Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms is getting new features! + other roadmap updates

When looking at Microsoft Teams roadmap today I noticed that Breakout Rooms is getting new features! Scheduled to roll out already in this month are

• Timer: Organizers can now set a timer for Breakout rooms from the Breakout Room settings. After timer has expired, rooms will automatically close and participants will come back to the main meeting.
• Keep room configuration and assignments: Room assignment retention provides the ability to persist room configuration and assignment over multiple sessions.
• Move people across rooms and main meeting when in Breakout Rooms: With participant reassignment capability, organizer will now be able to move joined participants across rooms and main meeting also when rooms are opened.

The roadmap item for “Breakout Rooms Timer and Room assignment retention” can be found here.

It will be possible to Present from PowerPoint to Teams “Present your slides directly from PowerPoint for Windows/Web into a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live.” and you will be able to Translate slideshow content privately “Translate the slide show content privately in a Teams meeting with PowerPoint Live”. These are scheduled for April.

Microsoft Teams webinars “Custom attendee registration” is in other words “Add a custom attendee registration page to any meeting or webinar to better manage attendance before and after any engagement. Following registration, attendees receive an email confirmation with calendar invite.”. It has been moved to April. At Microsoft Ignite this was rolling out in March-April.

There are also some other changes in release schedule: Custom Layouts, Dynamic Views and Large Meeting support (1000-person meetings) have been moved from March to April.

Windows native notifications in Teams is scheduled for April. “Users can choose to deliver Microsoft Teams notifications via Windows 10 native notifications.”. This can be already accessed by putting on Public Preview.

Other Public Preview feature available already is setting Out of Office inside Microsoft Teams.

And these are not just all features. Including those from above I included in this blog post a snapshot of roadmap items and their current scheduled rollout month. Always check for latest updates directly from the source.

Feature IDDescriptionLast ModifiedRelease66742Microsoft Teams: Windows native notifications in Teams18.3.2021April CY202166586Microsoft Teams: Custom attendee registration18.3.2021April CY202168771Microsoft Teams: New Calling Experiences18.3.2021April CY2021705892×2 video in Gallery view for web meetings in Edge and Chrome browsers18.3.2021May CY202170783Microsoft Teams: Teams Multi-Geo Support18.3.2021May CY202170808SharePoint and Microsoft Teams: Rich previews for pages and news articles18.3.2021June CY202179957Microsoft Teams: Branded Lobby for desktop18.3.2021May CY202180599Microsoft Teams: Present from PowerPoint to Teams18.3.2021April CY202180601Microsoft Teams: Translate slideshow content18.3.2021April CY202180669Microsoft Teams: Lock a meeting from additional joins18.3.2021May CY202181372Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room Timer and Room assignment retention18.3.2021March CY202181376Microsoft Teams: New bypass lobby option18.3.2021March CY202165943Microsoft Teams: Dynamic view17.3.2021April CY202165951Microsoft Teams: Large meeting support17.3.2021April CY202166054Microsoft Teams: Call Merge17.3.2021April CY202168701Microsoft Teams: Out of Office17.3.2021March CY202180385Microsoft Teams: Improved Experience in the Meeting Participant Roste 17.3.2021March CY202181359Microsoft Teams: Supervised chat17.3.2021April CY202166584Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Desktop16.3.2021March CY202170569Microsoft Teams : Follow or Mute Conversations in GCC16.3.2021May CY202180421Microsoft Teams: Users can now search in meeting participants from the roster16.3.2021April CY202180425Microsoft Teams: Spotlighting multiple Users at the same time in a meeting16.3.2021April CY202180600Microsoft Teams: Present from PowerPoint to Teams16.3.2021April CY202181354Microsoft Teams: Related Content for Teams Meetings (iOS and Android)16.3.2021April CY202181381Microsoft Teams: Outgoing participant video in meetings in Safari16.3.2021March CY202166587Microsoft Teams: Custom layouts for meetings15.3.2021April CY202170774Microsoft Teams: Anonymous user usage reports15.3.2021April CY202170776Microsoft Teams: Custom policy packages15.3.2021April CY202170794Microsoft Teams: Customized Website Tab Apps in Team Templates15.3.2021April CY202179448Microsoft Teams: Forms Polls in Teams Meetings Improvements15.3.2021April CY202180262Microsoft Teams: Prevent PTSN attendees from unmuting in meetings15.3.2021June CY202165948Microsoft Teams:  Chat bubbles12.3.2021May CY202168774Microsoft Teams: Transcription for 1:1 Calls12.3.2021April CY202168777Microsoft Teams: 1:1 PSTN Call Recording12.3.2021April CY202170560Microsoft Teams: Revised in-meeting Share experience12.3.2021April CY202170664Microsoft Teams: Meeting recordings saved to OneDrive & SharePoint for GCC-High and DoD12.3.2021March CY202170769Microsoft Teams: App customization and branding12.3.2021April CY202170786Microsoft Teams: Low data mode12.3.2021March CY202172168Microsoft Teams: Manage meeting options for GCC-High12.3.2021April CY202172169Microsoft Teams: Manage meeting options for DoD12.3.2021April CY202180261Microsoft Teams: Improvements for managing attendee audio permissions in Teams Meetings12.3.2021April CY202180619Forms: Poll in teams meeting support 1k meeting/webinar12.3.2021April CY2021