You'll soon be able to disable people's video within Microsoft Teams

Microsoft has spent the last year or so dramatically increasing the number of people that can be inside a coming together at one time. That's great for when you need 49 people on your screen at in one case and anybody is well-behaved, but it isn't swell if someone'south video feed is distracting. Before long, yous'll be able to disable the video feed of people inside Teams meetings.

Two features appear on the Microsoft 365 roadmap, one that describes the ability to disable and enable a single attendee'southward video and another most disabling and enabling the video of all attendees.

Hither are the descriptions of the features:

Microsoft Teams: Disable/Enable a Unmarried Attendee'due south Video

Power to disable and enable a single attendee's video in a Microsoft Teams coming together.

Microsoft Teams: Disable/Enable all Attendee'due south Video

Power to disable and enable video for all attendee's before, or during, a Microsoft Teams coming together.

Hosts may desire to disable someone's video for a number of reasons, including someone accidentally showing something on video that they aren't supposed to and someone's video being distracting. It could be something as innocent as a webcam falling over and causing a distraction. Whatever the reason, hosts should soon be able to control which video feeds appear inside a meeting.

The features are tagged for all major platforms, so it appears that they could come up to Teams on a range of devices.

The descriptions don't specifically mention hosts disabling the video feeds, but that's likely the case. Otherwise, anarchy could ensue of people disabling each other's video.

The Microsoft 365 roadmap lists the features as coming in April 2022, merely the roadmap is e'er subject to change. Information technology is a guide for what features are on the way, non a fix of hard deadlines for features to come out.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams allows you to collaborate with colleagues, upload files, ship letters, and conversation through video. Information technology integrates with Function 365 and several other cloud services.

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