M365 Perspective

Ignite delivered two new Teams agents \Facilitator for real-time meeting notes and Interpreter for voice translation in nine languages \plus Copilot analysing shared screens and whiteboards, Microsoft Places GA in Teams Premium, and the first Teams Phone price rise since 2017.

The Queues app hits GA, Teams and Channels move under the Chat button in the biggest UI change yet, and the Survivable Branch Appliance window jumps from 24 hours to 7 days — plus Android 15 support dates, Copilot Agents going multi-player and 50,000-attendee town halls.

Microsoft lands top-right on the Gartner UCaaS Magic Quadrant for the sixth year running, Teams voice and face enrollment flips to on by default in January, and Tom picks the Ignite sessions worth your time \u2014 from Satya's keynote to BRK280 with Ilya Bukshteyn and Jeff Teper's SharePoint agents…

Microsoft Copilot Consumer gains Voice and Vision under Mustafa Suleyman's team, Microsoft Places lands a Q4 CY24 GA date with Core and Premium plans, plus three Teams Phone updates, VDI on AVD GA, and UC Expo London demos from Pure IP, Crestron and Luware.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 brings a rebrand, Copilot Pages, generally available agents in BizChat, Agent Builder in SharePoint, Copilot in Excel GA (plus Python preview) and Prioritise My Inbox in Outlook. Tom Arbuthnot breaks down every announcement, plus a 10-minute cut of all the keynote demos.

September's Microsoft 365 round-up from Tom Arbuthnot: the General channel disappears from new teams, callback lands in call queues, copy-paste loses its metadata, Intelligent Meeting Recap reaches ad hoc calls, plus MTR on Windows and Android updates and a reprieve for out-of-support Teams phones.

Logitech hosts the next Microsoft UC User Group London on Thursday 19 September, 6pm–8.15pm near Farringdon, with Randy Chapman and Kingfisher's Matt Sheldrick presenting, plus Teams news, devices updates, three months of roadmap and a prize draw for a Signature Slim Combo and Brio 705.