Microsoft Teams News

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

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
• Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, enableUC

Microsoft Teams News

• 10 years of Satya Nadella
• Highlights from ISE 2024
• Android Roadmap Update
• Microsoft Teams and other Office Apps on the Apple Vision Pro
• Improvements for BYOD meeting spaces
• Microsoft Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service are now generally available
• Decorate your Teams Video background now GA (Premium)

Events

• Microsoft Teams Devices Ask Me Anything - 19-20 February
• Teams Nation Online - 21st February
• Microsoft Teams Phone Summit - 5-7 March
• Microsoft UC User Group London at Poly EEC - 7 March
• Enterprise Connect - Everything a Teams Service Owner needs to know - 25 March

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:

• Satish Upadhyaya, Microsoft Unified Communications Architect, Softel
• Amanda Sterner, Technical Architect, Advania

Microsoft Teams News

• New Front Line Worker Teams Phone License
• Operator Connect in India
• Is 2024 the year of Copilot or the year of Premium?
• Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa
• Loop components in Teams channels
• Teams Android Auto

Events

• ISE 2024 - January 30-February 2
• Teams Fireside Chat - February 8
• Microsoft Teams Devices Ask Me Anything - February 19-20

Join Rob Scott from UC Today for an insightful 2024 Microsoft Teams predictions show! We're delighted to have Tom Arbuthnot, a renowned Microsoft Teams expert and co-founder of Empowering.Cloud, on board to discuss this year's exciting predictions.

Our panel of Teams experts shared their insights on the evolving landscape of Microsoft Teams. From the integration of AI and mobility solutions to the potential expansion of Microsoft Calling Plans, we cover a wide range of topics that promise to shape the future of teamwork and technology.

Key Predictions:

• Prediction #1: Teams Phone Mobile User Numbers by Patrick Watson
• Prediction #2: AI and Teams Premium Enhancements by Tom Arbuthnot
• Prediction #3: Copilot's Slow Adoption for SMBs by Graham Walsh
• Prediction #4: Microsoft's In-House Contact Centre Solution by Dan Balitewicz
• Prediction #5: The Rise of Copilot and Changes to Teams Premium by Kevin Kieller
• Prediction #6: Teams Integration with Social Apps by Josh Blalock
• Prediction #7: Copilot as the New Voice Assistant by Randy Chapman
• Prediction #8: Global Expansion of Microsoft Calling Plans by Satish Upadhyaya
• Prediction #9: The Year of Teamwork by Amanda Sterner
• Prediction #10: Next-Level Teams Rooms Experience by Ryan Herbst
• Prediction #11: Higher Adoption of Viva Engage by Ståle Hansen
• Prediction #12: Enhanced Employee Engagement in Teams by Rob Scott

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 from Microsoft Ignite with this month’s special guests:

• Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, enableUC
• Josh Blalock, Microsoft MVP & Chief Video Evangelist at Jabra
• Satish Upadhyaya, Microsoft Unified Communications Architect, Softel
• Ryan Herbst, Vice President & Chief Device Strategist, UnifiedCommunications.com
• Patrick Watson, Head of Research, Cavell Group
• Ståle Hansen, Founder, CEO and Principal Cloud Architect, CloudWay

Microsoft Teams News

• Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams Channels and Teams Phone, including post call
• Intelligent recap will be included with M365 Copilot in December
• Teams Phone: Voice isolation was announced, Private Line, Website click to call, Shared Calling
• Microsoft Teams Rooms: Multi-stream and Cloud IntelliFrame, Speaker recognition with existing devices, Windows Autopilot and One-time password deployment, Pro portal remote access, Ultrasonic proximity join, Teams live events on Teams Rooms
• Teams Rooms on Android: Premium features support and calendar view update
• Surface Hub 3
• Teams Rooms on Windows: First 4k device and sub-$1000 Microsoft Teams Rooms
• Shared Space discovery and reporting via Teams desktop client with Pro Management Service QR codes for space reservation and Teams Display Sign-in
• BYOD Rooms - Teams Shared Display Mode
• 3D Meetings Coming to Teams in January, Immersive Spaces and Microsoft Mesh generally available soon

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 panel of special guests:

• Graham Walsh, Product Specialist at Neat
• Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, enableUC
• Amanda Sterner, Technical Architect, Advania
• Josh Blalock, Microsoft MVP & Chief Video Evangelist at Jabra
• Simon Leyland, Independent Consultant, Alloquy
• Satish Upadhyaya, Microsoft Unified Communications Architect, Softel

Microsoft Teams News

• Microsoft Q1 Results
• 320 million Microsoft Teams monthly active users
• 10,000 customers using Teams Premium
• Microsoft Teams Rooms revenue grows triple-digits for nine consecutive quarters
• General Availability of the new Microsoft Teams app
• "Enterprise" General Availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Microsoft Teams Android 9 Phones certification end date extension
• Operator Connect – 77 Operators, 77 countries
• Surface Hub 3 shipping date
• Microsoft Teams Integrates with DALL-E for AI-Generated Backgrounds

Events

• Microsoft Ignite -  November 15–16
• Call & Contact Centre Expo, London - November 29-30
• Cavell Enable  - November 28
• Microsoft UC User Group London - November 28
• Teams Fireside Chat with Ilya Bukshteyn - December

UC Today host Rob Scott is joined by Microsoft Teams Expert and Co-Founder of Empowering.Cloud, Tom Arbuthnot.

In this update, we talk through the most popular Teams news headlines.

Microsoft Teams News

• Copilot to GA for Enterprises 1st November 
• Microsoft Mesh enters preview in October, including a new Teams experience
• New Surface Hub 3 Microsoft Teams Rooms
• Shared Calling is Generally Available
• ATA's on Teams SIP Gateway
• BT launch Teams Phone Mobile in the UK

Events

• UC Expo - 4th-5th October 2023
• South Coast Summit - 13th-14th October 2023
• Microsoft Envision London at ExCel London - 18th October 2023
• Teams Fireside Chat with Karuana Gatimu - 25th October 2023

UC Today host Rob Scott is joined by Microsoft Teams Expert and Co-Founder of Empowering.Cloud, Tom Arbuthnot.

In this update, we talk through the most popular Teams news headlines.

Microsoft Teams News

• Microsoft Unbundles Teams in EU
• Teams Essentials and Phone Discount Bundle Pricing – US and UK
• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows 4.18
• Teams Panels Update 3 – QR codes
• Cloud Video Interop – down to two providers, Pexip and Cisco
• Hotline phones for Teams
• Algo IP devices for overhead paging, alerts and door entries are supported with Teams SIP Gateway
• End of support for connecting to Skype for Business server in Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows
• Jamie Stark – Teams Fireside Chat September 2023 – 14th September 2023
• Microsoft UC User group London at Cisco London Office – 19th September 2023

UCX Europe – UC EXPO 4-5th OCT

https://ucxevents.io/

UC Today host Rob Scott is joined by Microsoft Teams Expert and Co-Founder of Empowering.Cloud, Tom Arbuthnot.

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

• Josh Blalock, Microsoft MVP & Chief Video Evangelist at Jabra
• Satish Upadhyaya, MVP, Microsoft 365 UC Architect
• Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, enableUC
• Ryan Herbst, Vice President & Chief Device Strategist, UnifiedCommunications.com

Microsoft Teams News

• Microsoft FY2023 Q4 Results - 17M Teams Phone Seats
• Microsoft Inspire announcements
• Copilot Pricing and Bing Chat Enterprise
• Copilot for Teams Phone
• Copilot for Teams Chat
• Shared Calling
• Teams Phone in India with Partners
• MaxHub Certification
• EU Antitrust Inquiry into Microsoft Teams Bundling

Forthcoming Events

• Teams Fireside Chat, September
• Microsoft UC User Group, London, September in Person with Michel Bouman from Microsoft

UC Today host Rob Scott is joined by Microsoft Teams Expert and Co-Founder of Empowering.Cloud, Tom Arbuthnot.

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

• Graham Walsh, Microsoft MVP & Product Specialist / Strategic Alliances EMEA, Neat
• Scott Riley, Founder, Cloud Nexus
• Satish Upadhyaya, MVP, Microsoft 365 UC Architect
• Simon Leyland, Independent Consultant, Alloquy

Microsoft Teams News

• Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing details and readiness advice
• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows 4.17
• MTR-A Update 2 2023 Rolling out
• New Microsoft Teams Rooms Technical Solutions Professional 2023 (expertzone)
• Microsoft Teams certification end date for Android 9 devices has been extended from August 5th to November 5th
• Microsoft Teams Real-Time Meeting Quality Monitoring Notifications
• Microsoft Teams Apple Car Play Improvements
• New Teams client expected to GA October, new Microsite with more details

Forthcoming Events

• Microsoft Inspire GTM Pre-Day on Monday, July 17 – Microsoft Community Hub
• Teams Fireside Chat, July
• Microsoft Teams Devices – Ask Me Anything Monthly Teams Call

UC Today host Rob Scott is joined by Microsoft Teams Expert and Co-Founder of Empowering.Cloud, Tom Arbuthnot.

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

• Josh Blalock, Microsoft MVP & Chief Video Evangelist, Jabra
• Graham Walsh, Microsoft MVP & Product Specialist / Strategic Alliances EMEA, Neat
• Ryan Herbst, Vice President & Chief Device Strategist, UnifiedCommunications.com
• Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, enableUC
• Amanda Sterner, Technical Architect, Advania - Knowledge Factory

Microsoft Teams News

• Intelligent Meeting Recap GA
• Avatars GA and Immersive Spaces
• Track and Pause Automatic Firmware Updates for Android-based Teams Devices in the Teams Admin Center
• Cloud Video Interop (CVI) Customers to Join Microsoft Teams Rooms Meetings via Improved SIP Guest Join Experience
• News from Microsoft Build - Copilot in Windows
• Virtual Front Desk on Teams Certified Displays
• Easier Hotdesking Sign-in with QR Code Update

Deadlines Approaching ⚠

• Migrate 3PIP phones
• User Licences on Teams Rooms

Forthcoming Events

• Teams Fireside Chat, June
• Infocomm, June 10-16, Orlando, Florida
• Commsverse, June 21-22, Mercedez-Benz World, UK
• Microsoft UC User Group London, July 6th
• Teamsdagen, October 4th, Sweden

UC Today host Rob Scott is joined by Microsoft Teams Expert and Co-Founder of Empowering.Cloud, Tom Arbuthnot.

Hot on the heels of Comms vNext and Microsoft 365 Conference, we talk through the most popular Teams news headlines with this month’s panel of special guests:

• Josh Blalock, Microsoft MVP & Chief Video Evangelist, Jabra
• Graham Walsh, Microsoft MVP & Product Specialist / Strategic Alliances EMEA, Neat
• Scott Riley, Founder, Cloud Nexus
• Ryan Herbst, Vice President & Chief Device Strategist, UnifiedCommunications.com

In this session, we discuss Microsoft’s 300 million MAU announcement and more crucially the unbundling of Microsoft Teams from the M365 suite of apps.

Plus, the following headlines:

Microsoft Teams News

• First Android 12 Microsoft Teams Rooms
• Poly dropping their RealConnect Service in Favour of Pexip
• Green screen feature in Teams Meetings - Public Preview
• Snapchat Lenses for Microsoft Teams
• Phone Link for iOS is now rolling out to all Windows 11 customers
• Microsoft Copilot / M365 Conf news

Forthcoming Events

• Microsoft Unified Communications User Group London, 11th May at Poly
• Teams Fireside Chat, 11th May at 16:00 BST
• UC EXPO Manchester 2023 - May 17-18, Manchester Central
• Crestron Modern Work Summit, May 23-24, Madrid

UC Today host Rob Scott is joined by Microsoft Teams Expert and Co-Founder of Empowering.Cloud, Tom Arbuthnot.

Hot on the heels of Enterprise Connect 2023, we talk through the most popular Teams news headlines with this month's panel of special guests:

• Josh Blalock, Microsoft MVP & Chief Video Evangelist, Jabra
• Simon Leyland, Independent Consultant
• Randy Chapman, Microsoft MVP for Teams & Solutions Engineer, Video Collaboration, Logitech
• Graham Walsh, Microsoft MVP & Product Specialist / Strategic Alliances EMEA, Neat

Microsoft Teams News

• Copilot Demo
• Follow a Meeting
• Interrogate Transcript
• New Teams Client Preview
• BYOD Devices - Crestron
• Surface Hub 2S: Now a Teams Rooms on Windows Device
• Microsoft Android OS
• Teams Displays
• QR Code Join and Virtual Receptionist
• Click to Call from Browser to Teams

Devices

• Cisco Devices Certified
• Poly Studio X70

Ecosystem

• Landis Certified

Events and Plugs

• Teams Fireside Chat
• Comms vNext - this month
• Crestron Modern Work Summit - May 23-24

Rob Scott from UC Today is joined by Microsoft Teams Expert and co-founder of Empowering.Cloud, Tom Arbuthnot, to discuss this year's #MicrosoftTeams predictions shared by leading experts from the Teams community.

1. Ryan Herbst, UnifiedCommunications.com

2. Patrick Watson, Cavell Group

3. Simon Leyland, CloudInteract

4. Scott Riley, Cloud Nexus

5. Randy Chapman, UC Status

6. Kevin Keiller, EnableUC

7. Graham Walsh, Neat

8. David Dungay, UC Today

9. Zeus Kerravala, ZK Research

10. Mark Vale, Commsverse

Microsoft Teams Events

UC Summit 2023 launches 23rd Jan
https://www.uctoday.com/summit/

ISE, Barcelona, 31st Jan – 3rd Feb
https://www.iseurope.org/

Teams Fireside Chat – 9th February, Adam Ball
https://teamsfireside.chat/

Cavell Cloud Comms Summit London, 8th March
https://cavellgroup.com/events/ccs-lo...

CommsvNext, 25th and 26th April, Denver, Co
https://www.commsvnext.com/

#Microsoft #Predictions

UC Today host Rob Scott is joined by Microsoft Teams Expert and co-founder of Empowering.Cloud, Tom Arbuthnot.

Together they talk through the most popular Teams news headlines, plus, after the news, they dive into some open Teams Q&A with a panel of special guests including:

• Randy Chapman, Solutions Engineer, Video Collaboration, Logitech
• Mark Vale, Chief Product Office, Callroute
• Ryan Herbst, Vice President & Chief Device Strategist, UnifiedCommunications.com
• Scott Riley, Founder, Cloud Nexus
• Graham Walks, Product Specialist / Strategic Alliances EMEA, Neat

UC Today host Rob Scott is joined by Microsoft Teams Expert and Co-Founder of Empowering.Cloud, Tom Arbuthnot.

Together they talk through the most popular Teams news headlines, plus, after the news, they dive into some open Teams Q&A with special guests including:

• Scott Riley, Founder, Cloud Nexus
• Ryan Herbst, Vice President & Chief Device Strategist, UnifiedCommunications.com

Microsoft Teams News

Monster features update coming for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android:

• Quickly start an ad-hoc meeting with the Meet button
• Join Teams meeting with ID and passcode
• Extend a current room reservation within a meeting
• Front row layout and meeting chat in Gallery, Large Gallery, and Together mode
• HDMI or USB-C content can be automatically shared or require pressing the share button
• Share laptop sound into the room/meeting when sharing content via HDMI
• Room users can now add annotations to a screen share if the MTRoA has a touch display
• Support for Teams Premium Watermark-enabled meetings

Microsoft Teams News (Continued)

• Teams Calendar and Press to Join is coming to Apple CarPlay
• Teams PowerShell 5.0
• Microsoft Teams Explicit Recording Consent Meeting Policy
• Cisco Webex Contact Center is now Certified for Microsoft Teams

Events

• Enterprise Connect: 27-29th March, Orlando, Florida
• Teams Fireside Chat - March: Nikki Chapple
• April Illya - TeamsInsider.Show

Hot Topics Discussed

• TWO new Teams devices released
• Teams Premium edition - what do we think so far?
• Live captions and translation - reality?

UC Today host Rob Scott and expert guest and Microsoft MVP, Tom Arbuthnot bring us this DECEMBER 2022 Microsoft Teams news update sponsored by NUWAVE.

This month's news highlights include:

Microsoft Teams News & Events

• Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide
• Microsoft has added Microsoft Teams calling plans for Mexico
• Ending the year on 43 Microsoft Teams Operator Connect service providers
• Microsoft Teams Games for Work app
• Microsoft Teams Panels room occupancy sensors.

Events

• UC Summit launches 23 JAN 2023, we're taking hybrid head on! Register now here.
• ISE 2023, 31 January - 3 February 2023, Barcelona
• MWC 2023 end of Feb
• Cloud Comms Summit - London - early March
• Enterprise Connect - end of March

UC Today host Rob Scott and expert guest and Microsoft MVP, Tom Arbuthnot bring us this NOVEMBER 2022 Microsoft Teams news update sponsored by NUWAVE.

UC Today host Rob Scott and expert guest and Microsoft MVP, Tom Arbuthnot bring us this OCTOBER 2022 Microsoft Teams news update sponsored by CallCabinet.

This month's news highlights include:

• Microsoft Teams News & Events
• Empowering.Cloud reaches over 1,000 members
• Microsoft Teams optimized for Apple silicon rolled out
• Invite live professional language interpreters to a Microsoft Teams meetings GA
• New in Microsoft Teams Public Preview, Choose real-time Live Captions in your preferred language
• Microsoft now selling #Microsoft eCDN (Enterprise Content Delivery Network)
• A new certification from Microsoft, Microsoft Teams Backup & Restore Certification - Veeam Software and Rubrik are the first ISVs to be certified
• Take third-party payments right in a Teams meetings
• Microsoft Teams is adding a schedule send for Teams Chat
• Logitech Brio 500 & 505 Cameras certified for Microsoft Teams

UC Today host Rob Scott and expert guest and Microsoft MVP, Tom Arbuthnot, bring us this September 2022 Microsoft Teams news update sponsored by Pexip.

This month’s news highlights include:

• New Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic and Pro licences
• Pay As You Go Calling Plans
• Skype for Business 3PIP Phones move to Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway – MC409857
• Azure Communication Services interoperability with Microsoft Teams GA
• Poly Rove DECT Wireless Phones now Microsoft Teams supported with Teams SIP Gateway
• Skype for Business Server vNext

Events

• UC Expo Europe 2022: 12-13 Oct
• Microsoft Ignite. October 12–14, 2022
• South Coast Summit, Southampton UK 13th-15th October