Dive into our MAY 2024 Microsoft Teams Show! Host Kieran Devlin teams up with special guest Tom Arbuthnot from Empowering.Cloud to unpack recent updates and announcements. Joined by a panel of seasoned Teams experts, find out what’s new in the Teams ecosystem.

In this update, we talk through the most popular Teams news headlines with this month’s special guests:

• Graham Walsh, Product Specialist at Neat
• Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, enableUC
• Josh Blalock, Chief Video Evangelist at Jabra
• Randy Chapman, Solutions Engineer in Video Collaboration, Logitech

Teams News

• Microsoft is reportedly developing its own AI platform to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT. What does this mean for Microsoft, its AI strategy and its OpenAI partnership?
• Microsoft Quarterly earnings - 20 million Teams Phone users, an increase on 17 million last July
• Over one million Microsoft Teams Rooms customers
• Teams Rooms on Windows 5.0 - Lots of new features for Teams Rooms!
• New Teams update now on Teams Rooms
• Zero Touch Deployment with Windows Autopilot
• Skype for Business Deprecation
• Meeting Chat shown by default in Gallery View for Teams Rooms on Windows
• Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Portal Remote Access - How does it work and could it be a gamechanger for IT admins?
• Restricted SharePoint search began rolling out in public preview for Copilot for Microsoft 365
• New Notebook for Copilot (on the web) - What exactly is it and how does it work?

Teams Events

• European Collaboration Summit - May 14-16
• Microsoft Teams Devices Ask Me Anything - May 21-22
• Microsoft Build, Seattle and Online - May 21-23
• UCX Manchester - May 21-22
• Teams Fireside Chat with Juan Rivera - June 13
• Commsverse - June 26-27

Dive into our APRIL 2024 Microsoft Teams Show! Host Rob Scott teams up with special guest Tom Arbuthnot from Empowering.Cloud to unpack recent updates and announcements. Joined by a panel of seasoned Teams experts, find out what’s new in the Teams ecosystem.

In this update, we talk through the most popular Teams news headlines with this month’s special guests:

• Graham Walsh, Product Specialist at Neat
• Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, enableUC
• Josh Blalock, Chief Video Evangelist at Jabra

BIG NEWS: Microsoft to Decouple Teams from Office – A Global Game-Changer!

Teams Phone's New Horizons

• The upcoming Queues app in Teams Premium (Summer 2024)
• Reliability redefined with a Teams Phone service level agreement promising 99.999% uptime
• Strategic Survivable Branch Appliance Enhancements
• Teams Phone Mobile's new operator roster

Teams Phone Devices

• Enhanced Teams Phone devices UI for streamlined call handling directly from your phone’s home screen.
• Multi-task like a pro with improved multi-call handling.
• Sophisticated contact management for swift communication.
• Remote admin controls via TAC for bulk configuration and contact management

Meetings and Rooms Revolution

• Josh Blalock announces Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) launches with Jabra and Yealink.
• AV1 enhancement for screen sharing in Teams — expect lower bandwidth usage and smoother frame rates.
• IntelliFrame's automatic camera switching and multiple camera view for a richer remote experience.
• Upcoming intelligent speaker recognition and transcript attribution for a more inclusive meeting atmosphere.
• Simplified join options with ultrasound proximity, QR code, and meeting ID features.

Copilot's Intelligent Evolution

• Copilot compose enhancements bring smarter interactions to Teams chat.
• Intelligent call and meeting recaps in Teams Premium and Teams Mobile.

Teams Events

• • Comms svNext - April 23
  • Microsoft 365 Community Conference - April 30 - May 1 -2
  • Teams Fireside chat - May 9
  • Commsverse - June 26-27

UC Today host Rob Scott is joined by Microsoft Teams Expert and Co-Founder of Empowering.Cloud, Tom Arbuthnot and a panel of experts from the Microsoft Teams community.

In this update, we talk through the most popular Teams news headlines with this month’s special guests:

• Graham Walsh, Product Specialist at Neat
• Satish Upadhyaya, MVP, Microsoft 365 UC Architect
• Amanda Sterner, Microsoft MVP, Technical Architect, Advania – Knowledge Factory

Microsoft Teams News

• Copilot for finance
• Copilot new languages

Teams Rooms

• Android Rooms Big Update
• Daily maintenance restart window for Teams Rooms on Android devices
• Control your Teams Room with your Windows PC on both Windows and Android
• Microsoft Teams now supports Android Auto

Teams Phone

• 96 countries now on Operator Connect
• Private line is now available
• Select IP phone models from Snom compatible with SIP Gateway
• Public preview of Azure Operator Call Protection

Events

• Channel Partners Conference & Expo - 11 March
• Teams Fireside Chat - 14 March
• Enterprise Connect - Everything a Teams Service Owner needs to know - 25 March
• CommsVNext - 23 April
• Ignite has a date! In Chicago and online - 18-22 November, 2024