Microsoft is simplifying the Broadcast and Collaborative event types with a new large audience setting in Teams Events. The setting automatically applies to events with more than 1,000 attendees.
Microsoft is adding a way to open links to Teams messages in chats or channels in a separate window, so users can view a linked conversation without leaving the one they are already in.
Teams now supports apps, including bots, tabs, and message extensions, in Private channels, matching the model already in place for Shared channels. Previously, only a limited set of tabs was supported in such channels.
Events in Microsoft Teams now support SRT as an inbound streaming protocol alongside RTMP, offering better resilience for external encoder setups.
Teams now offers a quick sound check on the pre-join screen, letting users test their microphone and speaker before joining a meeting.
Microsoft is introducing a new tenant-level control to govern whether applications and agents can access Teams transcripts via the Microsoft Graph API. This control will be enforced after 29 July 2026. Because it’s disabled by default, access to Graph API transcripts will be blocked automatically unless a Teams administrator explicitly enables it.
Microsoft has added a new Efficiency Mode for the Teams desktop client to improve performance on resource-constrained devices.
Microsoft will reduce eCDN analytics data retention from 360 days to 180 days, effective 27 July 2026. Older records are deleted automatically.
A new Teams admin center rule notifies administrators when a Teams desktop client rollout begins in their tenant. The new rule is disabled by default and allows admins to specify which release ring and platform to monitor.
Microsoft has updated the Teams file download experience with an Edge-inspired download manager that hides notifications after four seconds, keeping your workspace clean without losing track of your files.
Your event organizers should be aware of this limit if they start using the new Teams Events app. Collaborative events have a hard limit of 1000 attendees. No view-only fallback, no exceptions. More attendees are rejected.
Microsoft is increasing the Teams breakout room participant limit to 1000 and the room limit to 200, enabling breakout sessions in much larger meetings.
Microsoft Teams voicemail transcription is moving to Azure LLM Speech, improving accuracy and speed while adding automatic language detection for 14 new languages.
Microsoft is updating the port and domain requirements for RTMP-In streaming in Teams Events. Administrators need to update firewall rules before mid-July 2026 to keep streaming working.
Microsoft added a new Teams setting that lets users disable file previews in chats and channels, restoring the pre-June 2024 experience.
Microsoft Teams now supports reusable event templates for meetings, webinars, and town halls in the new Events app, with no Teams Premium license required.
Users can now search for cloud files directly in the Teams attach file picker, without browsing through OneDrive or SharePoint folders.
Microsoft is rolling out Express Voice enrollment in Teams, allowing users to register a voice profile passively by speaking during a meeting.
After 11 months working with Microsoft on a support case affecting multiple organizations, the SharePoint management team declined to fix the Teams private channel guest access issue. Here are the details explained.
Microsoft replaced the Meet app in Teams with an updated, unified Events app that aligns with the unified Teams Events experience. Previously, this app was accidentally deployed as an Outlook Mail app for Teams in specific tenants.