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Microsoft Teams Monthly Update January 2024

Our monthly walk-through of everything that landed in Microsoft Teams over the past month - new client and meeting features, Teams admin centre changes, Message Center highlights and what's next on the roadmap for service owners to plan around.

Microsoft Teams Monthly Update January 2024

Tom Arbuthnot's January 2024 roundup covers Copilot for Microsoft 365 opening to Business and E plans with no 300-seat minimum, a new $4 Teams Phone SKU for frontline workers attaching to F1 and F3, and intelligent meeting recap moving into the Copilot SKU. Also included: Teams free and commercial meeting interop, Android Auto support, and Operator Connect growth to 87 providers.

Chapters

  • Intro and sponsor Pure IP
  • Latest content on Empowering Cloud
  • Copilot for Microsoft 365 opens to all plans
  • Copilot Pro and consumer mobile apps
  • Intelligent meeting recap included with Copilot
  • New Teams Phone SKU for frontline workers
  • Teams free and commercial meeting join
  • Meeting invite redesign
  • Teams for Android Auto
  • Operator Connect and industry news
  • Events and webinars
  • Wrap-up

Key insights

  • Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available on Business Standard, Business Premium and E plans, with the 300-seat minimum removed.
  • You can buy a single Copilot seat, but it remains an annual or three-year commitment, not monthly.
  • Copilot Pro costs $20 per user per month for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family, and does not include Microsoft Teams.
  • Dedicated Copilot apps for iOS and Android currently only accept consumer accounts, not M365 work accounts.
  • Intelligent meeting recap, previously Teams Premium only, is now rolling out to Copilot for Microsoft 365 users.
  • A new Teams Phone frontline worker SKU costs $4 per user per month, attaching to F1 and F3 licences, and can be combined with shared calling.
  • Teams free clients will be able to join commercial meetings, with Teams admin centre policies to block it if preferred.
  • Teams for Android Auto arrives in February, matching existing Apple CarPlay functionality; Operator Connect now has 87 providers across 85 countries.

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

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