Microsoft Teams Public Preview activation for "early access

Public preview for Microsoft Teams provides early access to unreleased features of Microsoft Teams. With this preview you can explore and test future functions. Public preview can be enabled for one individual user, so you don't have to worry that it will affect the whole organisation or tenant.

Browseto the Teams administrator panel

Browseto https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/ or via the URL collection page.

Adjust the update policy

Adjust the Update Policies in Microsoft Teams.

Select your profile to display the Teams menu.
Select About → Developer View / developer preview.
Select Switch to for developer view / developers preview

Is the policy not yet visible?

Unfortunately, there is only one thing to do - wait. Often you will see some of these 3 possibilities at the beginning. More information can always be found on Microsoft's website.

Place users in first-release

You can also switch tenant to first-release mode for one user, multiple users or everyone. You can activate these options in this blog.

Put your teams app in Public Preview in Windows 10 or MacOSX

Microsoft Teams Public preview with PowerShell?

Enable Microsoft Teams Public Preview with PowerShell - Matti Paukkonen

Other Microsoft Teams tips and blogs can be found here.

Jasper

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