Today, we’re announcing the retirement of Microsoft Teams live events and the associated Microsoft Graph APIs used to create Teams live events. This change will go into effect June 30, 2026, as part of our ongoing effort to continue to modernize our event experiences and deliver a more powerful and flexible solution for large-scale communications.
While Teams live events will no longer be available to schedule after the retirement date, Microsoft will honor all live events already scheduled through February 28, 2027. Customers can continue to run those events as planned.
As we look ahead, we encourage customers to transition to newly-announced Teams events experience, which provides a centralized, end‑to‑end experience for digital and hybrid events.
To learn more about Teams events, please read the announcement here: Announcing Teams events
What this means for your organization
Who is affected
- Organizations currently using Teams live events
- Customers or partners using Microsoft Graph APIs to create or manage live events
- Experiences that schedule Teams live events through Viva Engage or Microsoft D365
What’s changing
- Teams live events and their associated Graph APIs will be fully deprecated on June 30, 2026.
- Beginning February 3, 2026, customers will not be able to schedule a Teams live event for any date beyond June 30, 2026.
- Teams live events scheduled before the retirement date can still be managed and executed as planned through February 28, 2027.
- Customers scheduling Teams live events through Dynamics 365 will no longer be able to schedule events past June 30, 2026, beginning February 3, 2026.
- Customers scheduling Teams live events through Viva Engage will lose the ability to create new instances through this method beginning April 15, 2026.
- Existing Graph API integrations using the isBroadcast property within the onlineMeeting resource will remain available until June 30, 2026.
Recommended next steps
No admin action is required for this change. However, we recommend that organizations:
- Notify users who host or produce Teams live events
- Update internal documentation to reflect this transition
- Begin migrating active and upcoming scenarios to the new Teams events experience
- Plan for training, communications, or engineering work if you use integrated or automated event workflows
- Share the following resources with event organizers, IT admins, and developers
Resources to support your transition
Plan and prepare
Recommended learning sessions
These Microsoft Customer Hub sessions are especially helpful for Teams live event organizers moving to Teams events:
Customer Hub events readiness sessions
- What’s new in Microsoft Teams town halls and webinars
- Migrating from Teams live events to town halls
- Tips, tricks, and traps for town halls and webinars in Microsoft Teams
Commitment to our customers
We understand that organizations rely on Teams live events for critical communications, from company-wide updates to high-profile broadcasts. Our goal is to make this transition as smooth as possible.
Teams events represents the future of digital and hybrid events at scale on Microsoft Teams, a more integrated and feature-rich environment designed for the evolving needs of hybrid work. We look forward to partnering with you through this next chapter.
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