Microsoft 365: New map-based desk booking experience in Microsoft Places

Microsoft Places introduces a new map-based desk booking experience for Teams Premium users, unifying desk reservations across apps with interactive floor maps, colleague seating visibility, partial/multi-day bookings, delegation, and admin check-in controls. Rollout begins mid-August 2025, enhancing hybrid work flexibility without requiring admin action. We’re introducing a new map-based desk booking experience in Microsoft Places that replaces the existing reservation flows in the Places app and calendar across desktop and mobile. This update enhances usability, supports both individually configured and pooled desks, and introduces new capabilities to improve workplace flexibility and collaboration. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 488802, 488803, 488804, 488805 and 488809. When this will happen General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in mid-August 2025 and expect to complete by end of September 2025. How this will affect your organization This update introduces a refreshed user experience for desk booking in Microsoft Places for users with users with a Teams Premium license. It replaces the existing desk reservation flows in the Places app and calendar across desktop and mobile platforms. The new experience is available to Microsoft 365 tenants that have enabled desk reservation through Microsoft Places. It enhances usability and flexibility for hybrid work scenarios by offering: A unified desk booking interface across the calendar (New Outlook, Teams, OWA) and the Places app (web and connected app in Teams/Outlook) Interactive floor maps with fixture support, including fallback functionality for floors without uploaded maps The ability to view colleagues’ seating locations and reserve nearby desks (visibility is user-controlled) Support for partial-day and multi-day desk reservations Delegation capabilities for executive assistants or delegates to reserve desks on behalf of others Admin-configurable check-in requirements, with automatic release of unclaimed desks Support for both assigned desks (for specific users) and drop-in desks (non-reservable, real-time availability shown) Licensing: This is a user experience update to an existing feature and requires a Teams Premium license. Users without a license will not see the feature in the UI. A trial or preview option is not currently available. Access control: No changes. Admins can continue to manage access using existing policy settings […]

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