Microsoft Teams Monthly Update January 2025

MVP Tom Arbuthnot shares all the Microsoft Teams news you need to know in January 2025 in less than 15 minutes.

Grab the deck

• SMS in Teams
• Teams Web chat widget
• Transcripts on by default
• Meeting Recap share link
• Mandatory Android Updates and AOSP
• MTR Captions additional languages
• MTR Windows 10 EOL
• Queues App Roadmap
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
• Events

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Teams Insider Podcast:

• Microsoft Teams and Teams Phone in 2025 with Metrigy's Irwin Lazar
• Teams Phone Product Management - Balancing Innovation and Fundamentals with Emily Kirby George, Microsoft Teams Product Manager at Microsoft
• From Microsoft to SOFTEL: Aaron Steele's Teams Journey with Aaron Steele, Practice Lead at SOFTEL
• Truly Cloud Native SBCs and Voice Services with Mark Cobbold Vice President of Product Management at Ribbon Communications
• Deploying Teams Rooms and Teams Phone in Finance with Charles Mason, Head of Digital Workplace at TP ICAP

SMS coming to US and Canada Teams Calling Plans - MC971033

Microsoft Teams Live Website Chat Widget - MC974364

Microsoft Teams Transcription will be enabled by default for new Microsoft Teams tenants and those without customized meeting policies - MC973519

New policy for voice and face enrolment will default to "On" - MC912707

Microsoft Teams Meeting recap can be shared as a link - MC966633

Voicemail greeting change - MC974356

Required updates coming to Android-based Microsoft Teams devices - MC969451

Moving Teams Android Devices to AOSP Device Management

iPad Teams Multi-window support and USB-C Cameras - MC975308

Captions in Teams Rooms on Windows will support additional languages and real-time translation - MC960811

Custom name on Teams panels - MC918570

MTR Support ending for Windows 10

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: Set up "Pay-as-you-go billing" in Microsoft 365 admin center - MC973501

Microsoft Copilot will be pinned in Teams and Outlook - MC922627

Events