Microsoft Teams: Classic Teams vs New Teams
On March 31, 2024 Microsoft pushed out the New Microsoft Teams application to all production environments. The below table outlines the features being added or removed within the new Teams application.
Classic Teams
New Teams
Allow users to follow another user's presence, then notify them of availability.
Select a user’s avatar or profile photo anywhere in new Teams to quickly get an overview of their online status, next available calendar slot in Outlook, work hours, local time, or work location either remote or in office.
Contacts in chat
You no longer can access Contacts from Chat. Instead, use the new People app. Pin it to your left navigation pane by selecting the (...) menu, right-click People, and then select Pin.
Windows notifications
Teams notifications are now fully served from Teams and all notifications preferences are handled within Teams Settings.
Ability to save messages and files in Teams
The Save feature is no longer available. However, classic Teams users can download their saved messages and files to a local folder that they can open in new Teams. Learn more: Mark a message as saved in Microsoft Teams
Teams Theme Setting
Consistent with other Office applications, Teams Theme setting follows the OS Theme by default. Users can change this default in Teams Settings > Appearance and Accessibility.
Look up an organizational chart while in a 1:1 chat
Select a user’s avatar or profile photo anywhere in Teams and navigate to the organizational chart within the profile card.
Settings dialog
Teams Settings is now an app accessed from the More options menu (...) in the title bar.
General appearance changes
Colors, tooltip styles, and general appearance have been updated.
Post level notifications within a channel
Users can no longer opt in or opt out of receiving notifications at a channel post level.
Search box commands
The following commands are no longer available in the new Teams search box:
/activity, /files, /goto, /help, /join, /keys, /mentions, /org, /saved, /testcall, /unread, /whatsnew, /who.
Adding a Wiki to a channel tab
You no longer see a Wiki app. Instead, select the Notes app.
Adding third party cloud storage service from Files app and Files tab in channels
You no longer see the "Add cloud storage" in the OneDrive app on Teams' left navigation bar or within the Files tab in Teams channels. Now you can add the third party storage app directly from the Teams App Store.
Adding a document library (DocLib) app to a tab in channels
Use the Sharepoint app instead. Then add the document library from there as a tab to the channel. Existing document libraries automatically convert to a SharePoint document library on first use.
Activity tab in chat
No longer available.
Look up LinkedIn while in a 1:1 chat
Select a user’s avatar or profile photo anywhere in Teams and navigate to the LinkedIn tab within the profile card.
Edit team name and change team picture from Edit team view.
Team owners can edit team name and change team picture in the team Settings tab by selecting More options (...) > Manage team.
Ability to choose EDU themed team avatar from a list in the Edit team view In Microsoft Teams for Education
No longer available.
Files app on Teams left navigation pane
The OneDrive app replaces the Files app on the left navigation pane.
Ability to use tags in the "Add member" dialog.
There's now an advanced flow for tags.
About links in the More options menu (...)
About links are now in the Settings app under the About Teams category.
Help in the app bar
The Help entrypoint, including Help links and Give Feedback is now located under the More options menu (...) in the title bar.
Ability to sign out from the notification area at the far right of the taskbar (system tray).
No longer available.
Adaptive Card-based tabs in personal app tabs.
No longer available.