What's coming to Teams in 2025

Microsoft Teams is now well into its ‘new version’ lifecycle with lots of stability improvements and a more unified experience for Windows and Mac users. Microsoft’s roadmap of features and improvements planned for 2025 shows no sign of slowing down when it comes to Teams. 

Teams features available now   

Here’s a summary of some of the Teams improvements that Microsoft has underway for the first part of this year - we hope you find them useful: 

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  Filtering, sorting and archiving Q&A in meetings has improved 

• Enhance messages and channel posts by recording and adding video clips   
• Record your name in your profile card so others can hear how to pronounce it properly 
• Describe it to design it allows you to quickly design and deploy Power Automate Flows in Teams and Channels (requires Power Automate license) 
• You can now forward specific channel posts to other teams or channels you have access to 

• Improved hyperlink insertion and handling in chats and channel posts means you can select the text you want to display and paste the URL, without needing to use the traditional hyperlink dialog box. 

The Microsoft 365 Roadmap always shows tools and features that are being worked on, take a look and see what else is of interest to you. 

Teams features rolling out soon 

Other features we hope to see in the next six months or so include:  

• Schedule messages in channels – Optimise the timing of your channel messages. 
• Network strength icon to warn about slow internet connectivity and offer suggestions to improve it.
• Real time microphone volume indicator helps you get it just right - no need to ask 'can you hear me?'
• Teams meeting participants will be able to edit their display name for the duration of the meeting. 
• An entry point in the presenter toolbar will make it easier for presenters to access the meeting chat.
• Improved Microsoft list links will make them easier to find and access within Teams messages and inside shared tab in chats.

Help and training 

Lots of information about how to get Teams help, advice and training is available on the IT Help, IT Skills and the Centre for Teaching and Learning websites.  

Any member of Oxford University can join the Nexus365 User Group to stay up to date with Teams news, tips, tricks, quick-start guides and more. The code is W2CBE7. 

Did you know? 

Adding Q&As to your meetings and webinars (2 min video) is an easy way to collate and answer questions. This often-underused feature can be a better alternative to Teams chats.