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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.

Making the Right Choice: Teams Premium or Copilot?

Making the Right Choice: Teams Premium or Copilot?

Teams Premium or Microsoft 365 Copilot? Our expert briefing weighs up what each licence actually delivers for meetings, from intelligent recap and meeting protection to AI-assisted chat and content creation, and how to decide which your users need first.

The Year of Recovery for Video Rooms and the Relevance of BYOD

The Year of Recovery for Video Rooms and the Relevance of BYOD

Roopam Jain, VP of Research in Frost & Sullivan's Connected Work Practice, has covered conferencing and collaboration for 25 years and shares survey data on return-to-office, meeting room density and video device recovery.

What is the Microsoft 365 CAPE team?

What is the Microsoft 365 CAPE team?

Anthony Woodruff is a Senior Technical Program Manager on Microsoft's M365 Customer and Partner Ecosystem (CAPE) team, working with strategic customers on Teams deployments, escalations and playbooks.

The Benefits and Challenges of UC Standardisation with Ryan Herbst

The Benefits and Challenges of UC Standardisation with Ryan Herbst

Ryan Herbst, Vice President and Chief Device Strategist at UnifiedCommunications.com, traces his firm's journey from 1980s Plantronics headset distributor to a global reseller carrying virtually every certified Microsoft Teams device.

Microsoft Teams Monthly Update October 2024

Microsoft Teams Monthly Update October 2024

Our monthly round-up of everything new in Microsoft Teams for October 2024 - the features that shipped, what's rolling out next, and what IT service owners and UC/AV teams should be planning for now.

Unified Communications Challenges and Success in the Legal Sector

Unified Communications Challenges and Success in the Legal Sector

Ryan McCarty is a Senior Unified Communications Engineer at global law firm Freshfields, working across UC, AV design and property portfolio projects. He talks through meeting interoperability when clients dictate the platform, standardising Teams Rooms estates globally, the gaps in device…