What’s new for Microsoft Viva – March 2026

By Apr 6, 2026 Microsoft Viva, What's New 0 Comments

March 2026 was a quiet month for Microsoft Viva, and honestly, it’s hard not to notice that this has become a pattern. Viva as an employee experience suite feels like it’s losing momentum, and this month did little to change that impression. The majority of updates were once again concentrated in Viva Engage, while the rest of the suite either saw minimal movement or continued to fade into the background.

That said, there was one update that genuinely caught my attention this month. Viva Connections is finally getting the level of control over the experience that admins and organisations have been asking for since the beginning. It feels like it’s reaching the maturity it should have had from day one!

I’ll be honest with you: with the number of meaningful updates shrinking month after month, I’m starting to question whether keeping this monthly roundup going still makes sense. I’d genuinely love to hear your thoughts on that, drop a comment below and let me know if this is still useful to you.

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What’s new for Microsoft Teams – March 2026

By Apr 6, 2026 What's New 0 Comments

March 2026 was a busy month for Microsoft Teams. The updates kept coming throughout the entire month, and a good chunk of them had AI written all over them.

A few stood out for me. Video recap is probably the one I’m most excited about, Teams can now generate narrated video highlights from recorded meetings, pulling together key takeaways and short clips automatically. If you’ve ever had to catch up on a two-hour recording, you’ll understand why this matters. Then there’s the AI Interpreter Agent on Teams Phone devices, bringing real-time multilingual interpretation directly into calls without needing external interpreters. And the auto-detection of spoken languages in multilingual meetings is a nice complement to that, with Teams now updating captions and transcripts in real time as the conversation shifts between languages.

Beyond AI, there were also meaningful updates to Teams Rooms, Teams Phone, meeting experiences, and a few things worth knowing about on the admin and compliance side.

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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – February 2026

By Mar 2, 2026 Microsoft Viva 0 Comments

Month after month, the volume of updates across the Microsoft Viva apps has been shrinking. February 2026 was the shortest update since I started tracking what’s new for Microsoft Viva, and that says something about where the suite is heading.

There were still a couple of updates worth paying attention to, including a change in Viva Engage that allows users to hide messages from specific individuals, a small but meaningful control in day‑to‑day conversations. The rest of the updates were largely centered around Copilot: new analytics, refinements in Copilot‑driven insights, and continued investment in Copilot experiences across Viva Pulse and Viva Glint.

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What’s new for Microsoft Teams – February 2026

By Mar 2, 2026 What's New 0 Comments

February was a busy month for Microsoft Teams. Not in a loud, headline‑grabbing way, but in the kind of way that slowly reshapes how the platform fits into everyday work.

A lot of the updates landed around Microsoft Teams Rooms, especially on Android. One of them is particularly close to me: the ability to configure and run digital signage directly on Teams Rooms devices. Appspace is one of the partners enabling digital signage on Teams Rooms for Android since day one.

Another change worth calling out is the redesigned Events experience inside Teams. Webinars, town halls, and custom events are now brought together under a single surface. Creation, discovery, and management all live in the same place.

Beyond these, February also brought a set of smaller updates—the kind I tend to appreciate most. Subtle refinements that remove friction, save a few clicks, or make Teams feel more predictable in day‑to‑day use.

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When the Enter Key Became a Liability in Microsoft Teams

By Feb 25, 2026 Chat 0 Comments

Anyone who uses Microsoft Teams long enough has a version of the same story. A message half written. A thought not finished. A finger moving faster than the brain. Enter gets pressed and the message is gone, delivered to a channel or a chat before it was ready.

For years, this was accepted as part of the rhythm of chat based work. Teams behaved like many messaging tools before it. Enter sends. Shift plus Enter buys you a new line. Once you learn it, you adapt. The problem is not learning the rule. The problem is that the cost of getting it wrong is public, permanent, and sometimes awkward.

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Archiving Channels in Microsoft Teams: A Governance Perspective

By Feb 23, 2026 Channels 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams encourages fast creation. Over time, that leaves many organizations with channels that are no longer active but still editable. Channel archiving addresses this gap. It allows teams to stop collaboration in a channel without removing its history.

From a governance standpoint, this creates a clear separation between active workspaces and historical ones.

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Marginal Gains for Productivity: Flagged Emails in the Planner App for Microsoft Teams

By Feb 21, 2026 Uncategorized 0 Comments

My inbox has always been my worst nightmare. Not because of volume, but because of what it represents: a place where everything arrives mixed together, stripped of hierarchy. Messages that matter sit beside messages that don’t, and both demand the same attention.

I never learned to manage that well. I tried rules, folders, flags. None of them changed the underlying problem. Email remained the place where work entered my day, and too often the place where it stalled.

The small change that stuck was this: flagged emails appearing as tasks inside the Planner app in Microsoft Teams, alongside the rest of my work. One surface, one click away from email, but no longer inside it.

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Microsoft Teams Audio‑Only Meeting Recording: How it Works and Why it Keeps Meetings Human

By Feb 18, 2026 Meetings 0 Comments

This is something I’ve experienced repeatedly, across very different types of meetings. The moment someone starts a recording in Microsoft Teams, cameras begin to turn off. It rarely happens all at once, but within seconds the meeting changes. Faces disappear, reactions become harder to read, and what was a conversation starts to feel transactional. You still hear voices, but the human layer is thinner. Facial expressions, pauses, empathy, all the small cues that help people connect are suddenly missing.

That reaction is usually not about disengagement. It’s about comfort. People join meetings from their homes, personal offices, or shared spaces they don’t want permanently captured. Being recorded on video in those environments doesn’t feel right for everyone, and that hesitation is entirely reasonable. Until recently, recording a meeting in Teams meant recording everything. If you needed a record of the discussion, you also asked people to accept being visually captured.

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Allowing Users to Change Their Display Name in Microsoft Teams Meetings

By Feb 16, 2026 Meetings 0 Comments

Names in Microsoft Teams meetings are not always accurate. In many organizations, the display name comes from an identity system that was configured years ago and never revisited. In other cases, users are known by a preferred name, a shortened version, or a name that better reflects how they are addressed in daily work. This becomes more visible in meetings, especially when working with external participants or across teams that do not interact regularly.

Microsoft Teams now allows participants to change their display name during a meeting. The change is temporary and applies only to that specific meeting. This gives users a way to correct mistakes, adjust how they are identified, or align their name with how they are recognized by others, without changing their global profile.

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Microsoft Forms + Microsoft Teams: The Simplest Integrations Are Often the Best Ones

By Feb 14, 2026 Channels 0 Comments

I’ve always had a clear bias when it comes to product integrations. I’m far less interested in the ones that promise to transform the way we work and much more drawn to the quiet connections that remove friction from everyday tasks. The simplest integrations are often the most effective, precisely because they don’t ask people to change their behavior or learn something new. They just make the thing you were already trying to do slightly easier.

The direct integration between Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Teams falls into that category. It doesn’t introduce a new workflow, a new surface, or a new concept to explain. It simply allows you to share a form directly into a Teams channel, putting it in front of the people who need to respond, exactly where they are already working. No copying links. No sending emails. No hoping someone will come back to it later. The form becomes part of the conversation instead of an interruption to it.

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João Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.

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