Following a recent update that brought performance improvements to the app, Microsoft Teams for macOS has once again been updated — this time with support for sharing system audio with others. At the same time, Microsoft confirmed that a future update will enable native notifications in the macOS version of the app.
As noted by Windows Latest, the latest version of Microsoft Teams for Mac now finally allows the user to share the system sound when sharing the computer screen. The feature was long awaited by Mac users as the Windows version of Microsoft Teams has always had this option. Of course, the user can choose whether to share the screen with sound or not.
Accounts payable automation. This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to share your system audio lets you stream your computer audio to meeting participants through Microsoft Teams.
- Adjust your computer's audio output in your system settings, and your Teams audio output in your device settings in Teams. On a Mac, you will need to install a driver the first time you include computer audio in a Teams meeting. Just follow the simple wizard and click Install or Update. It takes about 10 seconds for the installation to complete.
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Microsoft Teams for macOS is getting a new feature that will finally allow other people to hear the sound of audio playing on your MacBook when you're sharing the screen. Teams for Windows has always supported the feature and it's going to be optional. Once enabled, you can play audio or video clip on your device and let other people hear the sound of the system, which would be really helpful for teachers and businesses.
Microsoft has also confirmed that support for native system notifications on Teams will be enabled on macOS with an upcoming update. The company began rolling out native notifications to Windows 10 users earlier this month, and the feature is expected to arrive on the Mac very soon.
Microsoft Teams on macOS currently uses its own notification system, which is not fully integrated with Apple's operating system. With native notifications, Teams alerts will show up in the Notification Center along with other incoming messages.
There's still no official date confirmed for the release of this update, although Microsoft still says it will be available in April. It's also unclear when the app will get native support for the M1 chip, as it still runs on new Macs through Rosetta 2.
As noted by Windows Latest, the latest version of Microsoft Teams for Mac now finally allows the user to share the system sound when sharing the computer screen. The feature was long awaited by Mac users as the Windows version of Microsoft Teams has always had this option. Of course, the user can choose whether to share the screen with sound or not.
Accounts payable automation. This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to share your system audio lets you stream your computer audio to meeting participants through Microsoft Teams.
- Adjust your computer's audio output in your system settings, and your Teams audio output in your device settings in Teams. On a Mac, you will need to install a driver the first time you include computer audio in a Teams meeting. Just follow the simple wizard and click Install or Update. It takes about 10 seconds for the installation to complete.
- Free Audio Conferencing Join Microsoft Teams meetings on the go with a global dial-in number, or dial-out to add others to your meeting. 10 Available free for a limited time, a value of $4.00 per user per month. 11 Buy now Learn more 25% Off Business Voice.
Microsoft Teams for macOS is getting a new feature that will finally allow other people to hear the sound of audio playing on your MacBook when you're sharing the screen. Teams for Windows has always supported the feature and it's going to be optional. Once enabled, you can play audio or video clip on your device and let other people hear the sound of the system, which would be really helpful for teachers and businesses.
Microsoft has also confirmed that support for native system notifications on Teams will be enabled on macOS with an upcoming update. The company began rolling out native notifications to Windows 10 users earlier this month, and the feature is expected to arrive on the Mac very soon.
Microsoft Teams on macOS currently uses its own notification system, which is not fully integrated with Apple's operating system. With native notifications, Teams alerts will show up in the Notification Center along with other incoming messages.
There's still no official date confirmed for the release of this update, although Microsoft still says it will be available in April. It's also unclear when the app will get native support for the M1 chip, as it still runs on new Macs through Rosetta 2.
You can download the latest version of Microsoft Teams from Microsoft's official website.
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-->In this training, we introduce Audio Conferencing in Microsoft Teams—the abilityto join a Teams meeting from a regular phone and dial out from a meeting to aphone number. We'll cover the capabilities of Audio Conferencing in Teams inaddition to requirements and planning considerations for Teams.
Note
This tutorial includes links to existing content to help connect you with the latest, most up-to-date information. For an optimal learning experience, follow the links to learn and apply. If a link is labeled as 'additional information,' you can consider it optional.
This training is for you if you're:
- An IT pro.
- Responsible for planning, deploying, or managing Teams.
- Considering planning, deploying, or managing Audio Conferencing in Teams.
We'll cover the following sections:
- Audio Conferencing requirements
- Planning steps
- Reporting
Audio Conferencing adds features and functionality to meetings in Teams. Werecommend that you complete Meetings in MicrosoftTeams before this tutorial.
Note
Microsoft Teams is evolving on a regular basis—new features and functionality are added frequently. Please monitor the following resources to stay up-to-date:
- Follow the Teams Blog.
- Read the Teams Roadmap.
- Learn about the latest released features in the Release Notes.
- Participate in the Microsoft Teams technical community to get your feature questions answered.
If you have any questions or feedback about this training, please:
- Post in the comments section at the bottom of the 'Next steps' page of thistutorial
To give us product feedback about Teams, such as ideas for new features, pleasevisit UserVoice.
Audio Conferencing in Teams
With Audio Conferencing, participants use a regular phone to take part in Teamsmeetings—either by dialing in to the meeting from their phone or by usingdial-out functionality from within the meeting. Review the following resourcesto learn more about Audio Conferencing:
- Audio Conferencingfeatures(estimated reading time 1 minute)
- 9 tips for meeting with MicrosoftTeams(estimated reading time for '#1 - Join a meeting via Audio Conferencing' is1 minute; more if you read the whole article)
- Audio Conferencing common questions(estimated reading time 7 minutes)
- Dialing out from a meeting so other people can joinit(estimated reading time 2 minutes)
Scenario – Audio Conferencing
Garth works at Contoso, a company that has multiple offices. Garth frequentlyneeds to connect with people in other office locations, and because he oftenworks from home or goes out on the road, he's a huge fan of Teams meetings. WhenGarth sends out a meeting invitation, it automatically adds information forAudio Conferencing. This makes the following scenarios possible:
- Alice wants to attend Garth's meeting but she's on the road and has noaccess to a reliable network. Therefore, she joins the meeting by using thedial-in coordinates from the meeting invitation. During the dial-in process,she uses her PIN to authenticate, so she's recognized by the system as'Alice.'
- Bob, who's currently at a hotel, joins the meeting by using the Teams clienton his PC. Unfortunately, the audio quality over the internet connection inthe hotel isn't great, So Bob dials out to his own phone number from themeeting to join via the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
- If the meeting participants decide during the call that they want to addusers at a different phone number, they can just dial out to the phonenumber and bring additional people into the meeting.
- Other users can also join from the Teams client on their PC, Mac, or mobiledevice.
In Teams, meeting organizers can end a meeting for all meeting participants. This is useful in scenarios such as the following:
- Educators can ensure that students don't stay in a meeting unsupervised after a class is finished.
- For meetings that are being recorded, such as webinars, meeting organizers can ensure that the recording ends when the meeting ends.
- Ending a meeting for all participants can help reduce your organization's PSTN usage and billing.
For example, when the meeting is finished, Garth can click End meeting from within the meeting in Teams to end it and remove all participants from it.
Considerations for Skype for Business customers
If you're already using Skype for Business, you'll need to consider thefollowing:
Skype for Business Server–homed users
If you're using Skype for Business Server, Teams meetings scheduled by users who are homed on Skype for Business on-premises will not include PSTN meeting coordinates. If you assigned Audio Conferencing licenses to these users prior to March 1, 2019, you might need to unassign these licenses, wait for 2 hours, and then reassign them for the users to see the PSTN meeting coordinates.
Skype for Business Online–homed users
If users are homed in Skype for Business Online and are already enabled for Audio Conferencing, they'll automatically be enabled for Audio Conferencing inTeams. The PIN they use for authenticating in meetings when they dial in will be the same for Skype for Business and Teams.
Envision Audio Conferencing
The practical guidance covers in detail what's required to plan and successfullyimplement Audio Conferencing. Review the following articles to understand thesetechnical planning steps:
- Define my success - AudioConferencing(estimated reading time 11 minutes)
- Make my service decisions - AudioConferencing(estimated reading time 12 minutes)
- Evaluate myenvironment(estimated reading time 12 minutes)
- Plan my servicemanagement(estimated reading time 5 minutes)
- Plan my users'experience(estimated reading time 5 minutes)
- Document my successplan(estimated reading time 6 minutes)
Onboard Audio Conferencing
Just like envisioning, onboarding is covered in the practical guidance. Reviewthe following articles to understand how to onboard users for AudioConferencing:
- Prepare myservice(estimated reading time 6 minutes)
- Prepare myusers(estimated reading time 2 minutes)
- Deploy myservice(estimated reading time 3 minutes)
- Audio Conferencing troubleshooting and knownissues(estimated reading time for Teams-specific content is 2 minutes)
Exercise – Configure Audio Conferencing
In this exercise, you'll have the chance to test Audio Conferencing in Teams.Although we don't describe how to perform every action, we recommend somescenarios to try out.
Requirements
- An Office 365 organization with appropriate licenses to use Teams
- We strongly recommend that you use a dedicated test tenant.
- If you don't have a test tenant, you can sign up for a trial tenant atOffice 365 Enterprise E5Trial.
- Don't run any tests in your production environment. Changing settings orpolicies might have a negative impact on all users and might affecttheir user experience.
- At least two endpoints
- This can be two PCs, but you can also use the client on your mobilephone.
- A phone that can dial in to meetings and be dialed out to
Suggested scenarios to test
- Enable users for Audio Conferencing.
- Set different conference bridge numbers for different users.
- Change the default conference bridge number for the tenant.
- Change settings for the conference bridge number (different languages).
- Change global settings for conference bridges (meeting entry and exitnotifications, PIN length, email notifications).
- Observe the email being sent out to users.
- Schedule Teams meetings, and review the meeting invitation.
- Join a meeting from a phone.
- Dial out from a meeting to a phone.
- Use dual-tone multi-frequency controls while in a meeting to mute and unmutea phone.
- End the meeting for all users.
Drive value
From a reporting perspective, you have two areas to look at:
- Usage: How many meetings take place?
- Quality: What is the quality of the meetings?
You should carefully monitor both areas:
- Low usage means that users, for one reason or another, aren't using theproduct. You can only determine the reasons by investigating further.Reasons can range from the perception that meetings are falling short ofuser requirements, to a lack of awareness or training, to quality problems.
- Low quality, on the other hand, means that there are issues withconnectivity between users and Office 365. Low quality can lead to bad userexperience and lower usage. Refer to Microsoft 365 Reports in the Admin Center - Microsoft Teams useractivity(estimated reading time 5 minutes) to learn more about the usage reports.
Managing quality is outside of the scope of this training, but see the followingtraining material:
Microsoft Teams Audio Bad
Next steps
We covered the following key learnings in this training:
- Audio Conferencing in Teams
- Requirements for Audio Conferencing
- Reporting
Next steps
- Start using Audio Conferencing in Teams.
- Send us feedback:
- Post in the comments section at the bottom of this page.
- To give us Teams product feedback or to request a new feature, go to Teams UserVoice.
- Stay up to date:
- Follow the Teams Blog.
- Read the Teams Roadmap.
- Learn about the latest released features in the Release Notes.
- Explore more training and tutorials.
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