Microsoft Teams Release Notes

Migration tool for Teams

This feature enables customers to move content seamlessly from public and private channels in a third-party solution to Teams standard channels. A new first-party Migration tool on Microsoft Admin Center (MAC) will allow admins to connect to the third-party solution workspace, plan, and perform content migration to Teams.

New policy setting to require explicit consent for recording and transcription in Teams 1:1 calls

We're expanding the capability to require explicit consent for recording and transcription to include 1:1 calls in Microsoft Teams. A new setting in the Teams Calling policy allows enforcement of this requirement through the admins before recording or transcription can begin. When a user with the policy initiates recording, transcription, or both in a 1:1 call, the other participant is automatically muted, with their camera and content-sharing turned off. The participant will see a prompt asking whether they consent to be included in the recording and transcription.

Restart your town hall event

This feature enables Teams town hall producers to restart a live event while the event is active to address technical issues that might arise during the execution of an instance. Whether technical, network, or other issues, this feature enables those managing the event to quickly resolve problems for attendees. This feature is designed to prevent the need for scheduling entirely new events.

Teams admin center - Troubleshoot meetings and calls with automatic issue identification and recommendations

This feature enables administrators to troubleshoot Teams meetings and calls in Teams admin center with ease with a streamlined flow (that focuses on the meeting-quality issues) and detailed telemetry.

Interpreter in Microsoft Teams calls

Interpreter, now available in Teams meetings, is expanding to Teams calls. Interpreter enables real-time speech-to-speech interpretation in nine languages, allowing participants to speak and listen in their preferred language. Interpreter helps eliminate language barriers and fosters seamless collaboration across global teams. For a more inclusive experience, users can also opt to have the Interpreter simulate their personal voice.

Autocorrect in Teams compose

Users will now have commonly misspelled words automatically corrected in compose.

Teams admin center - VDI optimization monitoring in Best practice configurations dashboard

Administrators can monitor which locations and users across their organization are facing meeting-related quality issues due to unoptimized Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

Customize recap summaries

View meeting recaps in your desired format with customized recap summaries, available with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Choose a ready-made summary template or create your own. To learn more, see Customize recap summaries in Microsoft Teams.

Find channel files in the Shared tab

Find channel files in the Shared tab. The Files tab in channels is now the Shared tab. There, you can find files and links that were shared in the channel. To learn more, see Share files in Microsoft Teams.

Preview messages in your notifications

Now, when you get channel, mention, or reaction notifications, Teams will surface a preview of the message in that notification.

Keep your Teams window in view

Pin your Teams window on top in your desktop to always keep it visible above other open windows. Just select Settings and more > Pin window on top > in Teams.

Native screen sharing on MacOS

Share your screen or specific windows using your Mac's native picker experience. To learn more, see Present content in Microsoft Teams meetings.

Pop out your core apps into a new window

• Users can now open their core applications, such as Chat, Teams, and more, in separate windows by selecting "Open in new window" from the app's context menu.

Interpreter agent improvements

• We're enhancing the Interpreter experience to deliver more accurate and consistent multilingual meeting experiences across interpretation, captions, and transcripts.
  • Auto-detect & auto-update spoken language:
    Previously, Interpreter automatically detected and updated spoken language for Interpreter agent, but Live Captions and Live Transcripts required users to manually configure their spoken language, even in the same meeting. With this improvement, spoken language is now autodetected and autoupdated consistently across Interpreter, Live Captions, and Live Transcripts. This ensures all speech features stay aligned with the actual language being spoken without manual setup.
  • Preparing status indicator:
    A new preparing status gives users clearer visual feedback when Interpreter is initializing, helping them understand when the system is ready. This is critical for those who rely on visual cues in multilingual meetings.
  • Interpreter settings optimization:
    Concise explanations are added in Interpreter settings to clarify how each configuration and field works, reducing setup friction and user confusion.

Impersonation protection of tenant-owned domains for Teams messaging

• This feature lets users identify if an external user comes from a domain that's impersonating the recipient tenant's own domains, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams messages.

Multitask with pop-out windows

Open core Teams functions in their own windows to transition seamlessly between your Teams chat, calendar, activity, and more. Simply right-click an icon in Teams and select Open in new window.

More security for private group joins

Now, joining a private group by code requires direct approval by one of the group owners, ensuring more security and the prevention of unauthorized access to private groups. To learn more, see Use a link or code to join a team in Microsoft Teams​​​​​​​.

Automatic language detection in Interpreter

Your spoken language can now be detected across Interpreter, live captions, and live transcription when Interpreter is turned on. To learn more, see Interpreter in Microsoft Teams meetings.

"Preparing" status in Interpreter

See when Interpreter initializes so you can start speaking at the right time with Interpreter's new "Preparing" status. To learn more, see Interpreter in Microsoft Teams meetings.

Manage what attendees see in meetings, webinars, and town halls (Premium)

Teams Premium customers will soon have the option to select preconfigured layouts and customize attendees using colors or branding when using the "Manage what attendees see" option in Microsoft Teams. These enhancements offer a more polished and professional look to your structured meetings and events to better engage with your attendees. This feature is available in Teams Desktop.

Deploy Teams frontline worker pilot in Teams admin center

This feature allows admins to gradually streamline different Teams frontline worker (FLW) workload pilots in Teams admin center.

• Raise hands in town halls (Premium):
  Currently in a Teams town hall, attendees can't raise their hands and share their microphone and camera as they can in a meeting. With this new update, town halls organized by users with Teams Premium can allow attendees to raise their hand. Organizers and presenters can then bring attendees on screen to allow them to share their camera and microphone.

• Microsoft Teams: Executable file type protection for Teams chat and channels:
  Microsoft Teams now blocks messages that contain executable file types in chats and channels, increasing protection against malware and other file-based attacks.

• Polls support in a Teams town hall (Premium):
  This feature allows organizers to create and share polls directly within Teams town halls, gathering real-time feedback from participants through multiple-choice questions, and other types of polls.

• Teams admin center: Control external access by domain for specific users and groups:
  This feature allows you to gain granular control over external communication. By setting custom external access policies, you can define domain allow/deny lists and assign them to specific users or groups, the capabilities that were previously only tenant-wide (Teams and Skype for Business users in external organizations). Use this to pilot with a department, restrict high risk roles to approved partners, or open federation broadly where appropriate. For example, you can allow group A to communicate only with a specific domain, while group B can communicate with all external domains.

• Microsoft Teams: Front-of-room view control for town hall and webinar in Teams Rooms on Windows:
  When a Teams Rooms on Windows is invited as a meeting presenter, the front-of-room display defaults to the attendee view. Presenters always have full control from the console, including green room and off-stage management, and can switch the front-of-room display to presenter view without impacting attendees. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.

• Microsoft Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group compliance:
  We're updating private channels to use a shared mailbox for each private channel, instead of messages being stored in each user's mailbox. With this change, compliance policies set for the team's Microsoft 365 group will apply to private channels messages going forward. In addition, Teams will support more than 30 private channels, up to the 1000 total channel limit for a team. Private channel member limits will increase from 250 to 5000. You'll also be able to schedule meetings on private channels.

• Microsoft Teams: Recommended actions page in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal:
  The new page in the Pro Management portal provides proactive recommendations based on your organization’s environment and upcoming events that can impact devices, such as support or certification expirations. Admins are prompted to update device and account data enabling rich insights from the portal, guidance based on space and device usage data (coming soon). This feature helps admins maintain smooth operations, and plan and budget efficiently. At least one Teams Rooms Pro or Teams Shared Devices license is required for access.

• Microsoft Teams: People count from Cloud IntelliFrame in the Pro Management portal reports:
  Admins get enhanced visibility into room usage from Pro Management portal reports with detailed occupancy data captured by Cloud IntelliFrame during meetings. This insight helps IT more effectively plan and optimize meeting spaces, and is available for rooms licensed with Teams Rooms Pro.

• Immersive events in Microsoft Teams:
  This feature lets you host interactive virtual events with avatars in customizable 3D spaces. You can also schedule immersive events from your Teams calendar and join events directly in Microsoft Teams on PC or Mac without any extra app downloads. Organizers can customize an immersive event's 3D space with images, videos, and 3D models and no coding skills are required. Attendees can mingle in the 3D space and engage in multiple group conversations with spatial audio, express themselves with fun avatar reactions, capture selfie photos of the event, and send them to the event's Teams chat. A Teams Premium license is required for the organizer who schedules the event. Each event supports up to 300 attendees and attendees don't require a Teams license.

• Collaborative notes for chats:
  A new collaborative space is now available directly from your Teams chat, enabling real-time collaboration, organization of key information, and streamlined communications. Chat notes is available in 1:1 and group chat and is accessible only to the chat members. Add images, format text, share Loop components, and mention chat members when you require their attention.

More Microsoft 365 Copilot functionality in Teams

Use Copilot in Teams to generate messages, and insights from chat and channel history and calendar content. Available with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. To learn more, see Get started with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Teams.

Forwarded message links

When someone forwards a message, it will now include a link that takes the recipient straight to the original chat or channel it came from. To learn more, see Forward a message in Microsoft Teams.

Skip the navigation with settings search

Need to change a specific setting? Search for it in the settings search bar—no navigation necessary. Just type in a keyword, like "notifications" or "dark mode," to go straight to that option.

Organize and collaborate in chat and channels

• Add existing Loop components and pages to channels for more organized, contextual places to work.
• Take notes in 1:1 and group chats that only chat members can see to centralize information. Add images, @mention members to get their attention, and more.
• Give your chat and channel sections more personality and visibility by adding emoji to their names. Just select the section icon and choose Change icon.
  To learn more, see Change settings in Microsoft Teams.

Facilitator Agent enhancements

• Facilitator can recognize agendas shared in chat and create live progress trackers in meetings to keep everything on track.
• If someone invited to a meeting hasn't joined and their name comes up twice in conversation, Facilitator politely nudges them to join in chat.
  To learn more, see Facilitator in Microsoft Teams meetings.

Share your screen on Mac devices

Joining from a Mac? Share your screen and present content using the standard native picker experience when you opt in through settings. To learn more, see Present content in Microsoft Teams meetings.

Gain insight with presenter analytics for town halls

View data about a town hall's video quality, audio clarity, and connection stability to ensure smooth content delivery during events. Available with a Teams Premium license.

Meta Quest VR headset support for immersive events

Our most immersive virtual event experience yet is here—join immersive events from a Meta Quest VR headset to feel like you're standing right there in the room. To learn more, see Attend an immersive event in Microsoft Teams.

Make Teams mobile your default calling app

No need to switch apps to make Teams calls—set Teams as your default calling app to automatically route all your calls through Teams mobile. To learn more, see Getting started with Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile.

Stay protected with malicious file and URL detection

Now, Teams actively protects against potentially harmful links by automatically detecting and warning against malicious files and URLS shared in Teams chats and channels.
When a link is incorrectly identified as a potential threat, flag it to help improve Teams' detection accuracy.

Quickly access key actions from the jump list

Open the Teams jump list in your Windows taskbar or Mac menu bar to start a chat or view, join, and schedule meetings.

Microsoft Teams: Speed up app reviews with trust-based filters:

This feature enables IT administrators in Teams admin center to view and easily filter apps and agents by specific industry standards, certifications and compliance attributes such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and more. This will help with more streamlined app evaluation workflows, enabling faster decisions and broader access to trusted apps across the organization.

Microsoft Teams: Security and compliance information for more apps and agents:

Currently, IT admins in the Teams admin center can view security and compliance data for apps and agents that are Microsoft 365 certified or publisher attested. This enhancement expands that visibility to include apps and agents that are not certified or attested. This data is sourced from Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDA) and helps admins evaluate more easily and quickly on whether an app or agent meets their organization’s trust requirements.

Microsoft Teams: Permission and privilege level of apps and agents:

Currently, IT admins in the Teams admin center can view the permissions requested by an app or agent and these permissions define which organizational data the app can access. This feature enhances that experience by showing the risk rating of each permission and the overall privilege level of the app or agent, helping admins secure better organizational data and make faster, more informed approval decisions.

Introducing a low-latency attendee experience for premium Teams town hall

Previously in a town hall, attendees were typically 20-30 seconds behind the content being presented. With this new update for premium town halls, attendees can watch the town hall at a much lower latency than before.

Silent Test call

Silent Test provides an ability for IT admins to proactively run a synthetic simulation of a Teams call to the subnet to examine network readiness before any issues occur.

New VDI solution for Teams optimization in Amazon WorkSpaces

New VDI solution for Teams introduces a multimedia offloading and optimization solution for Microsoft Teams when running in Amazon WorkSpaces (Personal and Pools). Users of the WorkSpaces Client for Windows can enjoy a high-definition experience in virtual desktops, where audio or video or screensharing are offloaded to the user's device and processed by the SlimCore media engine. This entry applies to WorkSpaces only (AppStream is not supported).

Enhanced meeting protection: Prevent screen capture

To address the issue of unauthorized screen captures during meetings, this feature ensures that if a user attempts to take a screen capture, the meeting window will turn black, thereby protecting sensitive information. This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android). Users joining from unsupported platforms will be placed in audio-only mode to maintain the integrity of the meeting's content.

Limit live captions scrollback (Compliance-safe mode)

Live Captions in Microsoft Teams allow you to follow conversations in real time, making meetings more accessible and inclusive. To improve privacy, captions will now only show recent dialogue (about 5 minutes) when transcription is off, instead of the full meeting history. This means captions are used just for real-time communication, not as a permanent record. If transcription is enabled, captions will display the entire meeting conversation, consistent with Live Transcript. We've also fixed an issue where caption data could be lost when changing the caption position or popping captions in and out. Now, these adjustments won't affect caption data, giving you a more reliable experience. These changes also apply to Real-time Text (RTT), ensuring a consistent and accessible captioning experience across formats.