Tom's Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Update

Many thanks to AudioCodes, this month's Empowering.Cloud benefactor for their support.

At Commsverse, I caught up with Gidi Adlersberg, who owns AudioCodes' Voca Contact Center, to discuss choosing and comparing Teams contact centers. Check out the video here

Commsverse was great this week. Thanks to those who joined my panel and came to my session. I had the chance to learn from a diverse group of experts. Check out the videos below, including Randy Chapman and Graham Walsh on the test track 🏎️

Latest news:

• Microsoft blog - What’s New in Microsoft Teams June 2024
  • Teams Phone Intelligent call recap (Teams Premium / Microsoft 365 Copilot)
  • Manage access to meeting recording, transcript, and AI-generated insights (Microsoft 365 Copilot / Premium)
  • Require participant consent for meeting transcription (new policy)
  • Copilot for Sales Teams plugin now rolling out
  • Intelligent message language translation in chats
  • Enhancements for multi-tenant organization (MTO) users
• Custom background coming to Microsoft Teams Rooms panels August
  
• Digital signage coming to Teams Rooms on Windows (Pro) August
  
• Microsoft Teams Rooms Enhanced cross-platform SIP meeting join coming with Pexip and Teams Rooms Pro
  
• Skype for Business Server Roadmap Update - Skype for Business Server Subscription Edition coming third quarter of CY 2025

Empowering.Cloud Briefings

• Microsoft Teams Monthly Update: June 2024
• Microsoft Mesh: The Future of Virtual Collaboration

Teams Insider Podcast

• The Importance of Employee Education in Adopting AI to Drive Meaningful Change
• Truely Working from Anywhere with Teams Phone Mobile
• Making your Microsoft Teams Meeting Room Intelligent
• Enhancing Efficiency at Century Communities with Microsoft Teams Phone

Videos from Commsverse

• Andy Ramos on what makes Pure IP different
  
• Raj Varsani from Logitech on the MeetUp 2 and Logitech Sight, and Randy Champman tried to give me the Teams BYOD story and MeetUp 2 specs and pricing of the while flying around the test track
  
• Graham Walsh on the Neat device portfolio and hints a new features at 104 MPH live from the Mercedes-Benz World track
  
• Preston Martin at Landis talked about their new web chat feature which goes live next week. Look out for a Teams Insider podcast soon with an interesting Landis customer
  
• Elaine Ho at Microsoft and I discussed voice isolation, voice enrolment and GDPR compliance
  
• Matt Hurst at Ribbon shared his thoughts on the latest in Operator Connect, both opportunities and challenges
  
• Michael Levy at Numonix explains their Teams Recording as a Service and an interesting US government use case
  
• At the Jabra stand, Lee Davis and I discussed what Jabra headsets bring that is unique in terms of the sentiment analysis the API story
  
• Rick Garcia and Brandon Bradley at Momentum explained their new fax app for Microsoft Teams.
  
• Mark Brunwin at Tango Networks to discuss their ability to extend your Teams Phone number to an eSIM

Upcoming Online Events

• Virtual Converged Communications Partner Technical Bootcamp July 8th - 10th, 2024 and 9:00 PM - 1:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
• Teams Fireside Chat with Traci Herr, Sr. Escalation Engineer - Teams Voice & Devices at Microsoft - 11th July.
• Microsoft Teams Devices Ask Me Anything 15 and 16 July
  

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Thanks

Tom