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The latest Microsoft Teams coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
LSEG’s new Company Intelligence AI will soon plug into Microsoft Teams — here’s what Windows users need to know
LSEG this week rolled out Company Intelligence, an AI agent inside its Workspace platform that can assemble a structured company briefing in seconds. The feature is live now in Workspace, but the...
Unmute Yourself: How Windows 11’s Privacy Settings Are Silencing Teams Users
More than a year after Windows 10’s support curtain fell on October 14, 2025, a growing number of Windows 11 users are discovering that their Microsoft Teams microphone isn’t dead—it’s just...
Microsoft Teams to Auto-Archive Meeting Insights with AI by Default in August 2026
Starting in August 2026, Microsoft Teams will automatically generate AI-powered summaries and insights for certain meetings and store them as permanent, tenant-owned files in SharePoint. The new...
Microsoft Teams Presence Broke Across Europe on June 17 — Don't Just Clear the Cache
On June 17, a routine traffic-routing change inside Microsoft Teams went sideways, causing a widespread presence outage that showed active users as Away or Offline across Europe and beyond. The...
Microsoft Opens Teams Queues App to GCC High and DoD: Here's How to Set It Up
Microsoft started rolling out the Teams Queues app to its GCC High and Department of Defense cloud environments this month, according to Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 565218. The feature, which reached...
Microsoft Cancels Teams Copilot Feature That Would Have Analyzed Shared Screens in Recorded Meetings
Microsoft has quietly abandoned a planned expansion of Copilot in Teams that would have let the AI assistant parse the content of desktop screen shares during recorded meetings, according to a...
Microsoft to Require Dial-In Consent for Recorded Teams Meetings in Government Clouds by 2026
Microsoft is preparing to enforce explicit recording consent for public switched telephone network (PSTN) callers joining Teams meetings in its most sensitive government environments. Under a new...
Cleaner Town Halls Ahead: Microsoft Splits Attendee and Crew Invites in Teams
Microsoft plans to give Teams Town Hall organizers the ability to keep attendee invitations completely separate from those sent to the event crew, according to a new entry on the Microsoft 365...
DOD Teams Rooms to Gain Privacy-Focused Shared Display and Peripheral Discovery in August
Microsoft’s product roadmap has confirmed that two long-awaited meeting-room features for Teams—shared display mode and peripheral detection—will become available in Department of Defense (DoD)...
Johns Hopkins Gives Teams Chats a 90-Day Lifespan—Are You Ready for the October 15 Purge?
Johns Hopkins University is about to permanently delete massive amounts of Microsoft Teams chat history. On October 15, 2026, the institution will flip a switch that automatically removes any chat...
When Teams Won't Optimize on a Virtual Desktop, the Fix Lies on Your Physical PC
Microsoft Teams users tapping into virtual desktops have long been greeted by a frustrating banner: “Not optimized.” Recently, a troubleshooting guide from Guiding Tech crystallized what many...
Teams Android Management Moves to Pro Portal: The July Readiness Checklist
In mid-2026, Microsoft began phasing out Android device management from the Teams Admin Center (TAC) and moving it into the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal (PMP). Starting in August, TAC workflows...