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Microsoft Teams Monthly Update February 2024

Our February 2024 round-up of everything new in Microsoft Teams — meetings, chat and channels, Teams Phone, Rooms and devices, plus the admin centre changes and roadmap items IT service owners need on their radar.

Microsoft Teams Monthly Update February 2024

Tom Arbuthnot's February 2024 round-up covers the automatic switch to the new Teams 2.1 client on 31 March and the Teams Bootstrapper bulk deployment tool, Microsoft 365 Backup in public preview at 15 cents per gigabyte per month, shared calling now configurable in the Teams admin center, and Android certification date extensions for Teams phones and rooms.

Chapters

  • Intro and this month's themes
  • New Empowering Cloud briefings, podcasts and ISE videos
  • Teams and Microsoft apps on Apple Vision Pro
  • Shared calling in the Teams admin center
  • Copilot improvements in Teams and Windows
  • Teams 2.1 cutover and the Teams Bootstrapper
  • Teams Premium adoption site
  • Microsoft 365 Backup public preview and pricing
  • Android maintenance windows and certification date changes
  • Newly certified hardware and 360 cameras
  • Pexip brings Teams-like experience to CVI
  • Operator Connect updates
  • Events and webinars

Key insights

  • Microsoft will automatically switch all users to the new Teams 2.1 client on 31 March 2024.
  • Teams Bootstrapper lets enterprises pull and install the latest Teams client at scale, including via PowerShell.
  • Shared calling can now be configured fully in the Teams admin center; around 20 Operator Connect providers currently support it.
  • Microsoft 365 Backup is in public preview at 15 cents per gigabyte per month, covering OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange, with Teams to follow.
  • Copilot in Teams adds chat history, better prompting and a prompt library via Copilot Lab.
  • Teams Rooms on Android, phones and panels can now use configuration profiles to set out-of-hours maintenance windows for updates and reboots.
  • Android 10 device certification is extended to 3 September 2025, followed by two years of reasonable endeavours support.
  • The Panasonic Press IT 360 is certified as a Windows peripheral, giving any Windows MTR a 360 camera option.

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

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