New Meeting Recap App in Microsoft Teams
A new Recap app in Microsoft Teams brings recordings, transcripts, and AI-powered summaries together, letting users browse recaps from the past 30 days and watch or listen to them.
20. July 2026
Tagged: Teams
Recently used emojis and reactions now sync across Teams devices
Microsoft is rolling out an update that keeps recently used emojis and reactions consistent across Teams devices, including Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, and Android.
18. July 2026
Manage built-in Teams agents from a dedicated location in the Teams admin center
Built-in Teams agents (such as Facilitator, Channel Agent, and Copilot Agent in Teams) now have their own dedicated governance experience in the Teams admin center, separate from traditional app management.
18. July 2026
Enhanced Assistant information on the Microsoft 365 Profile Card
Assistant information now also appears in the Organization section of the profile card, including in Org Explorer, Outlook, and Teams, improving discoverability across Microsoft 365 for users.
18. July 2026
New setting for large audience events in Teams Events
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.
13. July 2026
Open Teams message links in a new window
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.
13. July 2026
Teams Apps are now generally available in Private channels
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.
11. July 2026
SRT Streaming Support for Teams Events
Events in Microsoft Teams now support SRT as an inbound streaming protocol alongside RTMP, offering better resilience for external encoder setups.
11. July 2026
Test mic and speaker before joining Teams meetings
Teams now offers a quick sound check on the pre-join screen, letting users test their microphone and speaker before joining a meeting.
10. July 2026
New tenant control for Graph API access to Teams transcripts will be enforced soon
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.
7. July 2026
Efficiency Mode in the Teams Desktop Client
Microsoft has added a new Efficiency Mode for the Teams desktop client to improve performance on resource-constrained devices.
4. July 2026
eCDN Analytics data retention period drops to 180 days
Microsoft will reduce eCDN analytics data retention from 360 days to 180 days, effective 27 July 2026. Older records are deleted automatically.
28. June 2026
New alert rule notifies administrators when a Teams desktop client rollout begins
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.
27. June 2026
Updated file download experience in Microsoft Teams
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.
26. June 2026
Be aware of the attendee limit for Collaborative events in the Teams Events app
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.
25. June 2026
Microsoft Teams expands breakout room limits to 1000 participants and 200 rooms
Microsoft is increasing the Teams breakout room participant limit to 1000 and the room limit to 200, enabling breakout sessions in much larger meetings.
23. June 2026
Upcoming updates to voicemail transcription in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams voicemail transcription is moving to Azure LLM Speech, improving accuracy and speed while adding automatic language detection for 14 new languages.
22. June 2026
Important network updates for RTMP-In in Teams Events
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.
21. June 2026
New Teams setting allows users to disable file previews in chats and channels
Microsoft added a new Teams setting that lets users disable file previews in chats and channels, restoring the pre-June 2024 experience.
17. June 2026
Teams now supports event templates for Meetings, Webinars, and Town Halls
Microsoft Teams now supports reusable event templates for meetings, webinars, and town halls in the new Events app, with no Teams Premium license required.
16. June 2026