What’s New in Microsoft Teams June 2020 Edition


Microsoft Teams continues to evolve to be the hub for teamwork and Microsoft recently launched new functionality that helps people do their best work.

Large Gallery View

Large gallery view expands the Teams grid view to 7×7, which will accommodate up to 49 participants at once on a single screen. This would be Generally Available soon. The initial roll out is planned for the Educational Tenants to enhance the Experience of engagement between the Teaches and the Students

Large Gallery View User Voice.





Virtual Breakout Rooms

Breakout Rooms allow meeting organizers to split their Teams meeting participants into small groups to assist ideation, brainstorming, learning, and discussions. Breakout Rooms will be delivered later this calendar year. 

Virtual Breakout Rooms User Voice

Multi-Window for Meetings & Calling

Multi-window experiences are coming to Teams meetings and calling. You will have the ability to pop out meetings and calling into separate windows to help them optimize their workflow. These experiences can be turned on directly within Teams for PC and Mac clients.

Multi-Window for Meetings & Calling User Voice



Teams meeting attendee limit increases to 300 participants
To help meet rapidly changing communication and meeting needs, we are increasing the maximum number of participants allowed in a Teams meeting to 300. This is generally available today.

Limitation of Microsoft Teams

New experience for launching instant channel meetings

Meet Now buttons in Teams channels will have a new home. You will soon find them in the Channel header where you can easily find and launch a channel meeting.



PSTN participant phone numbers masked from External Users

For customers with Audio Conferencing enabled for Teams meetings, PSTN participants’ phone numbers will be masked to all users who have joined from outside of your organization. This feature is rolling out soon for PC, Mac, web, and mobile clients.

New Session Border Controllers (SBC) certified for use with Microsoft Teams Calling

The popularity of Direct Routing to connect PSTN services to Teams has been amazing. One of the key ingredients are Session Border Controllers. Customers have always asked for more certified SBC options as part of their Direct Routing deployment. We are excited that Cisco and Avaya will join our certification list. To learn more about Direct Routing deployment and certified Session Border Controllers

List of SBC Certified for Teams Direct Routing


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What’s New in Microsoft Teams in June 2020


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