Microsoft is getting ready to make its new Teams 2.0 client available for all users. As of today, the new app is available via a toggle in public preview, but the same toggle will become generally available for customers in September.
Microsoft launched the new Teams 2.0 client in public preview in March 2023. The app has been rebuilt from the ground up to make it two times faster and consume 50 percent less memory as compared to the classic Teams desktop app. Microsoft Teams 2.0 is no longer an Electron-based application, and it leverages Microsoft’s Webview2 technology instead.
At launch, the preview version of the new Teams 2.0 client lacked several features that are available in the classic Teams desktop app. Since then, Microsoft has been working to add support for third-party apps, line-of-business (LOB) applications, and advanced calling and meeting capabilities. These include 7×7 video, breakout rooms, call queues and voice-enabled channels, as well as survivable branch appliance (SBA).
Later this month, end users will be able to switch between the new Teams client and the classic app with a toggle button. This change will be applicable to tenants where the admin policy setting of “UseNewTeamsClient” is set to Microsoft default. Microsoft will let IT admins deploy new Teams directly to all devices in their organization in mid-July.
“We’re still working on this version, so some things aren’t available yet. It’s easy to toggle back and forth between using the classic and new Teams, so you can take advantage of the new Teams performance enhancements on some days and switch back to the classic Teams when you need to,” Microsoft explained.
Microsoft expects to make Teams 2.0 the default client for all customers in late September. The upcoming update will be available for both enterprise and business (Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium, and Teams Essentials, etc) customers. Microsoft recommends IT admins to start preparing users for this upcoming change in Fall 2023.
Currently, Microsoft Teams 2.0 is only available in preview on Windows PCs. Microsoft has confirmed that the new Teams client will launch on macOS, VDI, and Web later this year. Let us know in the comments below if you have switched to the Microsoft Teams 2.0 preview app.
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Performance upgrades would be great but am I the only one that routinely has issues with lag in received messages? Teams app works fine on mobile, but I routinely have issues with the desktop app where it doesn’t show notifications for new messages for minutes at a time then I get a huge batch update all at once. Extremely annoying if you’re relying on it for anything time sensitive.
Only started noticing the lag since upgrading to Windows 11. I’m assuming it’s related to Windows 11 enabling efficiency mode on the background tasks for Teams, maybe?
The lag, whilst noticeable, wasn’t causing too much of a nuisance for me. So I didn’t bother investigating further.
Reduced functionality and barely noticeable speed improvements. Still very much feels like a web app in a wrapper.
That’s because it still is. Just using web view 2 rather than electron.
I’ve been using it since day 1 and the difference is barely noticeable. Doesn’t seem to use noticeably less RAM, doesn’t seem to be any faster.
What is noticeable is the missing stuff. No avatars, background blur etc doesn’t work in videos, third party api support isn’t there so my stream deck doesn’t work with it.
I had high hopes for it but it’s a disappointment so far.
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Any performance increase in teams is welcome, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
I wonder if this new version will maintain my scroll position when switching between chats. 🤔
I hope it better than the new outlook which is in test. I tried it for 2 days before switching it off. It’s truly awful.
Oh man, glad it’s not just me. I tried to import a contact list for work and it duplicated the list (wasn’t given an option to overwrite or merge). When I tried to delete the list to start over, it was limited to selecting 10 entries at a time- the same as the Web version.
Just, why?
Thankfully it’s slightly better, hadn’t felt the need to go back. It’s not better in any way though. Basically nothing new, same old thing except running in an Electron container. Oh, newest post on channels is now on top instead of bottom. Yay?
Oh wait, one actually useful new feature is that you can log on multiple corporate accounts and easily swap between them. That’s kinda neat.
Will give it a try tomorrow then. (The outlook beta really put me off)
If you switch to another account does it sign you out of the others? This causes us real issues in our company. Basically we have a holding company and several other companies each of which is run independently with different tenants. If we have a teams site and want to share with users from the holding company we have to create accounts on our domain which then makes them unavailable on their tenant when they switch. It’s a pain in the bum; several sites that would she great as teams sites are instead hosted as sharepoint sites due to this.
No, you can be logged on two (or more, I assume?) accounts at the same time and easily swap between them. You’ll even get notifications from the other logged in accounts.
That’s great. Many thanks for coming back on this.
The nail in the coffin for me was the rules engine. You can no longer apply rules to messages you sent. I have a rule that moves my sent messages into the inbox as to be able to file all mails into categories such as “requires attention”, “waiting on someone else”, “expenses”, etc.
Couldn’t find an option to bcc myself on each mails either which would have achieved the same.
This is the way I have worked for years and is my natural workflow so is critical for me.
You’re talking Outlook, not Teams.
I’ve set my Outlook up to put sent mails in the same folder as the mail I replied to - that takes care of most of my cases. Only remaining bit is new mails I send (not replies), and I use task flags to follow up on those.
And I think the new Outlook is ditching tasks? So there’s another broken workflow… :(
I mean no offense, but this sounds like such a niche workflow this xkcd applies: https://xkcd.com/1172/
It cannot hurt. It was shite when I used it.
Oh ye of little faith
