MC284259 – Microsoft Forms has always focused on providing the best polling experience to their customers. However, according to customer feedback and telemetry, Microsoft has determined that many people don’t know the “Forms” App provides polling capability in Teams.
To provide a better experience Microsoft is delivering a new Teams app specifically for polling capabilities. This new app will be discoverable in Teams meetings/chats as “Polls”.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84567
When this will happen:
Microsoft will begin rolling this out starting in Teams meetings and then moving to Teams chat in mid-October and expect to complete by the end of November.
The original “Forms” app will be retired from Teams meetings in mid-November, and then will be retired from Teams chat in at the end of December. Once retired from meetings/chat the “Forms” app will only be available in the Teams channel tab to provide Survey capabilities.
How this will affect your organization
Once this rollout is complete:
What you need to do to prepare
You may want to update your users on the upcoming changes. Microsoft will continue to update this post with additional information as they proceed.