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Tom Arbuthnot

Microsoft MVP and founder of Empowering.Cloud and ChangePilot. Host of the Teams Insider podcast and author of the M365 Perspective newsletter, covering Microsoft 365, Teams and Copilot for enterprise service owners.

Microsoft Teams Monthly Update April 2025

Microsoft Teams Monthly Update April 2025

MVP Tom Arbuthnot rounds up April's Microsoft Teams news in 15 minutes: Teams clients older than 90 days blocked, the General channel returns, sensitive content detection in screen sharing, PowerPoint control for all presenters, Unify's new contact centre integration model, Teams Phone licence…

Bookable Desks in Microsoft Teams Explained

Bookable Desks in Microsoft Teams Explained

Evie Grimshaw, a product manager on the Microsoft Teams Devices team responsible for Teams panels and bookable desks, explains how desk booking works across Microsoft Places and the Teams desktop client.

Exploring Teams Phone Mobile: Mobile UCaaS Integration in Enterprise

Exploring Teams Phone Mobile: Mobile UCaaS Integration in Enterprise

Adam Holtby, principal analyst leading workplace transformation research at Omdia, joins Tom Arbuthnot to examine why mobile UCaaS offers such as Teams Phone Mobile and Webex Go have been slower to land than expected.

SharePoint Online Advanced Management: Benefits, Features & Licensing

SharePoint Online Advanced Management: Benefits, Features & Licensing

MVP Rolf Tröndle unpacks SharePoint Advanced Management: oversharing reports, site access restrictions, lifecycle policies, how it's bundled with Copilot licences, and what's coming next.

Copilot and AI in the Legal Sector and Work Transformation - Matt Peers, Global COO, Pinsent Mason

Copilot and AI in the Legal Sector and Work Transformation - Matt Peers, Global COO, Pinsent Mason

Matt Peers is Global COO at Pinsent Masons, a 3,500-person law firm across 28 offices, having previously held CIO and COO roles at a Big Four firm and a Magic Circle law firm.