Upcoming Enhancements to Microsoft Teams Meeting Chat Controls

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There are many kinds of meetings, and Teams is a great tool to have virtual meetings in. As an example, it is possible to get to the chat of the meeting and start the discussion up front or continue the discussions or ask follow up questions after the meeting is over.  But sometimes, there are scenarios where organizer would want to keep the chat closed for comments outside of the meeting timeframe. And here is a new feature coming our way, to control exactly that behavior. The Teams admin center will soon allow setting up policies that will enhance your control over meeting chats. These new options are designed to give administrators more flexibility in managing how and when participants can interact via chat during meetings. These options will be available across all platforms, including Teams for Windows and Mac desktops, Teams on the web, and Teams for iOS/Android. This update is part of the Microsoft 365 Roadmap   If you are an admin, here is where you can find and contro...

A couple of new Teams features an admin might want to know about

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 A couple of policies have received new settings or defaults over the past couple of weeks, and here are some of those i think you might want to look into.

Message translation:
Message translation has now been set to default "on" in the global user policy. If your users have assigned custom policies, these might not have that setting turned on by default. If you want to allow your users this handy feature, Make sure to go through your policies according to this guide.

Allow more badges in the Praise app:
You can add a little flare to the praise app by adding more custom badges for your organization. But this requires the admin to add these badges in the Teams Admin portal. This feature should be rolling out by the end of September.

Meeting policy and meeting expiration:
Teams is introducing meeting expiration to their meeting policies. Which to my understanding will ensure all meetings created by a user will no longer be accessible to anyone. Previously, the meeting policy would only affect new meetings after the policy was implemented, but the new way it will work is to expire any previously created meeting by the affected user. Read more about how this works here.

**Updated 30/8/2020 with a correct link to the meeting expiration**