Meetings, Town halls, and Webinars in Teams now support automatic spoken language detection, replacing manual selection in multilingual events when Interpreter or multilingual speech recognition is enabled.
Microsoft is retiring the CAPTCHA verification setting for Teams meeting join and replacing it with a new bot-detection capability that gives organizers better control over automated participants.
Microsoft is rolling out the updated Teams Meet app with a unified Events experience, bringing webinars, town halls, and custom events into a single workflow for easier creation, discovery, and management.
Starting June 2026, Microsoft will no longer send email notifications when Teams meeting recordings are about to expire or have been deleted.
Microsoft 365 Copilot now lets users schedule meetings directly from Copilot Chat. Users can find time slots, book rooms, draft agendas, and send invites without leaving the conversation, though some limitations still apply.
Microsoft has rolled out new admin controls to customize consent notifications for recording and transcription in Teams meetings.
In delegated Teams meetings, the breakout rooms option is not visible by default. This post explains where to find it and how delegated organizers can still prepare breakout rooms before the meeting.
The Interpreter agent is rolling out for Teams Rooms on Windows with Teams Rooms Pro licensing, enabling real-time interpretation across nine languages. Each license includes 20 hours of interpretation per month.
Microsoft is rolling out shorter meeting URLs for Teams. With this change, meeting invitations via email now display the full shortened URL instead of the “Join the meeting now” text.
Microsoft Teams is rolling out shorter “Meet now” URLs to all users to improve shareability and security. The update also introduces a new meeting URL lifecycle with defined expiration rules.
Microsoft is adding noise suppression for PSTN dial-in participants in Teams Audio Conferences. This update uses machine learning to reduce background noise from phone callers, ensuring clearer and more consistent audio in mixed-device meetings.
Teams Premium now includes a new Prevent screen capture feature. The feature blocks screenshots and recordings on Windows, Mac, and Android, limits video capture on iOS, and forces unsupported platforms into audio-only mode.
Teams is introducing Audio Recap in Meetings, a new feature that adds a dedicated “Audio recap” tab in the Teams Meet app for Windows and Mobile. The update extends the existing Copilot audio capabilities by providing quick access to meeting summaries directly within your meetings.
Microsoft is updating the Copilot setting in Teams meetings. Until now, Copilot started with transcription turned on by default. With the new setting, Copilot will start without transcription, and organizers must enable transcription manually if they need it for post-meeting insights.
Teams for Windows and Mac is getting an enhanced meeting search experience. Users can now filter by meeting name or participant and take direct actions from search results, such as joining, RSVPing, reviewing recaps, or opening meeting chats, making it faster to discover and follow up on meetings.
A new feature in Teams allows users to join meetings more easily. When a meeting is live, a banner will appear, letting users join directly.
Teams Premium users can now personalize their meeting scheduling experience with personal meeting templates, making scheduling faster and more consistent.
Teams will soon introduce a countdown timer feature to help keep meetings on track. Participants can set a visual timer of up to 100 minutes, with alerts and color changes as time runs out.
I prepared a comparison between Intelligent Meeting Recap and Copilot Meeting Recap, as Microsoft primarily promotes the Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
Teams will soon enhance meeting transcripts by allowing the upload of a custom dictionary, improving recognition of specific terminology from your organization.