A new Teams feature will allow users to share links to specific messages in group chats so colleagues can find information more easily.
The service intends to make finding essential information more efficient by eliminating the obstacle of searching through blocks of text in the group chat for the exact message that users need to find.
The 365 Roadmap stated:
Users will be able to share a link to a specific message in a group chat, enabling the group chat members to quickly navigate to a message and find information.”
The feature is currently in development and is scheduled to roll out with general availability in June. It will be available for all Teams users across Desktop, Mac, iOS and Android.
The feature anticipates a more comprehensive update to Microsoft’s message and chat services. Although not yet available, Microsoft recently revealed it was developing an upgrade so Teams users can better manage their various chats in a more efficient and cleaner capacity. Microsoft also said this update would include a new chat density setting so users can reduce or grow the number of chats on their chat list on screen at once.
Teams Adding Consistent Quality-of-Life Updates
Microsoft consistently adds new features to Teams. While these include potentially industry-changing innovations like the AI-powered productivity tool Copilot, they also encompass relatively minor but welcome quality-of-life improvements like an intuitive new Files app.
Last week, Teams launched a capability for users to create “offline” meetings. The feature means users can create a calendar invite within Teams for events such as personal appointments, in-person meetings and lunch break slots. These events will record users as offline without having to be in a scheduled video meeting, similar to an “offline” feature already present in Outlook.
Teams also recently introduced a range of capabilities to allow users to express themselves more during meetings. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced it was refreshing Teams’ virtual backgrounds library with new animated versions to let users show their individuality. A new set of still images have already been added to the Teams collection and will be followed by the animated versions in June.
Last month, in another move to allow meeting participants to express themselves creatively mid-call, Microsoft added Snapchat Lenses to Teams. Microsoft partnered with Snap to utilise Snap’s Camera Kit SDK capabilities, empowering Microsoft to introduce 26 Snapchat AR Lenses into Teams without requiring a separate add-on.
Microsoft also implemented several meeting-centric quality-of-life improvements last month in a broader Teams April update. These included automatically lowering a user’s hand after speaking and green screen integration. Echo detection and automatic muting of nearby Teams devices that generative an audio feedback loop were also introduced. At the same time, Closed Captions were integrated into embedded videos in PowerPoint Live for Teams.
A more specialist recent solution was a Teams Payments app to help small and medium businesses (SMBs), in partnership with Stripe, PayPal and GoDaddy, to support Teams Payments with commerce features. SMBs could manage and collect payments for their services over Teams — including classes, webinars and appointments — during meetings within the Teams platform.
Moreover, the Teams Premium licence announced this year will introduce a new variety of AI-powered features. These include Intelligent Recap of missed meetings, Live Translation of meeting dialogue, and conference templates allowing admins to create so their users can have the correct settings automatically.
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