Turn conversations into code with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams
Coding where context lives and collaboration happens The best prompt may be the conversation your team has already had or is currently having. Until now, using a coding agent often meant paying context and coordination taxes. Developers had to leave the discussion, open another tool, and reconstruct the problem in a lengthy prompt: what happened, what the team decided, which constraints matter, and what needs to be built. With GitHub Copilot in Teams, teams can move directly from conversation to action. @mention GitHub Copilot when the team is ready to act, and it can use the conversation alongside repository context to understand the request, implement the change, and create a pull request for review. This makes working with a coding agent more collaborative and visible. Instead of one developer privately reconstructing the request, teammates can contribute context, correct assumptions, refine the approach in real time, and review the resulting work together. Let’s explore the new GitHub Copilot in Teams experience to see how it can streamline development tasks: If the player doesn’t load, open the video in a new window: Open video GitHub Copilot in Teams is available in Teams channels, group chats, meeting chats, and 1:1 chats. Once the GitHub app is installed and added to the conversation, @-mention GitHub Copilot to bring it into the discussion and start a task. During public preview, users can complete the following scenarios with GitHub Copilot in Teams: Build a feature based on requirements discussed in Teams Implement a fix for a bug Expand test coverage or improve documentation Create and update a pull request No copying the discussion into a CLI. No rewriting it in a desktop app. No asking one developer to translate a team decision into the perfect prompt. GitHub Copilot works where the context already lives, and because that context is shared, working with GitHub Copilot becomes a team activity. Built around the controls teams already use GitHub Copilot in Teams works within existing GitHub permissions and repository policies. Branch protections and required reviews continue to apply, and people remain responsible for deciding what gets merged, ensuring that humans stay in the loop at every step. Availability GitHub Copilot in Teams is now available in Public Preview. To try it, install the GitHub app for Microsoft Teams and check out our documentation to get started! Less context reconstruction. More progress from the conversations already happening.Turn meetings into momentum with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Most people don't need more meetings—they need meetings that lead to action. At their best, meetings drive decisions and keep work moving forward. But poorly managed meetings can actually slow progress. In fact, our Work Trend Index report found that inefficient meetings are the biggest productivity disruptor at work. Common challenges include staying on track, catching up after joining late, and leaving without clear next steps. Microsoft 365 Copilot helps teams get more out of every meeting—from spending less time preparing to having more productive discussions and staying aligned on follow-up. The impact can be significant. Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study on Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams. The study, New Technology: The Projected Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Teams With Microsoft 365 Copilot, projects that companies could realize a potential ROI of 400% over three years. Here are some of the latest Microsoft 365 Copilot innovations designed to make meetings and collaboration more effective. Before the meeting: Plan and prepare faster Planning a meeting often means juggling calendars, drafting agendas, and gathering context before the conversation even begins. Copilot helps simplify every step. Scheduling is often the first hurdle. In Copilot Chat, you can simply ask Copilot to set up a meeting, and it handles the coordination—checking availability, suggesting times, and preparing the invite details. It also shows how each option fits into your Outlook calendar, making it easy to choose the best one. Copilot can also help manage scheduling conflicts proactively. Users can define which 1:1 meetings and personal events are flexible, and when conflicts arise, Copilot can automatically reschedule them and notify attendees of any changes. Every productive meeting starts with a clear objective. Copilot can create a personalized agenda based on meeting details, attendees, and relevant work. It can also recommend topics from your emails, chats, and recent meetings, giving you a strong starting point that you can easily review and refine before sending the invite. To help you arrive prepared, Copilot can proactively generate meeting insights directly in the invite. It surfaces relevant context, highlights important information, and suggests useful materials so you can contribute from the start. During the meeting: Turn discussions into action Great meetings stay focused, encourage participation, and lead to clear outcomes. Facilitator works alongside your team in real time to answer questions, track agenda progress, capture notes, and turn conversations into shared tasks and documents. For a more personal experience, Copilot gives you a private space to ask questions and get answers grounded in the meeting, your work, and the web. The best conversations happen when everyone can participate naturally. Interpreter provides real time speech-to-speech translation, helping teams communicate across languages without breaking the flow of conversation. Live translated captions make it easy for everyone to follow along. After the meeting: Keep work moving forward The real value of a meeting often comes from what happens next. Copilot helps ensure important decisions and action items don't get lost once the meeting ends. Meeting recap provides AI-generated notes, suggested action items, and personalized highlights, making it easy to catch up on what matters most. It also gives you new ways to revisit the conversation, including audio and video recaps and custom AI summary templates, so you can stay informed in the format that works best for you. After the meeting, Copilot remains available to help you follow up, explore ideas, and keep work moving forward. The Meeting Recaps app brings your intelligent recaps together in one convenient, pinned app in the Teams sidebar, making it easier to find and catch up across your meetings. Get more out of every meeting Microsoft 365 Copilot customers can start using Copilot in Outlook and Teams today to manage the mechanics of meetings before, during, and after—so they can spend more time moving work forward. Learn more about Microsoft 365 Copilot and explore the resources to dive deeper into each of the features highlighted above.Microsoft named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service
Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service—our eighth consecutive year with this recognition. We’re also excited to share that we are again positioned highest on the evaluation's Ability to Execute axis and furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis. Microsoft Teams is the AI-powered platform for work, and we’re grateful to the hundreds of millions of people who turn to it every month to get their work done. We’re also thankful for our global community of partners, whose expertise and dedication carry that impact even further into every industry and region we serve. It’s the trust our customers and partners place in us that makes a recognition like this possible. We believe this recognition reflects the past year of innovation we’ve delivered to make Teams simpler, smarter, more secure, and where humans and agents collaborate to get work done. Here’s a look at some of the key releases along that journey. Getting more from Copilot in Teams Copilot is AI built for work. This year we invested in innovations across the entire Teams experience so that Copilot feels like one connected assistant everywhere people work. Unified Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat experience: We unified the Copilot Chat experience in Teams across chats, channels, meetings, and calls, aligning it with the experience across other Microsoft apps. That gives people one consistent, familiar way to chat with Copilot, along with a single shared history of their conversation insights accessible within Teams or other Copilot Chat surfaces. Work IQ + Teams: AI is only as good as its context. Without it, even the best AI can give generic answers instead of ones grounded in how a person actually works. This year we rolled out Microsoft Work IQ, the intelligence layer that helps Copilot understand how work gets done across an organization by drawing on Microsoft 365 data, organizational context, and the tools people use every day. Teams is a crucial part of Work IQ, since the information exchanged through meetings, calls, and chat make up some of the richest signals of collaborative work in motion. Engage customers with AI-powered communication Much of the important communication in an organization happens beyond its own walls—with the customers it serves as well as external partners and vendors. Teams Phone brings more intelligence and simplicity to those conversations. These capabilities can help reduce missed connections and support faster issue resolution. Teams Phone Agent: During customer call surges, many businesses can’t answer every call right away, which can result in frustrating hold times for customers. Teams Phone Agent, now available in Frontier public preview, quickly greets callers and can resolve many requests on its own, such as answering common questions, scheduling appointments, and routing calls with full conversational context to the right human or department when assistance is needed. Teams Phone Agent also integrates with custom voice agents that organizations build in Microsoft Copilot Studio for specialized workflows, like paying bills over the phone. Multi-line calling: People juggling roles or regions often needed more than one phone number, but managing them meant separate devices or accounts. Admins can now assign up to ten numbers to a single user, with each appearing as its own tab in the Calls app, for one unified calling experience. Intelligent call delegation: Incoming calls don’t wait for a break in your day. Every incoming call forces a choice between losing momentum or missing something important. Intelligent call delegation, available in Frontier public preview, answers calls on a person’s behalf, engages the caller to determine intent, filters spam, and can schedule a follow-up via Microsoft Bookings when the person is unavailable. Unified call history in the Queues app: Without a shared view of call activity, customer service teams can struggle to track who had followed up on missed calls and voicemails, which can lead to duplicated effort and dropped follow-ups. The Queues app now offers shared call history, giving teams a unified view of that activity so that everyone can see what has been handled and what still needs attention. This can reduce duplicated effort and help teams respond to customers more quickly. Smarter collaboration that scales Teams brings people together to meet and collaborate. New AI-powered experiences help move work forward during meetings, while a redesigned Events experience means you no longer need a separate platform for your biggest moments. Organizations can run everything from team meetings to large-scale broadcasts on a single platform, reducing tool sprawl and operational overhead. Facilitator agent: Keeping a meeting on track while also capturing decisions and follow-ups is hard for any one person to do alone. Facilitator builds and tracks agendas, answers questions, and tracks tasks on behalf of everyone in the meeting. This enables participants to stay focused on the conversation instead of managing the mechanics of the meeting. Audio and video meeting recaps: Intelligent recaps with AI-generated notes are a great way to catch up on a missed meeting, but sometimes you need more flexibility, like when you’re on the go during your commute and can’t sit down to read through notes. Meeting recap now offers audio recap, which turns notes into a podcast-style narrated summary for up to eight meetings. Or want a short highlight reel of the most important meeting moments? You can now watch a video recap with narrated highlight clips from the meeting recording. New Teams events experience that scales for your largest meetings: Planning and producing webinars and employee town halls often meant juggling separate tools for each format, with configurations that didn’t carry over from planning to delivery. The new Teams events experience unifies these different experiences into one streamlined flow that supports the full event lifecycle, from setup and presenter prep, to live delivery and post-event follow-up. With Attendee Capacity Packs, Teams events can also support up to 100,000 concurrent attendees, which can help organizations scale communications and reduce tool sprawl. Built-in security and trust AI creates new opportunities for productivity, but it also opens up potential risks from bad actors looking to exploit it. Security remains our top priority. This year, we continued to build on this commitment through delivering new protections and controls that can help people meet, call, and collaborate more securely. Trust Indicators: As collaboration expands to external partners like customers and vendors, it can be hard to know at a glance who you’re really talking to. Trust Indicators now appear as visual badges next to external people across Teams, labeling them as external-familiar, external-unfamiliar, guest, email-verified, or unverified, so people can make informed decisions about what they share. Meeting bot detection and organizer controls: Unwanted bots slipping into a meeting can go unnoticed until after sensitive information has already been discussed. Teams can now detect bots and flag them to organizers in the lobby before anyone is admitted, with stronger controls to manage access and permissions throughout the meeting. This can help organizers limit sensitive conversations to the intended audience. Brand impersonation detection in calling: Scammers impersonating trusted brands put both employees and customers at risk. When a call shows signs of brand impersonation—someone posing as your IT helpdesk, for example—Teams can surface a warning that prompts you to verify before you act. You can also report a suspicious call directly from your call history. The AI-powered workplace This year marked a big leap forward for AI in the physical workplace. Microsoft Teams Rooms delivered new AI-powered experiences that help everyone participate more fully in hybrid meetings, while Microsoft Places continued to evolve with new capabilities for coordinating in-office work. Together, they can make time in the office easier to plan and meetings held there more inclusive for everyone joining, whether in the room or remote. Hybrid meetings where everyone is seen and heard: Remote attendees often squint at a wide room shot, unsure who is speaking. Cloud IntelliFrame now spans Windows and certified Android devices, giving remote participants individual gallery tiles that follow the conversation, and multi-camera switching brings the same clarity to larger spaces where a single camera can’t frame everyone naturally, to provide more meeting context for all. Speaker recognition, easier to roll out: AI-generated meeting notes from a room are only as useful as their attribution. Without knowing who said what, discussion summaries and action items can be hard to understand and act on. Speaker recognition now identifies individuals by name in live transcription on both Windows and Android, so Copilot, intelligent recap, and Facilitator can credit in-room contributions to the right people. Express enrollment makes setting up a voice and face profile fast and simple for users. And a new enrollment dashboard shows admins who is enrolled and where the gaps remain, so they can drive adoption across the organization. Microsoft Places, enhancing workplace experiences: Coordinating in-office days used to be guesswork. People can now book desks from an interactive map, see where colleagues plan to sit, or just plug into a desk’s peripherals to reserve it automatically. Copilot AI room booking turns finding the right space into a conversation and rebooks when plans change, while a new management portal and full Microsoft Graph API support for buildings, floors, rooms, and desks let IT manage the workplace at greater scale and connect with integration partners. User momentum This recognition rests on the trust of a growing community of customers. More than 320 million people rely on Teams each month as their AI-powered platform for work. That momentum extends into our advanced calling and meeting room capabilities as well. Over the past year, Teams Phone surpassed 26 million PSTN-enabled users. These are customers who have a Teams Phone license and an active phone number assigned. Microsoft Teams Rooms licenses now exceed 1.5 million, reflecting continued demand for modern, connected meeting spaces. Looking ahead We are grateful for this current recognition, and even more energized by what comes next. We remain committed to making Teams ever simpler, smarter, and more secure. As AI becomes a natural part of every workflow, Teams will continue to serve as the surface where people and agents collaborate together to communicate and move work forward. Thank you to the customers and partners who shape that direction with us. We’re just getting started. Start using Microsoft 365 Copilot today. Visit https://www.microsoft365.com/copilot or download the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for your desktop or mobile device. Enroll your organization in the Frontier program for early access to AI features. Upgrade to Teams Premium for more protected, engaging, and personalized meetings and calls. Read the full 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) report. ---------------------------------------------------------- Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide, Pankil Sheth, Megan Fernandez, Rafael Benitez, Nitin Narang, 28 July 2026. Gartner and Magic Quadrant are trademarks of Gartner, Inc., and/or its affiliates. *This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request here.What’s New in Microsoft Teams | July 2026
I hope everyone is having a great summer - July has flown by. As we head into the second half of the year, we're continuing to innovate in Teams to help people collaborate with people and AI to get work done more efficiently. This month's updates bring together new ways to stay informed, simplify everyday tasks, and put AI to work across more scenarios and roles. One highlight is the new Meeting Recaps app, which makes it easier to find, revisit, and catch up on important conversations across your meetings. We're also expanding how organizations manage apps and agents in Teams with improved request experiences that provide greater transparency for users and more control for admins. You'll also find updates that make collaboration more seamless, from accessing Viva Engage communities directly in Teams to improving calling experiences on mobile. Read on to see everything that's new in Microsoft Teams this month. Feature categories: (All features listed are generally available unless otherwise noted) Chat and Collaboration Meetings Teams Phone Workplace - Places and Teams Rooms Fundamentals and Security Platform Frontline Workers Certified for Teams Devices Chat and Collaboration Access Viva Engage communities in Teams Staying connected to your communities meant leaving Teams to check Viva Engage. Now you can open and interact with your organization's communities straight from the Teams left rail and get notified in Activity when something relevant happens. Keyboard Shortcut Dialog has search functionality. Long shortcut lists are hard to scan when you just need one. The keyboard shortcut dialog now lets you search by shortcut name or by the key combination itself. LinkedIn Hiring Assistant integration for Microsoft Teams Recruiting teams can now bring LinkedIn Hiring Assistant directly into Microsoft Teams to streamline candidate review and hiring manager collaboration. Recruiters can share candidates in Teams, collect structured feedback, and keep hiring decisions moving without requiring hiring managers to switch tools. The integration helps teams reduce feedback delays, improve alignment earlier in the hiring process, and collaborate where work is already happening. Available for LinkedIn Hiring Assistant customers. Learn more: Hiring Assistant for LinkedIn Recruiter & Jobs Meetings Meeting Recaps app Stop hunting through chats and calendars for the meeting notes you need. The Meeting Recaps app brings your intelligent recaps together in one convenient, pinned app in the Teams sidebar, making it easier to find and catch up across your meetings. Browse meetings with Recap from the past 30 days and use quick filters to instantly surface the meetings that matter most, like when you were mentioned in the discussion. You can also generate a podcast-style Audio Recap summary across multiple meetings so that you can conveniently catch up on the go. Teams Phone Queues app for Microsoft Teams in GCC High Government organizations need advanced collaborative call handling without leaving their compliance boundary. Now available in the GCC High environment, the Queues app brings advanced queue management, reporting, and supervisor tools directly into Teams, helping agencies deliver faster, more efficient service to constituents calling government offices and to internal customers, such as employees contacting an IT Help Desk. Queues app is available through Teams Premium. View the interactive Queues App demo for more details. Teams Phone user multi-line on Teams Mobile (iOS) Juggling separate devices or accounts for different roles is a hassle. Teams Phone multi-line now works on Teams mobile iOS: admins can assign up to 10 numbers to one user, each appearing as its own tab, so you can stay organized across roles or regions from a single Teams account. If the player doesn't load, open the video in a new window: Open video Speed dial on Teams mobile Finding the right person to call should not slow you down. A dedicated speed dial tab in Teams mobile now lets users more easily add, edit, and label key contacts by role or priority, with updates synced across devices for a consistent calling experience. For frontline workers such as nurses, that means reaching the right contact faster to help accelerate patient care. Workplace - Places and Teams Rooms AI-powered notes for in-person meetings with Facilitator in Teams Rooms on Android and Windows Avoid ending in-person meetings with no record of what was decided. In Teams Rooms on Android, the Facilitator agent captures notes, decisions, and actions for in-person meetings alongside scheduled and hybrid ones. Invite it with one tap of the room console; notes appear on the front of room display or touch board and are available in meeting recap when shared, then deleted if no one keeps them. Nothing stays in the room. Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Bulk application of app settings to Teams Rooms on Android devices in the Pro Management portal Configuring rooms one at a time eats up an IT Admins day. Admins can now apply Teams Rooms on Android app settings to multiple devices in bulk from the Pro Management portal. Available in Teams Rooms Pro. Digital signage support for Teams panels Screens sitting dark outside meetings are a missed opportunity. Idle Teams panels can now display digital signage, just like Teams Rooms front of room displays, with source and settings managed in the Pro Management portal. Available with Teams Rooms Pro or Shared space licenses. Human interpreter listening mode supported in Teams Rooms on Windows Multilingual meetings lose nuance when there's no live interpretation. Professional interpreters can now listen in and translate in real time in Teams Rooms on Windows, without disrupting the speaker. Organizers preset the languages, and participants choose and switch among them. Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Teams Phone devices support for Interpreter (VoIP calls) Don’t let language barriers impact calls. With AI Interpreter, Teams Phone devices provide real‑time language interpretation directly within the call experience. Users can participate naturally in multilingual conversations while the device interprets spoken audio, reducing language barriers and supporting clearer communication in everyday calling scenarios. Entra passwordless resource account support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices Shared room accounts with passwords are a security weak spot. Teams Rooms on Windows now support Entra resource accounts for secure, passwordless sign-in that separates device and user identities. A migration wizard and Pro Management portal dashboard make moving over and tracking progress straightforward. Individual settings page with 2-way settings sync between device and the Pro management portal for Teams rooms on Android and panels Not knowing how a device is configured makes troubleshooting slow. A new individual settings page in the Pro Management portal shows how each Android-based device is set up, with two-way sync so changes flow between the device and the portal, for Teams Rooms on Android and panels. Call quality feedback surveys for Teams Rooms on Android Organizations can't fix call quality problems they never hear about. Users can now rate calls and meetings and give feedback on audio, video, and screen-sharing in Teams Rooms on Android, helping your organization keep experiences consistent. Join Google Meet meetings in Teams Rooms on Windows for GCC and GCC-H Cross-platform meetings shouldn't be off-limits for government organizations. GCC and GCC-High now get two-way Direct Guest Join between Google Meet and Teams: Teams Rooms on Windows can join Google Meet, and Google Meet devices can join Teams, with one-click join from the calendar or by meeting ID. Fundamentals and Security Choose how Teams on the web handles sign-in Teams on the web now honors a user's sign-in preference, giving them the choice to stay signed in across browser sessions or be prompted to sign in again when the browser is reopened. This helps balance convenience on personal devices with security on shared computers. Platform Improved request flows for apps and agents blocked by admins We're making it easier for users to request access to apps and agents that aren't currently available to them in Teams. A simplified and more transparent request experience helps users understand what action is needed, track the status of their requests, and receive updates when decisions are made. For admins, enhanced request management capabilities in Teams Admin Center and new request notifications make it easier to review and act on requests, helping organizations accelerate access to approved apps and agents. Frontline Workers Get Started Faster with Improved Onboarding First impressions matter, and the new onboarding experience makes day one in Shifts a breeze. The app adapts to who you are — frontline manager or worker — and surfaces the right next step exactly when you need it. Managers can now spin up a brand-new team and its first schedule in a single action. One-click access to help articles and clear guidance on permissions means no one hits a dead end. Whether it's your team's first day in Shifts or your hundredth, you'll be productive in moments. Easily Restore Deleted Schedules Accidental deletions happen, but getting back on track should not slow your team down. With schedule restore, managers can quickly recover a previously deleted schedule right from the schedule creation flow. Simply choose the version you want to bring back, restore it in a few clicks, and pick up where you left off — no rebuilding from scratch, no lost momentum, and no extra support needed. It is a simple safety net that helps teams move confidently, even when plans change or mistakes happen. Reach the right people and close the loop with Follow Up Frontline managers often spend too much time chasing updates across chats, messages, and meetings. With Follow Up in Frontline Agent, a manager can send a single Teams request, automatically collect responses by a set deadline, and review a consolidated summary in one place. This helps teams quickly confirm task completion, shift coverage, handoffs, compliance requirements, and operational readiness. Managers can also track responses, follow up with non-responders, edit requests, and add recipients, with support for up to 20 people per request. Run hands-free inspections with voice-driven Site Walkthrough Site Walkthrough transforms inspections, audits, and compliance checks into a hands-free, voice-driven experience. Workers can start a walkthrough with or without a checklist, speak observations naturally, and let Frontline Agent capture and organize everything automatically. When complete, Frontline Agent generates a structured report, checks off completed tasks, flags follow-up items, and records timestamps for audits and compliance. This helps teams complete checklists faster, stay focused on their environment, and capture critical insights without manual data entry. Experience Teams for Frontline with a new interactive demo Curious what Microsoft Teams looks like for frontline workers? The new Teams for Frontline demo experience lets you step into the shoes of a retail associate, nurse, or warehouse worker and explore a fully functional frontline environment in just one click. No purchase, trial, or sign-up required. Immerse yourself in the day-to-day experience of frontline work and see how Teams helps employees stay connected, manage schedules, and get work done with AI-powered assistance. Check it out at aka.ms/FLWdemo! Certified for Teams Devices Q-SYS Scheduling Panel The Q-SYS Scheduling Panel is built on the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP), as a Microsoft Teams Panel. Displaying meeting details, availability, and allowing users to reserve meeting spaces on the spot. MAXHUB XT20-VB Kit The MAXHUB XT20-VB Kit integrates the XCore Kit Pro and XBar U50 to deliver a complete Microsoft Teams Rooms solution for small to medium meeting spaces. XCore Kit Pro includes an 11.6-inch touch console and a 12th gen Intel Core i5 mini-PC running Microsoft Teams Rooms for seamless collaboration, with 4K wired content sharing and dual-screen display capabilities. XBar U50 is a 100MP dual-lens USB videobar with 12 beamforming microphones, dual 15W speakers, AI video features including Auto Framing and Speaker Tracking, and FlexMount for easy installation. MAXHUB's Pivot Plus enables remote device management. The kit includes a 3-year warranty and local support. ThinkPad Dual-mode Wireless ANC Foldable Headset 8550 (USB-A & USB-C, Teams) Certified by Microsoft Teams for open office, ThinkPad Dual-Mode Wireless ANC Foldable Headset 8550 (Aura Edition) redefines best-in-class portable headset for hybrid work, featuring a foldable, lightweight design that’s effortless to carry anywhere. Adaptive hybrid ANC and AI-powered ENC keep distractions at bay, letting you enjoy crystal-clear calls and immersive sound for next-level focus. Sound by Bose technology delivers expertly tuned audio for both calls and music. Connect with tap or via Bluetooth® Receiver- and experience how seamless productivity can be. Lenovo Wireless Speakerphone 6000 Equipped with eight beam forming microphones and advanced AI noise cancellation, it ensures crystal-clear communication-ideal for today’s hybrid work environments. Its high-fidelity speaker provides rich, immersive sound, while Microsoft Teams certification guarantees reliable audio quality and exceptional voice pickup performance for seamless collaboration. Extron Medium and Extra-large conference rooms This system accommodates up to ten people for the medium conference room, and 18+ people in the Extra-large conference room, and includes Microsoft Teams Rooms conferencing capabilities, enabling participants in remote locations to join meetings. Extron AEC – acoustic echo cancellation, ceiling speakers, control processors, and power amplifiers deliver enterprise level security, intelligible speech, and consistent sound levels across the entire meeting area in conjunction with a Audio‑Technica Engineered Sound Wireless systems. This Design Solution has been designed and meticulously tested for best-in-class performance and ease of use. Logitech Express Install: Logitech Rally Bar & Ashton Bentley AB One65 for Teams Rooms on Windows & Android Logitech, in partnership with Ashton Bentley and Samsung, is simplifying room installations with Express Install solutions for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows and Android, making high-quality meeting spaces more accessible and easier to deploy. Logitech's Express Install kit for Medium rooms can be installed in under an hour, with minimal labor and no specialist help needed. MAXHUB Panel SP10 The MAXHUB Panel SP10 is a room scheduling solution with native Microsoft Teams integration, empowered by the MDEP. This 11-inch panel delivers a crystal-clear, real-time view of room availability, enabling seamless calendar synchronization and effortless on-the-spot reservations for efficient workspace management. High-visibility LED bars indicate room occupancy at a glance, while one-tap booking enables ad hoc reservations with real-time schedule sync. The mounting bracket is included as standard—no extra purchase needed—along with an industry-leading 3-year warranty that reduces lifecycle costs for bulk deployments. Adapt to any architecture with 4-way installation options: standard wall mount, glass partition, slim door frame, or a flush embedded aesthetic. AudioCodes C456HD Touch Expansion Unit Gen2 The AudioCodes C456HD is a native Microsoft Teams desk phone built on MDEP and Android OS for robust security and simplified, enterprise-grade management. Featuring a vibrant 5” color touch screen (1280 x 720) and a dedicated programmable emergency call button, it can deliver a seamless and intuitive user calling experience. For enhanced productivity, an optional multi-purpose expansion module with a 5” color touch screen is also available. The C456HD also features support for an optional hardware-based Mic Off for secure locations. AudioCodes C456HD Microsoft Native Teams Touchscreen Desk Phone The AudioCodes C456HD is a native Microsoft Teams desk phone built on MDEP and Android OS for robust security and simplified, enterprise-grade management. Featuring a vibrant 5” color touch screen (1280 x 720) and a dedicated programmable emergency call button, it delivers a seamless and intuitive user calling experience. For enhanced productivity, an optional multi-purpose expansion module with a 5” color touch screen is also available. The C456HD also features support for an optional hardware-based Mic Off for secure locations.Introducing smarter bot protection in Microsoft Teams meetings
Organizations need confidence that the right people and tools are participating in their discussions. That's why we're introducing a new Teams admin policy designed to give organizations more visibility and control over external bots in their meetings. This new experience helps organizers identify bots, and adds safeguards before they're admitted, giving organizations greater confidence that only the intended participants and tools will be present.Engage customers with Teams Phone Agent and custom voice agents built in Copilot Studio
It’s often difficult for businesses to serve every customer right away during surges in call volumes. Callers sit on hold while staff race to work through the backlog. Meanwhile, agentic voice AI is opening entirely new ways to serve customers, such as getting answers to questions or even enabling them to pay a bill over the phone, including after hours and on weekends. We are excited to announce Teams Phone Agent, along with the ability to bring custom voice agents your organization builds in Microsoft Copilot Studio to Microsoft Teams Phone. For customer-facing organizations using Teams Phone, like healthcare clinics or bank branches, these agents take repetitive calls off the plate of employees so they can focus on the conversations that truly need a human touch. All this enables faster issue resolution for customers. How Teams Phone Agent works Teams Phone Agent greets callers and resolves common requests with these skills. Questions and Answers: Using configured knowledge bases that support file uploads and URLs, Teams Phone Agent answers callers' questions in natural conversation, so customers get answers quickly instead of being placed on hold or hunting through a website. Appointment scheduling: Teams Phone Agent enables callers to book new appointments, reschedule or cancel existing ones, and find upcoming appointment details so customers can lock in a time without playing phone tag. Conversational Routing with intelligent transfers: Teams Phone Agent supports the same tried and tested routing from traditional auto attendants, such as user or extension lookup and transfer to a user, call queue, and more through conversation. When additional assistance is needed, Teams Phone Agent passes the caller along with the full context of the conversation to the right individual or department. Customers can skip cumbersome phone menus and don’t have to repeat themselves. Multilingual: Teams Phone Agent supports multilingual conversations across 60+ supported languages, allowing callers to interact naturally in their preferred language and helping organizations deliver global voice experiences at scale. Automate what’s unique to your business with Copilot Studio voice agents When you need to automate processes unique to your business, like letting patients fill a prescription over the phone, custom voice agents that your organization builds in Copilot Studio step in. Teams Phone Agent can seamlessly hand off a call to custom voice agents whenever those specialized skills are needed. Alternatively, you can set things up so customers can dial a Copilot Studio custom voice agent directly through a Teams Phone line. Voice agents with Teams Phone in action Here are a few illustrative use cases for how Teams Phone Agent and Copilot Studio voice agents can help organizations engage their customers: Answer routine questions without making callers wait. A healthcare clinic can use Teams Phone Agent to answer common questions about hours, locations, accepted insurance, and appointment preparation, helping patients get answers quickly while staff focus on care coordination. Book and reschedule appointments over the phone. A home services company can use Teams Phone Agent to help customers schedule, confirm, or change appointments for plumbing or electrical repairs in natural conversation, helping reduce back-and-forth calls and freeing employees from repetitive scheduling work. Route customers to the right expert with context. A bank branch can use Teams Phone Agent to understand what type of support a caller needs, such as assistance with completing a mortgage loan application. Teams Phone Agent can then transfer the call to the right team with the conversation context included. Complete business-specific tasks with a Copilot Studio voice agent. A pharmacy can use a Copilot Studio custom voice agent to help customers request a prescription refill by phone and check order status, giving customers a simpler way to manage routine needs without waiting for staff assistance. Support customers after hours. A utility provider can use a Copilot Studio custom voice agent connected to Teams Phone to let customers report an outage or get billing help outside normal business hours. Launch Demo An expanding ecosystem of voice agents for Teams Phone We want customers to have choice across first-party and third-party voice agents. That is why we are working with select solution developers to integrate their voice agents with Teams Phone. AudioCodes is announcing general availability of its voice agent for Teams Phone today, with additional solutions expected in the future. Get started Teams Phone Agent and the ability to integrate custom voice agents built in Copilot Studio with Teams Phone are now accessible through the Frontier program. Join Frontier so that your organization can get early access to Microsoft’s latest AI innovations. Teams Phone admins can set up Teams Phone Agent through Teams admin center. Learn more. Copilot Studio makers can navigate to Microsoft Copilot Studio to set up a voice agent and then assign it to Teams Phone Agent or a Resource Account to be called directly. Learn more. Licensing during the Frontier preview Teams Phone Agent is available via the Frontier program. Service limitations may apply. Custom Copilot Studio voice agent experiences—whether reached through a Teams Phone Agent hand-off or by direct dial—are accessible via the Frontier program and are billed consumptively at a rate based on the orchestration type your organization selects when building the agent in Copilot Studio. Learn more. Billing for Copilot Studio voice agent experiences in Teams Phone will roll out by early July, and usage will not be charged prior to this rollout. Service limitations may apply. When the billing experience is rolled out, all Frontier preview users will be required to set up billing to continue using Copilot Studio voice agents for Teams Phone. Tenants must also meet standard Teams Phone prerequisites, including a properly configured Teams Phone resource account. Learn more. All licensing, pricing, and service limits are subject to change. Additional information will be communicated at general availability.Workplace presence, made effortless: Workplace check-in via Wi-Fi for Microsoft Places and Teams
We’re introducing workplace check-in via Wi-Fi for Microsoft Places and Teams, designed to help employees coordinate in-person work by keeping their workplace location up to date when they’re in the office. This capability builds on existing Microsoft 365 presence signals like calendar availability and Teams presence by making workplace location easier to keep current. For employees who choose to enable it, workplace check-in via Wi-Fi can update their workplace location based on connection to configured company networks, reducing the need to manually change status. This experience is similar to the existing workplace check-in via peripherals, where a user can keep their workplace location updated by plugging into a configured peripheral like a display or a desk dock. Organizations enable and configure this feature in their tenant, and individual users control whether and how it is used. When an employee is in the office and connects their laptop to a configured corporate network, workplace check-in can update their work location for the day, only when enabled by the organization and the individual user. This reduces the need to manually update location while keeping employees in control. Workplace check-in via Wi-Fi is a new way to help people understand one another’s availability. “Free” or “busy” on a calendar lets you find a time. Presence in Teams shows when someone is active. Workplace presence in Places, Teams, and calendar helps team members identify who is currently in the office, so you can grab lunch or coffee, book a desk near your team, or move a meeting to in person. Workplace check-in helps keep the employee’s workplan up to date and includes the ability to check the employee into an existing desk reservation. When schedules shift or someone decides to come into the office, employees who choose to use it can have their work location updated without needing to manually adjust their status each time. A few important details about how this works: Employees remain in control. Workplace check-in via Wi‑Fi does not replace a user’s choice to share their workplace location, and individuals can configure their setting at any time. It does not retain or track information about employee movement or location over time. Workplace location is a current, in-the-moment signal and is not stored as historical data. It applies only to workplace contexts. The signal is generated when a device connects to configured corporate office networks through the Teams client and does not extend beyond those environments. Otherwise, if not connected to a configured network in a workplace location, your location will be shown as “Remote”. Built on a layered model of consent and control Workplace check-in is designed with both organizational controls and individual choice in mind. Organizations first decide whether to enable the capability for their tenant, and then configure whether the end-user experience is opt-in or opt-out. They also configure which office locations the feature is available in by adding device information from each of the Wi-Fi access points in the chosen locations. Individuals remain in control of whether the feature works on their device. If required location settings are turned off, workplace check-in via Wi-Fi will not automatically activate regardless of organizational configuration. Employees can also update their settings and manually set or override their work location at any time. Sharing workplace presence and using workplace check-in are separate decisions, so employees can choose whether their workplace presence is visible to others when working from the office. Get started Wi-Fi check-in for Microsoft Places will roll out to organizations with Microsoft Places later this year. To prepare your tenant: Confirm Microsoft Places is set up in your environment, specifically adding building information in the Places directory. Enable the Teams work location detection policy and configure your approved corporate BSSID within the Places directory Communicate the change to your employees: what it does, what it doesn’t do, and how they can can control their own settings. To learn more about Microsoft Places and the broader workplace presence experience, visit our adoption site.Making Microsoft Teams more responsive, reliable, and ready for work
In our November 2025 update, we shared gains across video rendering, memory efficiency, and platform-level optimizations that improved the experience across devices and operating systems. Since then, we've continued to raise the bar. This blog highlights the latest performance improvements delivered during the first half of 2026, from faster chat switching and people search, to enhancements that make Teams feel more responsive, resilient, and reliable across desktop, web, and mobile.What's New in Microsoft Teams | May 2026 - Build Edition
It's hard to believe May is over already! You may have noticed this edition of What's new in Teams is landing a few days later than usual — that's intentional. We're publishing alongside Microsoft Build, our annual developer conference where we showcase the latest in AI, agents, and the tools that help developers. It's one of the most energizing weeks of the year, full of announcements, hands-on sessions, and a first look at where the platform is headed. A lot of what's in this release ties directly to what's being unveiled on the Build stage, and I wanted to highlight a few Teams Platform features worth calling out: Linear, Cursor, and Atlassian Rovo agents in Teams — three powerful new partner agents that turn channel conversations into shipped code, filed issues, and updated project plans without ever leaving the chat. New Teams CLI — one command to register, configure, and deploy a Teams agent, so developers can spend their time on agent logic instead of managing complex processes Collaborative features for agents – our new agent capabilities include quoted replies to keep conversations anchored, slash commands to quickly take action in the flow of work, and expressive emoji reactions that add nuance without adding noise, all helping teams stay aligned and move faster in collaboration with agents. A few other highlights I'm especially excited about beyond Platform: New AI-generated Video recap in Teams turns meeting recordings into short, narrated highlight reels—so you can quickly catch up on what matters most without watching the full session. In Teams Phone, Brand Impersonation Protection alerts you in real time when a caller may be posing as a trusted brand like your bank or IT helpdesk, so you can decline or report the call with confidence. These are just a taste of what's new. Read on to see everything we've released in May across chat, meetings, phone, rooms, frontline, and more. Product areas covered in this update: (All features are generally available unless otherwise noted.) Teams Platform Chat and Collaboration Meetings Teams Phone Workplace - Places and Teams Rooms Fundamentals and Security Frontline workers Certified for Teams Devices Teams Platform Slash commands for agents- Public Preview Triggering an agent shouldn't break your flow. With slash commands, users can invoke agent actions, retrieve information, or kick off tasks directly from the compose box using simple "/" prompts — keeping agents one keystroke away in any chat or channel. Quoted replies for agents- Public Preview Threaded conversations are easier to follow when agents stay anchored to the right message. With quoted replies, your agent can now reference the exact message a user is responding to so context isn't lost as threads grow longer or branch into side discussions. Agents can also send quoted replies of their own, keeping multi-turn exchanges clear and traceable for everyone in the chat. Message Reactions for Agents – Public Preview Ever wish your agent could just give a thumbs-up instead of cluttering a thread with another reply? Now it can. Agents in Teams can now respond with emoji reactions the same way people do, matching the rhythm of the conversation with a lightweight signal instead of an extra message. Threads stay clean, exchanges feel more natural, and you get a clear acknowledgment without the noise. New Teams CLI Building an agent today means juggling registration, credentials, manifest creation, and deployment across multiple tools, slowing developers down before they even get to the interesting work. The new Teams CLI collapses all of it into a single command, working alongside coding agents to take a Teams agent from idea to running instance in minutes. By handling setup and diagnostics behind the scenes, developers can focus on agent logic instead of managing configuration complexity. Learn more here. Linear agent in Teams Software teams lose momentum every time a channel decision has to be manually translated into a Linear issue or project update. The Linear agent in Teams closes that gap by turning conversations directly into actionable work — creating issues, capturing context, and updating project workflows from inside the thread where the decision was made. The Linear agent is available now in the Microsoft Marketplace. Cursor agent in Teams Engineering work stalls every time you have to leave a Teams discussion to fix a bug or ship a feature in a separate tool. The Cursor agent in Teams keeps you in the flow: @mention it in any channel or chat to invoke Cursor's Cloud Agents directly inside the conversation, where it returns results with full context of the discussion. The result is a faster path from idea to production, without ever leaving Teams. The Cursor agent is available now in the Microsoft Marketplace. Atlassian Rovo agent in Teams Jumping between Teams, Jira, and Confluence to turn a chat decision into actual project work slows everyone down. The Atlassian Rovo agent in Teams brings AI-powered context and action across Jira, Confluence, and Teamwork Graph organizational data into your conversations — so you can go from a question in chat to creating Jira issues, drafting Confluence pages, and updating workflows in a single interaction. Rovo evolves Atlassian's previous Jira and Confluence apps into an orchestrating "uber agent" for Atlassian AI, now available in the Microsoft Marketplace. MCP servers/connectors discovery and connection UI from agent settings- Public Preview Connecting an agent to the right external system used to mean piecing together configurations from multiple places. Now, you can discover, connect, and manage MCP servers and connectors all from one unified experience inside agent settings in Teams — so it's faster and more secure to plug external data and services into agent workflows. App centric management in Teams Admin Center to manage the Apps access for tenants, end-users, and groups in GCC In GCC environments, controlling who can install which Teams apps used to require broad permission policies that didn't scale well as app catalogs grew. With app-centric management, GCC admins can now set defaults for newly published apps and decide app-by-app whether everyone, specific users and groups, or no one, can install them. Existing app permission policies are migrated automatically, so current availability stays intact. Visual enhancements in adaptive cards Agent responses used to feel flat, with long walls of text and little room for users to drill into the details that matter. New visual TableSet, Accordion, and Loop components let agent builders structure responses into navigable tabs, expandable sections, and repeating content so users can scan and act on information the same way they would in a polished app. Expanded action capabilities such as Popover and richer content support through references and Citations round out the experience. Organization evaluation score for apps and agents- Public Preview IT admins used to manually review trust data for Teams agents and apps in the admin center to verify security, privacy, and compliance standards. This new feature enables admins to define their company's approval requirements once; the system then automatically assesses apps and agents, generating an evaluation score and detailed report per agent/app. This speeds up decision-making by clearly surfacing which ones meet all company standards and which need further review. M365 Agents Toolkit and Developer Portal Support for Agents in Gov Clouds Developers building for regulated customers used to face a choice: ship in commercial cloud, or rebuild from scratch for government environments. Now, the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit and Developer Portal are expanding support for building agents in Government Community Cloud (GCC), GCC High (GCCH), and DoD — so the same solution can reach highly regulated organizations without redesign or re-architecture. M365 certification bulk management IT admins today have to enable trusted third-party apps one at a time in the Teams admin center, a slow and repetitive process when working across hundreds of apps. This feature evolves the org-wide third-party app setting from a simple ON/OFF toggle into a granular dropdown with a new "Allow only Microsoft 365 certified apps" option, letting admins turn on every Microsoft-certified app across their tenant in a single click. As apps earn or lose certification, the platform keeps availability in sync automatically — no ongoing manual upkeep. Observability features for A365 Agents in Teams- Public Preview As more A365 agents act on behalf of users in Teams, IT needs more than just visibility and control—they need to understand how those agents are operating in real time. These new observability capabilities provide deep insights into agent activity, usage, performance, and interactions across Teams and the Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Store. By surfacing real-time metrics and governance signals, admins can monitor behavior, identify issues, and ensure agents are operating securely, compliantly, and effectively at scale. A365 agents on Teams mobile- Public Preview Bring AI agents with you wherever work happens. A365 agents are now available on Teams mobile in public preview, so you can discover, chat with, and add approved agents to conversations and meetings from your phone, the same way you would from desktop. From the Teams mobile app store, browse the "Agents for your team" category, request an agent, and start delegating tasks on the go after admin approval. Enhanced Teams Store- Public Preview Finding the right agent in Teams just got easier, and knowing what it does is now instant. The enhanced Teams Agents & Apps Store solves both problems. Smarter search surfaces helpful suggestions that appear the moment you open the search box, and results update instantly as you type. Once you find what you're looking for, redesigned tiles, clickable sample prompts, and a personalized "Your Agents & Apps" view make it easy to evaluate an agent and put it to work right away. Chat and Collaboration Create workflows with slash commands Jumping out of a chat to update your status or schedule a message breaks your concentration just when you're trying to get something done. Now, you can stay in the compose box using slash commands. Type / on an empty line to interact with apps and agents, create and manage workflows, or run Teams actions like /busy, /goto, or /schedulemessage. Whether you're inserting a GIF or managing workflows, slash commands offer a consistent and efficient way to get things done without leaving your flow. Improved code readability with line numbers Pointing teammates to "the third line from the bottom" gets old fast when you're reviewing code in a chat. Teams now displays automatic line numbers in code blocks so you can reference specific lines naturally in reviews and discussions, and enhanced keyboard navigation lets you move through code without reaching for the mouse. Badging updates help find messages that count in the chat list That little badge on your Teams app icon tells you something needs attention, but tracking down exactly which message is driving it can take longer than you'd like. Now, unmuted chats show a purple indicator when they affect the badge. In addition, mentions, followed threads, and tag mentions display a purple number showing how many unread items are part of the count. Catch up on Teams conversations on mobile Catch up on everything that needs your attention in a single, unified view. Each conversation appears on its own swipeable card with full context and all the actions you need - reply, react, save, mark read/unread, follow/unfollow - to complete your triage. Simply tap the Catch up button at the top of your chat list to get started and get swiping! Learn more about Catch up. Quick access to read items from unread-only mode Unread-only mode keeps your chat list focused on what needs attention, but sometimes you still need to find a message you read earlier. Now, hovering over any section in unread-only view reveals an eye icon that opens a list of read chats and channels for that section, without leaving your unread view. Instant search results when typing in Teams Find in chat and channel Hitting Enter, scanning results, refining your query, and trying again is a slow way to find a message. Find in chat and Find in channel now show results instantly as you type, so you can refine on the fly and get to the right message faster. Advanced filters in Teams Find in chat and channel When the right message is buried under hundreds of others, scrolling isn't a search strategy. New filters in Find in chat and Find in channel let you narrow results by sender, date, attachments, or mentions directly from the right rail — accessible via Ctrl+F (Windows), Cmd+F (Mac), or the Find icon in any chat or channel header. Teams honors the Windows Do not disturb setting Setting Windows to Do not disturb but still getting pinged by Teams defeats the whole point of focus time. Teams integrates with the Do not disturb setting in Windows to help reduce interruptions during focused work. Teams notifications are paused when the Windows Do not disturb setting is turned on, and resume after it is turned off. Meetings Video recap Catching up on meetings just got a whole lot faster. Video recap turns your recorded Teams meetings into short, narrated highlight reels, pairing an AI-generated voiceover with real clips of the key moments, decisions, and shared visuals from the conversation. Whether you missed a meeting or just want to revisit the most important parts, video recap helps you quickly grasp the flow, tone, and outcomes without scrubbing through the full recording. Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot–licensed users on Teams for Windows, Mac, and the web, for recorded English-language meetings between 10 and 90 minutes. Ability to delete recap Cleaning up after a sensitive meeting used to mean deleting recording, transcript, AI summary, and notes from separate places, or asking an admin for help. Organizers can now delete all of it in one place from the recap page's More (…) menu. Shared files stay put in their original locations. It's a quick, confident way to support your retention practices — no admin setup required. Teams Phone Brand Impersonation Protection in Microsoft Teams Calling Stay one step ahead of scammers. Teams now detects and warns you when a caller may be impersonating a trusted brand—like your IT helpdesk, bank, or Microsoft Support—before you engage. When a potential threat is detected, you'll see an in-call alert with clear identity signals (such as "Scam suspected"), empowering you to decline, leave, or report the call instantly. No extra tools needed—protection is built right into your calling experience. It's proactive security that keeps your credentials, data, and organization safe without disrupting your workflow. Report a Suspicious Call in Teams Suspicious calls used to be easy to hang up on but hard to actually do anything about. Users can now report calls that appear unusual or suspicious directly in the Calls app history. After selecting, “Report call”, in the call’s additional options, users can add a reason to the report and have the option to block the caller. When a call is reported, the signal helps strengthen Microsoft’s detection systems to reduce future unwanted or malicious activity. By making it easy to report in the moment, users can contribute to ongoing threat protection while helping improve overall call security across the organization. Queues app for Teams Mobile Customer-facing employees can't always sit at a desk all day, but stepping away used to mean dropping out of the queue and missing calls. The Queues app — with advanced queue management and collaborative calling — is now supported on Teams mobile, so information workers like bank tellers or IT help desk representatives can stay opted in, review recent calls, and return missed customer calls from their phone. The result: faster response, fewer missed opportunities, and a more consistent customer experience away from the desk. Consult and merge a PSTN caller through DTMF Need to consult a subject matter expert in a private conversation before merging them into a meeting, but they're behind an auto attendant phone menu? Now you can. Meeting organizers can consult and merge PSTN callers into active Teams meetings, even when reaching them requires navigating Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) menus, so the right person joins the conversation without delays or call drops. Workplace - Places and Teams Rooms Enhanced media quality for Direct Guest Join in Teams Rooms on Windows You’ll notice media quality improvements including support for up to 16 participant videos (4×4 grid) available in May and simulcast streaming (June) when using Direct Guest Join. These updates make cross-platform meetings more immersive and reliable when joining Teams meetings from Zoom, Google Meet, or Cisco devices. Learn more. Miracast support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices including touch boards Cables and connectors slow down meetings, especially in flex spaces where guests and visitors need to share quickly. Teams Rooms on Windows all-in-one touch boards, now support Miracast for cable-free wireless screen mirroring alongside Teams Cast and HDMI ingest. Walk in, mirror your screen, present. Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Learn more. Multi-camera view support for GCC-H and DoD in Teams Rooms on Windows Remote participants in large rooms often miss what's happening because they're stuck looking at a single, fixed camera angle. GCC-H and DoD cloud customers can now use multi-camera views in Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows, allowing remote participants to switch between multiple in-room camera feeds for improved visibility and engagement in larger spaces. Find camera requirements here. Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Learn more. Multi-stream IntelliFrame support for GCC-H and DoD in Teams Rooms on Windows In hybrid meetings, remote attendees often see in-room participants in a single distant frame— making it hard to read faces and engage. Multi-stream IntelliFrame, now available for GCC-H and DoD customers in Teams Rooms on Windows, sends a separate video feed of each in-room participant for far more inclusive hybrid conversations. Requires a compatible intelligent camera. Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Learn more. Book future meetings directly from Teams panels You can now make an upcoming meeting reservation from a Teams panel by browsing the calendar on the device and choosing any open time slot through midnight the next day. Add a guest during booking streamlining ad-hoc scheduling and coordination. Available with Teams Rooms Pro and Shared Device licenses. Learn more. Enhanced issue detection in Teams Rooms on Windows and auto-remediation with Teams Rooms Pro Management To minimize delays due to equipment issues, Teams Rooms on Windows proactively monitors room audio, video, and display signals to detect issues in meeting spaces. Teams Rooms Pro Management automatically remediates common issues that can be resolved through software, configuration changes, or device resets during nightly maintenance. This ensures users have reliable, ready-to-use meeting rooms, while IT admins benefit from reduced manual troubleshooting and increased uptime. Available for Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms. Learn more. Room health signals and notifications in Teams Rooms on Windows When critical issues impact room functionality, meetings can be delayed or derailed. Room health signals now trigger display of a banner notification on both the front-of-room display and console in Teams Rooms on Windows. Room health signals help get issues resolved quickly and ensure productive meetings. Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Learn more. Expanded access to the AI Assistant for all roles in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal Admins now have broader access to the AI Assistant in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal, no longer limited to global admin roles. Using role-based access controls (RBAC), admins see only rooms and devices they manage, improving visibility and support while adhering to security policies. Learn more. Fundamentals and Security Agent metadata visibility in Teams Admin Center Approving an AI agent for the organization used to mean piecing together what it could actually do from multiple places. IT admins can now view detailed agent metadata — capabilities, knowledge sources, and allowed actions — directly in the Teams Admin Center before approving or enabling agents. With this visibility centralized in one place, admins can understand what kind of agent they are approving and broaden rollout once they're certain agents meet their security and compliance standards. User-Reported Teams Message Security Signals in the Teams Admin Center Users flag suspicious messages every day, but those signals used to be hard for IT to act on at scale. Admins can now monitor user-reported security signals directly in the Teams Admin Center through the Security Message Violation report, surfacing flagged messages and false-positive reports in one centralized view, so security controls can be tuned to real-world threat exposure without leaving the admin center. Account switching for native Mac controls via dock and menu bar Juggling work, guest, and tenant accounts in Teams on Mac used to mean opening the full app every time you needed to switch. Now, account and tenant switching controls live directly in the macOS dock and menu bar — exactly where Mac users expect them — so toggling between organizations or accounts takes one click. Frontline workers Explore our learn docs for more information on all of our Teams for frontline solutions. Guided setup for Frontline Rolling Teams out to thousands of frontline workers used to mean stitching together onboarding, team structure, and pinned-app policies across multiple tools. Guided setup in the Teams Admin Center now walks admins through all of it in one place — making it easier to expand pilots, keep app layouts uniform, and track adoption with built-in insights. Learn more in the official documentation here or sign up here to explore additional deployment capabilities in private preview. Automatically fill open shifts with Smart Scheduling Smart scheduling in Shifts takes the manual effort out of building frontline schedules. Managers can automatically assign open shifts based on employee availability, scheduled time off, constraints such as maximum weekly or daily hours, and historical data about what shifts people usually work. Simply create open shifts for the required number of positions, select "Assign open shifts," and let Teams find the best match for each slot. Any shifts that can't be filled automatically are flagged for manual review, so managers stay in control while saving significant time. The result: faster, fairer schedules with less effort for managers and frontline workers alike. Deliver operational updates with the Communicator app Critical updates for frontline workers — safety alerts, training reminders, outage notifications — often get lost in long channel threads or scattered across other apps. The Communicator app in Microsoft Teams enables operations teams to deliver structured, actionable updates directly within the channels frontline workers already use. Whether sharing safety alerts, training reminders, or outage notifications, teams can publish consistent, easy-to-act-on messages, track delivery and engagement, and communicate seamlessly without requiring additional apps or workflow changes. Sign up for the limited public preview: aka.ms/CommunicatorApp Run hands-free site walkthroughs with voice in Frontline Agent Typing inspection notes on a phone while walking a site is slow, error-prone, and can be a safety risk. Frontline Agent enables voice-driven site walkthroughs, allowing workers to complete inspections, capture issues, and document compliance tasks using natural speech. Inputs are automatically transcribed into structured digital records, reducing manual data entry, speeding up reporting, and ensuring critical insights from the field are consistently captured. Sign up for the limited public preview: aka.ms/SiteWalkthrough Certified for Teams Devices Barco ClickShare Hub Core with Logitech Meetup 2 The ClickShare Hub Core and Logitech MeetUp 2 bundle is a solution certified for Microsoft Teams Rooms designed for small meeting rooms. ClickShare Hub Core enables one-click, wireless conferencing and 4K content sharing with one next-gen ClickShare Button (featuring Wi-Fi 6E and USB-C DisplayPort™). Built on the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP), it’s designed to deliver a secure meeting experience. The widely recognized Logitech MeetUp 2 video bar delivers USB-connected high-quality audio and video with AI-enhanced performance. For meeting participants, this bundle ensures intuitive and engaging meetings. For IT managers, it pairs ease of installation and eco-friendliness with enterprise-grade security, compliance, and standardized integration. Learn more Jabra Scheduler Jabra Scheduler is a smart, professional room scheduling panel that makes finding and booking meeting rooms fast. With an integrated lightbar and intuitive touchscreen, it’s certified for Microsoft Teams. Easy to deploy, simple to scale, and built to unlock more productive meetings across your workplace. Learn more Neat Pad Pro Neat Pad Pro elevates how meetings come together. As a meeting room controller or scheduling display, it gives teams effortless command and IT a simple, scalable way to manage rooms. With a 10-inch touchscreen, built-in microphones, and intelligent processing, it enhances audio, sharpens control, and improves accessibility—so meetings run more smoothly and sound clearer. Learn more Jabra Speak2 40 Built for hybrid workers who take meetings from anywhere, the Jabra Speak2 40 delivers true full-duplex audio with a 50mm speaker, wideband sound, and four advanced beamforming microphones — connecting via either USB-C or USB-A on the same cable. Learn more. Owl Labs Meeting Owl 5 Pro The Meeting Owl 5 Pro is redefining the center-of-table experience by making hybrid meetings simpler and smarter than ever. Our next-gen camera, speaker, and microphone device powers enterprise-grade hybrid meetings with an easy-to-use BYOD solution. It combines 360-degree 4K video with award-winning automatic speaker-switching software to enable effective hybrid collaboration in any space. Features native HDMI and Ethernet ports for a seamless single-cable BYOD experience built with security and reliability in mind. Compatible with all video conferencing platforms, including Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and many others. Learn more.What's New in Microsoft Teams | April 2026
Our team just wrapped up the M365 Community Conference in Orlando, FL, and it was an incredible way to close out April! Our teams were energized by connecting with, listening to, and sharing what’s new with many of you: the builders, innovators and icons of intelligent work. Thank you to everyone who attended, and we can’t wait to see even more of you at next year’s conference! As for this month’s Teams updates, we remain focused on bringing you features that can make collaboration more intelligent, secure, and seamless—whether you’re working with AI, managing calls, or enabling hybrid teams at scale. Across meetings, calling, and the workplace, you’ll find improvements designed to remove friction, from smarter call handling with intelligent call delegation, to Interpreter agent enhancements that support proper attribution for sign-language users in meetings, and updated room booking and live transcription in meetings in Teams Rooms. In another new update, Targeted messages for agents now enables your agents and bots to send targeted, private, temporary updates to specific users in chats, channels, and meetings, without interrupting everyone else. We’re also delivering meaningful security and compliance enhancements, including sensitivity label inheritance for meeting recordings and Loop notes, improved admin visibility into external collaboration risks, and new user‑reported security signals in the Teams admin center. These updates help organizations protect information end to end, without slowing down teamwork. Together, these updates reflect our continued focus on helping teams collaborate more effectively, confidently, and securely—every day. Read on for all the latest updates! Feature categories: (All features listed are generally available unless otherwise noted) Chat and Collaboration Meetings Teams Phone Workplace Fundamentals and Security Platform Frontline Workers Certified for Teams Devices Chat and Collaboration Targeted messages for agents on Teams Send private, targeted messages from agents or bots to a specific person in a channel, group chat, or meeting—without distracting everyone else. Agents can share timely prompts, reminders, or next steps only with the people who need them, keeping conversations focused and clutter-free. As situations change, agents can update or remove these messages so guidance stays relevant and accurate. To enable targeted messaging for agents visit this page: Targeted Messages - Teams | Microsoft Learn Simplified Teams app bar The Teams app bar has been simplified to help you focus on what matters. App labels are hidden by default to reduce visual noise, the overflow menu is less cluttered, and you can now choose to show or hide the app bar to create more space for your work. New controls for quick views in the Teams chat list Positioned at the top of the chat and channels list in Teams, quick view controls provide fast access to mentions, followed threads, and more. You can choose when and how quick views are displayed – and can collapse the section at any time. Experts & verified answers in communities Help community members quickly identify trusted responses with Community Experts and verified answers. In the Engage app for Android and the Engage app in Teams for iOS and Android, members can request expert status, which admins can review and assign. Approved experts are highlighted with a special label next to their names and, along with admins, can endorse accurate and credible responses. Once marked, these responses receive a “verified” label, making it easy for viewers to recognize correct answers and rely on trusted expertise across community conversations. Microsoft Viva: Engage community membership management in Teams for iOS & Android Manage your communities on the go. Community admins can now add or remove members directly from the Teams mobile app on iOS and Android. Keep your Viva Engage communities up to date—anytime, anywhere. Meetings Consecutive interpretation in Interpreter agent Consecutive interpretation is a new mode in Microsoft Teams Interpreter that helps participants collaborate more naturally in meetings with two spoken languages. With consecutive interpretation, the translation begins after each speaker finishes speaking. This creates a turn-based flow that more closely reflects how people naturally communicate in multilingual conversations. In addition, consecutive interpretation brings Interpreter onto the meeting stage for everyone to see and hear, making it easier to follow, participate, and stay aligned. With this update, Interpreter now supports two modes: real-time simultaneous interpretation, launched last year, and the new consecutive interpretation mode designed for back-and-forth conversations—now available in public preview. Accurate transcript attribution for meetings with sign language interpreters Transcripts now attribute contributions to the original participant using sign language, not the interpreter. This ensures ideas and decisions are correctly credited to the person who shared them, including in Copilot chat and meeting recap. Spoken language detection is now automatic Spoken language detection is now fully automatic. 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. This applies to both live captions and transcripts when Interpreter is enabled or when multilingual speech recognition is turned on in meeting options, helping deliver more accurate language recognition and a more consistent multilingual meeting experience. Teams meeting Notes, powered by Loop Teams meeting Notes, powered by Loop, are now available for instant meetings that started via ‘Meet now’ from the calendar. Notes are Loop components in Teams meetings and chats that allow end users to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items that can be co-authored and edited by everyone. Since Notes are Loop components, they stay in sync across all the places they have been shared. Once added, meeting notes can also be shared and edited in the Loop app in your web browser. Resize the top video gallery in Teams meetings to see more people when content is being shared. Now you can resize the video gallery at the top of your meeting window when content is being shared, making it easy to see more participants alongside the presentation. Simply drag the divider between the shared content and the video gallery to adjust how much space each takes up. Whether you're in a small team sync or a large all-hands meeting, this gives you the flexibility to keep more faces visible while staying focused on what's being presented, helping everyone feel seen and engaged. Available on Windows desktop and Mac. Teams Phone Intelligent call delegation - Frontier Incoming calls don’t wait for a break in your day. Whether you’re leading a meeting or juggling back-to-back commitments, every new call creates the same dilemma: answer and risk losing momentum, or ignore it and risk missing something important. Intelligent call delegation can now help answer your incoming Teams calls and schedule follow-up appointments on your behalf. After turning on the experience in the Teams Calls settings, intelligent call delegation gathers context from callers that it shares with you to help you decide whether to pick up. It can also set up follow-up appointments via Microsoft Bookings so that you remember to meet with the callers that matter most. Learn more about intelligent call delegation and how to access for organizations enrolled in the Frontier program. Teams Phone user multi-line Many organizations need a way for a single person to represent multiple departments or regions in calling without juggling different Teams accounts, devices, or complicated routing workarounds. Teams Phone user multi-line now enables Teams administrators to configure and assign up to 10 phone numbers to an individual user through Teams admin center. Supported across desktop and Teams phone devices, user multi-line is ideal for individuals who handle multiple roles or who call contacts across different geographies. For example, a communications director supporting both press relations and analyst relations can take inbound calls for either function and place outbound calls using the appropriate number, all within a unified Teams experience. Or a customer success manager covering North America and Europe can use dedicated regional numbers so that customers reach the right line and interact with a familiar local caller ID, helping build greater trust. Learn more. Workplace - Rooms Ad-hoc room reservation from Teams Rooms on Android console With Teams Rooms on Android consoles, you can quickly book a meeting room for immediate use, helping to avoid scheduling conflicts and ensure uninterrupted spontaneous meetings. Available in Teams Rooms Pro-licensed rooms. Learn more. Live transcription in Teams Rooms on Android View and control live transcription during a meeting from a Teams Rooms on Android device. The real-time transcript includes speaker names and timestamp. You can adjust settings such as spoken language, translated language, and whether both original and translated transcripts are displayed side by side on the front of room display. This feature is available in Teams Rooms Pro. Learn more. Digital signage in Teams Rooms on Android As with Teams Rooms on Windows, IT Admins can now set up Teams Rooms on Android to show dynamic content on the front-of-room display when not in use. Configuration is available for tenant-wide and room-specific settings via the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. The feature supports select third-party digital signage partners like Appspace and XOGO, and is included with Teams Rooms Pro. Learn more. Fundamentals and Security Sensitivity label inheritance for meeting recordings and Loop meeting notes Meeting recordings and Loop meeting notes 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 and meeting notes, ensuring access controls and protections like data handling rules and encryption carry forward consistently. This also ensures that Copilot and agent responses based on transcripts and notes accurately reflect the meeting’s sensitivity, keeping confidential content protected end to end. External Domains Anomalies Report The 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. The report is available in the Teams Admin Center. It’s updated daily, and admins can select a time range to view (for example, the past 24 hours or past 7 days). User reported security signals in Teams admin center This update brings end‑user security reporting into Teams Admin Center. Admins can now view and download signals from messages users report as “a security concern” or “not a security concern” within TAC Protection reports, helping them identify trends and fine‑tune policies and responses. Microsoft Teams VDI Optimization for Omnissa on Windows Microsoft Teams has long supported Omnissa in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments; this feature advances that support by bringing Omnissa deployments onto Microsoft’s modern Teams VDI optimization architecture. With this update, organizations running Teams on Omnissa can take advantage of the new optimization to deliver improved performance, greater feature parity with the native desktop client, and a more reliable experience for meetings, audio, video, and screen sharing—while continuing to benefit from the centralized management, security, and scalability of VDI. Trigger workflows from messages on Teams mobile (Android and iOS) Users can now trigger Microsoft Teams workflows directly from a message on Teams mobile for Android and iOS, enabling common automation scenarios - such as approvals, notifications, or follow‑up actions - without switching devices or leaving the conversation. This update extends workflow message actions to mobile, improves UI reliability, and helps close parity gaps between desktop and mobile experiences for Teams workflows. Prevent screen capture for iOS Prevent screen capture is now available on the Microsoft Teams iOS app. When enabled, this setting helps protect your meeting by preventing the meeting window from being captured in screenshots. This capability builds on the Prevent screen capture experience already available on Desktop Windows and Android mobile app, helping organizations apply more consistent protections across supported Teams clients when discussing confidential topics. Mac desktop, virtual desktop, and older clients aren't supported. People on these platforms will not be able to turn on their own video, share their screen, or see other's videos or shared screens. Platform Python support in the Microsoft Teams SDK Teams SDK is now available in Python. With the Teams SDK, developers have a production‑ready foundation for building intelligent collaboration‑centric experiences directly within Microsoft Teams. And now, Python developers can take full advantage of that platform, using the same SDK surface that powers modern Teams apps and agents. You can learn more about the Python release of the Teams SDK in the Getting Started | Teams SDK documentation. Frontline workers Pilots Kickstart frontline innovation with the Frontline Hub in Teams admin center. Create pilots in just a few clicks—choose the capabilities you want to test, select workers and managers, and monitor adoption through real-time usage insights. With built-in management controls, you can easily iterate as you learn: adjust features, update participants, and expand channels—all without slowing down your rollout. Deploy at scale Deploying Microsoft Teams to your frontline workforce is now faster and more seamless than ever. A new guided deployment experience in the Teams admin center lets you roll out a standardized Teams setup—whether you’re expanding a pilot or launching organization‑wide—in just a few steps. From one place, you can add frontline workers, organize them into teams, and apply a consistent pinned app configuration that updates automatically as your needs evolve. Once deployed, the Frontline hub gives you centralized control to manage teams, adjust pinned apps across your entire frontline workforce, and monitor adoption with built‑in usage insights. This streamlined approach helps you scale confidently, maintain consistency, and keep every frontline worker connected with the tools they rely on. Certified for Teams Devices Cisco Express Install Solutions for Teams Rooms Cisco Express Install solutions are fully integrated meeting room packages designed for fast, large‑scale deployment of Microsoft Teams Rooms. These Cisco‑certified bundles combine Cisco Room Bar or Room Bar Pro devices with Samsung commercial displays and Ashton Bentley freestanding mounts. Ergonomically designed for optimal camera angles and viewing height, the solutions deliver a consistent, familiar Teams Rooms experience across locations while enabling rapid global rollout with minimal on‑site effort. Two bundles (each available in either First Light or Carbon color) feature the Cisco Room Bar package and are designed for huddle spaces, focus rooms, and small meeting rooms: Cisco Room Bar with 43” display Cisco Room Bar with 55” display Two bundles (each available in either First Light or Carbon color) feature the Cisco Room Bar Pro package and are designed for small and mid-sized meeting rooms: Cisco Room Bar Pro with 75” display Cisco Room Bar Pro with two 55” displays One bundle (available in either First Light or Carbon color) features the Cisco Room Kit EQ package and is designed for midsize, large, and extra-large meeting rooms: Cisco Room Kit EQ with 105” display Neat Express Install: TAA-Compliant Neat Board Pro with Heckler Stand Neat Board Pro with the Heckler Stand is TAA compliant, making it easier for US federal government agencies, higher‑education institutions, and other public‑sector organizations to bring award‑winning video collaboration solutions into their workspaces. Together, they provide cutting‑edge audiovisual and AI‑driven capabilities—supporting high‑performance cameras, far‑field microphones, and immersive 4K touch experiences designed for medium to large spaces. Learn more. Jabra Express Install: PanaCast 40 VBS Bundles (LG displays available in: 43″ / 50″ / 55″ / 65″) The Jabra PanaCast 40 VBS teams up with Salamander Designs Acadia Tabletop Stand and LG 4K UHD displays to transform huddle rooms, focus rooms, and small meeting spaces into smart collaboration zones—fast. With panoramic video, intelligent audio, and clean cable management, this Express Install bundle is designed for sub‑90‑minute installation with no wall drilling or rewiring required. It’s a true plug‑and‑play Teams Rooms solution that’s easy to deploy, simple to manage, and ready for AI‑powered productivity. Learn more. Jabra PanaCast 40 VBS + Control IP PanaCast 40 VBS brings everyone into the picture with its 180° field‑of‑view and 4K precision—capturing every participant clearly, even those close to the screen or seated in the corners. AI‑powered video features track speakers, adjust views, and keep conversations natural for more productive meetings. Setup is quick, so rooms are ready in minutes. Built on the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform for robust security, and managed through Jabra+, it enables remote, real‑time device updates to keep collaboration seamless. Learn more. MAXHUB XBoard V7 (Display available in 55″ and 75″) The MAXHUB XBoard for Microsoft Teams Rooms is a Teams‑certified interactive display running Windows 11 IoT that delivers an all‑in‑one solution for meeting rooms and open spaces. Its Trident Lens triple‑camera system ensures clear, dynamic video calls, while Audio Fence technology filters background noise for crisp communication. With a high‑color‑gamut 4K/5K non‑glare display, flexible sizing, optional on‑seat touch console, and remote device management via MAXHUB Pivot, XBoard V7 offers a reliable, scalable collaboration experience with easy plug‑and‑play setup and a three‑year warranty. Learn more. MAXHUB Universal Console TCP33T MAXHUB Universal Console TCP33T is a Teams Rooms‑certified touch console designed for Microsoft Surface Hub and MAXHUB XBoard. It allows users to join meetings, invite participants, control meetings, and share content without leaving their seats—supporting smooth, focused, and efficient collaboration across meeting spaces. Learn more. MAXHUB XBar V70 Kit The MAXHUB XBar V70 Kit with console is a Teams‑certified videobar built on MDEP Android and designed for medium to large meeting rooms. It features a 200‑megapixel quad‑lens camera system, 16 beamforming microphones, AI‑enhanced audio, and FlexMount for simple installation. Built on Microsoft‑certified Android security architecture, the solution enables secure Teams integration, streamlined deployment, and remote device management through MAXHUB Pivot, with included service coverage to simplify ongoing IT operations. Learn more. Barco ClickShare Hub Pro and Huddly ®C1™ for Teams Rooms on Android The ClickShare Hub Pro and Huddly C1 bundle is a certified Microsoft Teams Rooms solution for small‑to‑medium meeting rooms. ClickShare Hub Pro enables one‑click, wireless conferencing and 4K content sharing with next‑generation ClickShare Buttons and dual‑screen support, all built on the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform for secure meetings. Huddly C1 adds modular, AI‑driven video and intelligent audio that scales from standalone to multi‑camera setups—delivering engaging meetings for participants and flexible, enterprise‑grade management for IT teams. Learn More Yealink UH42 / UH44 and WH68 Headsets Yealink expanded its portfolio of Teams‑certified headsets with wired UH42 and UH44 models and the WH68 Hybrid headset with charging stand. These devices are designed for professional use across open offices and hybrid work scenarios, offering clear audio, comfortable form factors for all‑day wear, and flexible connectivity options to support modern Teams calling and meetings. Yealink UH 42 and 44 (Mono) Yealink UH 42 and 44 (Dual) Yealink WH68
