Roadmap watch: what to expect for Microsoft Teams at Ignite (and beyond)

The public roadmap for Microsoft Teams is already listing a lots of features for March 2021. Since Microsoft Ignite 2021 is happening next week it is easy to assume that these features scheduled for March will be released – or at least talked about – at Microsoft Ignite. Some of these might be even start rolling out at the event-time, but there is no certainty about that.

At the event itself I am quite confident we will get lots of new items for April-July timeframe concerning Microsoft Teams.

Looking on the current roadmap the big thing will be Microsoft Teams Virtual Events . I have bolded the most lines related to those.

Note: there are some great additions like Forms Polls improvements, AI based poll question suggestions, data reports for polls after Teams meetings, open-text questions for meeting polls and meeting poll word clouds.

March 2021 – “Microsoft Ignite month”

• Microsoft Teams: Call Merge
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting Recap
• Microsoft Teams: Forms Polls in Teams Meetings Improvements
• Microsoft Teams: Large meeting support
• Microsoft Teams: New Calling Experiences
• Microsoft Teams: Live reactions in Teams Meetings
• Microsoft Teams: AI based poll question suggestion for Teams meeting
• Microsoft Teams: AI based historical poll suggestion for Teams meeting
• Microsoft Teams: AI based option suggestion for Teams meeting polls
• Microsoft Teams: Data reports for polls after Teams meeting
• Microsoft Teams: Data reports after Teams meeting class
• Microsoft Teams: New Lobby Setting: Only Invited Users join directly
• Microsoft Teams: Include computer sound when sharing a Desktop or Window on Mac
• Microsoft Teams: Transfer Calls between desktop and mobile
• Microsoft Teams: New file sharing experience
• Microsoft Teams: Enable tenant administrators to configure masking of PSTN participant phone numbers
• Microsoft Teams: Create a task from a message in Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Teams: Large gallery view and Together Mode for web meetings in Edge and Chrome browsers
• 2×2 video in Gallery view for web meetings in Edge and Chrome browsers
• Microsoft Teams: Revised in-meeting Share experience
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting attendee registration
• Microsoft Teams: Access files offline on mobile
• Microsoft Teams: Align the experience creating a team from different Teams interfaces
• Microsoft Teams: Branded Lobby for desktop
• Microsoft Teams: Presenter View in Teams Meetings
• Microsoft Teams: Transcription for 1:1 Calls
• Microsoft Teams: 1:1 PSTN Call Recording
• Microsoft Teams: Share to Microsoft Teams from Outlook
• Microsoft Teams: Anonymous Presenter Support for Live Events
• Microsoft Teams: Prompt to set Meeting Options for Large Teams Meetings in Outlook for Windows
• Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information governance – Retention policies for Microsoft Teams private channels
• Microsoft Teams: Simple Periodic review for guest users
• Microsoft Teams: Zero Touch provisioning for Teams devices
• Microsoft Teams: Updated layouts for meetings on Android
• Microsoft Teams: Top hits in Search Autosuggest
• Whiteboard: Additional content types
• Microsoft Teams: Chat bubbles
• Microsoft Teams: Room Remote Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android
• Microsoft Teams: Dynamic view
• Microsoft Teams: Wired HDMI ingest for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting Attendee Dashboard
• Whiteboard: External access in Teams meetings
• Microsoft Teams: Support for breakout rooms for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android
• Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Calling
• Microsoft Teams: Remote Provisioning of Teams Android devices from Teams Admin Center
• Microsoft Teams: SharePoint home site app
• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams panels
• Microsoft Teams: IP Based audio/video support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

April 2021

• Microsoft Teams: Video filters
• Microsoft Teams: Personal wellbeing insights in Teams
• Microsoft Teams: Branch Office Survivability on Teams phones
• Microsoft Teams: Block Downloads for non-channel Teams meeting recordings on OneDrive
• Microsoft Teams: Disable/Enable a Single Attendee’s Video
• Microsoft Teams: Disable/Enable all Attendee’s Video
• Microsoft Teams: Support open-text question poll for Teams meeting
• Microsoft Teams and Forms: Word Cloud for Polls in Teams meeting and Forms Surveys
• Microsoft Forms: Correct Answer choice feature added to Microsoft Forms Poll in Teams Meetings

May 2021

• Microsoft Teams: View all upcoming assignments in the Teams calendar
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Global Usage report for Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Teams: Teams casting from iOS Teams App
• Microsoft Teams: Teams casting from Android Teams App
• Microsoft Teams: Role based Access scoping on devices category

June 2021

• Whiteboard: Locking content
• Whiteboard: Attribution
• Whiteboard: Additional facilitation features
• Microsoft Information Protection: Teams DLP for Adaptive Cards
• Microsoft Teams: Search results page in Teams
• Microsoft Teams: Better together for calls on Teams phones

July 2021

• Microsoft Teams: Integrated CART Captioning in Meetings
• Microsoft Teams: Meetings – Live Captions in additional languages ( additional spoken languages such as German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Dutch. )
• Microsoft Teams: Moving all Power Shell work items under ITPro-Power Shell