Small Tips and Tricks – Microsoft Teams : How to enable Public Preview

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Today I learned new tip so sharing.

Tip : How to enable Public Preview for Microsoft Teams

Details / Background

• I saw one message in Microsoft Message center related to Microsoft Teams – Get Adobe PDF experience in Microsoft Teams
• But then this feature will be currently available in only “public preview“
• So prerequisite is to have “public preview” enabled then only I can test this
• As my curiosity to test , thought to enable “public preview“
• But as I don’t know how to enable “public preview” for teams, this article born 🙂
• Most of articles / Microsoft says this “public preview” setting is under “Settings >> About us >> Public Preview” but for me its not there

How to Enable Public Preview for Teams

• From Microsoft Teams admin center we can enable or disable “Public Preview” feature
• Navigate to Microsoft Teams admin center – we have separate article for navigating Microsoft Teams admin center, please follow – Small Tips and Tricks – Microsoft Teams admin center – How to navigate to Microsoft Teams admin center
• As we navigated to Teams admin center dashboard as

• From Microsoft Teams admin center dashboard, we will navigate to – Teams update policies – updatemanagement policies page

• As in above fig, we have “Global (Org-wide default)” policy having “Preview features” – “Follow Office Preview”
• Click on “Global” policy to edit it – we can create new policy as well if do not want to edit organization wide policy
• On click of “Global” policy, right pane will open as in below fig, here we can enable “public preview” feature

• Select the “Enabled” option from “Show preview features” drop-down and click on “Apply” button at bottom
• We will have “Changes will take time to take effect“, please click on “Confirm” button to effect the changes

• Now we can either go to Teams desktop client or Teams web client and check the settings

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