Welcome once again to everyone in our Microsoft Tech Community! We’re glad you’ve joined us to check out a fresh lineup of Teams features designed to keep you productive, secure, and connected.
Before we dive in, mark your calendars: the Microsoft 365 Community Conference is coming up in April! Join us to learn the new ways Teams and Copilot help you stay in the flow of work.
And now to the main event: new Teams capabilities! This month's updates have something for everyone. The new AI-powered Workflows app lets you automate everyday tasks using Copilot—no coding required. Teams now enables you to View and manage activity in other accounts and organizations, so you can collaborate with colleagues and respond to messages without switching accounts. And for privacy-conscious users, Teams now automatically removes EXIF metadata from shared images, protecting sensitive location and device details by default.
Read on for the full list of what's new!
Feature categories: (All features listed are generally available unless otherwise noted)
Chat and Collaboration
View and manage activity in other accounts and organizations
Stay engaged across all your accounts with simplified external collaboration in Teams. The new multi-tenant, multi-account experience consolidates notifications from across all your organizations into one feed, so you don't miss a chat or mention, and can respond without switching accounts. You can even pin key accounts to your sidebar for quick access, enabling more seamless cross-tenant collaboration. Learn more.
Enhanced organization chart in profile card
Understand how colleagues fit into the organization, right from their profile card in Teams. The enhanced organization chart in profile cards provides a streamlined way to navigate reporting relationships, revisit previously viewed profiles, see team size at a glance, and gain instant organizational context without leaving the profile card.
Easily find unsent drafts
Lost track of a message you started? The new Drafts quick view makes it simple to find, edit, and send draft messages across chats and channels. No more searching through conversations to find that half-finished thought. Your drafts are now accessible in one convenient location, helping you complete and send when you're ready.
Live meeting indicator for threaded channels in Teams
Threaded channels now display a live meeting indicator, making it easier to discover and join active meetings in the channel. Jump into conversations as they happen and increase real-time participation from channel members.
Simplified controls for managing external collaboration in Teams
A new overview page in the Teams admin center under External collaboration allows admins to review and modify these settings for their organization. To make changes, admins can use a guided flow and select either the Open or Controlled preset modes or choose to customize the settings.
Teams image viewer improvements
The improved image viewer lets you scroll through images shared in the current conversation view - regardless of when or how they were posted - so you can stay focused on visuals without distractions. The enhanced Lightbox experience highlights the image you’re viewing, and a new header option lets you quickly jump back to the original message where the image was shared. As you scroll to load more of the conversation, additional previously shared images become available in Lightbox.
Control the Enter key in Teams chat
Now you can control how the Enter key works when composing messages in Teams chat. You can choose whether pressing Enter sends your message or starts a new line, making it easier to write longer messages without accidental sends.
Keyboard shortcut to mark all as read in Teams chats and channels
The new keyboard shortcut (SHIFT + ESC) lets users mark all Teams chat and channel messages as read at once, quickly clearing unread notifications, reducing Activity feed clutter, and helping users get back to focused work faster.
Teams Action in Spotlight on Mac
Teams actions can now be accessed directly from Spotlight on macOS. You can quickly set your presence status, open your Teams calendar, start a new message, or open Teams to create a new meeting – all without leaving Spotlight.
Share files and Loop components in external chats
Collaborate seamlessly across organizations by sharing files and Loop components in chats with external participants. Teams automatically manages permissions so everyone can view, edit, and upload content, further simplifying cross-organization teamwork (admin configuration required). Learn more.
Meetings
Annotations on single shared window during meetings
Bring more focus and privacy to your meetings with annotations on single window sharing. When you share a specific application window in a Teams meeting, you and your participants can now annotate directly on that shared content—no need to expose your entire desktop. This makes training sessions, client presentations, and design reviews cleaner and more secure, while keeping everyone engaged with markup tools right where you need them. Annotations work seamlessly across Windows, macOS, and mobile, so the whole team can contribute no matter which device they're using.
Audio Recap — Expanded Language Support
Audio recap is now available in seven additional languages, making it easier for global teams to catch up on meetings in the language that works best for them. With this update, you can generate and listen to AI-powered audio summaries in Chinese, English (multiple variations), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Whether you're commuting, multitasking, or just prefer listening over reading, audio recap delivers the key discussion points, decisions, and action items from one or multiple meetings—now in more languages.
Teams Phone
Copilot in Teams Phone live calls, powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
The Copilot experience in Teams Phone on desktop and mobile is fully powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for a more unified experience across Teams and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. During a call, users can open Copilot Chat as a side panel to generate call summaries, surface key insights, and get a head start on actioning tasks. For example, you can prompt Copilot during the call to, “Summarize relevant documents or prior emails related to the conversation.” By applying the user’s Work IQ data—including emails, meetings, files—and relevant web data, Copilot Chat goes beyond the call transcript to provide more personalized, context‑aware guidance in real time. This helps users stay informed during the conversation and move faster from discussion to action.
Workplace
Voice and face profile enrollment dashboard for admins
Admins now have 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. Learn more.
Teams shared display mode and peripheral detection available for GCC-H
Shared display mode in Teams is now available in government GCC-H environments, enabling more seamless and private meeting hosting from your PC. Additionally, peripheral detection for bring-your-own-device spaces is available for inventory management and reporting through the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal in GCC-H environments. Learn more.
Fundamentals and Security
Voice and face profile enrollment dashboard for admins
Admins now have 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. Learn more.
Teams on the web – Browser Update Required by May 15, 2026
To continue using Teams on the web after May 15, 2026, it will be required for all users to ensure they are using supported browser versions. Beginning on this date, Teams on the web will only load on browser versions that are ECMAScript 2022 (ES2022) compliant. To prepare, Tenant Administrators should ensure end users are using both supported browsers and supported versions of browsers to connect to Microsoft 365 web applications and services. Prior to May 15, 2026, users on older browsers will see periodic reminder banners. Beginning May 15, users who are not using a supported browser or browser version will see a blocking page directing them to update their browser before continuing.
Stay Available When You’re Active: Accurate Presence in Teams on the Web
We’re introducing a new setting in Teams on the web that helps maintain your presence when you are active. When turned on, Teams will know you’re active on your device even if you’re not in the Teams tab, so your status stays set to available when you really are. Note: When a user or admin grants permission to Teams for the presence feature, Teams is only enabled to check whether the user is active or idle on their device, it does not track what they’re doing or capture content.
EXIF data will be removed from images shared on Teams
Your privacy, protected by default. Teams now automatically strips EXIF metadata—like GPS location and device details—from images shared in chats and channels. Share photos with confidence, knowing your sensitive information stays private.
Teams Platform
New Workflows app experience in Teams
The newly redesigned Workflows experience in Teams makes automation easier and more accessible than ever. With a simple interface, it helps you automate day-to-day tasks, like getting updates from your teammates, automatically routing documents for approvals as they get modified, or adding tasks to Planner from messages without ever having to leave Teams. Additionally, you can now use new AI-powered workflow templates to automate tasks with Copilot or your channel’s agent — no coding required. The same Workflows experience will be available soon in SharePoint. To access the AI workflows, users need a M365 Copilot license.
Certified for Teams Devices
Yealink MP55 E2 Teams
Powered by the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) and Android 15, the Yealink MP55 E2 offers faster response times and enterprise-level security. With a variety of feature keys and line keys, the MP55 E2 enables efficient management of high call volumes, making it suitable for front desks, call centers, and common areas. Armed with Yealink’s Optima HD Voice and AI Noise cancellation Technology, MP55 E2 presents a standalone voice solution and excellent audio clarity. Moreover, MP55 E2 makes collaboration easier than ever thanks to its support for Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, and USB headsets. Learn more.
Owl Labs HP Poly & Owl Labs Small Microsoft Teams Rooms Bundle with Owl 3 or Owl 4+
The Poly Studio Base Kit G9 Plus for Microsoft Teams Rooms is a Purpose-built PC for collaboration solutions. The HP Mini IP Conferencing PC features a13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 processor, 16GB of paired with Poly TC10 IP touch controller. This bundle includes Meeting OWL 3, an AI-powered 360° camera, speaker and microphone. Meeting Owl 3’s award-winning speaker-switching software uses visual and audio cues to automatically focus on and capture a high-quality view of in-room speakers. Or, choose the Meeting Owl 4+, with all the features of the Owl 3, but with 4K video so remote participants can engage and participate in hybrid discussions effectively and productively.
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Huddly C1
Huddly C1 is an AI-driven videobar designed to deliver intelligent video and audio in small and medium meeting rooms. Built on Huddly’s proven AI video expertise, the on-device AI director shapes the meeting experience with dynamic meeting modes for better focus and engagement, with optional Group or Manual Framing for added control. An AI-enhanced microphone array amplifies voices while reducing echo, noise, and reverb. Hi-fi stereo speakers deliver rich, immersive sound. Powered by the next generation of Huddly Intelligence with 20× more AI processing power, C1 delivers impactful meetings today and evolves with future AI capabilities. Learn more.
Neat Center camera
Neat Center is a 360° companion device that lets remote meeting attendees follow the conversation more closely by clearly hearing and seeing everyone in the room, even when those in the room are far away from the main device or facing inward, discussing something among themselves. It’s simple to set up, gives you flexible placement options, and further improves the capabilities of your Neat devices for enhanced context and engagement.
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