teams administration

Microsoft Planner has begun removing its long-standing date-order rule, allowing a task’s start date and due date to be edited independently even when the resulting schedule looks backward. For Microsoft 365 administrators and project leads, that is the concrete August 2026 change already moving...

Microsoft has marked Teams Efficiency Mode as launched in Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry 560055, placing the performance-reduction feature into general availability for the Windows and Mac desktop clients. The feature is intended for hardware-constrained devices and is designed to preserve Teams...

Microsoft 365’s August 2026 changes are less a single feature drop than a set of policy and workflow changes that IT teams need to separate carefully: Planner is removing a long-standing scheduling guardrail, Teams is changing its desktop meeting controls, and Microsoft is beginning to create...

Microsoft’s redesigned Teams meeting controls have started reaching Targeted Release users, but the broad rollout is now scheduled later than early reports suggested—and it will not initially cover every Teams client. The latest Microsoft 365 Message Center update, dated July 31, puts worldwide...

Microsoft Teams is set to gain a mandatory pre-meeting consent control in September 2026, giving tenant administrators a way to require attendees to acknowledge a customized message before joining meetings hosted by their organization. Microsoft’s updated Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry, ID 561914...

Microsoft is preparing to eliminate one of the more confusing divisions in Microsoft 365 administration: the split between installing apps and agents through the Microsoft 365 admin center and installing them through the Teams admin center. Under Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 567883, an...

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...