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.
Microsoft added a new Teams setting that lets users disable file previews in chats and channels, restoring the pre-June 2024 experience.
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.
SharePoint PAYG storage is now available in public preview, allowing organizations to pay only for storage used above their included quota rather than pre-purchasing additional capacity.
Microsoft Teams now offers dedicated sections for muted and meeting chats, with the muted section enabled by default and the meeting chats section disabled by default.
Teams now preserves @mentions, @tags, and shared contacts when copying and pasting messages across chats and channel conversations.
The Interpreter agent in Teams now supports a new consecutive interpretation mode for turn-based speech-to-speech translation for meetings in two languages.
Microsoft is rolling out bot detection for Teams Meetings, requiring an additional approval step before external meeting assistant bots can be admitted from the lobby. Administrators can configure a new policy setting to control bot access tenant-wide, including blocking detected bots entirely.
Microsoft Places and Teams now support work location auto-detection via WLAN signals, allowing Teams to automatically check users in at the connected building.
Events in Teams, such as Town halls, Webinars, and Meetings, now support a backup RTMP-In source to keep a live broadcast running if the main stream is interrupted.
Federated Copilot Connectors are enabled by default for Copilot-licensed users. AI administrators can now change the default setting via PowerShell and re-enable specific connectors for selected users and groups.
Microsoft added a new migration state to expose details about failed Private Channel migrations, including ownerless channels requiring manual intervention. Teams admins should review their state.
Teams meetings now support automatic transcription without recording. Meeting organizers can select “Transcribe only” when scheduling, giving them more granular control in environments where recording is restricted by compliance or privacy policies.
Microsoft has rebranded the Surveys agent to Forms agent and is adding Copilot Chat directly into the Microsoft Forms editing experience.
Collaborative Notes powered by Loop are rolling out for instant (Meet now) meetings in Teams. The notes are stored in OneDrive.
Microsoft is expanding DLP policy enforcement for Microsoft 365 Copilot to cover Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files regardless of storage location.
The expanded profile card in Outlook Classic will be retired in June 2026. Only a reduced contact card will be available. Microsoft advises informing users about the change.
Teams administrators can now enable 8-digit numeric-only meeting passcodes as an alternative to the default alphanumeric format, making manual entry easier while increasing the risk of unauthorized access.
A new External Domain Anomalies report in the Teams admin center should provide an overview of how users in the tenant interact with people outside the organisation and flag sudden spikes or unusual engagement that fall outside normal patterns.
Microsoft is enabling Unified RBAC for new tenants with Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 starting at the end of May 2026.