Microsoft Teams update will level the playing field for all users
Microsoft Teams will soon play nice with virtual desktop services
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Microsoftwill soon roll out updates forTeamsthat will benefit users running thecollaboration softwarein avirtual machine(VM).
As per threenew entriesto the company’s product roadmap, Microsoft Teams will soon allow users of Azure, Citrix and VMwarevirtual desktopservices to utilize give and take controls duringvideo meetings.
Give controls allow Teams users to recruit fellow attendees to help them present, make changes to a file and perform other actions. With take controls, meanwhile, people can request they be given these kinds of administrative privileges.
Virtualization and Microsoft Teams
As many organizations migrate to ahybrid workingmodel, whereby workers split their time between the home and office, video meetings and virtualpresentationswill continue to play a major role in professional life.
It’s also common for companies to use virtual desktop infrastructure to enable secureremote work. But so far, people running Microsoft Teams in a virtual machine have not had access to the full breadth of functionality, including give and take controls.
The effect of this upcoming round of updates will be to create greater consistency across Microsoft Teams environments, and open up access to core presentation functionality to those required to use virtual desktop services by their IT teams.
Support for Azure Window Desktop and Citrix services is due to arrive in March, with support for VMware’s hypervisor set to follow one month later.
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TechRadar Prohas asked Microsoft whether users of other popular virtualization services (AmazonWorkSpaces, Nutanix XI Frame etc.) can expect to benefit from similar updates in future.
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