| Announcement ID | MC932488 | Published Date | 11-13-2024 | |
| Service | Microsoft Teams | Last Updated | 12-11-2024 | |
| Category | Stay informed | Expiration Date | 04-14-2025 | |
| Roadmap ID | 422804 | Action Required by Date | ||
| Tags | New feature, User impact | |||
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| Microsoft Teams is introducing new DVR capabilities for town halls on desktop and web, with a rollout starting in early February 2025 and completing by early March 2025. This feature allows attendees to interact with live streams as they would with recorded content, including pausing, skipping, and volume control. No admin action is required for the rollout. |
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Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: New DVR (digital video recording) functionality for all town halls. This new feature will allow town hall attendees on Windows desktop or the web to interact with a live streaming town hall in the same way they would interact with recorded content. DVR functionality in the town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back in a town hall, navigate to any previous timestamp, and other abilities, making it more convenient to interact with a town hall more and easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for Teams town halls from all organizers, regardless of the license assigned to the organizer. When this will happen:Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early February 2025 (previously early January) and expect to complete by mid-February 2025 (previously mid-January). General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 (previously mid-January) and expect to complete by late February (previously late January). General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out late February 2025 (previously late January) and expect to complete by early March 2025 (previously early February) How this will affect your organization:After this rollout, the DVR controls will appear when attendees hover their mouse over the content being presented in the town hall. Attendees can:
The DVR controls are at the bottom of the Teams window when the Q&A page is open on the right side:We are committed to continuously improving the Microsoft Teams experience and are excited to bring this new capability to our customers. This feature will be available by default. What you need to do to prepare:This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation. |
