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Microsoft is rolling out support for breakout rooms in Teams meetings with up to 1,000 attendees, lifting a longstanding practical ceiling for organizations that want smaller-group discussion inside large interactive meetings. The change is listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 560320, with...

Microsoft has updated its Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry for “Events in Meet,” a Teams feature that brings organization-wide event discovery and creation into the Meet experience. The entry, Roadmap ID 547834, remains marked as rolling out for Teams on Windows desktop, Mac, and the web in worldwide...

Microsoft is developing an external phone call routing option for Microsoft Teams in GCC High and Department of Defense tenants, with general availability currently penciled in for September 2026. According to Microsoft’s July 17 Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry, the feature will let Teams users...

Microsoft Teams’ new workplace check-in feature can automatically update a user’s work location when a Windows or macOS PC connects to a configured corporate Wi-Fi network or registered desk peripheral—but a broad rollout is not confirmed as live on July 17, 2026. Microsoft’s own June 12 Teams...

LSEG has launched Company Intelligence, an AI agent inside LSEG Workspace that assembles a structured company overview from the group’s financial and market data. The feature is available in Workspace now, with LSEG Workspace in Microsoft Teams support promised “soon.” According to LSEG’s July...

Microsoft Teams microphone not working on a Windows PC is usually fixed by unmuting the correct device, selecting that device in Teams, allowing Windows microphone access, or resolving an organizer policy that prevents attendees from speaking. These steps cover the current Microsoft Teams...

Microsoft Teams is preparing to create AI-generated .meeting archives for eligible meetings by default in August 2026, giving Copilot and Facilitator a durable record to consult later even when nobody explicitly asks Teams to preserve one. The feature is not a conventional recording or...

When Microsoft Teams showed active users as Away or Offline during the June 17 EMEA incident, the right first move was not to clear caches, reinstall the client, or reset user presence. Verify whether the problem is broad, check Microsoft 365 Service Health for incident TM1394359, run...

Microsoft has begun rolling out the Queues app for Microsoft Teams in its GCC High and Department of Defense cloud environments, according to Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 565218. The update is listed for general availability in July 2026, with rollout still in progress for Teams desktop and Mac...

Microsoft has cancelled a planned Teams Copilot feature that would have let the assistant analyze material shared from a participant’s desktop during recorded meetings. The Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry, ID 325873, was updated on July 16, 2026 with a blunt status change: Microsoft has “decided not...

Microsoft is preparing to require explicit recording consent from PSTN callers joining Teams meetings in GCC High and Department of Defense environments. The change, listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 567304, is currently marked in development with general availability targeted for August...

Microsoft is developing a Teams Town hall change that will let organizers keep attendee invitations separate from invitations sent to the event crew. The feature is tracked as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 476488 and is currently listed for general availability in September 2026. According to...

Microsoft plans to bring Teams shared display mode and peripheral detection to Department of Defense environments in August 2026, according to Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 567465. The entry is marked In development, so the date remains an estimate rather than a deployment confirmation. Shared...

Johns Hopkins University will begin automatically deleting Microsoft Teams chat messages after 90 days on October 15, 2026, under a new retention policy announced by the university’s Hub. The initial cleanup is substantial: chats sent before July 17, 2026, will be permanently removed on or...

Guiding Tech has published a troubleshooting guide for Microsoft Teams users who see the “Not optimized” warning inside a virtual desktop session, a condition that can leave calls running through the VM instead of the local endpoint. The result is typically higher host CPU use, degraded audio...

Microsoft Teams administrators should treat the July 2026 move of Android device management to the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal as a live operational test, not a passive portal change. Before Teams admin center workflows begin redirecting in August, verify that every device appears in the...

Microsoft plans to split Teams event attendance and engagement reporting from the policy that currently governs the same reports for ordinary meetings. The change, listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 567466, is in development for worldwide standard multi-tenant tenants and is targeted for...

Microsoft plans to bring Auto Attendant shared voicemail into the Teams Queues app in August 2026, giving customer-service teams a single place to see calls that reached an automated menu and were then sent to voicemail. The Microsoft 365 roadmap entry, ID 567457, lists the feature as in...

Microsoft is planning a Microsoft Teams setting for GCC High and Department of Defense tenants that will let users stop Teams from automatically switching their presence to Do Not Disturb when they begin presenting or screen sharing. The feature, listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 567300, is...

Microsoft is rolling out a new Meeting recap app in Teams that consolidates recent meeting recaps into a single view. The feature, listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 564614, is scheduled for general availability in July 2026 across Teams for Windows desktop, Mac, and the web. The app is...