Microsoft is adding a simpler way to forward messages in Teams chats, boosting productivity and efficiency.
Teams users can now forward messages between chats with one right click, becoming a more time-efficient process. It’s also now easier to annotate forwarded messages with extra contextual information, and it can be forwarded to individual or group chats.
The Microsoft 365 Roadmap for the feature wrote:
Forward messages quickly from one chat to another using the right-click menu. You can add additional content to the message to provide context and clarity for the recipient. You can forward messages to 1:1 chats and group chats.”
It is now generally available for desktop Teams users.
What Other Teams News Has Happened Recently?
Earlier this week, Microsoft launched Android and iOS apps for its AI-powered productivity assistant, Copilot.
The Copilot mobile app is functionally reminiscent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT mobile version, including a clean interface in which users can write prompts to ask questions, summarise text, draft emails, blogs and documents. Users can also generate images by leveraging its DALL-E 3 image creator technology.
The app also features access to one of OpenAI’s latest LLMs, GPT-4, which users have to pay for access to via ChatGPT. Users can download the Android app from the Google Play Store and the iOS version from the Apple App Store.
Microsoft also expanded its Intelligent Recap functionality for Teams Premium to Copilot users. Intelligent Recap for Copilot in Teams launches this month for desktop and Mac Teams users and 365 Copilot subscribers.
Intelligent Recap was previously exclusive to Teams Premium subscribers but will become available for those who use Teams with Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot chatbot. The feature means that Copilot users can request an AI-honed summary of a past video meeting featuring timeline markers, screen sharing information, and when the user’s name was mentioned mid-call.
Microsoft has also disabled a significant software tool to prevent malware attacks, while Teams is also being exploited for malware phishing.
The tech giant has disabled the ms-appinstaller protocol handler as the default because it found evidence that the hackers had been exploiting the software to distribute malware. Microsoft said these hackers potentially selected the ms-appinstaller protocol handler vector because it could bypass mechanisms built to safeguard users against malware, such as Microsoft Defender SmartScreen and built-in browser warnings for downloads of executable file formats.
Last month, Microsoft observed instances where the latter hacker designed fake landing pages through messages delivered using Teams. The landing pages copy Microsoft solutions like OneDrive and SharePoint. “Tenants created by the threat actor are leveraged to create meetings and send chat messages to potential victims using the meeting’s chat functionality,” Microsoft explained.
Additionally, just before Christmas, Microsoft warned that the end of support for its Teams’ legacy messaging infrastructure could cause service disruptions. The end of life for the legacy service infrastructure for chat messaging has been planned for March 31, 2024.
To avoid disruptions to users’ service and other problems, Microsoft advises any Classic Teams users to upgrade to the latest version of its software within at least three months of the end-of-life date. The changes will impact Microsoft Teams Desktop, Teams on iOS and Android, and Virtual Desktop Interface clients (VDI).
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