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1. Microsoft Teams
Meetings and Meeting
Rooms Workshop

2. Agenda Introduction
What’s new in
• Meetings
• Events and webinars
• Security and compliance
• Devices
• Management

3. Microsoft Teams
Meetings and Meeting Rooms
roadmap and updates
Updates listed in this document are selected
based on relevance to Teams Meetings and
Meeting Rooms
Check back often for updates
Release dates and timing are subject to change
For a complete list of Teams roadmap items
refer to Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365

4. Microsoft Teams roadmap
Breakout Rooms
Meeting hosts can create
breakout rooms to be used
by meeting participants for
smaller group discussion
Q4 2020
New Together Mode Scenes
Use AI in meetings to digitally place
participants in a shared background to make it
feel like you’re sitting in the same room
Q4 2020
Dynamic view
Dynamic view intelligently
arranges the elements of
your meeting for an optimal
experience.
Q1 2021
Presenter mode
Presenter mode empowers you, as a presenter,
to customize how your video feed and content
appear to the audience.
Q1 2021
Live Reactions
And Polls
Use emojis during meetings
to share reactions with all
participants
Q1 2021
Large
Meetings
Broadcast up to 10,000
attendees with a view-
only experience to
minimize interruptions.
During this time of
increased remote work,
take advantage of even
larger 20,000-person
broadcasts through the
end of this year*
Q1 2021
*20K view only is a customer offer till end of CY2021

5. What’s new in Meetings and Meetings Rooms
Top announcements
Meetings
Dynamic meetings
Rich presenter experiences
Virtual Events
and Webinars
Webinars & large-scale
broadcasts events
Devices
New Teams devices
and experiences for
the hybrid workplace
Teams Rooms
Managed Services
Safe and trustworthy online
collaboration
Meetings Security,
Compliance and
Privacy
AI-driven Managed Service
with predictive management
and threat analytics
Management
One place in the Teams
Admin Center for IT to
manage Teams
• Dynamic view, including
Gallery at top
• PowerPoint Live in Teams
• Presenter mode:
Standout, Reporter, Side-
by-side
• Operator Connect
Conferencing
• Custom registration,
confirmation emails
• Attendee reporting
• 1,000-person interactive
webinars with polls, raise
hand, reactions
• 10,000-person view-only
broadcasts*
• Host controls for hard
mute and video off
• Teams & Dynamics 365
Marketing event
experiences
• New gallery views on
Microsoft Teams Rooms
- Together Mode, Large
gallery (top
announcement)
• Intelligent Speakers
• Teams Panels (top
announcement)
• Cortana and Bing skills
on Teams display (top
announcement)
• Device-as-a-Service
expansion
• New meetings
functionality for Teams
Displays
• Intelligent Incident
Detection and
Remediations
• Security Monitoring and
Updates Management
• Personalized Room
Planning Experience
• Invite -only meetings
• Disable video
• Device management -
remote provisioning
• Real time telemetry for
‘in-progress’ meetings
• Secure and scale your
meeting rooms with ease
using Microsoft Teams
Rooms Managed
Services
During this time of increased remote work, take advantage of even larger 20,000-person broadcasts through the end of this year*

6. What’s new in
Meetings
Dynamic view
Presenter mode
PowerPoint Live in Teams
View switcher
Live reactions
Operator Connect Conferencing

7. Dynamic view​
Dynamic view intelligently arranges the elements of
your meeting for an optimal experience.
• Placing the “gallery at top” so people appear at
the top of the meeting window, enabling a more
natural eye gaze with other participants
• The participant gallery also auto-adjusts when
the meeting window is resized
Release timing: Coming soon

8. Presenter mode
Presenter mode empowers you, as a presenter, to
customize how your video feed and content
appear to the audience.
• Standout shows your video feed in front of the
shared content,
• Reporter presents content as a visual aid above
your shoulder,
• Side-by-side displays your video feed next to
your content.
Release timing: Coming soon

9. PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams
Deliver inclusive and engaging presentations.
• As a presenter, you can now lead meetings more
confidently with notes, slides, meeting chat, and
participants in a single view.
• Attendees can personalize their experience by
navigating the content at their own pace or
accessing shared content through screen readers.
Release timing: Available now

10. View switcher
The new View switcher in the top bar of your Teams
meeting allows you to control how meeting content is
displayed.
• Together mode allows you to see your colleagues
interact naturally and without distractions
• Focus hides all video feeds and puts the focus fully
on the shared content
• Gallery moves all video feeds to the top of your
meeting window, making it easier to have a more
natural eye gaze with others
• Full screen can help remove other desktop
distractions
Release timing: Coming soon

11. Live Reactions in Microsoft Teams Meetings
Attendees can react during a meeting using emojis.
This promotes inclusivity in the meeting and keeps
things upbeat and interactive.
Release timing: Available now

12. Operator Connect Conferencing
Bring your own operator for conferencing
Maintain your preferred telecom operator contracts
Variety of telecom operators available at your fingertips
Diversify PSTN infrastructure to include multiple operators
Expanded geographic dial-in coverage
Additional dial-in locations to support multi-national needs
Feel confident with enterprise-grade reliability & support
Operator partners provide enhanced technical support and
service level agreements to address reliability
Release timing: Q2 2021 (Preview)
Add telecom operator dial-in numbers to a
Microsoft Audio Conferencing bridge
Microsoft Teams
Meetings
Operator
https://aka.ms/OperatorConnectConferencing

13. What’s new for
Virtual Events and
Webinars
Attendee registration and email confirmations
1,000-person interactive webinars & 20,000-
person view only broadcasts
Attendee reporting
Dynamics 365 Marketing Integration

14. Attendee registration and email confirmations
A meeting organizer can easily add a custom
attendee registration page to better manage
attendance before and after any meeting. Following
registration, attendees will automatically receive an
email confirmation with a calendar invite for a
simple join experience.
Release timing: Q1 2021

15. 1,000-person interactive webinars & 10,000-person broadcasts*
Microsoft Teams will support interactive webinars
for up to 1,000 attendees.
• Rich presentation options
• Reactions
• Moderation controls to disable chat, audio,
and video
Over 1,000 attendees, Teams will seamlessly scale to
accommodate 10,000-person view-only broadcast
experience.
*During this time of increased remote work, we enable
20,000-person broadcasts through the end of this year.
• With host moderation control that automatically
disables attendees’ audio and video to prevent
accidental presentation interruptions
Release timing: Q1 2021

16. Attendee reporting
Following a webinar, the organizer can use attendee
reporting to learn who attended and how long they
participated. In addition, they can also upload
contacts to other marketing tools to manage
ongoing communication.
Release timing: Q1 2021
This functionality will be further enhanced with
more detailed attendee reporting in a robust
dashboard within Teams.
Release timing: Q2 2021

17. Dynamics 365 Marketing
Dynamics 365 customers can deliver integrated
marketing campaigns that bring together Teams
event capabilities and robust attendee management
experiences from Dynamics 365 Marketing.
Release timing: Generally Available
Export attendee data directly from Teams into
Dynamics 365 Marketing campaigns to nurture
audiences before, during, and after events with
custom email flows and follow-ups.
Release timing: Q2 2021

18. What’s new in
Meetings Security,
Compliance and
Privacy
Invite only meeting options
Disable video

19. Disable Video
Disable Video allows a meeting organizer to
disable the video of an individual or all attendees.
Similar to hard mute, disable video can help
organizers and educators better manage
undesired disruptions.
Release timing: Q2 2021

20. Invite only meeting options
A new lobby setting will be available in Teams
meeting options where only participants who were
explicitly invited are able to join directly.
• Once applied, only participants who were
invited by the organizer can join the meeting
directly
• Participants who were not invited and are
attempting to join the meeting will be directed
to the lobby
Release timing: Q2 2021

21. What’s new for
Devices
New gallery views for Microsoft Teams Rooms
Intelligent speakers
Teams Panels
Cortana and Bing skills on Teams display
Device-as-a-Service expansion
New meetings functionality for Teams Displays

22. Looking into the meeting rooms experience vision

23. New gallery views for Microsoft Teams Rooms
Drive more inclusive meetings in Microsoft Teams Rooms by
ensuring everyone in a meeting room can see online participants,
even when there is content being shared on the screen.
Users can also experience large gallery view and Together Mode in
Microsoft Teams Rooms.
Large gallery view allows 49 video participants to be viewed on a
single screen in a Teams meeting.
Together mode uses AI segmentation technology to digitally place
participants in a shared background, making it feel like you’re
sitting in the same from with everyone else. Based on decades of
research, Together Mode more effectively simulates in-person
human interaction in a virtual space to reduce fatigue from
frequent video meetings and help people feel more connected.
Release timing: Now Available!

24. Intelligent Speaker
Bring speaker attributed captions and transcriptions
to Microsoft Teams Rooms.
• Enabling attendees toeasily follow along with
what has been said and who said it
• Identifies and differentiates the voices up to 10
people in meeting rooms
• OEM providers: Yealink and EPOS in partnership
with Lenovo
Release timing: Q4 2021

25. Teams Panels
Microsoft Teams Panel is a time management
solution powered by a native Teams experience
running on a compact digital display. With vibrant
color-coded LED indicators, you can determine
space availability from a distance, while the intuitive
and easy to read UI presents space and meeting
information to confirm you’re in the right place at
the right time. Using Teams Panel, people can book
an available room on the spot or find an open space
close by using the “Nearby Rooms app.” IT
administrators have the option to customize the
experience by integrating first and third-party apps,
providing users with even more options to help
manage their meeting room experience.
Release timing: Q3 2021

26. Cortana & Bing Skills on Teams Display
With new integrations with Bing, Cortana on the
Teams display is now able to fetch useful
information through voice activated commands.
Using words like:
“What time is it in New York”
“What is the weather in New York”
Cortana can access facts, and functionality is
expected to expand to more English-speaking
countries this year.
Release timing: Q2 2021

27. Device-as-a-service (DaaS) expansion
The Device as a Service monthly financing plans will be
extended later this month by Teams marketplace reseller
partners to additional markets: UK, Australia, Ireland and
Canada. All the products in our portfolio today, pending
regional availability, will be available for the offer with
qualifying shopping cart.
Release timing: Q1 2021

28. New meetings functionality for Teams Displays
When joined from the Teams display, users will now
be able to change their background to any of the
existing Teams supplied images. Additionally, a user
now can express live reactions in a meeting to show
applause, humor, appreciation, and other
sentiments. Finally, quick responses are available for
messages; press and hold the incoming message to
see a variety of responses from like/dislike, love, and
laughter.
Release timing: To be announced

29. New peripherals certified for Teams
Our portfolio of devices certified for Teams meetings & calling is growing.
• The Video Conferencing Monitor & Studio Poly 21 from Dell and Poly
are the first monitors to integrate web cameras speakerphones and
microphones certified for Teams. The Poly 21 even includes lighting,
perfect for helping users present with confidence.
• First video bar certified for Teams - the P15 from Poly, which can be
mounted over an existing screen to create a high-definition
collaboration endpoint.
• New web cameras from Yealink (UVC20) and Aver (Cam 130) help to
broaden our portfolio. The Cam 130 also integrates adjustable lighting,
so users can be seen well no matter what their environment looks like.
Release timing: Spring 2021

30. Teams Rooms
Managed Services
Intelligent Incident Detection and Remediations
Security Monitoring and Updates Management
Personalized Room Planning Experience

31. Intelligent Incident Detection and Remediations
Intelligent Incidents & Remediations
Managed Services AI Operations capability now includes
intelligent detection of incidents based on complex
patterns seen across multiple signals over time and
automated remediation of a variety of incident types.
This reduces disruptions by identifying trouble spots and
reducing downtime.
Release timing: Q1 2021

32. Security Monitoring and Updates Management
Advanced Threat Protection (based on
Microsoft Defender) and management of
security updates to ensure multi-layer
security for room devices.
In-built and proactive security update
management delivers peace of mind
Release timing: Q1 2021
Security Monitoring and
Updates Management

33. Personalized Room Planning Experience
Organically built Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR)
standards based on the meeting room types. Example:
small, medium, large rooms
Customers can build and curate new MTR Standards
with certified MTR recommendations
Customer uses MTR Room Standards to plan their
meeting rooms
Calls to action: Replace any MTRs that are not certified,
due of hardware refresh with certified recommendations
Download planning guide that includes bill of materials
for the MTRs, deployment guidance, and recommended
configuration for the MTRs
Release timing: Q2 2021
Room Planning Tailored to Organization

34. Device
Management
Device management - remote provisioning
Real time telemetry for ‘in-progress’ meetings

35. Device management - remote provisioning
Remote Provisioning of Teams
Android devices
Devices are now available for a
remote sign-in from the Teams
Admin Center
Release timing: end of Q1 2021

36. Real time telemetry for ‘in-progress’ meetings
Taking an immediate action
during a meeting or event
Enable IT/Helpdesk admins to
troubleshoot ‘In-Progress’
meetings for executive users
using Real-time network
telemetry
Release timing: Q2 2021