New Microsoft Teams Experience: Chats and Channels are being consolidated into a single app

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Already available in targeted release, Microsoft Teams has been "streamlined" into putting chats, teams, and channels into a single app. Here’s what you need to know about the new features and how they can benefit you. Previously, users had to navigate separate Chat and Teams views, which could be cumbersome and time-consuming. With the new update, all conversations whether they’re individual chats, group chats, or team channels are now unified in a single Chat view. This means you can easily switch between different types of conversations without losing context. The application also has a couple of new features like:  Custom Sections: Organize your projects and topics with custom sections that can include individual, group, and meeting chats, as well as channels. New Filters: Focus on what’s important with filters for Unread, Chat, Channels, Meetings, and more. @Mention View: Quickly access all your personal @mentions in one interactive list. You can tailor the new chat and

Let the organization know when to expect you in the office, And Windows Mail is going away.

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As hybrid work seems to be the new normal for a lot of employees previously always bound to the office, the challenge of finding a perfect time for a physical meeting seems to be the new headache for many of our colleagues. There is a feature in both Teams and Outlook which could make this a lot easier. This feature has been around for some time, but the experience hasn't been unified until now. Now it's possible to set your locations both from Teams and Outlook, and make changes from either application.

Personally, I have set a schedule in Outlook, and I make ad-hoc changes in either application when I have changed my schedule. This way "everybody" knows I am in the office every day from 9-5, except Thursdays when I usually work from home.

There is a good post on techcommunity I recommend going though, to understand how it works and how you can use it.


For those of you who are using the Windows 10 or Windows 11 native mail client, the native client is going away. The new client is called Outlook for Windows. This client has been in preview for Microsoft 365 subscribers for some time, but it is now also rolling out to private user accounts as well. 

You can read about the new client, and how to get started in this blog post.