Microsoft will terminate existing Office 365 E3 Developer subscriptions in September 2026. Find out which tenants are affected and what steps to take before the deadline.
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.
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 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.
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.