Action Required: Classic Teams End of Availability by 7/1

Message Center ID: MC1078757
Microsoft Teams
Plan for Change
User impact Admin impact Retirement
July 1, 2025
July 2025

Summary

Classic Teams will be unavailable starting July 1, 2025. Ensure users migrate to the new Teams experience to avoid disruption. Use the provided script to identify devices still running classic Teams and upgrade them. For more information, refer to the provided links.

Details

[Action Required: Classic Teams Will Be Unavailable in 42 Days]

You are receiving this message because users in your tenant are still using classic Teams and they will be impacted if no action is taken before July 1st, 2025, which is just 42 days away. To avoid disruption, please ensure all users are fully migrated to the new Teams experience. If you have already completed the migration, you can disregard this message. You can find the Windows devices that are still running classic Teams by running this script

[How this will affect your organization:]

Starting July 1st, 2025, classic Teams will be unavailable to use as mentioned in the documentation at: Teams Classic End of Availability. Users will not be able to dismiss the blocking message or use the classic Teams app. To avoid any business continuity issues, you must upgrade to new Teams or use Teams on the web at https://teams.microsoft.com

[What you need to do to prepare:]

  • Use this script to find Windows devices that need to be upgraded to new Teams. While the main purpose of the script is to identify issues before installation of new Teams, it can also be used to detect devices running unsupported OS for new Teams Installation.
  • Upgrade users as soon as possible to the new Teams app. Learn more about switching to new Teams. Prerequisites for new Teams installation: Windows and Mac

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