A new Teams meeting policy setting lets admins turn off the profanity filter in meeting transcripts. The default behavior does not change unless an administrator changes the assigned meeting policy.
Microsoft will enable the Attach file and Drag & Drop experiences in Teams chats with guests. The change applies only to tenants that have never updated the file attachment setting since July 2025.
Webinar and Town Hall settings in the Teams Events policy decide which event types users can create in the Events app. Worth knowing if you use the Teams Events app.
Teams on the web is moving to teams.cloud.microsoft. An overview of the timeline, the impact on users, and the temporary administrator control to postpone the redirect in case of compatibility issues.
Microsoft is separating controls for Teams Events attendance and engagement reports from those for Teams Meetings. Teams admins should review and prepare their attendance and engagement reporting settings in Teams Events policies before the rollout.
Events in Microsoft Teams now support SRT as an inbound streaming protocol alongside RTMP, offering better resilience for external encoder setups.
Microsoft is introducing a new tenant-level control to govern whether applications and agents can access Teams transcripts via the Microsoft Graph API. This control will be enforced after 29 July 2026. Because it’s disabled by default, access to Graph API transcripts will be blocked automatically unless a Teams administrator explicitly enables it.
Microsoft is rolling out Express Voice enrollment in Teams, allowing users to register a voice profile passively by speaking during a meeting.
The unified Teams Events experience introduces a new Registration setting for all Teams Events in the Meet app, available by default.
Microsoft is rolling out bot detection for Teams Meetings, requiring an additional approval step before external meeting assistant bots can be admitted from the lobby. Administrators can configure a new policy setting to control bot access tenant-wide, including blocking detected bots entirely.