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Microsoft Teams Monthly Update December 2024

Our December 2024 round-up of everything new in Microsoft Teams, with the Empowering.Cloud team walking through the latest meetings, calling, chat and admin updates rolling out this month.

Microsoft Teams Monthly Update December 2024

Tom Arbuthnot rounds up Teams news following Microsoft Ignite 2024, including the general availability of Microsoft Places and the Interpreter Agent for real-time speech-to-speech translation. Also covered: Copilot reasoning over shared screens, a policy to block third-party AI meeting bots, admin units in Teams, and new roadmap items for Teams Phone extensibility and SMS.

Chapters

  • Introduction and Landis sponsorship
  • Empowering Cloud content update
  • Microsoft Places general availability
  • Interpreter Agent for real-time translation
  • Facilitator Agent public preview
  • Copilot reasoning over screen share
  • Multi-language meeting transcription
  • Blocking third-party AI meeting bots
  • Copilot in Teams Admin Center and Rooms Pro Portal
  • Admin units in Teams
  • MDEP device ecosystem news
  • Roadmap: best practices dashboard, Teams Phone extensibility, SMS
  • Upcoming events

Key insights

  • Microsoft Places is generally available; core licences carry value, but Teams Premium and Copilot unlock further features.
  • The Interpreter Agent gives real-time speech-to-speech translation mimicking the speaker's tone, arriving early next year with a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence.
  • Facilitator Agent is entering public preview as a multiplayer experience visible to all meeting participants holding Copilot licences.
  • Copilot will reason over screen-shared content such as PowerPoint decks and whiteboards, in public preview early 2025.
  • Teams will transcribe meetings with multiple spoken languages, delivering the transcript in the receiver's preferred language.
  • A new policy blocks third-party AI note-taking bots by blocking known bot domains and adding a CAPTCHA for anonymous attendees.
  • Admin units are extending from Rooms to the rest of Teams, currently in private preview, letting admins be scoped to regions or departments.
  • SMS for Teams Phone Calling Plans was added to the roadmap for the United States and Canada; Teams Phone extensibility APIs are due in February.

Insights summarised by AI from the episode transcript, reviewed by the Empowering.Cloud team.

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