{"id":244230,"date":"2026-09-19T05:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-teams-will-let-admins-block-custom-file-extensions"},"modified":"2026-09-19T05:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:17:41","slug":"microsoft-teams-will-let-admins-block-custom-file-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-teams-will-let-admins-block-custom-file-extensions","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams will let admins block custom file extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-teams-will-let-admins-block-custom-file-extensions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Teams will soon let administrators tweak the list of file extensions commonly associated with malware and security threats to meet their company\u2019s security requirements.<\/p>\n<p>This will come as an update to Weaponizable File Protection, a built-in Teams messaging safety feature that scans conversations and blocks chat or channel messages with dangerous, high-risk file attachments.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/ro-ro\/microsoft-365\/roadmap?id=571298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new Microsoft 365 roadmap entry<\/a>, the feature is currently in development and will start rolling out in November 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Teams will soon let administrators tweak the list of file extensions commonly associated with malware and security threats to meet their company\u2019s security requirements. This will come as an update to Weaponizable File Protection, a built-in Teams messaging safety feature that scans conversations and blocks chat or channel messages with dangerous, high-risk file attachments. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}