MC554158U · Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Experts, Custom Solution Development
From Microsoft Corporation
Technical Bulletin MC554158 · Published May 12, 2023 · Last updated Aug 7, 2023
Message Summary
Updated August 7, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
We are excited to introduce a new and improved experience to search within chats and channels.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122550
When this will happen:
- Standard: We will begin rolling this out in mid-September 2023 (previously late July) and expect to complete rollout by late September 2023 (previously early August)
- GCC: We will begin rolling this out in late September 2023 (previously early August) and complete rollout by late October 2023 (previously late August).
- GCC-H: We will begin rolling this out in late October 2023 (previously late August) and complete rollout by early November 2023 (previously early September).
- DoD: We will begin rolling this out in mid-November 2023 (previously mid-September) and complete rollout by early December 2023 (previously early October).
How this will affect your organization:
A few key enhancements include:
- The new in-chat and in-channel Search experience will now be available in the right handrail, making it possible to see your chat/channel list and your new search results in one single view. The initiation can be done using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F(win) or Cmd +F (Mac):Chat:
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Channel:Note: Search capability on the new Channels experience is currently available on the main view, and we will extend it to the conversation view very soon.
View image in new tab - In addition to the keyboard shortcut, a dedicated button ‘Find in Channel’, placed on the channel info pane can be used to initiate contextual search:
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Note: we are working on bring the search entry point to the chat surface soon. - We now have introduced enhanced captioning and keyword highlighting to aid the discernment of results in chat and channel:
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What you need to do to prepare:
No preparation needed. The new search experience is set up by default, but you may want to draw attention to these new capabilities in Teams.