Saw a post on Tech Community Blogs around the SfB Mac Client and new features released in the Insider Fast release. Post on Tech Community here
What’s Insider Fast release ?
The Insider program allows you to install early builds of SfB for Mac so you can test new features before they will be released publicly in a GA build. More info on insider program here https://products.office.com/en-us/office-insider?tab=tab-2
Please note: So these new features and changes are NOT yet in the GA build of SfB for Mac.
To Check Insider Build information please check here
Build Details
Released – 14/09/2017
Build Number – Build 16.11.115
Previous Build – August 15 2017 16.10.0.88
New features
1. Simplified sign-in experience and support for certificate-based authentication
- On initial sign-in, users are now only required to enter their sign-in address.
- Based on the sign-in information, we will ask for additional information (such as password) only when necessary. If your organization supports certificate-based authentication and the certificate exists on the machine, you will sign in automatically.
- We have moved some of the less-used options (such as user name) to the Advanced Options page to simplify the experience and avoid unnecessary confusion to the end users.
2. Meetings improvements
- Earlier this year we added support for joining a meeting through phone. We listened to your feedback and have now added the additional option to join a meeting without audio.
- Users can choose to hide or show content that another user is sharing in a meeting. When someone is sharing their screen, select to “Turn off content” under the More options menu. If content is available but not displayed, the option will show “Turn on content”.
- The “End Meeting” option was added last release. This option allows a presenter to end the meeting for all participants before leaving a meeting.
Improvements
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Fixed an issue where a user’s location used for E-911 calls is not correctly identified when the user is connected to a network inside their organization.
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Fixed an issue where a user’s status continued to show as Available after they had quit the app.
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Fixed an issue that prevented users from signing in with an Alternate ID.
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Fixed several issues to improve the reliability of viewing screen sharing in a meeting.
Known Issues
Don’t forget to get the known issues a look over as well.
One critical known issue is
Martin Boam's Microsoft Blog 