Features in the new Teams
The current Teams app wasn’t built in a day, and the new Teams won’t be either. Many of the features you know and love from classic Teams are already in the new experience, but others—like breakout rooms and 3rd party apps—are still being worked on. Check out what’s available and what the team is still working on. This list will be updated on a regular basis.
What's Available
- Activity feed
- Chat
- Calls, including regular calls and Teams-to-Teams calls
- Personal call settings, including calling forwarding, custom ringtones, voicemail, manage delegates, emergency calling, call group
- Meetings, including meeting start notification, custom backgrounds, and PowerPoint Live
- Teams and channels, including the new channels experience
- Support for multiple work accounts and tenants
- Downloading, uploading, and viewing files, as well as the Files tab in chats and channels
- Apps, including 1st party apps, such as Approvals and Tasks, and Microsoft 365 apps, such as Microsoft Viva
Whats Coming
- Mac, VDI, EDU, and web platforms
- Special clouds (GCC, GCC-High, DoD)
- Advanced calling features, such as call queues and reverse number lookup
- Advanced meeting features, such as breakout rooms and 7×7 video
- Teams and channel creation, cross-posting, and channel announcements
- Search in chats and channels
- Files app, 3rd party apps, and Line of Business (LOB) apps
Microsoft Teams also has increased significant security and manageability enhancements, including:
- Streamlined app installation through Microsoft Intune and MSIX for better installation reliability and reduced network and disk space usage
- Folder installation that can’t be changed by users for improved protection
- Hardened security, including Trusted Types and stronger Content Security Policy, that better protects against the
latest attacks
