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What’s new for Microsoft Teams – November 2025
November brought some exciting updates to Microsoft Teams, and I’ve been exploring what they mean for everyday collaboration. This month was all about making communication smoother, simplifying admin tasks, and improving the overall experience for users and IT teams alike. If you’ve been waiting for features that make Teams more flexible and connected, this roundup is for you.
One of the biggest highlights is the ability to chat with anyone using an email address. This change opens up new possibilities for external collaboration without the need for complex setups. Combined with simplified admin controls for managing external access, organizations now have more control and flexibility when working beyond their own tenant. These updates make cross-company communication easier while keeping security and governance in check.
Presence accuracy also got a boost with new activity detection settings for Teams on the web, ensuring your status reflects what you’re actually doing. On top of that, improvements to the activity feed and the accounts/orgs panel make it simpler to stay on top of notifications and switch between organizations. These refinements might seem small, but they add up to a more seamless experience for users juggling multiple contexts.
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Teams town hall producers can now restart a live event while the event is active in order to address technical issues that might arise during the execution of an instance. Whether technical, network, or other issue, this feature enables those managing the event to quickly resolve problems for attendees. This feature is designed to prevent the need for scheduling entirely new events.
Microsoft Teams will allow users to chat with anyone via email, even non-Teams users, who join as guests. This feature, enabled by default, rolls out starting November 2025 and supports external communication within organizational policies. Admins can disable it via TeamsMessagingPolicy settings.
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Simplify frontline onboarding with an improved Teams mobile experience on personal devices. Workers can easily download and start using the Teams mobile app on their own device in compliance with organizational security policies, reducing the need for manager assistance and IT support.
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android will support starting, stopping, and restarting meeting recording and transcription directly from the device with Teams Rooms Pro licensing, rolling out December 2025. Permissions are required, and some call types are unsupported. Recordings are stored in the organizer’s OneDrive or SharePoint.
Microsoft Teams Store is being redesigned for a more intuitive app and agent discovery experience, rolling out worldwide from late October 2025 to January 2026. Changes include a modern interface, new agent filter, streamlined app tiles, centered search, simplified categories, and a unified app management hub. No user or admin action is needed.
Microsoft Teams will enable Channel Agent to orchestrate tasks with GitHub, Asana, and Jira via Model Context Protocol (MCP), improving workflow efficiency within Teams. This preview feature requires admin enablement and a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, rolling out worldwide from mid-November to mid-December 2025.
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android will introduce an Adaptive Front-of-Room Experience for Town Halls, requiring a Teams Rooms Pro license. It offers a distraction-free attendee view and full presenter control, including backstage tools. Rollout begins December 2025. Organizations should prepare by updating licenses, devices, and communications.
Microsoft 365 Copilot for Teams admin center is now generally available, offering four skills: help and guidance, policy troubleshooting, user search, and call quality troubleshooting. Admins can use natural language to complete tasks faster without extra licenses or configuration. Rollout completed in November 2025.
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Microsoft Teams is introducing a simplified external collaboration admin experience with three modes—Open, Controlled, and Custom—available in the Teams admin center. Public preview starts mid-November 2025, with general availability by early February 2026. Existing settings remain unless changed by admins.
Microsoft Teams updated sender email addresses for team and channel membership notifications to improve clarity. Changes include using the team owner’s email for membership additions and no-reply@teams.mail.microsoft for private join requests and shared channel notifications. The rollout completed in November 2025 with no action required.
Viva Amplify will retire High Privilege Access for Teams distribution, switching from App-only tokens to Protected Forwarded Tokens by November 2025. This enhances security without affecting user experience or requiring tenant configuration changes. No admin action is needed; update documentation and inform support teams accordingly.
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Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot will introduce AI-powered Agentic Users—autonomous virtual colleagues with full organizational identities. Available from mid-November 2025, users can discover and request agent templates, with admins controlling creation and licensing. Agents interact via Teams, email, and meetings, enhancing productivity and learning over time.
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Microsoft Teams will update the Rate My Call survey to a single-screen thumbs up/down system with optional problem tokens and comments, rolling out mid-November 2025. This change may increase reported poor call rates due to higher feedback capture, not service decline. Admins should monitor and adjust thresholds accordingly.
Starting late 2025, Microsoft Teams will require owner approval for users joining private teams via join codes, aligning with join-by-link behavior. Public teams remain unaffected. Team owners should monitor requests and update documentation; no admin action is needed. This enhances governance and reduces unintended access.
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As of August 2025, Power Automate flows and Agent flows (Copilot Studio) with HTTP triggers or Teams Webhook triggers that have logic.azure.com in the URL moved to a new URL as a part of a critical infrastructure upgrade to improve execution speed and provide new features.
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Identify if an external user comes from a domain that is impersonating the recipient tenant’s own domains, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams messages.
Microsoft Teams on the web will introduce a new user-enabled setting to detect device activity beyond the Teams tab, improving presence accuracy. Rolling out December 2025 for Chrome v94+ and Edge v114+. No admin action needed; users must grant browser permission to enable it.
Microsoft Teams’ Channel Agent, a Copilot-powered assistant, is updated to support file-based grounding from Channel SharePoint, enhanced task and report management, GitHub MCP integration, and multilingual support. Rollout starts mid-November 2025, requiring no admin action but allowing admin control over agent auto-creation.
Users will soon be able to update their Viva Engage storyline cover photos directly from the Teams iOS app. This feature, already on other platforms, will roll out worldwide in early December 2025, is enabled by default, requires no admin action, and has no compliance concerns.
Microsoft Teams for Android and iOS will switch from Teams-specific to Microsoft 365 Cloud Policy for in-app survey feedback management by late November 2025. This unifies policy management with other feedback types, requires no admin action before rollout, and keeps the feature on by default.
Microsoft Teams on Windows will update the jump list by mid-November 2025, adding quick actions like scheduling meetings and starting chats, showing meetings, and removing the “Quit” option from the jump list. No user action is needed; updates roll out automatically.
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First, spoken language is now automatically detected and updated across Interpreter, live captions, and live transcription when Interpreter is enabled, keeping all speech features consistent with the language being spoken – no manual setup required. When Interpreter is disabled, live captions and transcription will still work, but auto-update spoken language will not be available, which may result in gibberish or inaccurate content if participants switch languages during the meeting. Next, a new “preparing” status provides clear visual feedback while Interpreter initializes, helping users know when the system is ready -especially important for multilingual meetings. Lastly, Interpreter settings have also been improved with concise explanations for each configuration and field, making setup easier and minimizing confusion.
Administrator can monitor which locations and users across their organization are facing meeting quality issues due to unoptimized VDI.
Microsoft Teams is enhancing the “Activity in other accounts and orgs” panel to centralize cross-tenant notifications, reduce context switching, and allow pinning up to three tenants. The panel moves to the bottom-left sidebar, activates by default, requires no admin setup, and rolls out from November 2025 to March 2026.
Microsoft has paused new customer onboarding for calendar sync between Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams effective immediately. Existing setups continue to work, but new sync configurations cannot be initiated by organizations inactive in setup for 30 days. No action is currently required.
Microsoft is introducing a dynamic onboarding wizard for frontline workers using personal Android or iOS devices to set up Microsoft Teams securely with MFA and mobile app management. Public preview starts late November, general availability by January 2026. The tool is optional and adapts to organizational policies.
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App centric management introduces new admin settings to control who in the tenant can install Teams apps. First, admins can set a default value for new apps that are published to Teams app store. Second, admins can edit the availability of an app to ‘All users can install’, ‘Specific users and groups can install’, or ‘No user can install’. This feature evolves the existing app permission policies and provides admins with the ability to manage access to the app individually. The app permission policies for existing customers are migrated to maintain existing app availability in the tenant.
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Identify if an external user comes from a domain that is impersonating the recipient tenant’s own domains, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams messages.
First, spoken language is now automatically detected and updated across Interpreter, live captions, and live transcription when Interpreter is enabled, keeping all speech features consistent with the language being spoken – no manual setup required. When Interpreter is disabled, live captions and transcription will still work, but auto-update spoken language will not be available, which may result in gibberish or inaccurate content if participants switch languages during the meeting. Next, a new “preparing” status provides clear visual feedback while Interpreter initializes, helping users know when the system is ready -especially important for multilingual meetings. Lastly, Interpreter settings have also been improved with concise explanations for each configuration and field, making setup easier and minimizing confusion.
Administrator can monitor which locations and users across their organization are facing meeting quality issues due to unoptimized VDI.
Resize the video gallery in Teams meetings to see more people when content is being shared
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows (Pro only) will support Miracast for wireless content sharing starting January 2026. The feature is off by default and can be enabled by admins via the IT portal. Compatible devices and Miracast support on laptops are required. No user impact unless enabled.
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Microsoft Teams will soon increase the bandwidth when Network Device Interface (NDI) is used with Teams meetings, webinars, or town halls. When an NDI feed is subscribed within the meeting, the bandwidth will automatically increase without the need to pin or spotlight select users for prioritization. Customers can experience up to 8 distinct 1080p NDI streams based on network conditions.
Microsoft Teams will soon detect and warn users of tenant-owned domain impersonation in external chats, displaying high-risk alerts when suspicious. This feature, enabled by default for organizations allowing external access, launches December 2025 across all platforms with no admin controls or required actions.
Microsoft Teams will introduce an opt-in native macOS screen and window sharing feature using Apple’s APIs, starting targeted release in early December 2025 and general availability by mid-January 2026. It is disabled by default, requires no app restart, and improves performance for Mac users in Teams meetings.
Starting January 6, 2026, Zero-hour auto-purge (ZAP) will be enabled by default in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1, automatically moving malicious Teams messages to admin quarantine. Tenants can opt out before January 6, 2026, and admins manage quarantined content via the Security portal.
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Users will be able to search for Viva Engage conversations directly in the Viva Engage app for Teams.
Interpreter agent support in Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows with Teams Rooms Pro license enables real-time interpretation in nine languages, offering simulated or automated voice options. Rolling out mid-Dec 2025, it includes 20 hours/month interpretation per room, with privacy safeguards and tenant controls for admins.
Microsoft Teams will introduce a private chat for organizers, co-organizers, and presenters in structured meetings, webinars, and town halls, unifying backroom chat behavior. Rollout starts January 2026, with default backroom chat ON for all town halls. Admins can manage these settings in Teams policies.
Microsoft Teams is enhancing its multilingual meeting experience by adding automatic spoken language detection, a “Preparing” status indicator for the Interpreter, and simplified settings with clear explanations. These updates, available to Microsoft 365 Copilot users, will roll out from December 2025 with no admin action required.
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Viva Engage in Microsoft Teams mobile will gain a new conversation search feature, rolling out from mid-November 2025 to early January 2026. This default-enabled update improves content discoverability on mobile, requires no admin action, and affects users accessing Viva Engage via Teams mobile only.
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Microsoft Teams Queues app will introduce shared call history for queue members to view all call events. Rolling out January–February 2026, the feature is disabled by default and requires Teams Premium license and admin enablement. Tenant migration of call history is not supported initially.
Microsoft Teams is introducing a Custom AI Summary feature in Meeting Recap for Copilot users, allowing personalized meeting notes via templates or instructions. Rolling out mid-Dec 2025 to mid-Jan 2026, it’s enabled by default for licensed desktop users (English only) with no admin changes needed.
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Microsoft Teams Desktop Client for Windows will introduce a new process, ms-teams_modulehost.exe, to handle calling features separately, improving performance and startup time. Rollout begins January 2026. Admins should allowlist the new process in security software and inform helpdesk staff; no user workflow changes expected.
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Today, IT admins manually review trust data for Teams apps and agents in the Teams admin center to ensure they meet organizational security, privacy, and compliance standards. This feature introduces a scalable, automated evaluation process. Admins can define their organization’s trust requirements once, and the system will automatically assess each app and agent—generating a Trust Score and detailed evaluation report tailored to those requirements. This enables faster, more consistent decision-making by clearly identifying which apps and agents meet the organization’s standards and where further review is needed.
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Teams meetings will feature a new resizable divider allowing users to adjust the space between shared content and participant videos, swap their positions, and personalize layouts. This feature, enabled by default, rolls out from January to March 2026 for all Windows and Mac desktop users worldwide and GCC.
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