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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.

Is AI the new UC? Enterprise Connect thoughts with Kevin Kieller

Is AI the new UC? Enterprise Connect thoughts with Kevin Kieller

Kevin Kieller, co-founder and lead analyst at enableUC and lead of the BC Strategies team, joins Tom Arbuthnot straight after Enterprise Connect 2024 to unpack whether AI is the industry's next big pivot after PBX and UC. The pair cover the terminology IT pros now need, where Copilot's grounding dif

The Clearest Explanation of Microsoft Teams Premium I have heard with Microsoft Digital Technology Specialist Jason Waite

The Clearest Explanation of Microsoft Teams Premium I have heard with Microsoft Digital Technology Specialist Jason Waite

Jason Waite, a Digital Technology Specialist at Microsoft focused on Teams, breaks down Teams Premium into three practical buckets — meeting governance, webinars and town halls, and advanced virtual appointments plus intelligent recap — and explains which user personas justify the licence. He and To

Deep AI Insights from Collecting Teams Meeting Media with Numonix CEO Michael Levy

Deep AI Insights from Collecting Teams Meeting Media with Numonix CEO Michael Levy

Michael Levy, CEO of Numonix, a Microsoft-certified compliance recording vendor, explains how the same media-capture bot infrastructure is being repurposed as a headless 'capture as a service' layer for AI platforms and in-house analytics builds. The conversation covers where this sits relative to C

Demystifying Microsoft Copilot: Real-world Use Cases & Experience

Demystifying Microsoft Copilot: Real-world Use Cases & Experience

Kevin McDonnell, Microsoft MVP and Copilot Strategy and Modern Workplace AI Lead at Avanade, joins Tom Arbuthnot to cut through the Copilot branding and explain which Copilot is which, how licensing has opened up, and what real custom Copilot builds look like. The conversation covers data protection

Understanding E911 in Microsoft Teams with Eric Marsi

Understanding E911 in Microsoft Teams with Eric Marsi

Eric Marsi, a multi-time Microsoft MVP and senior Microsoft consultant at ConvergeOne, walks through how E911 works in Microsoft Teams Phone — from US federal and state law through to the dynamic location matching order of BSSID, switch port, switch chassis and subnet. He also covers emergency calli

Deploying 1,000 Microsoft Teams Rooms globally at AstraZeneca with Stephen McClellan

Deploying 1,000 Microsoft Teams Rooms globally at AstraZeneca with Stephen McClellan

Stephen McClellan leads conferencing solutions engineering at AstraZeneca, where he has spent a decade taking the business from two separate Cisco estates and on-premises Lync through to Microsoft Teams and more than 1,000 Teams Rooms. He walks through the vendor evaluation, the standards chosen, wh

The Importance of Standards in Designing Meeting Spaces with Greg Jeffreys

The Importance of Standards in Designing Meeting Spaces with Greg Jeffreys

Greg Jeffreys, co-owner at Visual Displays, managing consultant at Greg Jeffreys Consulting and former chair of the AVIXA standards committee, returns for a second conversation with Tom Arbuthnot. He makes the case for a holistic, standards-led approach to meeting room design, covering lighting, aco