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Emergency calls on Microsoft Teams get a welcome update
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Highlighting emergency calls throughMicrosoft Teamsshould soon be a lot easier thanks to a new update coming to the service.
Thevideo conferencingplatform will soon allow admins to create customizable banners withinMicrosoftTeams that will alert users when an emergency call is coming through.
This should help such calls stand out immediately to users, particularly if their attention is divided between a number of other tasks.
Microsoft Teams emergency
In its official entry on theMicrosoft 365 roadmap, the company notes that users will be able to acknowledge their admin’s message by clicking on the banner within a Microsoft Teams call.
This will allow admins to phrase or word the alerts however they need to, which could be extremely handy for schools or industrial customers, who might have entirely different emergency categorizations.
The feature is still in development for now, but Microsoft has set an expected release date of April 2022, meaning it could arrive soon.
Upon launch, the feature will be available for Microsoft Teams users across the world on desktop and Mac platforms.
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The news is one of a long series of improvements and upgrades made to Microsoft Teams in recent months as the company looks to ensure hybrid andremote workersare still able to get the most out of its collaboration tool.
Perhaps most usefully, Microsoft recently revealed that Teams users will soon be able tomute notificationswhilst they are in a video conferencing meeting or don’t want to be disturbed.
On a similar note, another upgrade concerns the addition of chat bubbles so that users wouldn’t miss private messages sent during a video call, both 1:1 or as part of a group call.
Recent figures from the company suggest that Microsoft Teams now boastsover 270 million monthly active users (MAUs), as thehybrid workingage continues to drive the platform from strength to strength.
Mike Moore is Deputy Editor at TechRadar Pro. He has worked as a B2B and B2C tech journalist for nearly a decade, including at one of the UK’s leading national newspapers and fellow Future title ITProPortal, and when he’s not keeping track of all the latest enterprise and workplace trends, can most likely be found watching, following or taking part in some kind of sport.
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