Table Talk: Sentinel’s New ThreatIntel Tables Explained
Key updates On April 3, 2025, we publicly previewed two new tables to support STIX (Structured Threat Information eXpression) indicator and object schemas: ThreatIntelIndicators and ThreatIntelObjects. To summarize the important dates: 31 August 2025: We previously announced that data ingestion into the legacy ThreatIntelligenceIndicator table would cease on the 31 July 2025. This timeline has now been extended and the transition to the new ThreatIntelIndicators and ThreatIntelObjects tables will proceed gradually until the 31 st of August 2025. The legacy ThreatIntelligenceIndicator table (and its data) will remain accessible, but no new data will be ingested there. Therefore, any custom content, such as workbooks, queries, or analytic rules, must be updated to reference the new tables to remain effective. If you require additional time to complete the transition, you may opt into dual ingestion, available until the official retirement on the 21 st of May 2026, by submitting a service request. 31 May 2026: ThreatIntelligenceIndicator table support will officially retire, along with ingestion for those who opt-in to dual ingestion beyond 31 st of August 2025. What’s changing: ThreatIntelligenceIndicator VS ThreatIntelIndicators and ThreatIntelObjects Let’s summarise some of the differences. ThreatIntelligenceIndicator ThreatIntelIndicators ThreatIntelObjects Status Extended data ingestion until the 31st of August 2025, opt-in for additional transition time available. Deprecating on the 31st of May 2026 — no new data will be ingested after this date. Active and recommended for use. Active and complementary to ThreatIntelIndicators. Purpose Originally used to store threat indicators like IPs, domains, file hashes, etc. Stores individual threat indicators (e.g. IPs, URLs, file hashes). Stores STIX objects that provide contextual information about indicators. Examples: threat actors, malware families, campaigns, attack patterns. Characteristics Limitations: o Less flexible schema. o Limited support for STIX (Structured Threat Information eXpression) objects. o Fewer contextual fields for advanced threat hunting. Enhancements: o Supports STIX indicator schema. o Includes a Data column with full STIX object data for advanced hunting. o More metadata fields (e.g. LastUpdateMethod, IsDeleted, ExpirationDateTime). o Optimized ingestion: excludes empty key-value pairs and truncates long fields over 1,000 characters. Enhancements: o Enables richer threat modelling and correlation. o Includes fields like StixType, Data.name, and Data.id. Use cases Legacy structure for storing threat indicators. Migration Note: All custom queries, workbooks, and analytics rules referencing this table must be updated to use the new tables . Ideal for identifying and correlating specific threat indicators. Threat Hunting: Enables hunting for specific Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) such as IP addresses, domains, URLs, and file hashes. Alerting and detection rules: Can be used in KQL queries to match against telemetry from other tables (e.g. Heartbeat, SecurityEvent, Syslog). Example query correlating threat indictors with threat actors: Identify threat actors associated with specific threat indicators Useful for understanding relationships between indicators and broader threat entities (e.g. linking an IP to a known threat actor). Threat Hunting: Adds context by linking indicators to threat actors, malware families, campaigns, and attack patterns. Alerting and Detection rules: Enrich alerts with context like threat actor names or malware types. Example query listing TI objects related to a threat actor, “Sangria Tempest.” : List threat intelligence data related to a specific threat actor Benefits of the new ThreatIntelIndicators and ThreatIntelObjects tables In addition to what’s mentioned in the table above. The main benefits of the new table include: Enhanced Threat Visibility More granular and complete representation of threat intelligence. Support for advanced hunting scenarios and complex queries. Enables attribution to threat actors and relationships. Improved Hunting Capabilities Generic parsing of STIX patterns. Support for all valid STIX IoCs, Threat Actors, Identity, and Relationships. Important considerations with the new TI tables Higher volume of data being ingested: o In the legacy ThreatIntelligenceIndicator table, only the IoCs with Domain, File, URL, Email, Network sources were ingested. o The new tables support a richer schema and more detailed data, which naturally increases ingestion volume. The Data column in both tables stores full STIX objects, which are often large and complex. o Additional metadata fields (e.g. LastUpdateMethod, StixType, ObservableKey, etc.) increase the size of each record. o Some fields like description and pattern are truncated if they exceed 1,000 characters, indicating the potential for large payloads. More Frequent Republishing: o Previously, threat intelligence data was republished over a 12-day cycle. Now, all data is republished every 7-10 days (depending on the volume), increasing the ingestion frequency and volume. o This change ensures fresher data but also leads to more frequent ingestion events. o Republishing is identifiable by LastUpdateMethod = "LogARepublisher" in the tables. Optimising data ingestion There are two mechanisms to optimise threat intelligence data ingestion and control costs. Ingestion Rules See ingestion rules in action: Introducing Threat Intelligence Ingestion Rules | Microsoft Community Hub Sentinel supports Ingestion Rules that allow organizations to curate data before it enters the system. In addition, it enables: Bulk tagging, expiration extensions, and confidence-based filtering, which may increase ingestion if more indicators are retained or extended. Custom workflows that may result in additional ingestion events (e.g. tagging or relationship creation). Reduce noise by filtering out irrelevant TI Objects such as low confidence indicators (e.g. drop IoCs with a confidence score of 0), suppressing known false positives from specific feeds. These rules act on TI objects before they are ingested into Sentinel, giving you control over what gets stored and analysed. Data Collection Rules/ Data transformation As mentioned above, the ThreatIntelIndicator and ThreatIntelObjects tables include a “Data” column which contains the full original STIX object and may or may not be relevant for your use cases. In this case, you can use a workspace transformation DCR to filter it out using a KQL query. An example of this KQL query is shown below, for more examples about using workspace transformations and data collection rules: Data collection rules in Azure Monitor - Azure Monitor | Microsoft Learn source | project-away Data A few things to note: o Your threat intelligence feeds will be sending the additional STIX objects data and IoCs, if you prefer not to receive these additional TI data, you can modify the filter out data according to your use cases as mentioned above. More examples are mentioned here: Work with STIX objects and indicators to enhance threat intelligence and threat hunting in Microsoft Sentinel (Preview) - Microsoft Sentinel | Microsoft Learn o If you are using a data collection rule to make schema changes such as dropping the fields, please make sure to modify the relevant Sentinel content (e.g. detection rules, Workbooks, hunting queries, etc.) that are using the tables. o There can be additional cost when using Azure Monitor data transformations (such as when adding extra columns or adding enrichments to incoming data), however, if Sentinel is enabled on the Log Analytics workspace, there is no filtering ingestion charge regardless of how much data the transformation filters. New Threat Intelligence solution pack available A new Threat Intelligence solution is now available in the Content Hub, providing out of the box content referencing the new TI tables, including 51 detection rules, 5 hunting queries, 1 Workbook, 5 data connectors and also includes 1 parser for the ThreatIntelIndicators. Please note, the previous Threat Intelligence solution pack will be deprecated and removed after the transition phase. We recommend downloading the new solution from the Content Hub as shown below: Conclusion The transition to the new ThreatIntelIndicators and ThreatIntelObjects tables provide enhanced support for STIX schemas, improved hunting and alerting features, and greater control over data ingestion allowing organizations to get deeper visibility and more effective threat detection. To ensure continuity and maximize value, it's essential to update existing content and adopt the new Threat Intelligence solution pack available in the Content Hub. Related content and references: Work with STIX objects and indicators to enhance threat intelligence and threat hunting in Microsoft Sentinel Curate Threat Intelligence using Ingestion Rules Announcing Public Preview: New STIX Objects in Microsoft SentinelPreview the new Microsoft 365 LTI® for your LMS
Enhance your LMS with the power of Microsoft 365 We are excited to announce the public preview of Microsoft 365 LTI. Experience the full potential of Microsoft 365 directly within your Learning Management System (LMS) through a simple to integrate learning tool interoperability (LTI). Microsoft 365 LTI makes LMS integrations simple, with a powerful tool designed to introduce new capabilities to streamline and simplify deployment. Deploy and access the new Microsoft 365 LTI in your LMS with the overview and deployment guides. At-a-glance: The Microsoft 365 LTI is now in Public Preview, bringing all your favorite Microsoft Education tools into a single, seamless experience inside your LMS. No more juggling multiple integrations - just streamlined access to everything educators and students need, right where they work. This includes: Unified access to OneDrive, Teams, Class Notebook, Reflect, and more, directly in your LMS Add content, create assignments, and schedule meetings - all from one place No need to enable multiple tools separately or clutter your LMS menus Replaces deprecated Teams Meetings and Team Classes LTI tools Expanding support for Microsoft Assignments, OneDrive, OneNote Class Notebooks, and Reflect Available for Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, D2L Brightspace, Moodle, and more Let’s dive into the new Microsoft 365 LTI to streamline your learning management system experience We are bringing our Microsoft Education capabilities for learning management systems together into a single tool and streamlined user experience. Educators will be able to access Learning Accelerators, Reflect, OneDrive, Teams, and more in their LMS courses, without having to enable multiple tools separately, and without overcrowding menus where LTI tools are surfaced. Whether adding content to a module, creating an assignment, or scheduling a meeting for a class, you will be able to easily access Microsoft Education related features directly in your LMS workflow. Microsoft 365 LTI debuts with replacements for the deprecated Teams Meetings and Team Classes LTI tools that sunset on 9/15/2025. The capabilities of Microsoft Assignments, OneDrive, OneNote Class Notebooks, and Reflect will also be added to the Microsoft 365 LTI in preview, and those existing LTIs will continue to be supported as their capabilities transition. Microsoft 365 LTI will be available for all currently supported LMS platforms, including Canvas by Instructure, PowerSchool Schoology Learning, Blackboard by Anthology, D2L/Brightspace, and Moodle™, and for any LTI 1.3 Advantage compliant platform. Learning Accelerators and AI-enhanced assignments in your LMS (without Microsoft Teams) With the Microsoft 365 LTI, you will be able to use Learning Accelerators, multiple-document submissions, AI rubric and instructions generation, AI-assisted feedback, auto-graded Forms and other Microsoft Education assignment capabilities directly within your learning management system (LMS), without the need to create and sync a Microsoft Team for your class. Assignments in Microsoft 365 LTI no longer require Teams, enabling more LMS users to benefit from advanced, AI-enhanced capabilities that were formerly exclusive to Microsoft Teams for Education. Assignments can be created, managed, completed, and graded, without leaving your LMS, and grades and feedback will sync automatically to the LMS gradebook. This capability is included automatically in the new Microsoft 365 LTI tool. Existing, Teams-based assignments will continue to work and can be copied to new courses, so no migration is necessary. This enhancement will apply to all currently supported LMS platforms, including Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, D2L Brightspace, and Moodle. Teams and Teams Meetings Microsoft 365 LTI replaces the former Teams Classes LTI and Teams Meetings LTI tools, with improved user experience. Users can easily schedule, manage, and launch meetings from directly within their LMS course. The tool provides streamlined views of future and past meetings, consolidated attendance reports, and a new “Meet Now” capability. Automatic rostering in Class Notebooks returns with the Microsoft 365 LTI In March, we announced the retirement of automatically adding newly rostered students and co-educators to OneNote Class Notebooks provisioned through the LMS using the LTI 1.1 integration. This much-loved feature is back in the new Class Notebook app in Microsoft 365 LTI. Any instructor in the LMS course can create a Class Notebook and all co-educators and students automatically added to the notebook, even as the LMS roster changes. In addition, the new integration enables OneNote with the benefits of LTI 1.3 conformance and a modernized provisioning flow for educators to easily deploy new Class Notebooks for their courses. Existing notebooks created in the LTI 1.1 integration will continue to work, and sections and pages can be easily copied to new notebooks. OneDrive and Microsoft 365 files with embedded editors and new placements The new Microsoft 365 LTI tool expands beyond the capabilities of the existing OneDrive LTI tool. The full capabilities of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, are now available within the LMS experience for attaching content resources, collaborative documents (including Collaborations for Canvas Courses and Groups!), and students editing and submitting Microsoft 365 documents as an assignment without leaving the LMS. Documents can be embedded or linked into courses and other LMS activities like discussions, announcements, pages, with proper management of permissions to prevent oversharing, and with dedicated course-level storage to support proper document lifecycle management, assignment workflows, and use of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Easily add Reflect to your classroom toolset Microsoft 365 LTI provides easy access to Microsoft Reflect to support student wellbeing in the classroom. Educators can create check-ins, view responses, and monitor trends within an LMS course. Users can access activities from Microsoft and partners such as Calm to support physical and mental wellbeing. For more information, and to keep up with future product announcements Please visit the Microsoft Tech Community Education Blog and subscribe to keep up with what’s new in Microsoft Education. We also hold bi-monthly office hours every first and third Thursday where lots of LMS + Microsoft 365 customers come to discuss scenarios and get assistance from peers, please join us! Microsoft 365 LTI Office Hours 1 st and 3 rd Thursday of each month @11am EST Join link: https://aka.ms/LTIOfficeHours We can’t wait to hear your feedback! Try out the preview today. How to get help or send feedback For any issues deploying the integration, our Education Support team is here to help. Please visit https://aka.ms/EduSupport Once deployed, the Teams Assignments integration has links to Contact Support and Send Feedback from right within the app. These can be found in the user voice menu in the upper right on any view that appears within the LMS. Learn more about Microsoft feedback for your organization. Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) is a trademark of the 1EdTech Consortium, Inc. (1edtech.org) The word Moodle and associated Moodle logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Moodle Pty Ltd or its related affiliates.What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2025
Welcome to the August edition of What’s New in Microsoft Teams! As Teams continues to evolve, this month’s updates bring a fresh wave of innovation designed to help you work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and stay connected across your organization. Whether you’re catching up on conversations or preparing for your next big meeting, Teams is here to support your productivity with intelligent, user-friendly features. Among the standout releases this month is a feature that expands how you can express yourself, another feature that helps to streamline your workflow, and multiple enhancements to desk booking. First, “Multiple emoji reactions” lets you combine several emojis to share more complex reactions in a quick and concise way. Second, IT administrators can now upload custom dictionaries for Copilot in Teams, ensuring that meeting transcripts and Intelligent Recap reflect your organization’s unique terminology. Finally, your desk booking experience just got easier, with features that let you book a desk from a map and near a colleague. Together, these enhancements make Teams smarter and more personalized, helping you unlock deeper insights and collaborate with greater clarity than ever before. Take a look at the details of those features, and all the others we’re launching this month! New features released this month: Chat and collaboration Meetings, webinars, and town halls Teams Phone Workplace: Places and Teams Rooms Fundamentals and Security Frontline Worker Solutions Certified for Teams Devices Chat and Collaboration Filter for messages with files in contextual search Finding shared content in Teams just got easier with the latest enhancements to the Find in Chat/Channel experience. Users can now quickly locate documents and media shared across conversations without scrolling through long threads. 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Meeting organizers can send messages to attendees in the lobby with lobby chat Now meeting organizers can send one-way messages to attendees in the lobby via the lobby chat. The lobby chat is intended to optimize the lobby experience for all participants, ensuring that organizers are better equipped to run external meetings, have more control over meetings with external participants, and external attendees are well informed about the meeting upon meeting start. Edit your display name in Teams meetings Participants can now edit their display name during a Teams meeting — whether to reflect a preferred name, indicate a role (e.g., “Moderator” or “Interpreter”), or support inclusive self-representation. The change of display name is temporary and only visible during the meeting. The change is not permanent in any artifact like recording. 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This integration enables: Streamlined workforce management by aligning call routing with shift schedules Greater flexibility in configuring call queues based on timing and team Learn more about Shifts in Teams, how to manage the Shifts app, and configuring a Shift for your call queue. Email notifications for phone number assignments Admins can send a Microsoft branded email notification to end-users with their newly assigned Teams Phone number while assigning/unassigning the number through Teams PowerShell cmdlet. This feature helps provide a welcoming onboarding experience for new Teams Phone users. User notifications include: The assigned or unassigned telephone number Activation timeline (up to 48 hours) Instructions for accessing the dial pad in Teams Links to learn more about Teams Phone capabilities Learn how to assign a phone number to a user through the Teams Admin Center. Device sign-in support for non-touch models Organizations now have increased sign-in flexibility for non-touch devices. Users are able to log in directly, without relying on device code flow (DCF) authentication. For example, a T9 keyboard can be used to enter credentials, providing an experience better tailored to the device. Workplace: Places and Teams Rooms Find certified for Teams devices for all types of spaces and uses at aka.ms/teamsdevices. Book desks using maps [Premium] You can now book a desk using an interactive, map-based experience. The new maps-first interface shows office layouts and is responsive on mobile devices and smaller screens. Whether reserving an individual desk or a pooled desk, the experience is optimized within Outlook and Teams calendars and across the Places app. This feature is available with a Teams Premium license. Book desks near colleagues [Premium] You can now book a desk based on where your colleagues are working. 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Configure new desk modes: reservable, drop-in, assigned, unavailable Administrators can configure desks in multiple modes to support different booking policies. Each desk can now be set to one of several modes, and this setting can be changed at any time to adapt to organizational needs. The available desk modes include: Reservable desks are configured to be booked in advance or on-the-spot. Drop-in desks are available for on-the-spot use and cannot be reserved in advance. You can use the capability from Microsoft Teams to link the peripheral devices present on these desks to the individual desk object in the directory. Assigned desks are permanently linked to a specific user and cannot be booked by others. Every assigned desk must always have a designated user. Unavailable desks are not available for reservation due to maintenance or for any other reason. 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SharePoint agents allow users to create agents grounded on SharePoint sites, files and folders. For example, you can create an agent that pulls from a SharePoint library with compliance information. Within a channel, users can then query against those documents. Additionally, users can now add multiple SharePoint agents to a single group chat – an upgrade from the previous limitation of one agent per chat. Each agent brings its own specialized knowledge, perfect for reviewing documents, planning content, or collaborating across specs. Adding an agent is easy: just copy the link from SharePoint – just like you would to share any other file – and drop it into a post or reply. Then, interact with them by @mentioning the agent by name. These agents enhance conversations by offering tailored insights and support right when it's needed. Deploy Frontline Teams in Teams Admin Center We’re excited to announce new enhancements in the Teams Admin Center that make it easier than ever to set up and deploy your frontline teams with flexible membership. With our updated setup wizard, you can now complete configuration and deployment in one seamless flow—no need to navigate across multiple wizards to complete setup and deploy your first frontline teams. Whether you're onboarding a single team or scaling across multiple locations, the streamlined experience helps you move faster and with greater confidence. We’ve also introduced incremental save, allowing you to pause setup at any point and return later without losing progress. Plus, you can now validate your location attributes directly within the wizard to ensure your deployment includes the expected number of locations before going live. These updates are designed to simplify frontline deployment and give IT admins more control and flexibility every step of the way. 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Manager insights coming to Viva Insights web app, with new team view for Copilot Dashboard
We’re expanding the reach of the Copilot Dashboard and Reports page in Viva Insights to include managers, in addition to the senior leaders, delegates, and analysts supported today. Starting late September, managers will have default-on access to a team-scoped view of the Copilot Dashboard and related Reports tab, providing rich insights into Copilot adoption, impact, and learning, all automatically tailored to their teams. In addition, analysts will be able to publish from their library of available reports directly to managers. These reports will also appear in the Viva Insights web app and be scoped to the manager’s own team, making it easier to surface relevant, actionable insights based on manager need. This change also unifies all manager insights into a single destination: the Viva Insights web app. As part of this update, the manager capabilities currently available in the Viva Insights Teams app, such as Organizational behavior insights and Copilot chat insights, will no longer be supported. Managers will soon see a banner in the Teams app notifying them of the upcoming change. Once the rollout is complete, manager insights will only be available in the Viva Insights web app. Broader Copilot insights for managers Managers will gain a dedicated Copilot Dashboard scoped to their own teams, showing adoption, impact, and learning insights. They’ll also have access to the Reports page, which provides out-of-the-box Copilot reports with no setup required. Managers will have access to the Copilot for Sales adoption report, with more reports becoming available over time. Publishing to managers We’re extending the Viva Insights’ publishing capability so analysts can share reports directly with managers, in addition to senior leaders. This can give managers access to a broad library of reports automatically scoped to their own teams, covering topics like Copilot, collaboration, meeting effectiveness, and more. Published reports appear prominently on the Reports page as cards, making it easy for managers to explore detailed, team-specific insights with no setup required. This feature will launch in public preview at the same time as the above capabilities. Insight admins must enable it (if they haven’t already) before analysts can start publishing. No action needed to gain access to Copilot Dashboard team view There’s nothing managers or admins need to do to take advantage of these changes. If admins have previously modified manager settings, those settings will continue to apply. This includes any minimum group size thresholds you have set or any managers you have enabled for manager insights. Any delegates currently assigned to a manager will also continue to have the same access in the new experience. For organizations that haven’t made modifications, managers with the default minimum team size (10 members) will automatically gain access to the new capabilities in the Viva Insights web app. Managers will still need either a Viva Insights license or a Microsoft 365 Copilot license to access the new team-scoped dashboards. Your organization also needs to have at least 50 of these licenses to be eligible for Manager insights.What's new in Microsoft Teams at Enterprise Connect 2025: Leading the Future of Collaboration
Enterprise Connect 2025 (March 17-20, 2025), is the premier conference for enterprise communications and collaboration in North America, and we were excited to attend to highlight some of our newest Microsoft Teams innovations. Ilya Bukshteyn, CVP of Microsoft Teams Calling, Devices, and Premium Experiences, delivered a keynote address to introduce and demonstrate some of these advancements. The features he highlighted and others announced during the event represent different areas of Teams, including Places, chat and collaboration, meetings, events, Teams Phone, Teams Rooms, fundamentals, and security. All of these features are designed to highlight how Microsoft Teams is transforming the future of work. From seamless communication to advanced AI-driven features, these new capabilities can be instrumental in helping businesses thrive in a hybrid work environment. Let’s take a look at what we introduced. Chat and Collaboration Meetings, Webinars and Town halls Teams Phone Workplace: Places and Teams Rooms Teams Devices Fundamentals and Security Frontline workers Chat and Collaboration The new chat and channels experience: Generally available in early 2025 (Q1) The new chat and channels experience is designed to help you collaborate more efficiently and effectively. It’s simple by default, enabling everyone to stay on top of what matters, and it’s powerful on demand, allowing you to organize information and communicate your way. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, use filters to triage messages, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, and more. Learn more here. We’re committed to making Teams more streamlined with enhancements like threaded conversations, coming to broad availability in mid-2025. Chat @nearby: Available in public preview in April You can now connect with colleagues who are physically nearby via Teams chat using @nearby. By showing which colleagues are nearby, this feature can help to spur impromptu in-person connections, such as scheduling a spontaneous lunch or meeting up for a quick chat. Resize Teams windows and panes: Available now in public preview Teams now offers more options to arrange your Teams app window across your screen real estate, allowing you to keep your communication in context, tailoring it to your needs. Learn more here. Resize Teams app: snap and resize the Teams app with Windows 11 Snap layouts to efficiently multitask by viewing multiple applications side by side. Enabling access to chat, channel, and meetings functions at smaller window sizes ensures that you can work across all aspects of Teams, alongside other apps. Resize Teams panes: adjust the size of your Teams panes to prioritize what is currently most important to you, and Teams' fluid experience will instantly adapt to fit the new layout. For instance, you can expand the meeting chat pane during a meeting. Simply hover over the edge of the chat, channels, meetings or activity panes, and drag the arrows to resize the panes Zoom levels: Teams now offers additional zoom levels to help you find the size that works best for you. Whether you're using a 6k display or have low vision and need larger text, icons, and controls, you can zoom in without sacrificing functionality or needing to scroll in two directions to read the text. Shared collaborative space in channels: Available in public preview in April A new collaborative space is now available directly from channels, enabling real-time collaboration, organization of key information, and streamlined communications. You will be able to add a Loop workspace tab to standard channels, allowing your team to brainstorm, co-create, collect, and organize content together in real-time. Everyone in the Team gets access to the Loop workspace, even as Team membership changes, and the workspace adheres to the governance, lifecycle, and compliance standards set by the Microsoft 365 Group backing the team. To get started, click the plus sign (+) at the top of the channel and select Loop from the app list. This will be generally available in April. Live chat: Generally available now in the US, rest of world by end of March Live chat in Microsoft Teams enables small businesses to provide quick and helpful customer service by allowing website visitors to chat directly with their team in Teams. This feature includes notifications for incoming chat requests, a dashboard for managing conversations, and the ability to view previous customer interactions. To use Live chat, companies are limited to a maximum of 25 users. This is generally available in the US now and will be available worldwide in March. Learn more about how to set up live chat. Share file (forward): Available in Public preview in March You will be able to directly share a file from chat or channel conversation to other chat or channels, making sharing easier with fewer clicks. To share a file, select the file’s ellipsis menu and choose ‘share’. You can add additional content to the message to provide context and clarity for the recipient. You can share in 1:1 chats, group chats or channels. Improvements to “Shared” tab in chat: Generally available now Filter files by keywords: locate previously shared files or links by entering keywords to the Shared tab’s search bar. Type name, file title, the person who shared it, or even the time when it was shared, and find the file you need. Go-to-chat: Select the go-to-chat icon to quickly navigate to the specific message in which the file or link was shared. Storylines integrated into Teams: Generally available in early 2025 (Q1) Employee communications are often scattered across multiple locations, leading to frustration, delays, and overload. Storyline in Teams empowers leaders to share updates and vision with all of employees and simplifies the ways that people share and connect. The storyline integration brings the same communication benefits from Viva Engage right into Teams, providing a new way for employees to stay on top of company initiatives, discover what leaders are talking about, and contribute ideas and perspectives. Meetings, Webinars and Town halls Intelligent meeting recap for Events [Premium]: Generally available now Intelligent recap is now available for town hall and webinar event instances, just like the intelligent recap experience you are used to in meetings. Event organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can now easily explore the meeting recording by speakers and topics, and access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. In addition to availability with a Teams Premium license, intelligent event recap features are available with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. End the Session for attendees and presenters return to green room: Generally available now Organizers and presenters can now end the session with this new "End Event" button for town halls, webinars, and structured meetings. After selecting this button, attendees will see a message on stage stating that the session has concluded, and presenters will return to the Green Room. Post and reply to questions as an organizer: Generally available in early 2025 (Q2) Town hall and webinar organizers now have the ability to post and reply to questions using the title “organizer” in the Q&A experience, instead of their individual names. This feature allows instance organizers to present a unified and official voice when responding to attendee questions. DVR Support for Town hall: Generally available in April Digital Video Recording (DVR) functionality in town halls now enables event attendees to interact with an instance of a live streaming town hall instance in the same way they would a recorded piece of content, when viewing via desktop or web. This makes it easier to digest the content being presented, giving viewers the ability to pause and move forward or back within a town hall, navigate to any previously-streamed timestamp, and interact in other ways that make viewing a town hall more convenient. This feature is available for all town halls regardless of license assigned to the organizers. Town hall concurrent attendee increase to 50K: Generally available in March Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audience in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 50,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 20,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 50,000 concurrent attendees by reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption). ). Pop out meetings panels: Generally available in April When you are in meetings or calls, you can now pop out, drag, and resize your meeting panes from the meeting window. With this feature, you’ll be able to view multiple meeting features at the same time, so you don’t miss anything in the chat while monitoring meeting notes. The ability to pop out and move/resize is available for Chat, Copilot, and Notes side panes. Town hall Attendee/Presenter email dial in details: Generally available now With the release of this feature, the Townhall attendee and presenter invites will have dial in details available in the body of the email. This provides an additional level of convenience, giving attendees easy access to important event information. Separate policies to control transcription and recording for Town halls and Webinars: Generally available now Town halls and webinars now have separate policies from meetings to allow or disable transcription and recording in instances. Previously, the transcription and recording policies for town halls and webinars automatically inherited the transcription and recording policy set for meetings. Town hall and webinars can now also have distinct transcription and recording policies from each other. This option to implement different policies for town hall and webinars is available for users on all licenses. Ability to separate out the Townhall attendee invites: Generally available now Organizers can now maintain separate invites for Townhall attendees, distinct from the events crew. This feature helps manage large-scale events more efficiently by ensuring that only intended participants receive the necessary information Teams Phone Teams Phone extensibility for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center and certified ISVs solutions: Available in public preview in April We’re introducing Teams Phone extensibility for Dynamics 365 Contact Center and certified ISV solutions to help customers benefit from and extend their existing telephony investment with Teams Phone into the contact center. Beginning next month customers with Teams Phone and Dynamics 365 Contact Center will be able to leverage Teams Phone as a single, integrated solution to power calling across their unified communications as a service (UCaaS) and contact center as a service (CCaaS) solutions—streamlining the deployment, management, and billing of their telephony infrastructure. Teams Phone extensibility is also supported by ISV solutions that leverage Azure Communication Services (ACS) for this integration, offering customers a wide range of options to bring Teams Phone to their preferred contact center app of choice. Learn more. Copilot in Teams Phone: Use Copilot during Teams calls without turning on transcription or recording : Available now in public preview This new feature allows users to leverage Copilot's capabilities during live call sessions without retaining transcripts or an audio recording afterward. This ensures that users can benefit from Copilot during sensitive conversations where a persistent record is not desired. f Once the admin has enabled this option, users can initiate Copilot without transcription or recording simply through clicking the Copilot button in the header menu. Copilot in Teams Phone helps automate important administrative tasks of a call, such as capturing key points, task owners, and next steps, allowing users to stay focused on the content of the call. Copilot in Teams Phone: Copilot summary for transferred calls: Available in public preview in April Use AI to facilitate seamless call transfers. When a call is forwarded/transferred to another colleague, users can prompt Copilot to automatically create AI notes for the call as a briefing for the receiving colleague. This feature ensures that the recipient is well-informed about the previous conversations related to the transferred call, enhancing their understanding and preparedness. By providing this context, the Copilot summary helps streamline communication and reduce the need for repetitive explanations. Copilot summary for transferred calls will also be supported for certified Teams Phone certified devices. Queues app: barge/whisper/monitor/takeover: available in public preview in April The "Queues app: barge/whisper/monitor/takeover" feature in Teams Phone helps team leads and supervisors manage and train junior agents effectively. This feature allows supervisors to: Monitor: Listen to the conversations their agents are having with callers without being heard. Whisper: Provide assistance to agents during a call without the caller hearing. Barge: Join a call in progress to assist both the agent and the caller. Takeover: Remove an agent from a call and take over the conversation, if necessary. These capabilities are particularly useful for teams that have to manage a lot of inbound calls to serve internal or external customers - such as IT help desk center environments – and where supervisors need to provide oversight in helping agents follow the right procedures when handling customer calls. The feature is part of the Queues app, which is available with a Teams Premium license. SMS for Teams Calling Plans in US & CA: Generally available in US and Canada Teams Calling Plans customers in US & Canada can now send and receive SMS messages directly from the Teams app on desktop or mobile, making it easy to connect with individuals outside of their organizations who are not using Teams. Registration with The Campaign Registry (TCR), which Microsoft helps facilitate during the setup process, is required before Microsoft Teams Calling Plan numbers can be enabled for SMS in Teams Admin Center. Users can then simply open the Teams app, create a new chat, enter the phone number they want to send a message to, then type and send their message. The message will be sent from the user’s phone number, not a generic number. Learn more. Peripherals: Unified call control across multiple Bluetooth audio devices: Generally available now When multiple peripheral devices are connected to Teams, the device used to answer a call will temporarily become the primary device that synchronizes with Teams for button functions. Post-call, the original device selected in Teams Settings will resume its role. Initially, this feature was exclusive to USB devices; however, it now extends to native Bluetooth devices. Users can confidently operate multiple Bluetooth devices, ensuring correct call control functionality. This feature is currently available on Windows, with MacOS support anticipated in the future. Phone devices: Shared call history for call delegates: Generally available now Call delegates can now have access to the call history of the delegator's shared line. This feature allows delegates to view and manage calls made or received on behalf of the delegator, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration. Phone devices: Line keys on phone devices with touch screens: Generally available now Line keys allow you to set up custom contacts and speed dial on the line key buttons of your Teams-certified phone devices with touch screens. They enable one-touch dialing capabilities, making it easier to quickly access frequently dialed contacts and improve productivity. Phone devices: Line key support for shared line and call transfers: Available in public preview in April This feature will enable you to assign shared lines to a line key and view the boss and delegates of the line along with their presence on Teams Phone devices with touch screens. This feature allows delegates to pick up calls on behalf of the boss by pressing the line key and join active calls. Additionally, users will be able to assign the transfer action to the line key, enabling them to transfer active calls by simply pressing that line key. Teams Phone Mobile is now generally available with several new operators, including Bell Canada, Odido (Netherlands), Vodafone UK, and Vodafone Germany. Teams Phone Mobile enables end-users to make and receive calls using a single number across their mobile phone and all their Teams endpoints. This expanding set of mobile operators providing Teams Phone Mobile allows more and more customers, such as Maternal and Family Health Services, to enjoy seamless mobile and Teams integration with unified a calling experience for enhanced flexibility. This feature will be available with additional operators and markets in the future. PSTN call extensibility: Generally available now PSTN Call Extensibility in Microsoft Teams allows third-party application developers to extend the PSTN calling experience with contextual information. Third-party apps can open within the calling interface, allowing end-users to access customer contact information during calls, streamline workflows, and improve customer interaction. Workplace: Places and Teams Rooms Room recommender: Generally available in April 2025 Room recommender makes it easy to collaborate in-person by suggesting suitable meeting rooms. If no room is booked for a meeting, this feature recommends rooms in the meeting chat an hour before the start time when two or more attendees are in the same building. It considers participants’ locations, room availability, and capacity to find the best meeting space. Users can reserve the suggested room with one click and update the meeting invite for everyone. Room recommender will be available on Teams mobile (iOS) to Teams Premium license holders. Ad-hoc individual desk booking: Generally available in April Instantly reserve a desk by plugging into a peripheral on a shared desk, enabling a more streamlined workplace experience for employees. IT admins also benefit from a streamlined backend experience, with automatic peripheral association based on desk booking data and access to desk utilization data in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. Auto-update workplace presence with Wi-Fi: Public preview in April A user's work location can automatically be updated to "office" when their device connects to the onsite corporate Wi-Fi. This feature helps colleagues easily see who is in the office, facilitating in-person connections and collaboration, and enables chat @nearby. Facilitator agent support in Teams Rooms: public preview available now The Facilitator agent support in Teams Rooms provides real-time AI-generated notes and action items during both scheduled hybrid and impromptu in-person meetings. The Facilitator agent appears in the notes panel for hybrid meetings and can be activated via a QR code for in-person meetings, enhancing collaboration and productivity for all. The feature is available to preview in Teams Rooms on Windows and coming to rooms with Android devices in April. Learn more. Occupancy status on Teams panels: Generally available early next quarter Teams panels can now smartly utilize signals from Teams Rooms devices (Windows or Android) or occupancy sensors paired with panels to indicate when a room is in use (e.g., LED glow), so you’re not surprised to find an available room is actually occupied. Learn more. Teams Rooms on Windows app release: Generally available early next quarter In addition to the presenter support in Teams Rooms on Windows for town halls and webinars recently rolled out (See the February WNIT blog), there are exciting features coming in the first 2025 app release for Teams Rooms on Windows. Updates include support for live transcription controls during a meeting from the console, additional language support, and real-time translation for captions, making meetings more inclusive and accessible for multilingual participants. And, with the updated gallery view which arranges participants in consistent tile sizes, prioritizes those with video, offers additional layout options, and optimizes for single and dual displays, users get a consistent meeting experience whether meeting from their desktop or in a room. Learn more. Teams Rooms on Android app release: Generally available early next quarter As in Teams Rooms on Windows, rooms with Android devices are able to identify speakers during live transcription, ensuring clear and precise voice capture for every participant. Cloud services bring intelligent speaker functionalities to existing speakers, offering intelligent meeting recaps and enhanced M365 Copilot value by attributing content and actions to individuals. Additionally, it provides AI-enhanced audio and video experiences in meetings. Additionally, users benefit from enhanced room availability information with real-time calendar updates. And with a first to Android feature, users can control the Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) of the active camera to keep the focus where they want it. Learn more. Teams Rooms Pro Management portal update: Generally available early next quarter Admins now have expanded device health signals with sign-on, Teams Rooms app heartbeat, and network status for Android devices, offering consistency across operating systems. You’ll also get poor call quality signals which help identity root causes and create tickets saving time and effort for IT. In April, GCC-H customers can take advantage of the Pro Management service with assurance that their high security and privacy needs are met. In response to customer demand for consolidation of admin portals, IT admins will have a unified device management experience, for all Teams Rooms on Windows, through the Pro Management portal. Access is being expanded to Basic and Standard licensed rooms, providing the same functionality found in Teams admin center for that license type. These devices will be in the Pro Management portal May 1st, and will no longer be available in Teams admin center (TAC) after June 1, 2025. First focusing on Windows, the unified experience will include Teams Rooms on Android in the future. And, lastly, IT admins can manage rooms more effectively with the AI assistant in the Pro Management portal. It’s designed to quickly provide product help and information specific to your device environment, it’s available for public preview in the coming weeks. You’ll want to be sure to explore this feature. Learn more. Teams Devices Logitech Zone Wireless 2 (Native Bluetooth certification ): Generally available now This dongle-free headset is the first headset with Native Bluetooth capability to earn Microsoft Teams certification. It brings a host of benefits, including the convenience of one less thing to carry (or lose!) as people switch work environments from home, in the office, or on the go, while also freeing up a USB port. Logitech's dongle-free headset features AI noise suppression, noise-canceling mics, hybrid ANC, and premium stereo sound. Advanced Call Clarity (enabled with Logi Tune) suppresses far-end ambient noise so employees can hear colleagues better. Four noise-canceling mics elevate the user’s voice above background conversations. Hybrid ANC makes it easy to concentrate in noisy environments. Personal EQ (enabled with Logi Tune) automatically adjusts to the wearer’s hearing range and the headset features interchangeable earpads and a replaceable battery for longevity. Yealink SkySound CM50 Dante Audio Kit: Generally available now Certified for Teams, the Yealink SkySound CM50 Dante Audio Kit is perfect for large rooms. It includes a CM50 Ceiling Mic, CS10-D Ceiling Speaker, and AP08 DSP. With 127 wide-range mics, advanced beamforming, customizable pickup zones, and AI-based sound optimization, it ensures premium audio coverage and an immersive sound experience, making it a comprehensive solution for Teams Rooms. Learn more. Logitech Rally Bar No-Radio: Generally available now Certified for Teams, the Rally Bar No-Radio transforms any mid-sized room into a Microsoft Teams Room. It features a motorized PTZ camera, room-filling speakers, and a sensitive microphone array for a premium user experience. With premium materials, thoughtful cable management, and a range of mounts, it ensures a professional appearance and outstanding coverage for various room shapes and layouts. Learn more. AudioCodes RXVCam50M Camera: Generally available now Certified for Teams, the AudioCodes RXVCam50M camera is ideal for medium meeting rooms and conference rooms. It delivers vivid image quality with HD 4K resolution for exceptional video conferencing. Smart zoom and face detection enable auto framing, adjusting the camera’s ePTZ to ensure every participant is clearly seen without user intervention. Easily configure settings via the AudioCodes RX-PAD or Teams client Settings menu. Learn more. AudioCodes RXVCam70 Dual-Lens PTZ Camera: Generally available now Certified for Teams, the RXVCam70 delivers an optimal audio and video meeting experience for all participants. It features a 12x optical zoom close-up lens, a 119º DFOV panoramic lens, and a built-in mic array. Advanced AI features, including auto-framing, speaker tracking, and smart gallery, ensure every moment is captured automatically. Included in AudioCodes solution bundles for medium-large Android and Windows Microsoft Teams Rooms, it creates an optimized environment for hybrid Teams meetings. Learn more. Fundamentals and Security Auto-upgrade meeting protection based on shared file: sensitivity label inheritance [Premium]: Generally available in April Now Microsoft Teams can automatically upgrade the sensitivity level of a meeting based on the sensitivity of files shared during the meeting. When an attendee shares a file with a higher sensitivity label, the meeting's protection settings are enhanced to match the file's sensitivity. This feature helps ensure that sensitive information is adequately protected throughout the meeting. It requires an Microsoft 365 E5 and Teams Premium license with Purview enabled. Message safety – URL and file protection: Generally available next quarter (Q2) This feature will enhance security for Teams messaging by blocking weaponizable file types and warning users of harmful URLs sent in Teams messages. The File and URL detection components are embedded in the Teams messaging layers providing comprehensive and robust protection across internal and external one-on-one chats, group chats, meeting chats and channels, to all Teams users. These protections will integrate with Microsoft Defender for Office to enable end-to-end security operations for Teams messaging. Active meeting protection: detect sensitive content while screensharing and notify [Premium]: Generally available next quarter (Q2) This new feature enhances security during meetings by using AI to automatically detect potentially sensitive information, such as social security numbers and credit card numbers, during screen sharing. When such content is detected, the feature alerts both the presenter and the meeting organizer to prevent unintentional sharing. This helps mitigate the risk of exposing sensitive information and ensures a more secure and private meeting experience. This feature is available to meeting organizers who have Teams Premium. All other participants in a meeting can benefit from this feature while in a meeting, however this feature is enabled when the meeting is scheduled by the meeting organizer. iPad split window: Generally available in next quarter (Q2) The iPad Split Window feature in Microsoft Teams supports multiple windows on iPad, allowing users to effortlessly switch between meetings and chats without losing context. Customize your split view for the perfect setup, enhancing multitasking and productivity. Frontline workers QR Code Authentication: Generally available in June 2025 Multiple frontline workers often share the same device across shifts throughout the day. Manual sign-in processes are time consuming and decrease productivity, especially on shared devices. This new, highly requested feature enables sign-in with the scan of a unique QR code and entry of a personal PIN number, significantly decreasing time to log in without affecting security. Shared Device Mode – iOS support for Jamf: Generally available Shared Device Mode now enables more efficient and secure device sharing for Frontline workers. Microsoft's Shared Device Mode (SDM) allows frontline workers, whose device may be shared among multiple users, to login once to access the device and every app on the device and sign out across apps so the device is ready for the next user. In addition, SDM enables conditional access policies to enable customized security policies. Jamf support for Shared Device Mode is now generally available. Customers with iOS Jamf-managed devices can now enable Shared Device Mode at scale with zero-touch provisioning and leverage device compliance conditional access. Open shifts across locations: Generally available The Open shifts across locations feature in Microsoft Teams allows frontline managers to offer open shifts across multiple locations, making it easier to balance workforce needs and fill last-minute gaps. This feature provides flexibility for frontline workers, enabling them to pick up shifts at different locations that suit their schedules. By optimizing staffing and improving customer satisfaction, this feature ensures that businesses are always fully staffed and ready to serveWhat’s New in Microsoft Teams | July 2025
Happy July, everyone! It’s hard to believe that we’re already in the second half of 2025. It was a busy first half for Teams, and there are no signs of slowing down. This month, I’m excited to share that engaging with Copilot is even easier. Copilot is now accessible right at the top of the Teams chat list, even without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Now in Teams, everyone can explore the possibilities of Copilot Chat. We’re also launching the amazing Interpreter. It can break down language barriers with real-time voice interpretation in nine different languages, and can even simulate the sound of your voice! That will certainly bring people closer together by making communication clearer and easier. That’s not all, there are a lot more incredible additions to Teams to check out this month, so read on! New features released this month: Platform Chat and Collaboration Meetings, Webinars, and Town halls Teams Phones Workplace: Places and Teams Rooms Fundamentals and Security Frontline Worker Solutions Certified for Teams Devices Platform Search with apps and agents personalized suggestions The ability to search personalized suggestions in Teams has been enhanced to include apps and agents in addition to your teammates. When searching in Teams you will now also get apps and agent suggestions which dynamically update as you type. For example, if you are typing "Fac" in the Teams search bar, "Facilitator agent" will pop up in addition to other results that match the query. Share agents and apps from app bar via right click You can now share apps directly from the app icon. Simply select the “Share” option when hovering on the app or agent icon while you're in 1:1 chat mode with the app or agent. Additionally, after selecting the “+Apps” icon from the three-dot menu in the top right of any chat, you can right-click to share the app or agent. This update saves Teams users time from having to manually select an app in the app store and manually share the link with their teammates. Chat and Collaboration Microsoft 365 Copilot accessible from the Teams Chat list To help you easily engage with Microsoft 365 Copilot, we're making Copilot Chat with web grounding accessible directly from Teams Chat to users with or without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Copilot Chat will be pinned at the top of the Chat list, just above the “Discover” option. This update simplifies navigation and enhances discoverability, helping you explore Microsoft 365 Copilot in the context of everyday conversations. Whether you're a seasoned user or just getting started, Microsoft 365 Copilot is now just one click away. Trigger workflows using emoji reactions We are introducing the ability to trigger workflows using emoji reactions. In a busy workday, questions, tasks, and requests can easily be overlooked. By automating workflows with emoji reactions, you can streamline processes, eliminate mundane tasks, and speed up response times with automated actions. For example, you can use a template to have emoji reactions trigger forwarding a request. Automate workflows for instant DevOps actions, incident response, team collaboration and more from the Microsoft Teams Workflows app available in the app store. New Microsoft Teams Chat and channels experience in Education The new, streamlined chat and channels experience is now available for Education. The updated experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more. This is an optional opt-in experience. Emoji search Emojis help users express themselves, connect with colleagues, and strengthen team’s culture. Now, finding the right emoji at the right time has got easier. Type a keyword into the emoji search bar in the emoji menu to see related standard and custom emoji from the full collection. Customize notification size You can now change the size of your Teams notifications. In settings, select either the compact or comfy option to take up less space on your screen and suit your work preferences. Meetings, Webinars, and Town halls Interpreter now generally available Interpreter, a new way to make multilingual communication effortless, is now generally available. Interpreter makes it possible for everyone to speak and listen in their preferred language, thanks to advanced real-time speech-to-speech interpretation. Designed for more seamless collaboration across global teams, Interpreter eliminates language barriers in meetings. Whether you’re presenting in English while your colleagues listen in Japanese or collaborating in Spanish while responding in French, each participant can engage naturally in the language of their choice. Interpreter is available across desktop (Windows, Mac), web (Chrome, Safari, Edge), and mobile (iOS, Android). Interpreter currently supports nine languages including Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish. Two hours of interpretation are included per user per month with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Usage exceeding two hours per user per month may incur additional charges. Usage limits and additional terms may apply. External Audio and Camera Device Selection on iPads Two powerful enhancements are now available in Microsoft Teams on iPad: muting external audio devices and external camera switching in pre-join or during the meeting. IPad users will have the ability to select and deselect audio sources and camera devices in Teams meetings[KP1] [RF2] . These updates give users more control over their meeting setup—whether they’re docked at a desk or on the go. Learn more: Introducing External Camera Support for iPads in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Community Hub Sign Language Mode We are introducing an updated experience for sign language users in Teams through a new feature called Sign Language Mode. Sign language mode uses a new, state-of-the-art sign language detection model to ensure that D/HH participants have the same presence as their hearing counterparts while they are signing. This update includes self-identification for Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants and their interpreters, enhanced video quality, improvements to Sign Language View, automatic elevation of signers to active speaker when signing is detected, and increased visibility of interpreters in the meeting roster and on screen. Intelligent meeting recap for unscheduled Town halls for Android devices Intelligent meeting recap enables unscheduled town hall participants using Android devices to browse meeting recordings by speaker name and topic title. Intelligent recap is an AI-powered feature from Microsoft Teams that will help users catch up on missed meetings or events with AI-generated notes, follow-up tasks, name mentions, topics, chapters, speaker identification, and more. Teams Premium users can find it on the new 'Recap' tab in the Teams calendar event detail and in the town hall chat. Introducing new IT administrator policies to control town hall event access A new policy setting,`TownhallEventAccessType’ gives tenant administrators the ability to control who can attend the town hall created by users from their organization. This setting allows admins to choose between “Everyone” and “Everyone in Organization including Guests”. Polls support in Teams Town hall [Premium] Boost engagement and gain valuable insights for future discussions by using polls in Teams Town halls. Organizers will be able to create and share multiple-choice questions, quizzes and interactive polls, gathering real-time feedback from participants. This feature is available for town hall organizers that have a Teams Premium license. Slide Control for Presenters Meeting or event presenters can now share control of slides with fellow presenters eliminating manual slide changes and maintaining a smooth flow during meetings or webinars. Teams Phone Use Copilot during Teams calls without turning on transcription or recording Now users can leverage Copilot's capabilities during Teams calls without retaining transcripts or an audio recording. Once an admin has enabled this option, users can initiate Copilot without transcription or recording by clicking the Copilot button in the header menu. Users can have Copilot handle important administrative tasks of a call, such as capturing key points, task owners, and next steps during sensitive conversations where a persistent record is not desired. Requires Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams Phone licenses. Suggested prompts for Copilot on Teams Phone devices Copilot is now supported on Teams Phone devices, bringing real-time intelligence to calls with just a tap. During active 1:1 and group calls, users can choose from suggested Copilot prompts to quickly generate meeting notes and summarize action items. For instance, while wrapping up a project call from a Teams Phone device, tap a suggested Copilot prompt to summarize key takeaways and next steps. Requires Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams Phone licenses. Suggested contacts for call transfers from Teams Phone devices Call transfers from Teams Phone devices are now smarter, faster, and more accurate. During active calls, users can choose from suggested call transfer contacts intelligently surfaced based on context, communication patterns, and placement in contact groups. This new capability reduces the number of steps needed to complete a call transfer. Requires users to be licensed for Teams Phone. Set custom ringtones for assigned line keys on Teams Phone devices Personalize your experience on Teams Phone devices by setting unique ringtones and choosing how each assigned line key alerts you: ring only, ring with flash, or flash only. This feature is supported across touch, non-touch, and sidecar devices, giving you full control over how you stay notified. Requires users to be licensed for Teams Phone. Configure line keys for Teams Phone devices from Teams admin center We previously released line keys to allow users to set up custom one-touch dialing, shared line, collaborative call delegation, and other capabilities on Teams Phone devices, making it easier to access frequently dialed contacts and improve productivity. Now, within the Teams admin center, admins can configure line keys for personal and common area phones. Requires users to be licensed for Teams Phone. Real-time text supported on Teams Phone devices Real-time text (RTT) messages can now be viewed on Teams Phone devices. If users wish to send RTT messages, they will need to join the meeting with their laptop/mobile as a companion device. Requires users to be licensed for Teams Phone. Remote contact management for common area phones Admins can now remotely manage frequently used contacts, which are then made available in the Company contacts group on Teams Phone devices set up as common area phones. Whether adding or removing contacts, the process is streamlined and intuitive, helping ensure that shared devices stay up to date with the right contact information. Requires a Teams Phone license. Set up call priorities for call queues Call priorities for call queues in Teams allow you to set the order in which calls are routed to agents within a call queue. This functionality is useful for ensuring that high-priority calls are answered first, while lower-priority calls are held in a queue until an agent becomes available. Auto attendant and call queue capabilities require a Teams Phone license. Telephone number tags available via PowerShell Teams admins can now assign custom tags to telephone numbers using new PowerShell cmdlets. These tags make it easier to filter, automate, and manage large sets of numbers; especially useful for organizations with complex telephony needs. Admins can create up to 1,000 tags per tenant, and each phone number can hold up to 50 tags. Use the following cmdlets to manage telephone number tags: Set-CsPhoneNumberTag Update-CsPhoneNumberTag Remove-CsPhoneNumberTag Get-CsPhoneNumberTag Workplace: Places and Teams Rooms Find certified for Teams devices for all types of spaces and uses at aka.ms/teamsdevices. Face recognition for Teams Rooms via Cloud IntelliFrame If your organization has enabled facial recognition in policies and you've enrolled your profile via Teams Settings, Teams Rooms using Cloud IntelliFrame will automatically recognize you, list you in the meeting roster, and optimize camera views for participants making hybrid meetings feel like you are all in the room together. This feature of Teams Rooms Pro can make existing cameras in the room more intelligent. Learn more here. Shared spaces insights in the Pro Management portal The new shared spaces insights page in the Pro Management portal provides IT admins with customized utilization insights, including time-series data visualizations, for shared spaces beginning with Teams Rooms. The feature uses calendar data and occupancy signals from Teams Rooms to track usage with filters for location, business hours, days of the week, and date ranges making it easy to see how spaces are being used. Available with a Teams Rooms Pro license. Learn more here. Fundamentals and Security Rules-Based Enablement of M365 Third-Party Apps in Teams Admin Center This feature enables M365 administrators to establish specific criteria for permitting third-party SaaS applications within their tenant. Administrators can choose from a list of predefined criteria deemed safe, ensuring that only trusted and compliant applications are auto-allowed under this rule. Monitor DNS resolution failures and impact of proxy on Teams meetings with Best practice configurations dashboard in Teams admin center Teams administrators can use the best practice configuration dashboard in Teams admin center to monitor DNS and proxy issues that can cause call drops, login failures, or poor real-time media quality. Default enable transcription policy for new tenants The default policy for Transcription has been updated from “off” to “on” for any new tenant. This change doesn’t mean that every meeting will automatically have transcription enabled, but it will allow users to turn on transcription if needed. This adjustment aligns the default Transcription policy with that of Recording, supporting broader adoption of Transcription and all AI features. Support Audit logs for Give and Take Control and Screen share IT administrators can now access detailed logs for both the "Give and Take Control" and "Screenshare" features. These logs will provide comprehensive information, including the names and timestamps of the individuals involved in each action. Specifically, the logs will indicate who initiated or received control, as well as who started the screenshare session, along with the corresponding timestamps and names. This enhancement ensures greater transparency and accountability for all control and screenshare activities. Accessible in Teams Admin Center. Remote log collection in Teams admin center Teams Administrators now have the capability to remotely collect client diagnostics logs from users' devices, thereby eliminating the need for any user action or workflow disruption. This advanced tool is designed to greatly assist IT administrators by automating the previously lengthy and manual process of diagnostic log collection for troubleshooting purposes. Frontline Worker Solutions Enterprise News Reader The new SharePoint News experience recommends content from sites users follow and frequently visit. Permission-filtered news appears with organization announcements prioritized at the top. Frontline workers can like and save items to share interests and revisit important news when convenient. Learn more in the Enterprise News Reader Announcement Blog. Viva Engage Moderation Agent: Theme Moderation in Viva Engage Theme Moderation in Viva Engage will help network admins and corporate communicators moderate conversations at scale. Theme monitoring utilizes AI to process the data in threads across your network and builds on recently announced advanced moderation capabilities, including enhancements to keyword monitoring. With this new tool, admins can simply add new themes to moderate and will deploy moderation across all new activities or conversations mentioning that theme. Learn more: AI Summarization in Viva Engage | Microsoft Learn Engage Communication Dashboard Corporate communicators now have a powerful new command center in Viva Engage. With the redesigned Communications Dashboard, they can seamlessly manage campaigns, analyze performance, oversee leaders and audiences, and access delegate and community tools—all from one intuitive hub. This update also introduces a unified view of all featured conversations, complete with dates, making it easier to track engagement across initiatives. Additionally, advanced moderation just got smarter. Theme moderation in Viva Engage leverages AI to proactively manage sensitive content with precision. From streamlined delegate visibility to robust analytics, this rollout equips communicators with everything they need to stay on top of engagement and ensure discussions are productive and professional. 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Biamp Audio Conference Bar and 4K Camera Teams Rooms System The Parlé™ABC 2500a conferencing bar combines renowned Biamp Audio Intelligence with Vidi 280 ePTZ Compact Camera to deliver exceptional Microsoft teams room experiences in small to medium sized meeting rooms. Paired with Lenovo, The ThinkSmart Core Gen 2 + IP Controller Kit completes this premium solution with Intel® Core™ Ultra processing power driving AI-enhanced productivity features. Its modular design with minimal cabling keeps your space clean and professional. Also featuring Biamp Launch™, an automated tuning system that optimizes the audio to each unique conferencing space. Learn more. Biamp Table Mic & 4K Camera System for Medium Teams Rooms Experience flawless communication in every Teams meeting. Everything needed to equip a medium sized room — powerful, configurable audio with optional one-touch setup, stunning 4K video, the latest in MTR compute and control, and all cabling included. Learn more. Yealink BH70 Dual and BH70 Mono Teams USB-A Enhance production efficiency with the Yealink BH70 Bluetooth wireless headset. The versatile Yealink BH70 is suitable for various scenarios, including office, home, or on-the-go use, effectively meeting all your needs. Equipped with Yealink's advanced 2nd generation microphone noise cancellation technology, three AI-powered microphones intelligently and efficiently reduce background noise to ensure a seamless call experience. Designed ergonomically based on extensive user studies, the BH70 provides exceptional comfort for extended wear throughout the day. With impeccable stereo playback sound quality, you can always indulge in an unparalleled audio experience. Boasting a long-lasting battery life and effortless usability, the BH70 serves as your best communication and collaboration companion. Learn more. Yealink SmartVision 40S The Yealink SmartVision 40 is an ultra-high-definition, all-in-one intelligent conference system tailored for small to medium meeting rooms, leveraging advanced AI algorithms to enhance meeting efficiency. Equipped with AI features such as face detection, sound source positioning, and voice tracking, SmartVision 40 tracks participants’ movements to keep the speaker in focus, providing stable, high-quality images. Beyond basic Auto Framing and Speaker Tracking, the Multi-stream IntelliFrame feature uses Multi-Stream output to detect and frame speakers, displaying them on-screen, which enables remote participants to see each speaker’s expressions and gestures for an interactive experience. Learn more. AudioCodes C436HD Native Microsoft Teams Common Area IP Phone with Integrated Sidecar The AudioCodes C436HD IP phone is a Microsoft Teams-native entry level/common area phone designed to support the next generation of enterprise collaboration technologies. 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