Microsoft Teams: June 2026 Updates – InfoComm Edition

Microsoft Teams June 2026: InfoComm Edition Updates

The June 2026 edition of Microsoft Teams coincides with InfoComm 2026, North America's largest professional AV conference, held in Las Vegas. In this context, Microsoft unveiled a new vision of collaboration: one where artificial intelligence acts as a true teammate, present in calls, meetings, and physical work environments.

Ilya Bukshteyn, Corporate Vice President for Teams Calling, Meetings & Devices, structured the InfoComm keynote around three pillars: AI in your calls, AI in your meetings, and AI in your rooms. This article details all features released in General Availability (GA) or Public Preview this month.

Chat and Collaboration: Contextual Search and File Management

Contextual Search with Copilot in Teams

Search in Microsoft Teams is enriched with an intelligence layer via Copilot. Now directly accessible from the search bar — via autocomplete or a dedicated button on the results page — contextual search provides precise answers without leaving the search experience. This significantly reduces time spent manually browsing conversation histories.

Advanced File Discovery in Chats and Channels

File search in active channels becomes much more efficient thanks to comprehensive indexing of all uploaded files, including those added outside of messages. The new available filters are:

• File type (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF…)
• Sender
• Upload date
• Typeahead search in real-time to refine results

To launch search: Ctrl+F on Windows, Cmd+F on macOS, or via the Search in chat button.

Improved PowerPoint and Excel Previews on Mobile

Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel file previews in Teams mobile have been optimized for faster and more reliable loading. This update also introduces support for files protected by Information Rights Management (IRM), improving access to sensitive content on the go.

List View for "See more apps"

The tile display in the "See more apps" section is replaced by a cleaner list view, facilitating navigation and discovery of applications available in your organization.

Navigation Context Preservation in Teams

Teams now automatically restores your workspace when you return to a conversation shortly after leaving it. The selected tab, open sidebar panel, and interface layout are preserved, reducing interruptions and maintaining work continuity.

Live Meeting Indicator for Threaded Channels (Government Clouds)

For Government Cloud (GCC, GCC High, DoD) environments, a new visual indicator signals active meetings in threaded channels. Participants can thus spot and join an ongoing meeting directly from the conversation thread.

Enhanced Organization of Muted Chats and Meeting Chats

Teams now automatically groups muted chats in a dedicated section (enabled by default), and optionally allows grouping meeting chats in a separate section. This organization reduces visual clutter and helps users prioritize their active conversations.

Improved Download Manager

The download manager is now accessible from the Teams title bar or via a keyboard shortcut. It opens without blocking chats or channels, allowing you to track downloads in parallel with collaboration activities.

Quick Image Sharing (Quick Share)

The Quick Share feature allows you to share images from chats and channels in just a few clicks via context menus (hover, right-click, overflow menu). For images stored in OneDrive or SharePoint, existing permissions are preserved. Images pasted directly in the chat are stored separately and do not benefit from permission-based sharing.

Teams Meetings: Anti-Bot Protection and Brand Identity

Intelligent Bot Protection in Meetings

The emergence of AI note-taking bots in professional meetings raises legitimate concerns about privacy and security. Microsoft introduces a new Teams admin policy — Manage external bots and their meeting access — which enables you to:

• Automatically identify suspect participants as bots
• Redirect them to the lobby in a dedicated "Suspected Threats" group
• Require explicit organizer approval before admission
• Display confirmation prompts when admitting participants

A registration program for trusted ISVs is also planned to distinguish legitimate bots from unsolicited intrusions. Learn more about bot protection in Teams.

Custom Brand-Colored Reactions (Branded Reactions)

Organizations can now customize reaction icons in Teams meetings to align with their brand identity. IT administrators upload custom icons (logo, event theme, visual guidelines) directly in the Teams admin center. These reactions are then available to all participants in relevant meetings.

Teams Phone: Conversational AI and Centralized Management

Teams Phone Agent and Copilot Studio Extensibility [Frontier – Public Preview]

Teams Phone Agent is a new AI-powered calling experience that automatically answers inbound calls on a Teams Phone service line. Its capabilities include:

• Understanding caller needs in natural language
• Answering frequently asked questions
• Scheduling appointments
• Routing to a human agent if necessary
• Integration with custom voice agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio (e.g., phone-based invoice payment)

This feature is available in preview via the Frontier program. Official Teams Phone Agent Documentation.

Voice Message Transcription: New Languages and Improved Accuracy

Voice message transcription migrates to Azure LLM Speech via the Fast Transcription API. The improvements delivered are:

• More accurate transcriptions thanks to large language models
• Faster processing
• Automatic language detection
• 14 new languages supported:

| Newly Supported Languages || |---------------------------| | Arabic, Czech, Danish | | Finnish, Hebrew, Hindi | | Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål | | Polish, Russian, Swedish | | Thai, Turkish |

Centralized Application Management on Teams Phone Devices

IT administrators can now select and remove applications on Teams Phone devices directly from the Teams Admin Center (TAC), without physical device intervention. This centralized management simplifies large-scale deployment and allows customizing the application experience based on business roles. Consult TAC documentation.

Teams Rooms: Ambient AI and Enhanced Hybrid Experience

Facilitator Agent in Teams Rooms [Public Preview]

The Facilitator agent extends its capabilities to physical meeting rooms with a set of new skills that transform the space into an intelligent environment:

• Room status verification: detects obstacles in front of the camera, clutter, or insufficient seating before the meeting starts
• Voice activation: users can interact directly with the Teams Rooms space by voice to join a meeting or get information
• Space expert: answers questions about room configuration (name, wireless sharing, available equipment)
• External knowledge access: queries trusted web sources to answer questions in real-time without participants leaving the meeting

IntelliFrame People Labels [Public Preview]

IntelliFrame introduces the display of names of participants physically present in the room, directly on the video interface. Powered by intelligent cameras and a recognition system based on prior registration, labels appear on hover over a room participant. If a participant is not registered, other meeting members can manually identify them so their contributions are correctly attributed.

This feature significantly improves hybrid fairness by giving remote participants complete visibility of in-room speakers.

Department of Defense Cloud Support for Teams Rooms on Android

The meeting and collaboration features of Teams Rooms on Android are now fully supported for Department of Defense (DoD) customers. This availability requires a Teams Rooms Pro license.

Room View Control for Webinars and Structured Meetings (Android)

When a Teams Rooms on Android joins a webinar or structured meeting as a presenter, the room's front display now defaults to participant view — preventing exposure of the presenter interface to the public. The presenter retains full control from the console, including green room management and switching to presenter view without impact on participants. Detailed documentation.

Proximity Join for Presenters in Teams Events

Proximity Join is now available for Teams Events presenters (town halls, webinars, structured meetings) from Teams Rooms on Windows or Android systems. This feature enables quick, frictionless connection to nearby room equipment. Learn more.

Room Availability in Teams Events App

The Teams Events application now displays the availability of the selected room before event confirmation, preventing last-minute booking conflicts. This feature is available to any organizer with a Teams Enterprise license. Documentation.

Security and Administration: New Protections and Governance Tools

Teams Policies Dedicated to Digital Workers and Blueprints

IT administrators 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. Each agent created from a blueprint automatically inherits appropriate policies without affecting existing blueprint management. This separation reduces risks associated with applying generic policies to Digital Workers.

Native Teams Agent Management in Teams Admin Center

Native Teams agents (such as the Facilitator agent) now have a dedicated management space in the Teams Admin Center, independent of global Microsoft app settings. Administrators can control availability by user, group, or organization-wide.

Security Detection Report in Teams Admin Center

The Security Detection Report centralizes detection data in a unified view for:

• Impersonation attempts
• Malicious URLs
• Potentially dangerous files (weaponizable files)

Administrators can export this report in CSV format with sender MRI identifiers and Thread IDs for in-depth investigations. This report is directly accessible in the Teams Admin Center.

1# Example: PowerShell export of Teams security report via Graph API
2# Requires SecurityEvents.Read.All permissions
3 
4$headers = @{
5    "Authorization" = "Bearer $accessToken"
6    "Content-Type"  = "application/json"
7}
8 
9$uri = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/security/alerts?\$filter=vendorInformation/provider eq 'Microsoft Teams'"
10 
11$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -Headers $headers -Method Get
12$response.value | Export-Csv -Path ".\TeamsSecurityReport.csv" -NoTypeInformation -Encoding UTF8

Impersonation Detection and High-Risk Alerts on iOS and Android

Teams mobile (iOS and Android) now integrates security signals capable of identifying impersonation attempts in meetings and generating contextual alerts in case of high risk. These protections were previously limited to desktop clients, creating a security asymmetry. This update closes that gap without disrupting the meeting experience.

Report Suspicious Calls (Report a Security Concern)

From Teams call history or post-call surfaces, users can now report a suspicious VoIP or PSTN call by adding context and optionally blocking the caller. Incorrect reports can be cancelled via the "not a concern" function to limit false positives. These reports directly feed Microsoft's security and investigation systems.

VDI Teams Optimization for Omnissa on Mac

The modern VDI optimization architecture for Teams is now available for Omnissa (formerly VMware Horizon) on macOS. Benefits include:

• Improved performance for meetings, audio, video, and screen sharing
• Increased feature parity with native desktop client
• Maintained centralized management and security inherent to VDI environments

New Teams VDI Optimization for macOS (GA)

Now in General Availability, the new Teams optimization for macOS improves performance for users connecting via Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365. Key improvements are:

For more information: New Teams VDI Solution – Microsoft Learn.

Frontline Workers: Intelligent Scheduling with Shifts

This wave of Microsoft Shifts updates focuses on reducing field manager administrative time through automation and more intuitive user experience.

Assign Open Shifts: Automatic Schedule Building

Assign Open Shifts analyzes employee availability and automatically generates a schedule respecting configured constraints:

• Maximum weekly hours
• Minimum rest periods
• Custom business rules

A one-click undo mechanism allows instant reversion to the previous state if needed.

Drag & Drop: Intuitive Shift Movement

One of the most requested features by the community is now available. You can drag and drop a shift to:

• Reassign it from one employee to another
• Move it to another day or schedule group
• Transfer it to the open shifts pool

Enhanced Multi-Select for Bulk Operations

Familiar keyboard shortcuts are now functional in Shifts:

• Ctrl+Click for multiple selection
• Shift+Click for range selection
• Ctrl+A to select all

These selections enable grouped copy, paste, and delete operations, significantly reducing time for managing complex schedules.

Two-Week View

The new two-week view allows you to visualize and manage fourteen days of scheduling in a single continuous view. Particularly suited for bi-weekly paid teams, this view facilitates detection of coverage gaps and workload balancing.

Platform: Voice Enrollment and Private Channels Support

Express Voice Enrollment in Teams

Express voice enrollment simplifies creating a voice profile in Teams. If no profile is yet registered, the user can enroll directly from the Recognition tab in Teams settings by simply speaking during a meeting. This enrollment unlocks:

• Intelligent speaker recognition
• Enriched Microsoft 365 Copilot recaps
• Improved audio and video experiences

Administrators can enable or disable this feature organization-wide. Official documentation.

App Support in Private and Shared Channels

Tabs, bots, and messaging extensions are now available in private and shared channels (subject to administration policies). Channel owners can add apps at the channel level, allowing teams to stay in their work context without switching applications.

To implement this configuration: Teams connects shared and private channels – Microsoft Learn.

Teams Certified Devices: New Peripherals

Biamp BMA 360D Ceiling Tile Mic

The Biamp BMA 360D is a Teams-certified ceiling microphone powered by the TesiraFORTÉ X, considered the reference DSP for conference rooms. It supports medium, large, and very large rooms, and is compatible with tile or rigid ceilings. Learn more about Biamp certification.

New Logitech Express Install Solutions

In partnership with Urben Express, Vision Express, and Samsung, Logitech offers Express Install kits for simplified Teams Rooms installation. These bundles can be deployed in less than one hour, without specialized skills.

Resources and References

• InfoComm 2026 Keynote – Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Teams Blog – Microsoft Tech Community
• Teams Admin Center
• Microsoft Teams Documentation – Microsoft Learn
• What's New in Microsoft Teams – M365 Roadmap
• Frontier Program – Microsoft Teams