How to enjoy earlier access to new Feature Updates on MS Teams

Every month, as we all know, a constant flow of new features and updates are released in MS Teams. Since the rapid pace of updates, it is critical to stay on top of key feature updates and test them prior to being deployed.?Enabling Teams Public preview is required to get early access to the latest updates before they are generally available! Individuals should enable the public preview on their desktop and web clients in order to see and test the new features. The Teams client can only be switched to public preview mode if the Teams Update policy is enabled in the Microsoft Teams Admin center.

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How to Update Teams policy:

Sign-in to Teams admin center

Navigate to Teams > Teams Update Policies

Click on?Add?policy

Give the policy a name and description

Under?Show preview features?dropdown, choose?Enabled

Select?Apply.??The changes will take up to 2 hours to be placed

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The Show Preview dropdown menu contains the following options:

1. Follow Office Preview(default) – Users enrolled in the Office Current channel will automatically be enabled for public preview features. This option requires no further actions by the end user.?
2. Not Enabled – Teams Public preview will not be available to end users.?
3. Enabled – This option enables Teams public preview regardless of whether a user is enrolled in the Office Current channel. The end user must also opt into Teams public preview in the Teams app by following the steps mentioned below.

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There are two options for how to enable the feature for clients. Individual in Teams Client and using policies in bulk.

How to switch Public Preview in bulk method:

On Teams Update Policies press the View users, search for a user or group, and edit settings

Change the Update policy to a new one as you have already created

How to switch Public Preview in Teams Client:

Log into Microsoft Teams

Click the eclipse next to the profile picture

Navigate to About > Public Preview

Confirm Switching to Public Preview to get early access to the new features in Microsoft Teams

In conclusion, Microsoft Teams' public preview is enabled, and you may have access to all the latest features which are in the preview before they get generally available. Have a nice time! ??

More info:

Updates in Microsoft Teams allows users to create, submit, and review employee updates - Microsoft Community Hub