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The 2026 Rebuild of Telco Voice — Why Containers, Automation and AI Are Needed

The 2026 Rebuild of Telco Voice — Why Containers, Automation and AI Are Needed

Six-to-eighteen-month upgrade cycles no longer cut it. Ribbon's Matt Hurst joins the Teams Insider Podcast to explain how containerisation, automation and AI are reshaping telco voice — and why 100-day TLS certificates from March 2027 make automated rotation across your SBC fleet non-negotiable.

Microsoft Teams Facilitator: The First Group AI Agent for Meetings With Madhu Sudan, Microsoft

Microsoft Teams Facilitator: The First Group AI Agent for Meetings With Madhu Sudan, Microsoft

Madhu Sudan, Partner Director of Engineering at Microsoft, has worked on the communications stack from Skype through Skype for Business to Teams and now leads AI work in Teams.

First Look at the Neat Board 32 Microsoft Teams Rooms With MDEP

First Look at the Neat Board 32 Microsoft Teams Rooms With MDEP

Graham Walsh, Microsoft MVP, Director of Global Technical Sales and Alliances at Neat, gives an exclusive first look at the Neat Board 32, the latest all-in-one collaboration device designed for huddle spaces and express-install meeting rooms.

Microsoft Teams Call Quality Dashboard (CQD): Intelligent Classifiers, Silent Test Call and Power BI

Microsoft Teams Call Quality Dashboard (CQD): Intelligent Classifiers, Silent Test Call and Power BI

James Parkes, Siunie Sutjahjo and Victor Guzman from Microsoft walk through the current state of Teams call quality tooling, from the history of CQD on-premises to the new intelligent classifiers, the v5.3 Power BI QER report pack, silent test call and admin-initiated remote log collection.

The Lenovo Microsoft Teams Rooms Portfolio Explained and the Huddly Partnership

The Lenovo Microsoft Teams Rooms Portfolio Explained and the Huddly Partnership

Sean Langley, Smart Collaboration Technologist at Lenovo gives a lightning update on the Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows portfolio and the growing partnership with Huddly.

Microsoft 365 Message Center and M365 Change Explained with Brian McGough, Principal Program Manager

Microsoft 365 Message Center and M365 Change Explained with Brian McGough, Principal Program Manager

Brian McGough has run Microsoft 365 Message Center since 2018 and leads change communications across the M365, Dynamics, Windows and Intune posting teams.