MC1002405 - Microsoft Teams: New Search feature in channel posts

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: A new experience to search within Channel Posts. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Mac desktop, and web.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High): We will begin rolling out early March 2025 and expect to complete by mid-March 2025.

General Availability (DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

Key enhancements include:

1. The new in-post Search experience will now be available in the right handrail, making it possible to see your post and your new search results in one single view. The initiation can be done using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F(win) or Cmd +F (Mac)

2. In-post search experiences will have enhanced captioning and keyword highlighting to aid the discernment of results:

3. In-post search will now also be available in pop-out window:

What you need to do to prepare:

The new search feature will be available by default.

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before or after the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.