On June 30, 2026, Microsoft permanently retires Teams Live Events and the Microsoft Graph APIs that power them. Organisations that have run large-scale broadcasts through Teams lose access to the scheduling and production interface this week. Recordings from past events remain accessible in SharePoint for a transition period, but the platform URLs your attendees may have bookmarked could stop resolving sooner than expected.
What retires on June 30, 2026
The retirement covers the Teams Live Events scheduling interface, the producer and presenter experience in Teams, and the isBroadcast property on the Microsoft Graph onlineMeeting resource. New event scheduling was blocked from February 3, 2026 (already in effect). Any event set up before that cutoff and scheduled to run before June 30 will complete, and its associated recording or transcript will remain accessible until February 28, 2027.
Microsoft's designated replacement is Teams Town Hall, which supports audiences up to 10,000 attendees, includes Q&A, moderation, and green-room features, and stores recordings in SharePoint in the same way Live Events did. Organisations using Dynamics 365 for Live Events scheduling lost that capability on February 3 as well.
| Milestone | Date | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| New Live Event scheduling blocked | February 3, 2026 | Already in effect; no new events can be created |
| Teams Live Events fully retired | June 30, 2026 | Platform shuts down; Graph APIs retired |
| Pre-cutoff event recordings remain accessible | Until February 28, 2027 | Events scheduled before February 3 remain playable for the transition period |
| Dynamics 365 Live Events integration retired | February 3, 2026 | Already in effect for Dynamics-integrated scheduling workflows |
Recordings in SharePoint: what happens to the files
When Teams Live Events recorded a broadcast, it saved the output as an MP4 file in the event organiser's SharePoint site or storage associated with the meeting. Those files are ordinary SharePoint documents. They do not disappear when Live Events retires; they remain in place, subject to the same retention policies, version history limits, and storage quotas as any other file in the tenant.
The concern is not the files themselves but the links to them. If your organisation distributed recordings via the Teams Live Events player URL, those URLs reference the Live Events platform. Once the platform is retired and the transition period ends, those links will no longer resolve. The underlying MP4 file in SharePoint is intact, but any user following an old bookmarked link will encounter a dead page. Admins need to locate the recording files in SharePoint, copy the direct SharePoint file URLs, and redistribute them through intranet pages, email, or your organisation's learning management system.
Old recording files that are no longer needed are also strong candidates for cleanup. Unmanaged video files in SharePoint consume significant storage, particularly since MP4 files store a full copy with each new version. Space Master's Bulk Delete can identify and remove obsolete recording files across multiple site collections without requiring file-by-file navigation.
Admin checklist before June 30
- Notify event organisers. Any team running recurring broadcasts such as town halls, training sessions, or product launches needs to set up equivalent events in Teams Town Hall before June 30. Teams Town Hall uses a familiar scheduling workflow and produces recordings in the same SharePoint location.
- Identify workflow dependencies. Power Automate flows, Graph API integrations, or third-party applications that reference Teams Live Events or the
isBroadcastGraph property will break on June 30. Audit and update them before the deadline. - Locate key recordings in SharePoint. Search the document libraries used by event organisers for MP4 files with names matching past events. Copy the direct SharePoint file URLs and update any intranet pages or email links that reference the old Live Events player.
- Decide what to archive and what to delete. Recordings older than 12 months that no one has accessed recently are candidates for removal. Check the access activity in the Microsoft 365 admin centre before deleting anything that serves a compliance or training purpose.