Where did the first half of the year go? This edition of What’s New in Teams comes to you on the heels of InfoComm 2026 in Las Vegas, the largest professional AV show in North America, and the week where the people who design, build, and run the world’s collaboration spaces all gather in one place. It’s a fitting backdrop, because so much of what’s new in Teams this month comes back to a single idea: bringing people and AI together to get work done.

That was the high-level takeaway of our InfoComm keynote, where our Corporate Vice President for Teams Calling, Meetings, and Devices, Ilya Bukshteyn, showed how AI now shows up across Teams like a teammate, in your calls, in your meetings, and in the environments where work happens. A few highlights from each worth calling out:

In your calls and conversations

• New calling agents: Teams Phone Agent is a new AI calling experience that answers incoming calls for a department or organization, understanding what each caller needs and routing or resolving common information requests and appointments scheduling conversationally. Custom voice agents your organization builds in Microsoft Copilot Studio integrate with Teams Phone for help with specialized processes, like enabling a customer to pay a bill in a call.


• Brand impersonation protection: Teams now detects and warns you when a caller may be posing as a trusted brand, like your IT help desk or bank, with a clear in-call signal so you can decline or leave before you engage.

In your meetings

• Redesigned in-meeting controls: Customize your meeting controls around how you work, and share with more confidence through an improved experience for previewing and presenting content.


• Bot detection: A new Teams admin policy helps identify likely bots, route them to the lobby in a separate group, and requires organizer approval before they join.

In your rooms

• Facilitator in Teams Rooms: with new skills, the Facilitator agent can help extend the meeting lifecycle in Teams Rooms. For the room itself, Facilitator agent can now notify of any issues with the room and find a suitable replacement, use voice to interact with users in the Teams Room, provide information about how to get the most out of using the space, and access external knowledge to answer general questions. These new skills make Teams Rooms smarter before, during, and after meetings.


• IntelliFrame people labels: IntelliFrame now identifies each person in the room and places their name right alongside them, so remote participants always know exactly who’s speaking. A small thing that makes hybrid meetings feel more inclusive and equitable.

These are just some of what’s new to explore in Teams this month. For more information about all the features we highlighted at InfoComm 2026, watch Ilya’s full keynote presentation here. Read on to see everything we’ve released in June across Teams.

Product areas covered in this update: (All features are generally available unless otherwise noted.)

Chat and Collaboration
Meetings
Teams Phone
Workplace – Places and Teams Rooms
Fundamentals and Security
Frontline workers
Platform
Certified for Teams Devices

 

Chat and Collaboration

Contextual search in Copilot in Teams

Sometimes the fastest path to an answer in Teams is to ask rather than scroll through search results. Contextual search in Copilot is now built into Teams search—invoked from autosuggest or a new button on the search results page—so you can get answers without leaving the search experience.

 

Advanced file discovery and filters in Teams Find in chat and channels

Finding the right file in a busy channel often means scrolling or asking someone to resend it. Enhanced contextual search now indexes every file uploaded to a channel—even files added outside messages—and adds filters for file type, sender, and date, with instant typeahead to narrow results as you search. Press Ctrl+F (Windows), Cmd+F (Mac), or click Find in chat to start.

 

Improved preview experience for Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel files in Teams on mobile

Slow or unreliable previews on mobile can stall you between meetings. PowerPoint and Excel previews in Teams now load faster and more reliably, so you can review presentations and spreadsheets shared in chats and channels while on the go. The new preview experience also enables you to open Information Rights Management (IRM)-protected files, improving access to protected content.

 

List view for “View more apps”

A cluttered tile view in “View more apps” makes it hard to scan and find the app you need. A streamlined list view now reduces visual noise and helps you discover and open apps more quickly.

 

Context preservation in Teams

Teams automatically restores your workspace when you return to a conversation shortly after leaving it. Your selected tab, open side panel, and layout are preserved, allowing you to pick up where you left off without resetting your view. This helps reduce friction and keeps you focused as you move between conversations.

 

Live meeting indicator for threaded channels in Teams (government clouds)

Live meetings happening right now in a busy threaded channel can go unnoticed in the scroll. A new live meeting indicator in Teams for government clouds highlights active meetings in the channel so you can spot them and join in real time.

 

Improved organization for muted and meeting chats in Teams

A long, mixed chat list makes it hard to find the conversations that actually need your attention. Teams now automatically groups muted chats (on by default) and, optionally, meeting chats into dedicated sections you can turn on or off, so your most important conversations remain easy to find.

 

Improved visibility and control for downloads in Teams

Tracking the status of files you’ve downloaded shouldn’t  get in the way of your chats. The download manager now opens from the title bar or with a keyboard shortcut and lets you monitor downloads without blocking chat and channel actions, so you can stay on top of files while keeping the conversation moving.

 

Quick Share for images in Teams

Quick Share in Teams now makes it easier to share images across chats and channels in just a few clicks. You can access sharing options from hover, right-click, overflow menus, and shared tabs to quickly copy links or share images. For images stored in OneDrive or SharePoint, Quick Share preserves existing permissions so the right people maintain access, while images pasted directly into chat are stored separately and do not support permission-based sharing.

 

Meetings

Smarter bot protection in Teams meetings

AI note-taking bots have started showing up in meetings, creating privacy and security risks when sensitive topics are discussed. A new Teams admin policy, Manage external bots and their access to meetings, helps Teams identify likely bots, route them to the lobby in a separate “Suspected threats” group, and require organizer approval before they join. Confirmation prompts on admission and an upcoming registration path for trusted ISVs make admitting a bot a deliberate decision rather than an accidental one. Learn more.

 

Branded reactions

Visual identity shapes how your organization shows up. Whether it’s a client presentation, an internal milestone, or a seasonal event, the right visuals set the tone and reinforce your brand. With new branded reactions, organizations can now extend their visual identity directly into meetings. IT admins simply upload custom reaction icons reflecting brand elements or event themes, and these instantly become available for meeting participants. Every clap, thumbs-up, or celebration now aligns with your organization’s look and feel. A simple way to create more cohesive, on-brand meeting experiences.

 

Teams Phone

Teams Phone Agent and extensibilty for Copilot Studio voice agents [Frontier public preview]

Callers reaching a service line shouldn’t have to wait on hold just to ask a simple question or schedule an appointment. The new Teams Phone Agent answers incoming calls to your Teams Phone service line quickly, handles common questions, schedules appointments, and routes calls to the right person or department when human help is needed. It also integrates with custom AI voice agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio for specialized workflows like paying a bill over the phone. This is experience is available in preview through the Fronter Program. Learn more.

Outlook, Teams: Enhanced voicemail transcription and support for new languages

Inaccurate or limited-language voicemail transcripts can leave you guessing what callers actually said. Starting in June, voicemail transcription moves to Azure LLM Speech via the Fast Transcription API, bringing more accurate transcripts, faster processing, automatic language detection, and 14 new languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.

 

Simplified app management for Teams Phone devices via Teams admin center

Empower IT admins to customize Teams Phone devices at scale with centralized app management in the Teams admin center. Administrators can now select and remove applications on Teams Phone devices directly from a single management console, eliminating the need for on-device configuration. This streamlined experience helps organizations tailor the app experience for different roles, reduce administrative effort, and maintain greater control across their device fleet. Learn more.

 

Workplace: Teams Rooms

Facilitator agent skills in Teams Rooms [Public preview]

Facilitator agent now brings a persistent, voice-activated AI presence to your Teams Rooms before and after every meeting, understanding the space, your work data, and even the web to keep collaboration moving. With room readiness checks, it catches problems like camera obstructions, clutter, or too few seats before anyone walks in, and surfaces the issue. You can now invoke Facilitator by voice, just speak to the Teams Room to join a meeting or get help and it answers out loud. As a persistent Teams Room expert, Facilitator can answer questions about how the space is set up, from the room’s name to how to share wirelessly. Facilitator agent in Teams Rooms can now also access external knowledge, it pulls trusted answers from the web to settle in-the-moment questions, so people stay in the flow instead of reaching for a laptop. The result is a room that’s ready when you are, captures what matters, and gives everyone more out of every meeting.

 

IntelliFrame people labels [Public preview]

IntelliFrame people labels put names to faces for everyone joining from a Teams Room, so the whole meeting knows exactly who’s who. Powered by intelligent cameras and enrollment-based recognition, the labels appear when you hover over an in-room participant. These labels are there when you need them, out of the way when you don’t, and if someone hasn’t enrolled, others in the meeting can identify them so their contributions still get attributed.

 

Department of Defense (DoD) cloud support for Teams Rooms on Android 

While available for commercial customers, DoD customers couldn’t yet take advantage of Teams Rooms on Android. But now, Teams Rooms on Android app meeting and collaboration functionalities are fully supported for Department of Defense (DoD) customers. Available with Teams Rooms Pro.

 

Front-of-room view control for Webinars & structured meetings in Teams Rooms on Android

When a Teams Rooms on Android joins a webinar or structured meeting as a presenter, you don’t want the front-of-room display flipping to presenter view in front of the audience. The front-of-room display now defaults to attendee view, and presenters keep full control from the console—including green room and off-stage management—and can switch the front-of-room display to presenter view without impacting attendees. Learn more.

 

Proximity join support for presenters in Teams Events from Teams Rooms on Windows or Android 

Getting set up to present an event from a meeting room can be a bit cumbersome and confusing for users. Now, proximity join in Teams Rooms on Windows or Android lets presenters connect quickly and effortlessly to nearby room systems during Teams Events such as town halls, webinars, and structured meetings, enabling smooth live presentations. Learn more.

 

Room availability signal in the Teams events app 

Booking a room for a Teams event without knowing whether it’s free at that time can lead to conflicts and last-minute scrambles. In the Events app, event organizers can now see whether the chosen room or space is available at the designated time before confirming. Available for any Teams event organizer with a Teams Enterprise license. Learn more.

 

Fundamentals and Security

Admins can define Teams policies in TAC that are specific to Blueprints or Digital Workers

Governing digital workers and their blueprints with the same Teams policies used for regular users creates risk and limits flexibility. IT admins can now associate a Policy Template, a reusable set of licensing, security, and compliance policies, with one or more blueprints in the Teams admin center, so every agent created from a blueprint automatically inherits the right policies, without disrupting existing blueprint management.

 

Manage Teams core agents in the Teams admin center

Managing Teams core agents alongside general Microsoft app settings makes it hard to control where they show up. IT admins can now manage Teams core agents like Facilitator from a dedicated experience in the Teams admin center, controlling availability for all users, specific users, or groups. These agents are native to Teams and no longer affected by org-wide Microsoft app settings.

 

Security Detection Report in Teams Admin Center 

Investigating phishing, impersonation, and message safety incidents in Teams has meant piecing together signals from multiple places. The Security Detection Report in the Teams admin center gives IT admins a unified view that consolidates impersonation, malicious URL, and weaponizable file detection data across Teams messaging. Admins can export the report as a CSV with sender MRI and thread ID for deeper investigation, and access reporting directly in the Teams admin center alongside existing security workflows.

 

Meeting impersonation detection and high‑risk alerts for Teams on iOS and Android 

Impersonation attempts in meetings are hard to spot in the moment, and in the past, mobile users have had fewer protections than desktop. Now, new security signals in Teams identify potential impersonation and surface contextual alerts when elevated risk is detected, so you can make more informed decisions during collaboration. This release brings high-risk detection capabilities to Teams on iOS and Android, extending protection across more endpoints without disrupting meeting experiences.

 

Report a Security Concern in Calls

Suspicious calls are often the first sign of vishing, impersonation, or fraud attempts—but until now, you’ve had no easy way to flag them. From Teams call history and post-call surfaces, you can now report suspicious or unexpected VoIP and PSTN calls, add context, and optionally block the caller. If a call was flagged in error, you can mark it “not a concern” to reduce false positives. Your reports feed Microsoft security and investigation systems, strengthening protections against emerging calling-based threats.

 

Microsoft Teams VDI Optimization for Omnissa on Mac

VDI users on Omnissa for Mac haven’t had the same modern Teams performance as native desktop users, especially for meetings, audio, video, and screen sharing. Teams now brings its modern VDI optimization architecture to Omnissa on Mac, delivering better performance, greater feature parity with the native desktop client, and a more reliable experience—while keeping the centralized management, security, and scalability of VDI.

 

New Teams VDI optimization for macOS

Users accessing Teams through existing virtual desktops systems on macOS often experience lower call quality and limited meeting features compared to local devices. Now in GA, the new Teams optimization for macOS improves performance The new Teams optimization for macOS improves performance and reliability for users connecting to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365. It replaces the previous solution with better video quality (up to 1080p), larger gallery views, and enhanced calling features like Quality of Service (QoS) and noise suppression. For IT admins, it adds Teams Admin Center integration, Call Quality Dashboard support, and simpler updates via a bundled plugin. For more info, check New VDI solution for Teams – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn.

 

Frontline Workers

What’s New in Shifts: Smarter Scheduling, Faster Workflows

Frontline managers spend far too much of their day wrestling with schedules. This wave of Shifts updates is all about giving that time back — automating the tedious parts, making every interaction feel natural, and helping new teams get up and running in minutes. Here’s everything shipping now and what’s just around the corner.

Build a Full Schedule in Seconds with Assign Open Shifts

Assign Open Shifts intelligently matches your available workers to open shifts while honoring the rules that matter most — maximum weekly hours, minimum rest periods, and more — so you can build a ready-to-publish schedule in just a few clicks. Start by creating open shifts for when you need coverage, edit constraints as needed, then watch as a draft schedule is created. Changed your mind? One-click undo rolls the whole thing back instantly. Whether you’re standing up a brand-new week or scrambling to cover a last-minute vacation, Assign Open Shifts turns hours of work into seconds.

 

Move Shifts the Way You’d Expect with Drag and Drop

One of our most-requested features of all time has arrived. Simply grab a shift and drop it wherever it needs to go. Reassign a shift from one worker to another, to a different day or schedule group, or move it into the open shifts pool. It’s the intuitive, hands-on scheduling experience managers have been asking for, and it makes mid-week changes the easiest part of your day.

 

Work at the Speed of a Spreadsheet with Improved Multi-Selection

With improved multi-selection, the familiar shortcuts you already rely on — Ctrl+Select, Shift+Select, and Ctrl+A — let you grab dozens of shifts at once and bulk copy, paste, or delete them in a single motion. Cloning a productive week, clearing out a draft, or making sweeping updates across your team now takes a fraction of the effort. It’s the speed and muscle memory of a spreadsheet, brought right into the Shifts app you use every day.

 

See the Bigger Picture with Two-Week View

Plan further ahead and stop flipping back and forth between weeks. The new two-week view lets you build and review a full fourteen days of shifts side by side — perfect for teams paid biweekly. Spot coverage gaps, balance workloads fairly, and finalize your next pay cycle all in one continuous view. It’s a wider lens on your schedule that helps make long-range planning effortless.

 

Platform

Express voice enrollment in Microsoft Teams 

If you haven’t registered your voice in Teams, you’ll miss out on key features like intelligent speaker recognition, richer Microsoft 365 Copilot recaps, and smart audio and video experiences. Express voice enrollment makes registering your voice fast and easy. If you don’t yet have a voice profile, just go to the recognition tab in Teams settings and opt-in to enroll your voice simply by speaking during a meeting. Admins can enable or disable this feature for their organization. Learn more.

 

App support for private and shared channels

Users often need to leave private and shared channel conversations to access the apps they rely on. But now, app support for private and shared channels brings tabs, bots, and message extensions directly into these collaboration spaces (subject to admin policy). Channel owners can add apps at the channel level, helping teams stay in flow and move work forward without switching contexts. To implement these updates, follow Teams connects shared and private channels – Teams | Microsoft Learn.

 

Certified for Teams Devices

Biamp Ceiling Tile Mic w/ Configurable DSP for Medium, Large and Extra-Large Rooms

The Biamp BMA 360D Ceiling Tile Mic, powered by the TesiraFORTÉ X — the industry’s most trusted conference room DSP — brings gold-standard Tesira audio to medium, large and extra-large Microsoft Teams Rooms on drop-tile or hard ceilings. Learn More.

 

New Logitech Express Install bundles

Logitech, in partnership with Urben Express, Vison Express and Samsung, is simplifying room installations with Express Install solutions for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows and Android. Each bundle makes high-quality meeting spaces more accessible and easier to deploy. Logitech’s Express Install kits for huddle rooms, medium rooms, and large rooms, can be installed in under an hour, with minimal labor and no specialist help needed.