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Microsoft Teams Monthly Update October 2024

Our monthly round-up of everything new in Microsoft Teams for October 2024 - the features that shipped, what's rolling out next, and what IT service owners and UC/AV teams should be planning for now.

Microsoft Teams Monthly Update October 2024

Tom Arbuthnot's October 2024 round-up covers Teams Phone additions including call queue callback and Survivable Branch Appliance improvements, the meeting one-time passcode option aimed at third-party AI note-taking bots, and the January switch of voice and face enrolment to on by default. Also included: Microsoft Places licensing via Teams Premium, Skype for Business Server support timelines, rooms and devices news, and Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2.

Chapters

  • Intro and thanks to Neat
  • Recent Empowering.Cloud content and podcasts
  • Gartner Magic Quadrant for UC
  • Teams Phone: pay as you go, queue callback, SBA
  • Operator Connect reaches 100 countries
  • New Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
  • New Teams calendar experience
  • Shift-based access limits and quiet time
  • One-time passcode for external attendees
  • Voice and face enrolment default change
  • Microsoft Places Core and Premium
  • Skype for Business Server end of support
  • Teams Rooms on Windows and Android updates
  • Devices: Neat, Logitech and newly certified hardware
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2
  • Events and Microsoft Ignite

Key insights

  • A meeting option for a one-time passcode for external attendees is coming, aimed at blocking third-party AI note-taking bots that join as guests.
  • Voice and face enrolment admin policy flips from off to on by default in January; users must still enrol proactively.
  • Operator Connect passed 100 countries and 103 providers; Empowering.Cloud publishes a free interactive Power BI coverage report.
  • Survivable Branch Appliance gains hold, blind transfer, call queue and auto attendant redirection, but tokens still expire within up to 24 hours.
  • The new Teams calendar experience is opt-in, with targeted release starting mid-November and completion expected by next November.
  • Microsoft Places Core is included with nearly all Microsoft 365 licences; Places Premium comes as part of Teams Premium, rolling out in November.
  • Skype for Business Server 2015 and 2019 have under a year of support left; a Subscription Edition is expected in Q3.
  • Teams Rooms on Windows 5.2.10 adds ultrasonic proximity join, dynamic video resizing and roster grouping.

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

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