Conversational Integration with Microsoft Teams release notes

  • Release version: Store
  • Updated June 11, 2026
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    Summary of Conversational Integration with Microsoft Teams Release Notes

    The Conversational Integration with Microsoft Teams application enhances how ServiceNow Virtual Agent (VA) and Copilot interact within Microsoft Teams. It delivers ongoing improvements, bug fixes, and new features that optimize conversational AI capabilities, message streaming, and user experience. This integration supports seamless queries, live agent interactions, and enhances collaboration by embedding ServiceNow functionality directly into Microsoft Teams conversations.

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    Key Features

    • Streaming and Message Handling: Streaming for Teams and Copilot conversations is enabled for real-time interaction, ensuring messages are delivered in correct order without delays or duplication.
    • Copilot Integration: Enables querying knowledge base articles and catalog items within Teams, requiring Copilot and Now Assist licenses. Uses Microsoft’s Custom Engine Agent framework for enhanced VA capabilities.
    • Enhanced User Interaction: Features like pre-selected choices, multi-select pickers, synthesized responses, and improved choice picker experiences make conversations more intuitive and efficient.
    • Attachment and Media Support: Supports multiple file types, multi-attachment uploads, and handles emojis correctly in live agent chats.
    • Administrative Improvements: Updated manifest generators for self-configured bots, improved admin UI, and options like disabling confirmation banners enhance configuration and management.
    • Diagnostic and Logging Tools: Includes a Conversational Diagnostics app for health checks and a unified logging framework for troubleshooting.
    • Notification and Preview Enhancements: Actionable notifications with subscription options and content previews for KB articles, catalog items, and incidents improve user engagement.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    • Improved Conversational AI Experience: Customers benefit from smoother, more responsive VA and Copilot interactions within Microsoft Teams.
    • Streamlined Collaboration: Integration enables users to access ServiceNow knowledge and perform actions directly in Teams, reducing context switching.
    • Customization and Control: Admins can configure bots, message behaviors, and user interface elements to fit organizational needs.
    • Reliable and Secure Operations: Frequent bug fixes and security updates ensure stable and secure integration performance.
    • Ease of Troubleshooting: Built-in diagnostic tools help quickly identify and resolve common integration issues.

    Expectations

    By implementing this integration, customers can expect a continuously evolving, robust conversational AI experience within Microsoft Teams that supports advanced dialog capabilities, real-time messaging, and seamless access to ServiceNow resources. Licensing requirements for Copilot and Now Assist apply for certain features. Regular updates address both functional enhancements and operational stability, ensuring the integration keeps pace with Microsoft and ServiceNow platform advancements.

    Version history for the Conversational Integration with Microsoft Teams on the ServiceNow Store.

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    Version history

    Version 10.3.4 - June 2026 (Australia)
    • Fixed:
      • Ensure "skip" is honored
      • Adjustments to Copilot manifests
      • Resolves issue where LLM conversations would get stuck in the thinking stage
      • Accidental double processing messages being sent to the end user
      • Stream activities for all transformers
      • Ensure messages always send in the correct order when streaming is enabled
    • Enhancement(s): Pre-selected choices in pickers
    Version 10.3.1 - March 2026 (Australia)
    • Fixed: Self-configured bot issue for bots deployed after 10/22/2025 due to tenancy change from Microsoft
    • Fixed: Supported additional file types in live agent conversation
    • Changed Various experience enhancements and big fixes
    Version 10.3.0 - December 2025 (Zurich)
    Minor bug fixes and enhancements
    Version 10.2.0 - October 2025
    • Streaming is enabled for Teams and Copilot with the Assistant configuration
    • Enhancements to the processing and streaming messages
    • Minor defects addressed
    Version 10.1.1 - September 2025 (Zurich)
    New: Migrated to Custom Engine Agent, a new agent framework from Microsoft that enables end-to-end conversational VA capabilities within Microsoft 365 Copilot. Note that live agent interactions and notifications are not supported.
    Version 10.0.3 - September 2025 (Yokohama)
    Minor bug fixes.
    Version 10.0.2 - August 2025 (Yokohama)
    • Enhanced the choice picker experience for Microsoft Teams
    • New native Microsoft Teams components
      • AI label for Now Assist responses
      • Feedback loop for Now Assist responses
    • Improved configurations to enable Copilot
    Version 9.2.0 - May 2025
    • New: Added people card component that shows up within a synthesized response in a Teams conversation.
    • Fixed: Minor bugs in Copilot and Teams experiences
    Version 9.1.0 - March 2025 (Yokohama)
    New: Microsoft Teams now supports streamed message for all Now Assist responses.
    Version 9.0.0 - February 2025 (Yokohama)
    Minor improvements and bug fixes for the Microsoft Copilot integration.
    Version 8.1.1 - January 2025 (Xanadu)
    Bug fixes for the Microsoft Copilot integration.
    Version 7.4.3 - December 2024 (Washington DC)
    Added support for Synthesized Responses for Now Assist conversations.
    Version 8.1.0 - November 2024 (Xanadu)
    • New: Support of Synthesized Responses in Teams
    • Fixed: HTML code rendering in Teams
    Version 8.0.4 - October 2024
    Fixed an issue while generating manifests for "ServiceNow for Microsoft Teams."
    Version 8.0.1 - August 2024 (Xanadu)
    • New: Copilot integration - Customers can use Copilot to query KB articles and catalog items
    • New: Copilot integration - Customers wanting to integrate ServiceNow and Copilot will need to use the self-configured bot to integrate and have Now Assist turned on
    • New: Copilot integration - Customers will need a Copilot and Now Assist license to use functionality, this is not needed to use the Teams integration
    Version 7.2.0 - May 2024
    Minor improvements and bug fixes.
    Version 7.1.1 - April 2024 (Washington DC)
    Fix for new scripted pagination introduced by VA Server.
    Version 7.1.0 - March 2024 (Washington DC)
    New: Support multi-select for pickers.
    Version 7.0.0 - February 2024 (Washington DC)
    • New: Support for "Now Assist in Virtual Agent"
    • Fixed minor issues
    Version 6.1.0 - November 2023
    • New: Support for Now Assist Q&A Genius Results.
    • Fixes related to message logging.
    Version - August 2023
    • for Virtual Agent in MS Teams
    • Improved localization experience and settings
    • Changed: Pagination of large-size dynamic choice list
    Version 4.1.3 - July 2023
    Fixes on live agent sending non-image attachments to the end user.
    Version 5.1.0 - May 2023
    • New:
      • Improved support for multi-attachment upload.
      • Improved localization experience.
      • Message batching for improved performance in MS Teams.
    • Changed: Preventing deletion of adapter-specific configuration records.
    • Fixed: Deletion of manifest record when the bot is deleted.
    Version 4.1.1 - March 2023 (Tokyo)
    This version includes fixes for generating links with markdown and preventing deletion of provider records.
    Version 5.0.0 - February 2023
    • New:
      • Improved link opening and authentication experience.
      • Manifest generator for self-configured bots.
    • Changed: Improved Admin UI for Microsoft Teams integrations.
    • Fixed: Improved attachment handling.
    Version 4.1.0 - November 2022
    • New:
      • Option to turn off confirmation banner when a user sends a response to Virtual Agent.
      • Improved catalog ordering experience from AI search.
    • Fixed:
      • Display orders of static choice lists.
      • MS Teams integration on cloned instances.
      • Live agent messages involving emojis.
    Version 3.0.15 - November 2022
    • Fixed:
      • MS Teams integration on cloned instances.
      • Live agent messages involving emojis.
    Version 4.0.1 - August 2022
    • New:
      • One-click uninstallation of Microsoft Teams integration.
      • MS Teams now displays Promoted topics to end users during conversation.
      • Batch-messaging is enabled for certain select cards.
    • Fixed:
      • Recommendation link in Live Agent diagnosis.
      • Message with Emoji in live agent chat.
      • Technical issues: Install Self-configured Bot popup, Node IDs in headers, , 'Go to Tips' button, Card output, YouTube Card and 'Got it' button, Catalogue Card, Live Agent conversation.
      • Installation issues.
      • Uninstallation issues.
      • Bot identification issue.
      • Issues with System properties.
      • Post survey issue.
      • User interface display: Welcome message, Genius AI card, Carousel, Message order.
      • Translation issues: UI message translation, Field labels on install window.
      • High memory consumption issue.
      • Conversation language change issue.
    Version 3.0.10 - May 2022
    • New:
      • Run a health check scan using the Conversational Diagnostics app to capture common errors in the Microsoft Teams integration. The app groups errors by category and provides links to relevant Knowledge Base articles for resolution.
      • Notifications now have a preview of the message content or title, where applicable.
      • Drop-down picker controls now allow users to type and search for a particular choice from the list.
    • Changed: Non-card bot response controls are converted into adaptive cards.
    • Fixed:
      • User interface display: content preview, KB and incident links, welcome message, task module, pop-up.
      • Controls: text, table header, carousel option display.
      • Installation issue.
    Version 3.0.6 - February 2022
    • New: Unified Logging Framework has been enabled.
    • Fixed:
      • The sys_notification_channel record configuration issue during upgrade from Paris to Quebec.
      • The estimated wait time displayed in seconds to be displayed in minutes.
      • L10 warning.
      • The order of No and Yes suggestion buttons.
      • The unified logging backward compatibility condition.
      • The vendor information for MS Teams app to be set to ServiceNow.
      • The issue with text on agent wait time card to display in user chosen language.
    Version 3.0.5 - December 2021
    • New: Content preview is now enabled within Microsoft Teams application for KB articles, catalog items, and incidents records.
    • Fixed:
      • Notification delivery issue.
      • The agent name display issue when user connects to a live agent.
      • Non-alphabetical order of the reference choice control options on the bot.
      • Auto-linking failure due to mismatch between 'User Principal Name' and the email of the sys_user record.
      • The broken hyper link in the Click here button on the welcome card.
      • The missing 'VA Teams Inbound' Scripted REST API issue.
    Version 3.0.1 - October 2021
    • New: Make all card templates in the Conversational Integration with Microsoft Teams available in the same template framework/table.
    • Fixed:
      • Security fixes
      • Multiflow button display in card
      • Text in Virtual Agent welcome card
      • Backward compatibility issue
      • Translation of card text
      • Unnecessary display of available UI actions after user selection
      • Reference and Static Choice controls with header card not working
      • Auto-linking failure due to mismatch between principal user name and user email record
    Version 2.0.0 - August 2021
    • New:
      • YouTube URL unfurling.
      • Support for rich text using markdown in notification messages.
      • Allow masking of sensitive user input.
      • Batch linking of Virtual Agent users.
      • URL redirect to Service Portal page.
    • Fixes
    Version 1.0.4 - March 2021
    Fixed: Addresses an issue with the installation of the Conversational Integration with Microsoft Teams app by correcting access to a scripted extension point.
    Version 1.0.2 - February 2021
    • New:
      • Support for actionable notifications
      • Users can subscribe to or unsubscribe from notifications