This Week in Teams, Craig and Jay jump into the April 2021 Microsoft Teams Team product blog where ALL the goodies that were announced for commercial and US Government tenants can be found: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-april-2021/ba-p/2305291

We also have a quick discussion on Disney’s “Star Wars: The Bad Batch”. In case you were curious, Craig and Jay are both big Star Wars fans AND Disney nerds.

Highlights:

* (02:02) – Break Out Rooms send you back to main meeting function* (4:07) – Teams User Voice moving to the Tech Community* (5:53) – New meeting feature and functionality* (7:38) – Craig side-trips into ALM for Power Apps and Automate* (10:12) – Jay talks about his sessions at the M365 Virtual Marathon* (14:32) – Craig tells a customer story, Jay talks about the importance of engaging end users* (18:18) – Teams and Window 10 Notifications* (20:57) – Jay talks about the GCC for Teams* (24:42) – May the 4th and the new Star Wars cartoon series the Bad Batch, Jay is a big fan…

Full Transcript:

* Jay Leask 0:15Good morning it is may 5 cinco demayo. Revenge of the fifth The day after May the fourth be with you. And interestingly enough, I just read on Facebook this morning 19. This day in in 1970, the state police or National Guard fired upon the student population at Kent State University. And yeah, lots of things happen. And it’s funny how we kind of forget right? What happens?* Craig Jahnke 0:42Yes,* Jay Leask 0:44I know. I went on a tangent. I’m sorry. I* Craig Jahnke 0:47I’m sorry. Yes, obviously not a good day in history for the United States. But hopefully, hopefully, it’ll be picks a new turn in a new, I have nothing. I got nothing for you. Hopefully we’ve improved a lot since 1970s.* Jay Leask 1:02I think we have a lot of ways lots of lots of improvements ago still, but but I think we have so let’s let’s talk about what we’re actually here to talk about, because this has gone off the rails like three times now. So today, may 5, yesterday, I think or a couple days ago, Microsoft Teams team released the What’s New in Microsoft Teams in April 24, April 2021, I thought it’d be a good episode to record while I’ve been struggling to do all the post production on the ones we’ve recorded, which to our guests who’ve been waiting. I’m really truly sorry for keeping you waiting. But in the meantime, a quick episode on what was released in April. So Craig, as you looked through the the blog, was there anything that really stood out of particular interest to you? No,* Craig Jahnke 1:55I think I’m good.* Unknown Speaker 1:57Yeah. All right. Well,* Jay Leask 1:59short episode, have a wonderful day.* Craig Jahnke 2:02Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Yes. So one of the things that I saw that I actually participated in, not us, but I’d like the team meeting rooms has an automatically end and bring you back to the main meeting function.* Unknown Speaker 2:15Yes.* Craig Jahnke 2:16Was really that was that was nice that, you know, all of a sudden, you got a countdown, hey, 10 seconds left. And you’re going to be going back into to the main room, because I know as a presenter and an organizer that sometimes it’s felt like herding cats, right? When I’ve got to get people out, they get in there in conversations, and they’re like, yeah, yeah, we’ll be there in a minute. And then,* Unknown Speaker 2:35and then who knows?