Microsoft Teams: New DVR capabilities for town halls (desktop and web)

Updated January 28, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: New DVR (digital video recording) functionality for all town halls. This new feature will allow town hall attendees on Windows desktop or the web to interact with a live streaming town hall in the same way they would interact with recorded content. DVR functionality in the town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back in a town hall, navigate to any previous timestamp, and other abilities, making it more convenient to interact with a town hall more and easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for Teams town halls from all organizers, regardless of the license assigned to the organizer.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 422804.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early March 2025 (previously early February) and expect to complete by mid-March 2025 (previously mid-February).

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-March 2025 (previously mid-February) and expect to complete by late March (previously late February).

General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out late March 2025 (previously late February) and expect to complete by early April 2025 (previously early March)

How this will affect your organization:

After this rollout, the DVR controls will appear when attendees hover their mouse over the content being presented in the town hall. Attendees can:

• Pause, play, and skip 10 seconds forward or backward
• Control the volume of the content with the volume control
• Jump to any point in time, starting from the beginning of the event
• Catch up with the content and join the live event by selecting the Watch Live button next to the volume control

The DVR controls are at the bottom of the Teams window when the Q&A page is open on the right side:

We are committed to continuously improving the Microsoft Teams experience and are excited to bring this new capability to our customers.

This feature will be available by default.

What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Learn more: Plan for Teams town halls - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn (will be updated before rollout)