New ways to celebrate holidays with Microsoft Teams

The Together mode in Microsoft Teams redefines meeting experiences to bring people closer together. A back and forth conversation feels more natural, and Together mode should reduce meeting fatigue by brightening it.

Microsoft released new Winter Wonderland Together mode scenes yesterday that should already be generally available. Source.

New together-mode scenes

Microsoft launched new fun scenes to spend the holidays in style!

New custom backgrounds

These new backgrounds are now also available through background settings.

Breakout rooms

Brainstorming rooms or breakout rooms are now available in Microsoft Teams. Breakout rooms make it easy to divide your meetings into subgroups to allow for smaller discussions, brainstorming sessions and learning groups.

A full breakout rooms instruction can be found in English created by Thiago Beier.(website)

Christmas backgrounds

In this blog post you can find backgrounds that you can add yourself in Microsoft Teams.

Having a party at Teams?

Use snap camera with fun presets to put on Christmas hats below.

I also wrote other practical teams blogs. You can find these here.