MC888045 - Microsoft Teams: Host and attendee interaction improvements for multi-room Mesh events

Updated September 30, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: Mesh event attendees will be able to see raised hands and reactions from attendees in other rooms during large multi-room Mesh events. This creates a greater sense of audience feedback from all rooms in a Mesh event and increases total audience engagement. Also, event hosts will be able to move between all rooms in a multi-room Mesh event. This message applies to Teams on Windows and Mac desktops.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412078.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early OctoberNovember 2024 (previously early October) and expect to complete by mid-October 2024.November 2024 (previously mid-October).

General Availability (list environments on the same schedule here):Availability: We will begin rolling out mid-OctoberNovember 2024 (previously mid-October) and expect to complete late October 2024.November 2024 (previously late October).

How this will affect your organization:

Before this rollout: Mesh event attendees are not able to see raised hands and reactions from attendees in other rooms during large multi-room Mesh events.

After this rollout

Multi-room Mesh event, highlighting raised hands and reactions from attendees in other rooms:

In a multi-room Mesh event, hosts can move between all rooms:

This feature is on by default.

What you need to do to prepare:

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

Before rollout, we will update this post with revised documentation.