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Microsoft Teams Monthly Update March 2024

Our Expert Briefing rounds up the Microsoft Teams changes that landed in March 2024 two new features rolling out, admin centre and policy updates, roadmap items to watch and the retirements worth planning for now.

Microsoft Teams Monthly Update March 2024

Tom Arbuthnot's March 2024 round-up covers the new Planner in Teams public preview, February and March Teams Premium releases including recording of watermarked meetings and admin-set organisational backgrounds, and Operator Connect reaching 94 countries and 92 providers. Also included are Teams Rooms roadmap items for Android and Windows, SIP Gateway compatible phones, and Copilot and AI news ahead of Enterprise Connect.

Chapters

  • Intro and Empowering Cloud content round-up
  • New Planner in Teams public preview
  • February and March Teams Premium updates
  • General Teams updates and collaborative notes sharing
  • Operator Connect numbers and new providers
  • Pure IP Mobile Connect and SIP Gateway mobility
  • Teams Phone Summit recordings
  • Teams roadmap: pre-join screen, Walkie Talkie, Outlook in-person invites
  • Surface Hub 2S migration and Teams Rooms on Android
  • Teams Rooms on Windows roadmap and first-run updates
  • Devices: Shure MXW neXt 2, Snom and Poly SIP phones
  • Copilot and AI news
  • Events: Enterprise Connect, Build and Comms vNext

Key insights

  • The new Planner in Teams is in public preview, combining To Do, Planner and Project for the web, with premium features flagged to users by diamond icons.
  • Teams Premium now allows recording of watermarked meetings, with the watermark also shown during Stream playback.
  • Admins can push preset organisational backgrounds and brand the meeting join launch screen.
  • A new admin policy can stop users joining meetings hosted on external tenants.
  • Collaborative notes can now be shared via specific people links rather than organisation-wide only.
  • Operator Connect covers 94 countries with 92 providers, but only around 10 currently offer shared calling.
  • Teams Rooms on Windows will check for app and Windows updates during first run, supporting Microsoft's four-hour box-to-running goal.
  • Microsoft Security Copilot reaches general availability on 1 April on a capacity-based model.

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

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