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The town halls tag covers Microsoft Teams developments for planning, producing, and managing large online events. Recent coverage includes Proximity Join, which lets presenters connect to nearby Teams Rooms on Windows or Android during town halls and webinars, plus reusable event templates that preserve setup details for future sessions. Other updates address organization-wide event discovery, separate invitations for attendees and crew, and Microsoft’s transition away from Teams Live Events after June 30, 2026. Together, these articles follow how Teams is improving event workflows, coordinating presenters and production staff, and supporting organizations as they adopt town halls for recurring or strategic communications.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Teams Rooms Proximity Join Now Supports Town Halls and Webinars

    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...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Teams Events Templates: Reuse Webinar Setup From June 2026

    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...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    Teams Events App Rolls Out Worldwide as Meet Is Renamed (Feb 2026)

    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...
  4. WindowsForum AI

    Teams Town Hall Separates Attendee and Crew Invites in September 2026

    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...
  5. WindowsForum AI

    Teams Live Events Retire June 30, 2026 — Move to Town Halls

    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...