can now instantly share your screen without any plug-ins or extensions—no matter what operating system you use. Try it out in your next meeting. Enjoy!
  • Testing, testing 1, 2, 3 :
  • Test your video and audio settings and make sure you're coming in crystal clear. To make a test call in Teams, type /testcall in the command box at the very top of the app and press Enter, or go to your profile pic > Settings > Devices > Make a test call. Listen to the instructions and wait for the beep, then talk to your heart's content. Once you're done you can listen to your message and make any adjustments necessary. Happy calling!
  • Send an invite link to join Teams free:
  • Create an invite link to invite people to join your org on Teams free via the app of your choice. When they click on the link they'll be sent to a webpage to request to join your org—so you know exactly who's using the link to join. The team owner can deactivate the link or create a new one at any time. To invite someone select Invite people at the bottom of your teams list or chat list, then choose Copy link.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.2.00.13765 (June 11, 2019)

  • Schedule a Teams meeting from any device:
  • Thanks to the new Outlook add-in you can book a Teams meeting from any Mac, PC, Android, or iOS device. Check out how to set up the Outlook add-in on your device on our admin help page.
  • Teams goes Chrome:
  • Now you can get meeting video on the Teams web app in Chrome! That means you can join a Teams meeting and get all the good voice and video experience, even when you're not in the desktop app.
  • Choose how callers join a meeting:
  • Now when you schedule a Teams meeting you get to decide whether people calling in have to wait in the meeting lobby or get to directly join the meeting. Access the meetings options at the bottom of your Teams meeting invite.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.2.00.8866 (April 20, 2019)

  • Show and hide teams to stay organized
  • What used to be Favorite and Remove from favorites is now Show and Hide. Choose which teams and channels you want to show in your teams list and hide the rest. You'll still get notified when @mentioned, they just won't clutter your teams list.
  • To try it out, go to a team or channel name in your teams list and select More options More options button > Hide. Want to get a team back in your list? Scroll to the bottom and open the Hidden teams list.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.2.00.7161 (April 8, 2019)

  • Request to add others to private teams:
  • Now you can request on behalf of someone else to join a private team. Right-click on a team name, and select Add member. Search for people by name or email. Team owners will get a notification that they have a new request, and people you've added will get a notification once they've been added to the team.
  • Big, bigger, biggest:
  • Org-wide teams have increased their size limit to 5000 members. Admins, feel free to add away! Create that big team you've always wanted.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.2.00.4664 (April 4, 2019)

  • It's a small world after all:
  • Whether in the room or across an ocean, Teams and the Microsoft Surface Hub work together to improve meetings for local and remote attendees. Jot down notes simultaneously with Microsoft Whiteboard integration and turn on auto camera settings to have your Surface Hub automatically switch camera views so you can focus on who's talking. Read up on all the new improvements and features available for your Teams meetings on our blog.
  • Who's awesome? You're awesome:
  • Introducing Praise, the new way to encourage each other at work. Send in a 1:1 chat, or post it to a channel to show your appreciation to the entire team. Select More options button below the compose box, then select Praise at the top. Choose what kind of badge you wish to send and personalize your acknowledgment with a message. When you send it, we'll @mention them in the message to make sure they don't miss it.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.2.00.1758 (January 28, 2019)

  • Sign me up, Scotty!:
  • People looking to try out Microsoft Teams for free can now do so directly in the desktop app. Select Learn more on the login window and you'll be taken to the Teams website, where you can start a free account or compare prices for a full license.
  • Already using Teams? Your experience is better, too. Now when you're signed into Microsoft Office 365, you'll be automatically logged into Teams when you open the app.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.1.00.31860 (December 18, 2018)

  • Group chat—now with 50 people:
  • Group chat size has increased from 20 members to 50. Group video, screen sharing, and calls are still limited to groups of 20 or fewer. The chat history and privacy are still all there. So go ahead, start planning that surprise office party with the new, bigger group chat.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.1.00.29068 (December 7, 2018)

  • Now when someone from your personal contact list calls you in Teams, Caller ID displays their name along with their phone number. This goes for call history and voicemail, too. To use this feature you'll need to save people to your contacts list in Teams: Calls > Contacts > Add a contact.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.1.00.28562 (November 7, 2018)

  • One team for your organization:
  • Are you a small to medium-sized business? Then you're in luck! Now organizations with fewer than 1,000 users can create org-wide teams. Get your people on the same page and working together in one big happy team. For best practices and to learn the nuts and bolts of this feature, check out the admin's how to on org-wide teams.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.1.00.24759 (September 25, 2018)

  • Zoom on in:
  • Access your zoom controls from your Teams settings. Zoom in, zoom out, and view your zoom percentage by selecting your profile picture.
  • Making chat more accessible:
  • Microsoft Teams is excited to announce that the Immersive Reader has made its way to chats and channels. Use page themes and personalized text size, style, and letter spacing for increased visibility, minimize visual distractions with Line Focus, or follow along with the personalized text reader. To launch the Immersive Reader from any conversation or chat, select More options More options button > Immersive Reader.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.1.00.19257 (August 22, 2018)

  • Adobe XD and Teams:
  • Designers, take heart You'll now be able to share nicely formatted links to Adobe XD prototypes and design specs in Teams. Better than email, because you'll see a summary and thumbnail preview along with the link. You'll get notifications when reviewers make comments, and faster, integrated access to Creative Cloud files right in your Teams workspace.
  • Get ready for back to school:
  • Rubric grading, a better mobile assignments experience, easy re-use of assignments, and more.
  • Legion of zoom:
  • Zoom in and out of Teams the same way you do in your web browser. On Windows, use Ctrl+= to zoom in, Ctrl+- to zoom out. Get the full list of shortcuts and mouse zoom techniques here.
  • Shhhh... Windows 10 Quiet hours support is here:
  • If you've got Quiet hours set up in Windows 10 (RS3 and earlier only), Teams will recognize those settings first, then your individual Teams notification settings. Handy for those times when you just don't want notifications from anywhere. :-)

New in Microsoft Teams 1.1.00.18052 (August 2, 2018)

  • Take private notes and get the whole picture with the new Wiki app:
  • Now you can access your own private wiki and channel wiki pages in one place—the new Wiki app! Find it by selecting More apps More options button on the left side of Teams, then Wiki. In the app, keep your own private notes on the Personal tab, see all the wiki pages you're a part of on the All tab, or get back to ones you've used recently on the Recent tab.
  • Add info to your wiki from anywhere in Teams:
  • A whiz-bang way to get a note into your personal wiki. In the command box at the top of Teams, type /wiki, then press Enter and type your note. Press Enter again when you're finished and the note will go right to the Personal tab in the Wiki app.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.1.00.17852 (July 17, 2018)

  • Join a team with a code:
  • Send people a code to join your team—you won't have to approve every request! (For team owners only.) Next to a team name, click More options More options button > Get link or code and follow the prompts. Tell people to click Join or create a team at the bottom of their teams list, then plug the code into the Join a team with a code box at the top. This works with public and private teams.
  • Get important notifications while in Do not Disturb mode:
  • Even when you need to set your status to Do not disturb, there are still some calls and 1:1 chats you don't want to miss. You can now give priority access to certain people or numbers, from bosses to besties. This means you'll get notifications about calls and 1:1 chats from these people while you're set to Do not disturb. To set it up, click your profile pic > Settings > Privacy and follow the prompts.
  • Easier updates for Macs:
  • Once you move to this new type of installation for Teams on your Mac, you won't have to enter your admin credentials every time you get the latest and greatest updates for Teams. (The new installation uses a PKG file, and it replaces the earlier DMG installation format.) Also, admins can move to PKG for improved handling of Teams on Mac in managed deployments. Find instructions for using the PKG installation here.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.1.00.252 (January 12, 2018)

  • FEATURES:
  • A better OneNote tab:
  • When you create a new OneNote tab in a channel, you now have the option of linking to an existing notebook or pasting a link to a OneNote page or section. Doing that also lets everyone in the channel explore the entire notebook that the page or section belongs to (provided they have access).
  • Like a chat:
  • You're now able to like a message in a chat just like you would in a channel! This makes responding to messages and approving decisions a lot easier—no typing necessary.
  • Hide a chat:
  • Clean up your chat list by hiding old or inactive chats. Your chat history will still be available if you search for any of the chat participants, and you'll be able to resurface a hidden chat back just by sending or receiving a new message.
  • Request and grant screen control:
  • Now, you're able to request control of someone else's desktop or grant control of your screen while you're sharing. While you're in control of someone's screen, you'll be able to use your own mouse and keyboard to select or move content or type and make edits. To start controlling someone else's screen, click Request control when you're in a meeting and wait for approval.
  • Resize images in Wiki:
  • If you've pasted any images into a Wiki, you're now able to resize them instantly. Hover over the image, then click and drag the resizer until you get the size you want.
  • EDUCATION:
  • Assignments are more immersive with full-screen mode:
  • While creating, reviewing, or completing an assignment, teachers and students can select the Expand tab icon to work in full-screen mode.
  • Improved Class Notebook integration with Assignments:
  • Create a new assignment and specify a Class Notebook page for students to turn in, or to attach as reference material. You select the student notebook section where you’d like the new page distributed.
  • Review and add feedback to Class Notebook pages in full-screen mode. Launch by choosing an assignment to review and selecting the student’s document under Student work.
  • Sync assignments and grades from OneNote Class Notebook back to Microsoft Teams. Here's a short training video that explains how this works.
  • Create separate Collaboration Space permissions in a team’s Class Notebook:
  • This popular Class Notebook feature is now available for notebooks created in Microsoft Teams—great for small group work.
  • Smoother assignment flow:
  • Students can begin work on an assignment using an Office app directly from the assignment itself. This saves time and is helpful for students who don’t have access to Office apps at home.
  • Introducing assignment notifications:
  • When a teacher creates a new assignment, students will receive a notification in their activity bells and a rich assignment card will appear in the General channel’s Conversation tab with a due date and link to the assignment’s details.
  • Organize assignment discussions in one place:
  • New assignment notification cards provide a perfect launching point for contextual discussion. Students and teachers can collaborate and exchange messages right under the assignment's post in the conversation stream.
  • Find assignments quickly:
  • Students and teachers will be able to search for assignments in the search bar using keywords from an assignment’s title.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.0.00.19451 (July 24, 2017)

  • View meeting content while multitasking: Now, you can keep an eye on any content being presented even if you've clicked away from your meeting. That means you can check your messages or pop into another channel then click back whenever you like—without losing any context!
  • Perform actions on multiple files: Now, you can select multiple files at a time and right-click to perform bulk actions like copy, move, or delete.
  • T-Bot just got smarter: Good news, everyone! In addition to speaking English and French, T-Bot can now converse in German and Spanish as well.

New in Microsoft Teams 1.0.00.6903 (March 15, 2017)

  • Hey there, Microsoft Teams fans. For any newcomers, this is where we update you about everything new and noteworthy in Microsoft Teams. We have a ton of good news this week—we're covering custom bots, new tabs, public teams, and everything in between. We’re excited you’re here; let's get started.
  • NEW COMPOSE BOX:
  • ICYMI, your compose box got a complete redesign. We improved the experience behind a lot of the actions surrounding composing and editing messages. Now, you have separate icons for the following actions:
  • Expanding your compose box
  • Adding an emoji to a message
  • Sending a GIF
  • Creating and sending a custom meme or sticker
  • Attaching a file
  • Scheduling a meeting
  • You'll find that your expanded compose box still offers all the same formatting options, but you’ve got a lot more space to play around with creating custom memes and stickers, or searching for popular or trending GIFs. Clicking the meetings icon below your compose box will take you straight to our meeting form, where you can immediately schedule a meeting with whoever you're talking to in a channel or chat. Check it out; we hope you like it!
  • MEETINGS GOT A LOT SMARTER:
  • Schedule a private meeting: Schedule a private meeting with anyone in your organization! They'll be able to join by clicking "Meetings" on the left side of the app.
  • Meetings have a smart new scheduling assistant: Our new scheduling assistant will let you know when all your invitees are free to meet. The scheduling assistant also provides a calendar view of the coming week that will show you when all your meeting attendees are busy or unavailable.
  • BOTS NOW WORK IN TEAMS:
  • New Bots tab in your team page: You might have noticed there's a new tab in your team view. The Bots tab gives you a list of all the bots that have been added to that team. It's also the place to go if you want to discover new bots or get started creating a custom bot or tab!
  • Brand new bot gallery: We built a new bot gallery that will show you a list of all the bots that are currently available in Microsoft Teams. Alongside the Bots tab, the bot gallery is also the place to go when you want to find out which bots have already been added to one of your teams.
  • Discover bots via search: To see a list of all available bots, just click on the search bar at the top of the app and then select "Discover bots". Click on a bot to start a one-on-one chat or click "Add" to add it to a team.
  • Add a bot using an @mention: To add a bot to a channel, just type '@' in your compose box, then select "Add a bot".
  • Custom bots: Now, you can quickly and easily integrate an external service with one of your teams by adding a custom bot! Established and aspiring developers can sideload a bot or tab or even create a custom bot using a call back URL. Just head to the new Bots tab and click the links at the bottom right to get started.
  • PUBLIC TEAMS ARE HERE:
  • With public teams, anyone can search for, view, and join your team! This means that when anyone from your organization clicks through "Add a team", they'll see a collection of public teams that they can browse and join. If you want to create a new public team, you'll be able to choose 'public' or 'private' settings for your team privacy as you go through the steps of creating a new team.
  • CHECK OUT THE NEW WIKI TAB:
  • We've reimagined the way you collaborate. The Wiki tab is a great place for you to draft or edit documents and communicate in real time. It's a full-fledged text editor that lets you @mention teammates right on the page, leave comments when you're editing someone else's work, or respond to feedback!
  • EVEN MORE NEW TABS:
  • We've been quietly adding new options to the tab gallery so you can connect all your favorite external services. Now, you can add a tab to integrate services like Zendesk, Asana, and more. Head over to the desktop app to see what's available.
  • FEEDS GOT A MAKEOVER:
  • We've redesigned your Activity feed so it's more transparent and gives you more control over what you see. Click on the Activity icon on the left side of the app; you'll be taken right to your feed. You'll be able to filter your feed by notification type (if you just want to check your mentions, replies, likes, or news from channels you follow). You also have the option of opening Team activity (which will show you all the latest news from your favorite channels) or My activity (which will give you a list of all the actions you've performed recently in Microsoft Teams). Hope you like it!
  • EMAIL INTEGRATION WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS:
  • You can now post a forwarded email to a channel in Microsoft Teams, thanks to channel email addresses. Click on the "Get email address" option in your channel menu to start sending emails to a channel. Once an email is forwarded, you can have a conversation about it directly in the channel (FYI, any comments or messages that are posted in a channel about an email will only be visible from Microsoft Teams). You'll also have the option of restricting who can send emails to a channel.
  • MICROSOFT TEAMS WILL SHOW UP IN APPS VIEW:
  • If you've got the right license, Microsoft Teams will now show up in your apps view for your desktop (when you press the Windows key) along with all your other Office 365 web apps.
  • T-BOT SPEAKS FRENCH:
  • Pour nos utilisateurs francophones, nous sommes heureux d'annoncer que le contenu de T-bot et de l'aide prend désormais en charge le français. Vous êtes le bienvenu :)
  • Translation: "For our French speaking users, we are happy to announce that T-bot and Help content now supports French. You're welcome :)"
  • ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS:
  • We take accessibility seriously, and we’re very proud of our continued commitment to making our product a great experience for users of all abilities. With that in mind, we've been hard at work improving accessibility across Microsoft Teams. Please don't hesitate to get in touch should you have concerns or comments!
  • IMPROVEMENTS IN YOUR FILES TAB:
  • The Files tab has a new look and feel! Now, there's an action bar that includes an option to open the SharePoint site for your team. Additionally, you can get links to folders so you can easily share files within Teams.