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MC989968Microsoft Teams: Policy to disable in-product messages relating to periodic What's New and Conferences updates

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Some in-product messages in Microsoft Teams can now be controlled with the New-CsTeamsUpdateManagementPolicy command. Using this control, tenant admins can limit in-product messages relating to periodic What's New and Conferences updates.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): This update is available now.

How this will affect your organization:

Setting policies to disable in-product messages will stop users from seeing What's New and Conferences awareness messages within Teams.

For more information, visit the -DisabledInProductMessages Microsoft Learn page for the PowerShell policy overview regarding disabling these in-product notification types for Teams users.

What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.