Microsoft unveils major Teams enhancements at ISE 2026, including real-time interpreter support, AI agents, and streamlined device management for hybrid workplaces.
Welcome to 2026! This first 'What's new in Teams' of the year is a "2-in-1" edition. We're not only introducing the usual monthly range of new features and capabilities designed to enhance your Teams experience, we're also shining a spotlight on the Teams features that will be showcased at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2026 conference in Barcelona, Spain.
ISE brings together technology leaders, partners, and customers from around the world, making it the perfect venue to demonstrate how Teams continues to evolve as the AI-powered platform for communication, collaboration, and workplaces. This year, we'll be highlighting several new Teams capabilities designed to improve meeting experiences, simplify communications, and make it easier for organizations to connect and engage at scale.
Dive in to get a peek at what we'll be sharing in Barcelona, and what you can start trying out right away!
Teams at ISE
Microsoft Teams Rooms Interpreter agent support in Teams Rooms on Windows
The Interpreter agent acts as a translator in scheduled meetings in Teams Rooms on Windows, allowing participants to listen to the meeting in their chosen language with real-time translation so speaking different languages isn't a barrier to effective understanding and collaboration. Available with Teams Rooms Pro.
Teams Rooms utilization by size and capacity in the Pro Management shared space insights report
The Pro Management portal's shared space insights page now offers enhanced analytics for Teams rooms utilization. Two new data tiles analyze usage based on factors like room size, capacity, and people count. Usage data can also be filtered by reservations, occupancy, or a combination of both. With these insights, IT teams can make informed decisions about their rooms.
Express voice enrollment [Available in March]
Express voice enrollment makes registering your voice in Teams fast and easy. Your profile enables features like voice isolation, speaker recognition, identification in a meeting room and transcripts, and enhanced meeting recaps and insights from Microsoft 365 Copilot. If you haven't enrolled, you'll get an in-product prompt to opt-in and enroll your voice profile simply by speaking in a meeting. Admins can enable or disable this feature for their organization.
Camera view switching in multi-camera Teams Rooms on Windows
When in a meeting with another Teams Rooms on Windows that has multiple cameras, you can switch camera views in that room via the participant panel on the console, or video tile on a touch board, to optimize your views.
Two-way Direct Guest Join (DGJ) between Google Meet and Teams Rooms
Organizations now have expanded meeting interoperability with two-way Direct Guest Join (DGJ) between Google Meet and Teams meetings. Teams Rooms on Windows devices can join Google Meet meetings and Google Meet devices can join Teams meetings. Users can join with one click through the calendar or by meeting ID.
Microsoft Teams Phone enhancements
Interpreter in Teams Phone
Interpreter, currently available in Teams meetings, is now expanding to Teams Phone to support calls made between Teams users—VoIP calls. Interpreter enables real-time speech-to-speech interpretation in up to nine languages, allowing participants to speak and listen in their preferred language. Interpreter helps eliminate language barriers and fosters seamless collaboration across global teams. For a more inclusive experience, users can also opt to have Interpreter simulate their personal voice. Today, Interpreter works for VoIP calls only.
Queues app shared history of calls and voicemails [Public preview]
Coordinating customer call follow-ups is easier when service teams have visibility into calls that happen outside shifts or while representatives are unavailable. Now available in Public Preview, the Queues app shared history enables teams to access a unified view of all missed, incoming, outgoing calls, and voicemails within a call queue. By consolidating call activity into a shared history, it improves transparency and fosters better collaboration among team members handling customer interactions. This feature reduces duplication of effort and ensures that no customer call is overlooked. Admins can configure access to shared history for all queue members or restrict it to authorized users.
Teams events
The new Teams events experience brings discovery, creation, and management into a single, centralized workflow. Organizers can configure events through a flexible creation flow that supports a wide range of interaction, registration, and branding options without being constrained by event type. A new discovery experience makes it easier for users to find, track, and revisit events they are registered for or eligible to attend, while redesigned management capabilities provide a consistent place to update details, review registrations, access reporting, and coordinate across organizers and delegates. Available in public preview, the new Teams events experience helps unlock more control and flexibility for digital and hybrid events by simplifying creation and management for organizers and improving visibility and access for attendees.
Communities in Teams
Now rolling out to public preview, Communities in Teams appear alongside chats and channels, offering an integrated experience for browsing feeds, posting updates, and participating in discussions. Employees can find and manage their existing Viva Engage communities directly in Teams, with support for announcements, Q&A, long-form posts, and discovering community-specific events that enable scalable organization-wide communication and learning.
Agents in communities are also available in public preview for communities in Teams. The agent helps turn community conversations into shared organizational knowledge by drafting suggested responses to unanswered questions using existing discussions and specified SharePoint sites. Community admins can review and publish these responses, helping employees get accurate answers faster while making that knowledge visible to the entire community.
Learn more about communities in Teams
January new releases
Feature categories: (All features listed are generally available unless otherwise noted)
Chat and collaboration
Teams channels Shared tab
The Files tab in channels has been renamed the Shared tab. In addition to showing current files, the Shared tab also displays previously shared files and links that were shared in channel posts. You can use the Recent view to sort by date, then filter by Files or Links, and use the "In messages" view to find links that appear in conversations.
Message preview for channels, mentions, and reactions notifications
Microsoft Teams is enhancing notifications by adding message previews for more types of notifications, including channels, mentions, and reactions. By surfacing message previews, users can quickly assess the importance of a notification without switching context and more efficiently prioritize responses.
Autocorrect in Teams compose
Autocorrect in Teams helps fix common spelling mistakes when typing in the compose box, so your messages stay clear and professional without extra effort. No need to backtrack to correct errors, Teams keeps your conversations flowing smoothly.
Pin Teams window on top
Teams now enables you to "Pin window on top", ensuring it will remain visible above other windows. This reduces meeting and collaboration friction by enabling you to multitask across apps without losing real-time visual cues, shared content, or critical discussions.
Teams Phone
Explicit consent for 1:1 call transcription and recording
We're extending Microsoft Teams' existing explicit-consent experience in meetings to now include 1:1 calls made between Teams users—VoIP calls. With a new Teams calling policy, admins can require participants to provide consent before a 1:1 call is recorded or transcribed. When a user starts recording or transcription, the other participant is automatically muted, with video and content sharing disabled, until they provide consent. This is especially valuable in regulated scenarios—such as a financial advisor capturing call notes—where organizations must obtain clear approval before initiating a recording. Today, explicit consent works for 1:1 VoIP calls only.
Teams Phone Mobile is now generally available with T-Mobile USA
Teams Phone Mobile enables end-users to make and receive calls using a single sim-enabled number across their mobile phone and all their Teams endpoints. T-Mobile customers in the United States can now enjoy seamless mobile and Teams integration with this unified calling experience.
Learn more about how IT admins can configure Teams Phone Mobile in Teams admin center and view the expanding set of mobile operators supporting Teams Phone Mobile.
Phone devices: Delayed simultaneous ring on Teams Phone devices
Delayed Simultaneous Ring is now supported on Teams Phone devices. This capability addresses challenges for groups with shared call responsibilities and helps reduce distractions by prioritizing the intended recipient. If the call is not answered by the primary receiver first within a set time, the duration of which is customizable, then the call will start ringing other designated phones. It's a smarter way to streamline call handling and ensure the intended person has the first opportunity to respond.
Phone devices: Configure line keys from Teams admin center
We're expanding the flexibility of line keys in Teams Phone devices with new admin configuration capabilities. Line keys let users set up customized one-touch dialing—for speed dial, shared lines, collaborative call delegation, and call transfers—helping them quickly reach important contacts and work more efficiently. With this update, IT admins can now centrally configure line keys in the Teams admin center (TAC) for both personal devices and common area phones (CAP). This makes it easier to standardize setups, accelerate deployments, and ensure users have the right shortcuts at their fingertips.
Phone devices: Enhancements for Copilot summary for transferred calls
Copilot summary for transferred calls provides an AI-generated summary of the transcribed or recorded call so that receiving person saves time gathering information on the earlier discussion. With this latest update, the transfer targets clearer context through the display of a concise call topic in the incoming call notification, giving them faster visibility into why the caller is being transferred. This helps users feel more confident before answering. For example, a bank branch worker can quickly see that a transfer relates to an account verification or a loan application.
Workplace: Teams Rooms
Enhanced production experience for Town hall in Teams Rooms on Android
The enhanced 'Manage what attendees see' feature gives Town hall hosts greater control over what attendees experience. Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters joining from a Teams Room on Android with a Pro license can view a polished event while managing which participants appear on or off screen. Organizers licensed for Teams Premium can adjust layout, background, and name tag changes through the Teams Desktop.
Front-of-room view control for Town Hall in Teams Rooms on Android
When a Teams Rooms on Android is invited as a meeting presenter, the front-of-room display defaults to the attendee view. Presenters always have 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. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
Start and stop recording and transcription on Teams Rooms on Android
During a Teams meeting, you can start, stop, and restart recording and transcription from a Team Rooms on Android device. Spoken language for the meeting can also be changed. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
Fundamentals and Security
Report a suspicious message on Teams for Android
You can now provide security feedback directly from the Teams Android app - whether you're flagging a message as a security concern or confirming that a message Microsoft flagged is actually safe. This enhanced reporting flow helps your organization strengthen protection against phishing and other unwanted messages by capturing clearer, more actionable signals from real user behavior. In both cases, your feedback goes to your organization and, if admins choose, can also be shared with Microsoft's detection systems to improve accuracy, reduce false positives, and better identify harmful content.
Screen & Window Sharing on Mac via Mac OS Native Picker
Mac users can now share their screen or specific windows using the standard native picker experience. By opting in through settings, users can enjoy a fully integrated sharing flow that leverages Mac OS's default interface - ensuring a familiar, secure and streamlined experience.
Frontline Worker Solutions
Frontline Agent
The new Frontline Agent, available in public preview, is a purpose-built and persona-tuned AI assistant that supports everyday workflows for frontline teams by delivering concise, simple responses grounded in the context of their work. With this out-of-the-box agent, frontline workers can quickly find information from scoped SharePoint sites, such as internal policies and procedures, and easily catch up on missed Teams chat and channel messages at the start of their shift with detailed action items. Available in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Teams, the Frontline Agent helps support smarter, more efficient shifts.
Certified for Teams Devices
Jabra Express Install: PanaCast 50 VBS, Acadia Tabletop Stand, Available with LG 40", 43", 50", 55", or 65" displays
The Jabra PanaCast 50 VBS, certified for Microsoft Teams, teams up with Salamander Designs Acadia Tabletop Stand and LG's 4K UHD display to transform huddle, focus, and small meeting spaces into smart collaboration zones. With panoramic video, intelligent audio, and sleek cable management, this bundle installs in under 90 minutes, no wall drilling or rewiring required. It's a plug-and-play solution that's easy to deploy, simple to manage, and ready for AI-powered productivity. Because great meetings shouldn't need a construction crew—and teams deserve tech that just works. Display available in 40", 43", 50", 55", or 65"
Logitech Huddle Room and Small Room Heckler Tabletop Express Install for Teams Rooms on Android: Available with 43" monitor for Huddle rooms or 50" monitor for small rooms
Logitech, in partnership with Heckler and Samsung, is simplifying room installations with the new Express Install for Microsoft Teams Rooms, making high-quality meeting spaces more accessible and easier to deploy. Logitech's Express Install kit for Huddle Rooms and Small Rooms can be installed in under an hour, with minimal labor and no specialist help needed.
Learn more about the Express Install for Huddle Rooms and about the Express Install for Small Rooms.
Biamp Auto Tuned DSP with Ceiling and Table Mics – Available for Large or Medium Rooms
Biamp's DEVIO SCX bundle features Biamp Launch, an automated room tuning feature that optimizes audio with just one button press, no expertise required. The complete audio package delivers clear communication through advanced beamtracking technology that captures voices from anywhere in the room. This solution eliminates background noise so that every participant can be heard clearly, enhancing collaboration for all meeting types. The large room bundle includes two Parlé table microphones, and four Desono ceiling speakers. The medium room bundle includes one Parlé table microphone, and two Desono ceiling speakers.
View the Biamp Auto Tuned DSP with Table Mics Large Room bundle and the Biamp Auto Tuned DSP with Table Mics Medium Room bundle
Biamp Configurable DSP w/ Table Mics – Available for Large or Medium Rooms
The Biamp TesiraFORTÉ X Table Mic bundles are designed for Large or Medium sized Microsoft Teams Rooms. Powered by TesiraFORTÉ X DSPs, enjoy highly configurable audio options tailored to your space or use a simplified setup with Biamp Launch—an automated room tuning feature that optimizes audio with just one button press, no expertise required.
View the Biamp Configurable DSP w/ Table Mics for Large Rooms and the Biamp Configurable DSP w/ Table Mics for Medium Rooms
Barco ClickShare Hub Pro and Sennheiser TeamConnect Bar M and TeamConnect Bar S for Teams Rooms on Android
The ClickShare Hub Pro and Sennheiser TeamConnect Bar M and TeamConnect Bar S bundles are certified Microsoft Teams Rooms solutions for medium and small meeting rooms. ClickShare Hub Pro enables one-click, wireless conferencing and 4K content sharing, with two next-gen ClickShare Buttons (featuring Wi-Fi 6E and USB-C DisplayPort™) and dual screen support. Built on the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP), it's designed for secure meetings. Sennheiser's TeamConnect Bar M delivers advanced audio and dynamic video, with six beamforming microphones, four high-quality speakers, and AI features (auto-framing, person tiling). The TeamConnect Bar S delivers crisp audio and dynamic video, with four beamforming microphones, two speakers, and AI-powered features (auto-framing and person tiling). For users, these bundles deliver intuitive, engaging meetings. For IT managers, they provide modular flexibility, enterprise-grade security, compliance, and standardized integration.
Huddly® C1™: AI-driven videobar for small and medium rooms.
Huddly C1™ is an AI-powered videobar designed for small and medium meeting rooms. It delivers flexible, modular collaboration, working as a standalone device or paired with Huddly Crew Add-On Cameras. Compatible with both BYOD setups and native room systems, C1 ensures high-quality video and seamless connectivity for modern meeting spaces.
Lumens VC-TR60A – Black or White
The Lumens VC-TR60A camera features automatic voice tracking, presenter tracking, and auto-framing to ensure remote participants get the best possible view. It makes Teams meetings more dynamic and engaging. Voice tracking is a stand-out feature, locking onto the active presenter. When more people join the discussion, the camera adjusts automatically to capture all active speakers in the room. No manual control required – it's smart and effective and makes for more professional Teams calls.
Learn more about the Lumens VC-TR60A – Black and the Lumens VC-TR60A – White
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