teams admin controls

The teams admin controls tag brings together coverage of Microsoft Teams settings that govern external bots and AI meeting assistants. Current discussions focus on a planned 2026 detection system that sends suspected third-party bots to the meeting lobby for explicit organizer approval, as well as an administrator option to automatically block identified external bots. These controls are presented in the context of meeting privacy, compliance, and governance: organizations can review non-human participants before transcripts or recordings are created, while administrators define how Teams meetings handle automated joiners. The archive is useful for tracking this shift from CAPTCHA-based verification toward centralized controls over bot access.