April’s Teams Updates: What Your Business Needs to Know

If Teams is part of your working day — and for most businesses it is — April brought a few updates worth knowing about. Nothing dramatic, but a couple of handy improvements and one deadline that could catch people out if you’re not prepared.

What’s New in Teams

If you or your staff work across more than one account or organisation, Teams now pulls all your notifications into a single feed. No more flicking between windows to check who’s messaged you where. It’s a small thing, but when you’re busy it makes a real difference.

Sharing a specific window during a call is now cleaner too. You can annotate directly on what you’re presenting without risking your whole desktop appearing on screen — something anyone who’s ever scrambled to hide their tabs mid-presentation will be glad to hear.

Draft messages are now easier to spot, so half-written messages no longer disappear without trace. And Teams is quietly stripping EXIF metadata — the hidden location and camera data — from images shared in chats. It’s a sensible bit of tightening that’s good news for anyone mindful of what they’re sharing.

The 15 May Browser Deadline

This is the one to act on. If anyone in your team uses Teams through a browser rather than the desktop app, that browser needs to be up to date by 15 May. Microsoft is dropping support for older browser versions, meaning anyone on an outdated one will simply lose access.

A quick reminder to your team now — check you’re running a recent version of Chrome, Edge, or Firefox — should be enough to avoid any disruption. It takes two minutes and saves a headache on the day.

What to Do Next

The Teams updates themselves should roll out automatically, so no action needed there. The browser deadline is the thing worth flagging to your staff before mid-May. If you’re not sure whether everyone’s covered, or you’d like us to check your setup is good to go, just give us a shout — we’re happy to take a look.