Updated March 20, 2024: We have updated the Teams Room on Windows update version below. Thank you for your patience.
The new Microsoft Teams available on Teams Desktop is also coming to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Microsoft Windows. With the new Teams app, all Teams Rooms devices can now use the performance gains and optimize available resources for room experience and rendering intelligent audio and video more reliably.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 381157
When this will happen:
Worldwide, GCC, and GCC High: We will begin rolling out Mid-April 2024 and expect to complete roll-out by late April 2024.
How this will affect your organization:
The new Teams app will provide aautomatically replace the existing Teams Rooms application in the next Teams Rooms on Windows update (5.0). This update is at parity of experiences with existing room experiences as well asfor all user features and looks identical to the newer experiences. This includes deliveringcurrent Teams Rooms application, so no end user education or notification will be required. The benefits to new Teams on Teams Rooms on Windows is up to two times faster performance while using 50 percent less memory and enabling users to collaborate with people across organizational boundaries by seamlessly usingmemory. This next Teams across multiple tenants or accounts.
UsersRooms update will not see any differencealso include several new features which are announced in the Teams Room UI with the new Teams app.other message center posts.
What you need to do to prepare:
There is no action needed to prepare for this change. You may want to notify your users aboutIf desired, you can control the release of this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.leveraging the update rings in the Pro Management Portal following standard Teams Rooms app update processes.