Microsoft Teams Updates & Release Notes

Manage Teams devices in the Pro Management portal

Administrators can now use the Pro Management portal to monitor device health, manage inventory, and access analytics for both Windows and Android devices. Management of Android-based Teams Rooms, Teams panels, and Teams phones is moving from the Teams admin center to the Pro Management portal, providing a consistent and secure management experience across devices and manufacturers.

Report external users for security concerns in Teams

This feature enables users to report suspicious external users directly within Teams, alongside existing block actions. Reports are surfaced in the Teams admin center, giving admins visibility into potentially risky interactions and enabling them to investigate and take appropriate actions. This enhancement helps organizations respond faster to phishing, impersonation, and other external threats while leveraging end-user signals as an additional layer of protection.

Manage Teams Core agents in the Teams admin center

Administrators can now manage Teams Core agents, such as Facilitator, from a dedicated experience in the Teams admin center. Control agent availability and settings for your organization, specific users, or groups from a single location. Teams Core agents are available by default to licensed users and no longer depend on organization-wide Microsoft app settings.

Improved app and agent access request management

Users can now request access to apps and agents blocked by administrators through a guided experience in Teams and receive notifications when their request status changes. Administrators can review and act on requests more efficiently in the Teams admin center, with improved visibility into new requests.

Teams Phone Call Transfer Improvements

Microsoft Teams is improving the call transfer experience on desktop (Windows and Mac) with a streamlined workflow that makes transferring calls faster and more intuitive. These changes reduce the number of steps to initiate a transfer and introduce transfer suggestions to help users find the right transfer target more quickly.

Sensitivity label inheritance for meeting recordings

Meeting recordings now automatically inherit your meeting’s sensitivity label. When admins enable label inheritance in the sensitivity label policy, any labeled meeting applies the same label to its MP4 recording, ensuring access controls and data handling rules are carried forward consistently. This also ensures that Copilot and agent responses based on transcripts accurately reflect the meeting’s sensitivity, keeping confidential content protected end to end.

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Enhanced peripheral data in Pro Management portal reports for BYOD spaces: Admins can proactively manage peripherals in bring your own device (BYOD) rooms and desks with reports in the Pro Management portal that now flag if devices are faulty, undetectable by a PC, missing, or moved. Reports in the Pro Management portal require a Teams Shared Devices license for the room, and desk reports are in public preview.

Users can trust that their context will be preserved when relevant to them, and not preserved when it’s not: When you return to a conversation within a short duration of time, your selected tabs, opened side panels, and layout are restored automatically, so you can keep working without resetting your workspace.

Identify bots joining your Teams meetings: During Teams meetings, if there is an external 3P bot trying to join the meeting, organizers will be able to see a clear representation of the bots while they wait in the lobby. Organizers will be required to explicitly and separately admit these bots into the meeting, if really required. This approach will ensure that no one inadvertently accepts the external bots into the meeting ensuring that the organizers have full control over the presence of these bots.

Add breakout room participants in bulk using CSV: This feature enables support for bulk breakout room participant assignment using a CSV file, helping organizers save time when setting up breakout rooms.

Microsoft Teams: Teams room builder in the Pro Management portal: The Teams room builder is a user-friendly, visually engaging tool to help IT managers design and configure Teams Rooms traditional, signature, and flex meeting spaces. This feature, available in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal, enables faster design, standards creation, and rollout. With a variety of equipment options and helpful criteria filters, device and license selection and purchase is simplified. Available with Teams Rooms Pro.

Profanity filter is disabled by default for captions: We are updating the default profanity filter setting for live captions from On to Off across Teams meetings, calls, events, and Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) devices to improve accessibility and align with EU requirements. This change will only affect users who have never configured their live captions profanity filter preference. Users who have already set their preference will keep their current setting. As a result, some users may begin seeing unfiltered profanity in live captions by default after this rollout. Users can update this preference in settings at any time.

• Queues app on Teams mobile: This feature enables the "call queue management" feature on the go for you to stay connected and responsive. The Queues app on Mobile empowers on-the-go workers to manage customer engagements efficiently. Users can view queue status, opt in or out of queues, and access real-time metrics—all from their mobile device. With seamless integration, it ensures fast response, smooth call handling, and improved customer experience, anytime and anywhere.

• External Domains Anomalies Report: This feature, namely External Domains Anomalies Report helps admins proactively identify unusual or risky interactions with external organizations in Microsoft Teams. By analyzing communication trends and detecting sudden spikes, new domains, or abnormal engagement patterns, it provides early visibility into potential data-sharing or security risks. As external collaboration continues to grow, this report offers admins actionable insights to protect their tenants while maintaining productive cross-organization collaboration.

Search with Copilot

Find chats, files, and other content by asking questions in natural language instead of searching exact keywords. Copilot helps surface information you're looking for across Teams. To learn more, see .

Find files faster

Discover files in chats and channels with improved search and filtering options. Narrow results by file type, sender, and date to quickly locate content. Press Ctrl + F (Windows), Cmd + F (Mac), or select Find in chat to start. To learn more, see Search for messages and more in Microsoft Teams.

Simplified app discovery

Browse your apps in a new list view designed to make finding and launching apps easier. To learn more, see Find teams and personal apps in Microsoft Teams.

Return to where you left off

Teams now preserves your chat layout and open panels when you navigate between conversations, making it easy to pick up where you left off.

Better chat organization

Muted chats and meeting chats are now grouped together in separate sections to help you keep track of conversations and reduce distractions. To learn more, see Chat in Microsoft Teams meetings.

Improved downloads

Your download manager now appears in the Teams title bar or with a keyboard shortcut to let you monitor downloads without blocking you from other actions in Teams.

Quick share for images

Access image sharing options from hover, right-click, overflow menus, and shared tabs. Permissions are preserved for images stored in OneDrive or SharePoint, so the right people maintain access. Images pasted directly in chat don’t support permission-based sharing. To learn more, see Send a file, picture, or link in Microsoft Teams.

Smarter meeting security

Teams can help identify automated participants in meetings, giving organizers and admins more visibility into who or what is joining.

Branded meeting reactions

Express yourself with organization-branded reactions during meetings. Companies can create custom reaction experiences that align with their brand. To learn more, see Use meeting themes in Microsoft Teams.

Room availability indicators

See whether a meeting room is available before confirming it when scheduling a Teams event. To learn more, see Host or attend an event from a Microsoft Teams Room (MTR).

Better voicemail transcripts

Receive more accurate voicemail transcriptions with support for more languages.

Report suspicious calls

Flag suspicious calls directly from Teams and optionally block the caller. Your reports help strengthen protections against fraud and impersonation threats. To learn more, see Reporting for Teams calling.

AI Interpreter (Simultaneous) update: Quality upgrades + new language support (Traditional Chinese)

This feature enables AI Interpreter to deliver now more accurate real-time interpretation, with improved handling of people’s names and common industry terminology. This feature also enables AI Interpreter support your organization’s Custom Dictionary in the Microsoft 365 admin center, helping preferred terms and phrases translate more consistently across meetings. Traditional Chinese is now officially supported.

Streamlined Microsoft 365 Certified App Management in Teams Admin Center

This feature allows Microsoft 365 administrators to enable Microsoft 365-certified SaaS applications within their tenant through org-wide settings for third-party apps. Admins can choose to allow a subset of applications that have already been verified against industry security and compliance standards. This ensures organizations can confidently adopt apps while maintaining governance and reducing approval overhead.

Branded meeting reactions

This feature enables visual identity to shape how your organization shows up. Whether it's a client presentation, an internal milestone, or a seasonal event, the right visuals set the tone and reinforce your brand. With new branded reactions, organizations can now extend their visual identity directly into meetings. IT admins simply upload custom reaction icons reflecting brand elements or event themes, and these instantly become available for meeting participants. Every clap, thumbs-up, or celebration now aligns with your organization's look and feel—a simple way to create more cohesive, on-brand meeting experiences.

Simplified Teams app bar to create a cleaner and more focused experience

This feature has enabled us simplify the app bar to help you focus on what matters. Apps are easier to scan in a cleaner "View more apps" list, the overflow menu is less cluttered, and you can choose to show or hide the app bar to create more space for your work.

One-Time Email Passcodes for External Presenters in Teams Events

This feature enables One-Time Email Passcodes to provide an easy way for tenant administrators and event organizers to verify the anonymous, external presenters invited to their events. When active, the anonymous external presenters will see a prompt for the new One-Time Email Passcode before joining an event and will get a 'Verified' tag next to their name after joining. External presenters with personal or professional Microsoft accounts will be asked to sign into those accounts to verify instead of receiving the one-time email passcode. Tenant administrators will have the option to require verification for external, anonymous presenters from the Teams Admin Center or by using PowerShell commands. Based on what the admin has set for the tenant, the event organizer will have another set of options available to them that extends to all external presenters. The options include

• (a) Verify external presenters, only allowing invited accounts to join;
• (b) Verify external presenters, allowing uninvited users to join the lobby;
• (c) No verification. (This option will only be available if the tenant admin has also set the policy to no verification.) This distinction for event organizers gives them the ability to lock down an event to only the invited external presenters or be more flexible by allowing uninvited users with the link to join through the lobby.

Attendee Packs for Teams Events

This feature enables Attendee Packs to provide additional capacity options for Teams Events such as webinars and town halls. Organizers can scale event attendance beyond base limits while maintaining a consistent Teams Events experience. Availability and enforcement are managed through tenant licensing.

• User reported security signals in Teams admin center: This update brings end‑user security reporting insights into Teams admin center. Admins can now view and download signals from messages the users report as a security concern or not as a security concern within TAC Protection reports, helping them identify trends and fine‑tune policies and responses.

• Teams Phone user multi-line: This feature, namely Teams Phone user multi‑line, gives callers more flexibility and control by allowing administrators to assign up to 10 phone numbers to a single user. With full support across Teams desktop, Teams mobile, and Teams devices, users can seamlessly make and receive calls from multiple numbers without switching accounts or hardware. This makes it easy to manage different roles, departments, or regional identities—all from one unified Teams experience. The result is a familiar, localized calling experience for users who work across diverse markets or with global customers.

• Admin setting for simpler meeting passcodes (numeric‑only): This feature is supportive in scenarios where typing alphanumeric passcodes is difficult. This feature helps tenant admins to enable a meeting policy setting that generates 8‑digit numeric-only passcodes for meetings organized by selected users/groups. Because numeric-only passcodes increase the risk of unauthorized access and don't align with Microsoft’s recommended security practices, enabling the setting displays a warning and requires explicit confirmation.

Watch past meeting highlights with video recap

Video recap is a new, engaging way to catch up on past meetings. Recorded meetings are clipped into short, narrated highlights that show key conversations, presented content, and more. To learn more, see

Video recap in Microsoft Teams.

Delete meeting recaps

Delete a meeting recording, summary, and notes in one place. On the recap page, select

More options >

Delete recap content. Shared files stay in their original locations. To learn more, see

Recap in Microsoft Teams.

Create workflows with slash commands

Reduce context switching by using slash commands in the compose box to create workflows. Change your Teams status, schedule a message, and more.

Clearer code sharing in Teams chat

Now, when you share code in Teams chat, Teams automatically formats it to display line numbers, making it easier to reference specific lines in conversation.

Special badging for relevant chat updates

New purple indicators in Teams chat show which conversations are active and need your attention. They appear for mentions, tags, and activity in followed threads.

Search filters in chat and channel search

When you search in a chat or channel, choose a filter to see results from specific dates and people, or with mentions and attachments. To learn more, see

Search for messages and more in Microsoft Teams.

Windows “Do not disturb” settings carry over to Teams

When you set your Windows device to “Do not disturb,” your Teams notifications will be silenced. Notifications will resume after “Do not disturb” is turned off on your device.

Stay protected against scammers on Teams calls

Teams now detects when callers might be impersonating your bank, IT admin, or other trusted brands, and warns you. Decline, leave, or report the call instantly.

Report suspicious calls

Select

Report call

in your call options to flag unwanted or malicious activity and help prevent it in the future.

Consult and merge PSTN calls through DTMF

Meeting organizers can now consult and merge PSTN callers into active Teams meetings, even when navigating a Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) menu is required. To learn more, see

Merge calls in Microsoft Teams.

• Voice and face profile enrollment dashboard for admins: This feature provides admins the visibility and insight for voice and facial profile enrollments through a dashboard in the Teams Admin Center (TAC). Voice and face profiles are critical for supporting AI-enhanced meeting experiences for users across the organization. The dashboard provides metrics on enrollments over time.

• Audio Recap — Expanded language support: This features enables Audio Recap to support additional languages, including variations across English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, German, Italian, and Portuguese. This expansion enables more users worldwide to follow meeting summaries in the language that feels most natural to them—boosting comprehension, accessibility, and overall productivity.

Control the size of shared content in a meeting

During Teams meetings, drag the divider between shared content and the video gallery to adjust how much space each takes up.

Less is more

In the new simplified app bar in Teams, labels are now hidden by default, so you can focus on what matters. To learn more, see Change settings in Microsoft Teams.

Take notes during instant meetings

Meeting notes are now available for instant meetings that started via Meet now in the calendar. To learn more, see Take meeting notes in Microsoft Teams.

Quick views in Teams chat

Filter your Teams chats by@mentions, followed threads, and more by selecting Quick views at the top of your chat list. To customize, hover over a category and select More quick view options. To learn more, see Manage notifications in Microsoft Teams.

Accurate transcripts for meetings with sign language interpreters

Transcripts now attribute contributions to the original participant using sign language, not the interpreter.

Automatic spoken language detection

Teams will automatically detect each speaker's spoken language and update it in real time as the conversation evolves. Manual spoken language selection will no longer be available. To learn more, see Multilingual speech recognition in Microsoft Teams.

Delegate calls with M365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot can help you answer incoming Teams calls and schedule follow-up appointments, ensuring you stay focused without missing important connections. To learn more, see Use Copilot Call Delegation in Microsoft Teams.

• Organization Trust Score for apps and agents: Today, IT admins manually review trust data for Teams apps and agents in the Teams admin center to ensure they meet organizational security, privacy, and compliance standards. This feature introduces a scalable, automated evaluation process. Admins can define their organization’s trust requirements once, and the system will automatically assess each app and agent—generating a Trust Score and detailed evaluation report tailored to those requirements. This enables faster, more consistent decision-making by clearly identifying which apps and agents meet the organization’s standards and where further review is needed.

• Easily find unsent drafts: This features enables the use of the Drafts quick view to easily find, edit, and send draft messages.

• Simplified controls to manage external collaboration settings in Teams: This feature enables admins to use simple controls to manage external collaboration in teams. Admins have access to a new overview page in the Teams Admin Center under the external collaboration section. This page allows admins to review and modify their organization's external collaboration settings. To make changes, admins can use a guided flow and either select the open or controlled preset modes, or choose to customize the settings.

Create custom environments and templates for immersive events in Microsoft Teams:

This release brings the next evolution in immersive collaboration in Teams. Designed for creators and event organizers, these new capabilities empower users to create, manage, and use immersive templates for immersive events in Teams and save those templates to collections to use in future events—directly within the Teams Meet app. Users can save customized immersive events as reusable templates to an immersive collection, and they can share them with others by adding co-owners and managers to collections.

Organization chart enhancements

Our newly designed org chart in profile cards streamlines navigation through reporting relationships, recently viewed profiles, and more. Select

Navigate to org chart

in someone's profile card to get started.

Easily find unsent drafts

Select

Chat

Drafts

in Teams to quickly find messages you've composed but haven't sent yet.

Live meeting indicator for threaded channels

Live meeting indicators make it easy to see and jump right into active threaded channel meetings, keeping you in the loop.

Enhanced image viewing

Scroll through images shared in a chat without distractions. The new Lightbox experience highlights the image you're viewing. Select

Show message

in the header to go right to the message the image was shared in.

Customize the Enter key function in Teams chat

Choose what the Enter key does in a Teams chat by selecting

Settings and more

Settings

Chats and Channels

in Teams and choosing an option in

When writing a message, press Enter to

.

Keyboard shortcut to mark chat and channel messages as read

Press Shift + Enter on your keyboard to instantly mark all your chat and channel messages as read.

Take action in Teams from Mac Spotlight

Set your presence status, open your Teams calendar, compose a message, or open Teams to create a new meeting without leaving Spotlight.

Share files and Loop components with people outside your org

Now, Teams automatically manages permissions so you can collaborate in shared files and Loop components with people outside your org. To learn more, see

Collaborate on files in Microsoft Teams

.

More supported languages in audio recap

Audio recap for Teams meetings now generates summaries in Chinese, English (multiple variations), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. To learn more, see

Listen to audio recaps of your meetings

.

Annotate with others on single-shared windows during meetings

When you share a specific application window in a meeting, you and others can now directly annotate on that shared content without you sharing the entire desktop. To learn more, see

Use annotation while sharing your screen in Microsoft Teams

.