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Microsoft Supercharges Teams With Copilot’s Contextual Search, AI Calls, and Granular Bot Governance
Microsoft’s June 2026 feature drop for Teams is a sweeping upgrade that touches nearly every corner of the collaboration platform—from how you find files and resume conversations to how...
No-Code AI Agents Arrive in Microsoft Teams via Copilot Studio with Built-in Governance
Microsoft Teams users can now build and deploy custom AI agents directly within the collaboration platform, thanks to a deep integration with Copilot Studio. The no-code tool, which evolved from...
Microsoft Teams’ 2026 Auto Check-In Triggers German Works Council Privacy Battle
Microsoft will begin rolling out a new Teams feature in June 2026 that automatically updates an employee’s work status based on whether their device connects to a corporate Wi-Fi network or managed...
Ireland’s Oireachtas Shifts to Teams Telephony, Fueling EU Sovereignty Concerns
Dublin’s Leinster House has completed a full migration of its telephone system to Microsoft Teams, placing the Irish legislature’s entire voice communications on a US-owned cloud platform. The...
Microsoft Teams to Introduce Dedicated Backstage Chat for Webinar Organizers by August 2026
Microsoft has updated its Microsoft 365 Roadmap to confirm that a private chat channel exclusive to organizers, co-organizers, and presenters is coming to Teams structured meetings and webinars....
Automatic Recording and Transcription Coming to Teams Call Queues in August 2026
Starting in August 2026, Microsoft Teams administrators will gain a powerful new capability: the automatic recording and transcription of every call handled by a Call Queue. The feature, which has...
Microsoft Teams Town Halls to Gain Professional-Grade SRT Ingest for Ultra-Low-Latency, Broadcast-Ready Streaming
Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 Roadmap updated June 30, 2026, shows that Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) ingest is rolling out for Microsoft Teams town halls on desktop and Mac clients, targeting...
Anthropic’s Claude Tag Launches on Slack, Leaving Microsoft Teams Users with a Fragmented AI Experience
Anthropic dropped a not-so-subtle challenge to Microsoft’s enterprise dominance on June 23, 2026, when it opened the beta for Claude Tag—but only within Slack, snubbing Microsoft Teams for the...
BlackBerry AtHoc Now Sends Identity-Driven Crisis Alerts Directly to Microsoft Teams, Powered by Entra ID
BlackBerry’s AtHoc crisis communication platform can now deliver real-time alerts directly into Microsoft Teams, leveraging Microsoft Entra ID for identity-based user provisioning and targeted...
Android Teams Devices Shift to Rooms Pro Portal: IT Admins Face June 2026 Deadline
Microsoft will migrate all Android-based Teams Rooms, Teams panels, and Teams phones out of the classic Teams admin center and into the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal by June 2026, the company...
Microsoft Teams Town Hall Now Lets Organizers Instantly Restart Crashed Live Events on Desktop and Mac
Microsoft has begun rolling out a critical restart capability for Teams Town Hall on Windows desktop and Mac clients, giving organizers, producers, and production-enabled presenters the power to...
Microsoft Teams to Introduce Background File Uploads by August 2026
Microsoft is developing a long-awaited feature for Teams that will let users continue sending messages and collaborating while large files upload in the background, according to a new entry on the...