I noticed this option in my Teams desktop app in my test tenant. Are you seeing it in your tenant too?

Just got the “Communities is retiring soon” notice in Teams Free. To clarify, this is the personal/consumer version, not Teams for work or school. Microsoft’s announcement.

I’m in the Teams Free Insider programme, and the corresponding community has already disappeared. Not even a goodbye 😅

As apparently one of the dozen people still using consumer Teams... what do we reckon the future is for this somewhat forgotten product?

Okay, this might be a really specific question, but I've been overthinking it LOL.

I have a habit of submitting my assignments, noticing something I want to fix, clicking "Undo turn in," making a small correction, and submitting again. Except I've done this an embarrassing number of times for the same assignment...

I'm not talking about document version history or whether they can manually dig through submission records. I just want to know if, when a teacher opens an assignment to grade it, there's some visible counter or indication that a student has submitted it like 15 times. Basically, does my teacher know I've been fighting for my life in the submission tab, or does he just see my latest submission?

Would especially appreciate an answer from teachers who've used Teams for assignments!

If your tenant has Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses, you’ll soon see meeting archive files generated by AI for Teams meetings. The files are stored in a SharePoint Embedded container, but they’re not intended for user consumption. Instead, AI tools like Copilot and the Facilitator agent will use meeting archive files to generate better responses to questions from meeting participants about what happened during meetings. It’s yet another file type to figure out how to govern.

https://office365itpros.com/2026/10/21/ai-meeting-archive-files/

I facilitate a large Team (1400+) people. For the past 2-3 years, I've been using the "send personal invites" toggle to invite everyone to a monthly meeting. This week, that toggle has disappeared. My admin is not aware of a new update and we are working on submitting a ticket with Microsoft. Anyone else experience this or know what might be happening?

I've used this extension to successfully download meetings but I'm trying to download one now that's 3 hours long and I'm getting the error "Segment failed: HTTP 500". Does anyone know why? Is there limit to the meeting length that can be downloaded?

Hello everyone,

I saw a post in this sub regarding microphone problems in Microsoft Teams with the Yealink A10. We use this device at work as well, so I took one home and think I found a fix (I'll test it at work tomorrow to confirm).

The problem was that the microphone worked fine everywhere else (e.g., Discord or WhatsApp audio calls) but not in Microsoft Teams. Even the camera's speaker-tracking function worked correctly during testing.

The usual fixes didn't work: checking for software updates (it was already running the latest version) or even performing a factory reset.

After the second reset, I set it up in Device Mode from the selection screen instead of choosing Teams or Zoom.

Then I went into the Windows settings and applied the following:

System > Sound > Input

Click on Yealink and, under "Set as default audio device", set it to "Default for communications".

Then set the format to 2-channel, 16-bit, 32000 Hz (FM radio quality).

After that, try testing the microphone in the Windows sound settings (mine showed about 20% input volume). Then I tested it in Teams, and it worked perfectly.

(Windows setting names may be different, as English is not my first language.)

Hello,

Recently, the Microsoft Teams desktop app has started showing the message mentioned in the screenshot.

Additionally, my Teams status is not staying as Available. It automatically changes to Away/Offline, and even if I manually set it back to Available, it changes back to Away after some time even when screen is ON and while I work on other apps.

I’m also experiencing significant delays with messages and notifications in the Teams desktop app. I’m missing several messages because they are not being updated or received on time. Interestingly, the Teams mobile app receives the messages first, while the Windows desktop app takes much longer to update.

I’m using the latest Microsoft Teams app for work on a Windows 11 computer.

Teams version : 26260.1717.5229.7049

Please suggest

Thanks

I know there a countless headset recommendations but I need a wired one not wireless.

Must be:

Noise cancelling
USB-C
Stereo / duel eared over ear (not buds)
Boom mic which mutes

Research suggest the Evolve2 50 but does anyone have an alternative recommendation

We enrolled 375 xcover 7 devices via Intune as managed kiosk devices. For all users it is working fine expect for 1 user. When the user picks up the sound is given via the device speaker each time (default) . We enrolled a other device but the same happens: sound via speaker. Anybody has an Idea?

I know the general consensus is not to use Teams Desk Phones, but I'm curious why Yealink has the MP55 and the MP56 E2 when the MSRP is only $10 difference. Why would you choose one over the other? Which do you suppose will be supported longer?

So, this morning we had a Teams Event. We had it set for anyone within our organization and had put the Teams Events Page Link on our company homepage. However, when users went to the Event Join page the Join link did not work. We were able to share the direct join link and get people to join but has anyone seen this behavior before?

Hi everyone,

We're dealing with a very frustrating issue on a Remote Desktop Server and would appreciate any ideas or troubleshooting suggestions.

Environment:

• Single Windows RDS server (not part of an RDS cluster)
• Around 10 concurrent users
• Microsoft 365 Apps, Teams, Outlook
• Users have valid Microsoft 365 licenses
• Plenty of free disk space on the server
• Windows on the server is currently not activated
• Users log off properly at the end of each day

Symptoms: Almost every day, users receive sign-in prompts from either Teams or Outlook. The messages vary, but typically include things like:

• "Your IT department requires you to sign in again"
• Requests to reauthenticate their Microsoft 365 account
• Teams showing connection/sign-in errors
• Outlook unable to connect
• Teams messages not loading
• Authentication failures or credential-related prompts

The issue affects most users at some point, but there are a few specific users who experience it almost daily.

Some of these users also work with multiple mailboxes and Shared Mailboxes, although the issue is not limited to them.

What we've already tried:

• Completely rebuilding user profiles
• Deleting local user profiles entirely
• Reconnecting Microsoft 365 accounts
• Reinstalling Office on the server
• Running Teams profile repair scripts: .\Finance-Fix.ps1 .\Users-Fix.ps1
• Clearing Teams-related data
• Signing users out and back in
• Full server reboot

None of these actions provided a permanent solution.

Additional observations:

• The issue appears isolated to this specific RDS server.
• We have other environments that do not experience this behavior.
• Disk space does not appear to be a factor.
• Users perform a full logout at the end of the day, yet the problem returns repeatedly.

Has anyone seen a similar issue on a standalone RDS server? Are there known Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, Entra ID, or token-caching issues that commonly cause repeated reauthentication requests in RDS environments?

Any suggestions for logs, Event Viewer locations, registry settings, Office settings, or best practices for running Teams and Outlook on RDS would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Did anyone else wake up this morning to half their Microsoft Teams room systems offline? Looks like a failed windows update caused it as using windows restore has resolved the issue on at least one system.

It's across multiple makes and models of computer, across multiple time zones, in multiple countries, with some resource accounts migrated to passwordless and some not. It's been a crazy morning for me. Anyone else?

tldr - Force Update WebView2 to 155.0.4283.60+
See Issue #2 for fix. Works for both Desktop app and Teams Room.

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I'm wondering whether this is a known Teams compatibility issue or if a minimum Teams/Teams Rooms application version is required to support the new time-zone definition.

Sharing our findings since I haven't been able to find much information about this yet.

Following Microsoft's recent Windows update introducing British Columbia Standard Time (UTC-07:00), aka PCT, we've identified two issues affecting Microsoft Teams.

The key finding is that these issues only occur when Windows is set to the new British Columbia Standard Time. Windows itself displays the correct time, but Teams appears to interpret the new time zone incorrectly.

Issue #1 - Microsoft Teams Desktop App (Resolved)

• Update (Oct 16): Issue resolved following WebView2 update. See the comment below from u/MattSlomkaMSFT
  • Windows is configured with British Columbia Standard Time.
  • Windows system clock correctly displays local time (UTC-07:00).
  • Teams chat message timestamps are 1-hour behind. For example, a message sent at 2:55 PM shows as 1:55 PM in Teams.
  • Teams calendar display meeting times correctly, regardless of whether the events were created using the traditional Pacific Time (PST) or the new BC Pacific Time (PCT) time zone.

Issue #2 Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows Appliances (Resolved)

Update 2 (Oct 16) - Confirmed fix for Teams Rooms on Windows. WebView2 must be updated to 155.0.4283.60 or newer to resolve the one-hour time discrepancy.

You can force the update using the Evergreen Bootstrapper and restore the new BC time zone using the PowerShell.

# Downloads WebView2 Evergreen Bootstrapper
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=2124703" -OutFile "$env:TEMP\MicrosoftEdgeWebview2Setup.exe"

# Force install WebView2
Start-Process -FilePath "$env:TEMP\MicrosoftEdgeWebview2Setup.exe" -ArgumentList "/silent /install" -Wait

# Disable automatic time zone detection
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tzautoupdate" -Name "Start" -Value 4

# Force set time zone to British Columbia
Set-TimeZone -Id "British Columbia Standard Time"

# Verify WebView2 version
Get-ChildItem "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Microsoft\EdgeWebView\Application" -Directory | Select-Object Name

Update (Oct 16): Teams Rooms on Windows are still affected, even with the latest WebView2 and confirmed to be actively used by the Teams Rooms process. The update resolved the issue on regular Teams desktop clients, but NOT Teams Rooms.

On our MTR appliances with the new BC time zone:

• The Teams Rooms interface clock displays one hour behind the actual local time.
• Scheduled meeting start and end times are also displayed one hour behind.
• Windows 11 IoT itself shows the correct time and UTC-07:00 offset.
• Teams Rooms on Android are not affected.

Exchange Online Time Zone Settings Have No Effect

Teams Rooms resource mailboxes were originally set to Pacific Standard Time. Updating them to British Columbia Standard Time had no effect on the Teams Rooms clock or meeting times. We also tested Arizona and Yukon time zones with the same result.

Windows Time Zone

Running Get-TimeZone returns:

Id                         : British Columbia Standard Time
DisplayName                : (UTC-07:00) Pacific Time (British Columbia)
StandardName               : British Columbia Standard Time
DaylightName               : British Columbia Daylight Time
BaseUtcOffset              : -08:00:00
SupportsDaylightSavingTime : True

My suspicion is that certain Teams components may be interpreting the base UTC offset (-08:00) instead of the effective offset (-07:00), resulting in the one-hour discrepancy.

The new British Columbia Standard Time uses a base UTC offset of -08:00, with DST adjustment rules bringing the effective offset to -07:00.

$tz.GetUtcOffset([datetime]"2026-10-15").ToString()
-07:00:00
$tz.GetUtcOffset([datetime]"2026-11-15").ToString()
-07:00:00

I want to have a channel meeting.

Why:

- avoid creating a new chat in sidebar for just that meeting series or occurrence.

- still have a functional "chat" in the meeting itself (our team is accustomed to using this - it's great - we don't want to get lost looking through other things during a meeting)

Problem: a channel meeting includes [myteam@myco.com](mailto:myteam@myco.com) on the invite list, which causes the meeting to get added to everyones calendar. (Even though I only added a few people as required on the meeting, everyone started joining)

Solution? Idk, what does the "Send personal invites" feature actually do?

Hi, today I had an important meeting with a company that sent me a Teams link. No matter what I tried, I couldn't connect - I tried both the desktop and the browser version, reinstalled the app, restarted my laptop. After 15 minutes, I had to give up and ended up losing the project. It's too late now, but what could I have done?

Has anyone experienced something similar?

Major failure trying to host 300 person Microsoft webinar. After multiple issues - ex. users can't register with personal microsoft account, or after providing them direct link to meeting and they are in ... can't move them to breakout rooms. 1st attempt - 70 of 300 were able to use the provided 'Join' link that was provided when creating the Event / Webinar. 2nd attempt following day - made sure everyone had direct link. All got in but 60, They couldn't be assigned to rooms so ended up with 20+ rooms with 10 people (as planned) and then 70 sitting in general session talking over each other.

End result - Microsoft makes life difficult for the public webinars because people have a Microsoft personal account. fyi - trying to instruct 300+ people to not login in with their Microsoft account and select guest instead is not a good nor realistic solution.

I think we are stuck staying with Zoom w/Webinar license until this is fixed.

Looking to hear from people who are actually using Webex Calling within Microsoft Teams.

How has your experience been so far? Has the integration worked as expected, or have you run into any issues?

I'm particularly interested in how well it works day-to-day, user adoption, and whether you've encountered any limitations.

Would you recommend it based on your experience?

I'm trying to set up Teams for the first time on a personal license, and we don't have the option to make folders in the files tab. Is this restricted to paid versions? I can't right-click, there's no + to click, etc.

We find people constantly start new posts instead of replying inside threads. I think it’s because you don’t realize very easily it’s a threaded conversation when no one has responded inside the thread. You have to hover over the post and click the icon to reply. After someone does reply in thread, it’s much more obvious to continue there. Does anyone else see this behavior occurring? It’s extremely frustrating and makes the feature almost unusable. Notifications for replies that are posts instead of replies make zero sense.