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Microsoft Teams to Offer Split Attendance Reporting: Event Analytics Without Meeting Tracking in 2026
Microsoft is set to give Teams administrators granular control over attendance and engagement reporting, decoupling the feature for events like webinars and town halls from ordinary meetings. The...
Auto Attendant Voicemail Lands in Teams Queues App This August
Microsoft is set to bring a long-awaited convenience to Teams Phone users: starting in August 2026, voicemail messages left for Auto Attendants will appear inside the Teams Queues app, alongside...
Microsoft to Allow Defense and High-Security Teams Users to Disable Auto Do Not Disturb When Sharing
Microsoft plans to give Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) and Department of Defense (DoD) Microsoft Teams users a long-awaited choice: the ability to stop Teams from automatically switching...
Catch Up on Meetings Faster: Microsoft Teams Adds AI Audio Summaries in July 2026
Microsoft will begin rolling out an AI-powered audio recap feature for its Teams Meeting recap app in July 2026, according to a new entry on the Microsoft 365 roadmap. The update aims to help...
Microsoft Teams Live Captions Will Get a Permanent Sidebar and Default-On Switch in August 2026
Microsoft plans to overhaul live captions in Microsoft Teams, introducing a fixed right-side panel and a simplified settings menu that includes a new toggle to turn captions on by default for every...
Microsoft Teams to Open Live Production Controls to External Presenters in 2026
Organizations that outsource live event production—hiring AV crews, agencies, or freelance technicians—have long hit a wall in Microsoft Teams: the person who starts, stops, and controls the...
Windows 11's Recording Toolkit: What Every User Needs to Know After Windows 10's Sunset
Microsoft's official end of support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, pushed millions of users onto Windows 11. At the same time, the built-in recording tools inside Microsoft's latest OS have...
PartnerOne Acquires ISI Analytics, Pledges AI Investment for Teams and Cisco Calling Tools
PartnerOne announced on July 14, 2026, that it has acquired ISI Analytics, a provider of enterprise collaboration analytics and operational intelligence solutions for Microsoft Teams, Cisco, and...
Penn State’s July 23 Town Hall: Navigating Tightening Federal Research Security Rules
Penn State faculty and staff will get a direct line to the university’s top research leaders on Thursday, July 23, at 1 p.m. ET, when a town hall breaks down the tangle of new federal security...
LSEG’s AI Agent Can Now Answer Your Financial Queries Inside Teams — With Copilot on Deck
LSEG today flipped the switch on an AI-powered research agent that lets financial professionals grill a chatbot with plain-English questions—and get answers backed by citations—directly inside...
Teams Live Events Locks Down: Why You Need to Start Your Town Hall Migration Today
On June 30, 2026, Microsoft will pull the plug on Teams Live Events. But the real deadline already hit: since February 3, no organization can schedule a new Live Event past that date. If you work in...
Teams Meeting AI Toggle: How to Disable Copilot Mid-Call (and the Transcription Catch)
Microsoft will start rolling out a long-awaited in-meeting control for Teams that lets meeting organizers and presenters disable AI features live, the company confirmed this week. The toggle,...