Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa

Microsoft Teams (Free) users can currently join Teams for work (or school) meetings only as guests, which requires them to use a browser and results in a sub-optimal experience. The new feature rolling out will allow these users to join Teams for work (or school) meetings in one click, without being redirected to the browser or asked to fill in their name/surname. They will also be able to continue collaborating with the meeting organizer and other participants via meeting chat after the meeting.  The feature will work in the opposite way as well, so Teams for work (or school) will just as easily be able to join meetings hosted by a Teams Free user with one click. This is associated with Roadmap ID: 167326

Start a Teams Ad-Hoc meeting right from the Outlook desktop client

 

Tolling out right now, as Roadmap Item 68838 is the feature that will allow users to start a Teams meeting directly from the calendar view in the Outlook desktop client.

Clicking the Meet now button launches the pre-meeting window in the Teams client. From here, the user can name the meeting, select input devices and join the meeting. 

Once in the meeting, the user can add participants and call them up as a regular ad-hoc meeting initiated from within Teams.

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