Microsoft is giving its collaboration platform Teams new features for end-to-end encryption. Full encryption currently only applies to one-on-one Teams video calls. Group conversations cannot use the security functionality for the time being.
End-to-end encryption is not set by default for every end user, but must be assigned to users by administrators within companies. After administrators receive the update, they can still set company-specific policies for the functionality. Ultimately, end users still have to manually check the end-to-end encryption in their own settings. The administrators can also turn off end-to-end encryption for users.
Not all Teams functionality works
The tech giant also indicates that some functionality is lost when using end-to-end encryption with Teams. With end-to-end encryption, it is not possible to live caption and transcribe, record a call, perform call transfer, park or merger, and add a participant to start a group conversation. When this functionality is required, users should disable end-to-end encryption.
The end-to-end encryption functionality for conversations is available for the new version of the Teams desktop client for Windows and macOS.
