Users of Microsoft Teams they can now use applications in meetings and external chats. Last month, word came out that Microsoft Teams was adding support for applications in meetings and external chats.
The Redmond Giant has recently updated your roadmap from Microsoft 365 to indicate that this feature had started to roll out. It will soon be available to all Microsoft 365 subscribers.
Microsoft Teams users can now use applications in meetings and external chats
Launching apps in external meetings and chats will allow attendees to add them while hosting meetings and chats with people from another organization. Specifically, users in the host organization will be able to manage these shared applications. This administration involves installing, removing or updating these applications. However, external users who have been invited to the group chat or meeting will only be able to interact with the applications installed by the host users. You can find more details about managing external access in meetings at this support page.
To install an application during a meeting, we must click on the “Chat with participants” icon and select the menu with the three dots. Next, we must use the search box to find the application (Microsoft Forms, for example) that we want to add to the meeting and finally click the submit button to create a survey. Meeting participants will instantly receive a survey notification that appears in the middle of the meeting screen.
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Similarly, Microsoft Teams users will be able to add applications to group chats by clicking on the menu (…) available at the bottom of the screen. Deploying applications in external scenarios will respect the host organization’s data policies and will not change any previous organizational settings.
Overall, the new app experience could be beneficial for business customers to collect feedback and seek partner approval.
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