Microsoft has begun rolling out a major update to event management in Teams, renaming the Meet app to Events and bringing a unified discovery and creation experience to desktop, Mac, and web. The change, tracked under Roadmap ID 547834, reached general availability in February 2026 and is now reaching standard Microsoft 365 tenants worldwide.
The rollout consolidates what had become a fragmented collection of event types—webinars, town halls, and interactive meetings—into a single hub where users can browse upcoming sessions across the entire organization, keep track of registrations, and plan professional events of their own without jumping between different tools or calendar invites.
A Single Hub for All Your Events
The most visible change is the new Events app, which replaces the old Meet experience in the Teams app menu. When you open it, you’ll see a dashboard that surfaces all upcoming webinars, town halls, and larger meetings that are open to members of your organization. Instead of hunting through invitation links or Outlook calendar entries, users can discover and register for events in one place.
But the update goes deeper than a new coat of paint. The creation flow has been redesigned so that organizers no longer have to decide upfront what kind of event they’re hosting. In the past, creating a webinar required choosing one path, while setting up a town hall meant navigating a different set of options. Now, you start with a blank canvas: set the scale, decide whether registration is required, and then enable the interaction features that match your goal. Microsoft offers templates for webinars and town halls if you want a guided start, but the underlying engine is the same.
For attendees, the experience adjusts automatically. Smaller, interactive events—up to 1,000 people—support microphones, cameras, chat, reactions, polls, Q&A, and hand raising. Scale up to 3,000 participants, and meeting chat remains active while the presentation takes center stage. At the 10,000-attendee threshold, the event becomes view-only with Q&A as the main channel for participation. Organisations that need even larger broadcasts can purchase an Attendee Capacity Pack, which lifts the ceiling to 100,000 attendees.
How the Unified Flow Changes Things for Organizers
The shift to a common creation model matters because it removes guesswork. Previously, someone planning a department-wide town hall often had to restart the setup if they realized mid-stream that a webinar template would better serve their needs. The new flow lets organizers experiment with attendance limits, registration requirements, and interaction toggles without committing to a format too early.
Microsoft’s documentation emphasises that the new experience is meant to serve the full spectrum of digital events—from a 50-person brainstorming session to a company-wide all-hands with thousands of viewers. The underlying policies that admins set for webinars and town halls still apply, so the controls over who can create events and which features are available haven’t changed. But the user-facing interface now treats all of these scenarios as points on a continuum, rather than separate silos.
Three Years, Three Names: The Road to Unification
The Events app didn’t appear out of nowhere. It’s the final piece in a three-year arc that saw Microsoft retire its legacy Live Events platform and reimagine how large gatherings work inside Teams.
In mid-2023, Teams still offered a separate Live Events experience that relied on external encoders and a rigid producer role. That system was built for broadcast-style events but felt disconnected from the everyday meeting experience. Microsoft began expanding native teams meeting capabilities to handle larger audiences, first by enabling streaming-style meetings and then by introducing a dedicated webinar experience with registration pages and email confirmations directly inside Teams.
By early 2024, the company added town halls as a distinct event type, optimised for large audiences with limited interaction. The Meet app arrived later that year as a discovery layer, letting users find and register for webinars and town halls in one place. But the creation experience still forced organizers into separate tracks, and the app’s name—Meet—caused confusion with the general concept of Microsoft Teams meetings.
The renaming to Events is more than a branding exercise. It signals that the product team now sees discovery, creation, and management as one continuous workflow, not a patchwork of features bolted onto an existing meeting client.
What This Means If You’re an Attendee or Organizer
If you spend most of your time attending events, the big win is visibility. The Events app gives you an at-a-glance calendar of everything that’s happening inside your organisation, complete with registration links and reminders. No more searching your inbox for that town hall you signed up for three weeks ago.
For event organizers, the learning curve is small but the workflow feels more natural. You’ll still open Teams, click the Events app, and choose to create a new event. But instead of picking “Webinar” or “Town hall” at the first screen, you’ll configure settings in whatever order makes sense. Microsoft has kept the template options available—so if you know you want a webinar with registration and Q&A, you can start from a pre-configured card and tweak from there.
One thing to note: while the name has changed in the official documentation and should update in the UI as the rollout progresses, some users may still see the “Meet” label temporarily. Microsoft says the feature is being deployed in phases, so tenants on standard release schedules might not see the Events app immediately after their admin enables the update.
Admin To-Do: Verify Policies Before the Full Rollout
The good news for IT teams is that this update doesn’t introduce a new set of administrative controls. The existing policies for webinars and town halls continue to govern who can schedule events, whether they’re visible to the entire organisation or only select groups, and which interaction features are allowed.
But that doesn’t mean admins can ignore the rollout. Microsoft recommends four checks:
- Confirm that the users who are meant to host events have the necessary permissions to schedule webinars and town halls.
- Review whether organizers are allowed to create public events or only in-organization events.
- Double-check registration settings, anonymous access rules, and limits on attendee interaction, recording, and Q&A.
- Communicate to end users that the app formerly called Meet may now appear as Events in Teams and in Microsoft Learn documentation.
Because the rollout is gradual, organisations need to plan for a transition period where some employees have the new experience and others don’t. A brief internal FAQ or a quick Teams message can prevent support tickets asking why a colleague’s app looks different.
No More Live Events: Migrate Before the Deadline
Another reason this change matters: Microsoft officially retired Teams Live Events on June 30, 2026. Any previously scheduled Live Events remain accessible through February 28, 2027, but you can no longer create new ones. The Events app is the recommended replacement for all future broadcasts.
If your organisation still relies on Live Events for large-scale presentations, the time to plan your migration is now—before the sunset window closes. The common creation flow inside the Events app handles most of the scenarios that Live Events covered, including large audiences and view-only participation. The main workflow difference is that you no longer need an external encoder; everything is built into the Teams client.
What’s Next for Teams Events
Microsoft hasn’t published detailed plans beyond this rollout, but several trends point to what might come next. The unified creation flow opens the door for AI-assisted event planning, such as automatically generating registration pages or suggesting optimal interaction settings based on attendee size. Deeper integration with Microsoft Places or Viva could also help surface events that are relevant to an employee’s role or interests.
For now, the immediate task is getting comfortable with the Events app and ensuring your organisation’s policies align with how you want large meetings to function. The old event silos are gone—and that’s a change worth understanding before your next all-hands.