Table of Contents
Summary
- A redesigned Meet app in Microsoft Teams will offer a unified Events experience for managing webinars, town halls, and custom events.
- Users will benefit from a centralized Events hub with simplified scheduling and templates for creating events.
- The new experience includes event landing pages with Q&A and Polls to enhance engagement.
- Current Meetings and Audio recap features will remain accessible, ensuring continuity for users.
- No administrative action is required to prepare for this change.
Admin Impact: Low
User Impact: Medium
Release Start: 01 Apr 2026
Release End: 30 Apr 2026
Services: Teams
Category: Stay informed
Tags: New Feature, User Adoption
History
2/5/2026 Item Added to Message Center
Microsoft Message
Introduction
We are introducing a redesigned Meet app in Microsoft Teams that delivers a new, unified Events experience. This update modernizes how users create, discover, and manage events—bringing webinars, town halls, and custom events into a single streamlined workflow. Users will continue to access their current Meetings and Audio recap experiences without any disruption.
Screenshot 1: Discover experience for attendees showing Events happening now and upcoming
This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for the web and is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 547834.
When this will happen
- Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early February 2026 and expect to complete by mid-February 2026.
- General Availability: We will begin rolling out early April 2026 and expect to complete by late April 2026.
How this will affect your organization
Who is affected:
- All users who currently use the Meet app in Microsoft Teams.
- Applicable across all Teams clients where the Meet app is available.
What will happen:
- Users will see the redesigned Meet app with a modernized, unified Events experience.
- A centralized Events hub to create, edit, and track events.
Screenshot 2: Manage all your events in different stages
- Simplified scheduling for custom events, webinars, and town halls using templates.
Screenshot 3: New simplified scheduling form
- Custom events created using Create from scratch will automatically honor the appropriate policy set—Town hall policies for broadcast‑type events and Webinar policies for collaborative events.
- Ability to schedule events using shared and delegate mailboxes.
- Event landing pages with Q&A and Polls.
- Seamless upgrade path for current Webinars and Town halls.
- A redesigned Events home to help users discover and revisit events.
Screenshot 4: Event landing page for Attendees to engage before or after event
- Meetings and Audio recap remain accessible via a continuity banner.
- No impact on existing events.
- No changes to admin controls.
- Classic Meet remains available during preview and general availability.
What you need to do to prepare
No administrative action is required.
- Review and update internal training and communication materials.
- Inform event organizers of the upcoming unified Events experience.
- Encourage users to pin the Meet app in Teams.
- Share training resources within your organization.
Before rollout, we will update this post with new documentation.
Compliance considerations
No compliance considerations identified, review as appropriate for your organization.