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The Microsoft Teams Insider podcast: Tom Arbuthnot in conversation with Microsoft product leads, enterprise service owners and industry experts on Teams, Microsoft 365, Copilot, meeting rooms and voice. Every episode with video, audio and AI-summarised key insights.

Key Considerations for Greenfield Workspaces, Pardeep Gill, Senior Enterprise Architect

Key Considerations for Greenfield Workspaces, Pardeep Gill, Senior Enterprise Architect

Pardeep Gill is a Senior Enterprise Architect at a global legal firm with 25 years in technology, including 14 years at a global investment bank. He talks through the technology requirements for greenfield office builds — how IT works with architects and facilities, removing user friction from stree

The Need for Meeting Interop with Pexip CEO Trond Johannessen

The Need for Meeting Interop with Pexip CEO Trond Johannessen

Trond Johannessen, CEO of Pexip since May 2022 and a former McKinsey strategy consultant, sets out how the company positions itself as a complementary layer to Teams, Zoom, Google Meet and Webex rather than a competitor. The conversation covers the shrinking CVI provider field, the new Pexip Connect

The Year of Recovery for Video Rooms and the Relevance of BYOD

The Year of Recovery for Video Rooms and the Relevance of BYOD

Roopam Jain, VP of Research in Frost & Sullivan's Connected Work Practice, has covered conferencing and collaboration for 25 years and shares survey data on return-to-office, meeting room density and video device recovery. The conversation covers how UC platform choice drives room hardware decisions

What is the Microsoft 365 CAPE team?

What is the Microsoft 365 CAPE team?

Anthony Woodruff is a Senior Technical Program Manager on Microsoft's M365 Customer and Partner Ecosystem (CAPE) team, working with strategic customers on Teams deployments, escalations and playbooks. He explains how the team is structured and where it fits, then walks through his own real-world Cop

The Benefits and Challenges of UC Standardisation with Ryan Herbst

The Benefits and Challenges of UC Standardisation with Ryan Herbst

Ryan Herbst, Vice President and Chief Device Strategist at UnifiedCommunications.com, traces his firm's journey from 1980s Plantronics headset distributor to a global reseller carrying virtually every certified Microsoft Teams device. He and Tom Arbuthnot dig into how enterprises set device standard

Unified Communications Challenges and Success in the Legal Sector

Unified Communications Challenges and Success in the Legal Sector

Ryan McCarty is a Senior Unified Communications Engineer at global law firm Freshfields, working across UC, AV design and property portfolio projects. He talks through meeting interoperability when clients dictate the platform, standardising Teams Rooms estates globally, the gaps in device managemen

Teams Phone Mobile, a perspective from Harold Wortman, Senior Product Manager, Verizon

Teams Phone Mobile, a perspective from Harold Wortman, Senior Product Manager, Verizon

Harold Wortman manages Verizon Mobile for Microsoft Teams, Verizon's Teams Phone Mobile offer, and has been involved since the earliest proofs of concept. He walks through the three-year build, the network features Verizon had to pull back from the Teams client, the organisational blockers slowing e