Teams Connect - NEW

Hi,

The new Teams Connect feature due for release soon look great, however will this allow cross organisational chat?

Thanks, ClassicD

I think it refers to this:
Microsoft Teams Connect Aka Shared Channels Coming Soon (practical365.com)

Also mentioned here by Microsoft:
Flexible work is here to stay: Microsoft 365 solutions for the hybrid work world - Microsoft 365 Blog

HTH

Hi Marcus,

Yes this is exactly it, i can see it will work in the channels. Just wondering if the guests will be accessible in the search bar.

And also if the guests can chat, currently they cant, only external users, but only 1 external user at a time.it would be good for transparency for other people outside our organisation to join a chat.

Do you have any insight on this? Thanks, ClassicD

Hi ClassicD,
Has far as I know this hasn't been officially released and am not sure what the go live date is.

Sounds like an interesting feature.

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MS are delaying the release of Teams Connect till November 2021.
Microsoft Delays The Rollout Of Shared Channels In Teams To November - OnMSFT.com

Yea i saw that, I think it was supposed to be June.....Well...ahahahaha

Marcus Vinicus said:

Hi ClassicD,
Has far as I know this hasn't been officially released and am not sure what the go live date is.

Sounds like an interesting feature.

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MS are delaying the release of Teams Connect till November 2021.
Microsoft Delays The Rollout Of Shared Channels In Teams To November - OnMSFT.com

Hi there
by which time Zoom etc will have cornered that market !!!

Cheers
jimbo

Don't know about that Jimbo, Teams usage is growing substantially currently. Both appeal to different online demographics.

Also although Zoom and Teams are both video/conferencing software Teams has a quite different feature set when used properly inside a Microsoft 365 Enterprise or Business tenant. There is a lot of functionality that can be added.