Microsoft inches closer to a unified domain, teams.cloud.microsoft will go live in June'24

In April last year, Microsoft announced plans for a unified domain (cloud.microsoft) for all its cloud services, be it Teams, OneDrive, Loop, Outlook, or Viva, amongst others.

Now, the Redmond-based tech giant has sent out a reminder to developers of Teams apps and shared a series of steps to undertake in order to switch to the unified domain system. This pertains to both developers running on Outlook and Microsoft 365.

If developers don’t take any action by June 2024, the app will not render in the new domain (teams.cloud.microsoft). Instead, it will be accessible on the existing domain (teams.microsoft.com). If opened on the new domain, you will be presented with an error message.

Microsoft has confirmed that the existing domain won’t be retired after June’24, at least for now, and will work as expected.

Microsoft, in the official blog post, recommends these two changes,

• Upgrade Teams JS library to version 2.19 or higher.
• Update your x-frame-options/CSP headers to allow for the new domains. To ensure the app keeps working across existing and future Microsoft 365 hosts, allow “*.cloud.microsoft”.

Microsoft has kept the entire process really simple, ensuring minimal effort from the user’s end. Admins will find *.cloud.microsoft already added to the Office 365 URLs.

The idea behind a unified domain for Microsoft Teams and other apps is to ensure simplicity, minimize the number of redirects, reduce delay, and make things all the more seamless for both end users and developers.

The company plans to use microsoft.com for non-product experiences, say, support, e-commerce and marketing, while the new domain, cloud.microsoft, will only host authenticated, user-facing product experiences.

Since Microsoft has exclusive rights over the .microsoft TLD (Top Level Domain), it will allow more advanced security protocols to be enforced and grant a higher level of control.

It seems like Micorosft has bigger plans for the native video-conferencing software. Teams got many new features in recent days. Even the Teams mobile app is more user-friendly than ever. Reports suggest, we should see a wide array of improvements in the coming months.

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