town halls

Microsoft has completed the rollout of proximity join support for presenters using nearby Teams Rooms during Teams events, closing an awkward gap between personal devices and shared conference-room systems. The capability, tracked under Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 561550, lets presenters discover...

Microsoft Teams has quietly removed one of the most repetitive parts of running webinars, town halls, and other structured online events: rebuilding the configuration every time. With Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 561915 now marked Launched, organizers can save an existing event as a reusable...

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 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...

Verdict: stop treating pre-scheduled Teams Live Events as the default. Keep a legacy event only when it is already scheduled for June 30, 2026 or earlier and rebuilding it would create disproportionate operational risk; move recurring, strategic, externally promoted, or post-cutoff events to...