microsoft teams

Microsoft is rolling out new Teams meeting controls in late June 2026 that identify external third-party bots as they try to join meetings, hold them in the lobby for human approval, and prepare a registration path for independent software vendors. The change is a small product tweak with a...

Microsoft is rolling out new Microsoft Teams controls in June 2026 that let administrators detect, label, lobby, and potentially block external meeting bots before they enter meetings hosted by an organization. The change is not merely another Teams admin toggle; it is Microsoft admitting that...

Microsoft is rolling out a June 2026 Microsoft Teams change that moves Android-based Teams Rooms, Teams panels, and Teams phones from the Teams admin center into the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal for inventory, monitoring, management, updates, analytics, and health operations across...

Microsoft has launched a Teams town hall restart capability for desktop and Mac clients across commercial and government clouds, allowing organizers, producers, and production-enabled presenters to restart an active town hall when technical problems disrupt the live event. The feature sounds...

Microsoft is developing an asynchronous file-upload experience for Microsoft Teams that will let users keep sending chat messages while a large file continues uploading in the background, with general availability currently targeted for August 2026 across desktop, Mac, and web clients. The...

Microsoft is rolling out scoped SharePoint search inside the SharePoint app in Microsoft Teams, formerly Viva Connections, for Android and iOS users in June 2026 across worldwide commercial, GCC, GCC High, and DoD Microsoft 365 tenants. The change is small enough to sound like plumbing and large...

TD SYNNEX Maverick announced on June 25, 2026, from Barcelona that it has extended its distribution relationship with Ribbon Communications into EMEA, bringing Ribbon’s session border controllers, Teams Direct Routing, SIP, and cloud voice infrastructure products to European partners. The deal...

Microsoft Teams is rolling out an admin-controlled external bot detection system in 2026 that routes suspected third-party meeting bots into the lobby, requires explicit organizer approval, and begins replacing CAPTCHA-based join verification across Teams meetings. The change is not just another...

Regal Rexnord is piloting AI-driven leadership coaching inside Microsoft Teams in 2026, using workflow data and just-in-time prompts to help roughly 4,000 global leaders practice emotional intelligence before high-stakes management conversations. The move matters because it reframes generative...

Microsoft is preparing a dedicated Recap app for Microsoft Teams in July 2026, giving Windows, Mac, and web users a single place to browse recent meeting recordings, transcripts, AI summaries, and related recap material from roughly the previous 30 days. That sounds like a small navigational...

A software engineer claimed on June 29, 2026, that roughly 150 Hy-Vee engineers in India were laid off after a 9 p.m. Microsoft Teams call, with the company’s India engineering center reportedly shut down immediately as part of a restructuring. The allegation, first amplified through Reddit and...

Microsoft is rolling out Workplace Check-In via Wi-Fi for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Places in June 2026, letting organizations automatically update a user's work location when their device connects to configured corporate Wi-Fi so colleagues and managers can see office presence or, where...

SOCAR Türkiye said on June 26, 2026, that it is saving more than 7,500 employee hours a year after building a Copilot-based internal chatbot and department-specific AI agents across finance, legal, HR, procurement, IT, and corporate services. The headline number is useful, but the more...

Microsoft is preparing a dedicated Recap app for Microsoft Teams on Windows, Mac, and the web by late July 2026, giving work and school users a single place to find recent meeting recordings, transcripts, and AI-generated summaries instead of hunting through calendar invites or SharePoint...

Microsoft has added Explain and Refresh to PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams in June 2026, giving attendees private Copilot explanations of selected slide text and giving presenters a one-click way to reload the latest saved deck without restarting the live presentation. The changes are small...

Microsoft Teams is rolling out a desktop pre-join audio test in June 2026 that lets users check their selected microphone and speakers before entering a meeting, with worldwide availability expected by late June and government cloud completion following in July. The feature is small, almost...

Keeper Security has launched a Microsoft Teams app for KeeperPAM and Keeper Secrets Manager that lets organizations request, approve, and time-limit privileged access from inside Teams, with customer-hosted infrastructure preserving Keeper’s zero-knowledge model and availability tied to eligible...

Microsoft plans to bring the Microsoft 365 Assistant field into Teams’ Organization view on desktop, Mac, and web in July 2026, surfacing designated assistant information on profile cards and in Org Explorer for Worldwide standard commercial tenants. The change is small in interface terms but...

Microsoft is developing Teams slash commands for apps, a desktop and Mac feature due for general availability in August 2026 that will let users invoke apps, agents, and workflows directly from the chat and channel compose box by typing /. The feature looks small because the interface is small...

Microsoft has marked Microsoft Teams “Workplace check-in via Wi‑Fi” as launched for General Availability in June 2026, bringing a desktop and Mac feature that can update an employee’s work location when their device connects to a configured corporate Wi‑Fi network. The company frames the change...