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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.

Teams Phone Mobile - what's coming in 2024 with Vandana Thomas

Teams Phone Mobile - what's coming in 2024 with Vandana Thomas

Vandana Thomas leads mobility strategy for Teams Phone at Microsoft, working with operators worldwide on Teams Phone Mobile. She reviews the 2023 operator and market rollout, how Copilot and other Teams Phone features land on the mobile native dialler, and what is planned for 2024 including SMS arch

The Future of Enterprise IT with Kurmi Software CEO, Micah Singer

The Future of Enterprise IT with Kurmi Software CEO, Micah Singer

Micah Singer, CEO of Kurmi Software and a 25-year veteran of the telecoms and collaboration industry, joins Tom Arbuthnot for a forward-looking conversation rather than a product pitch. The pair debate where generative AI, low-code, security, hybrid work and platform monetisation will take enterpris

Michael Tressler, from Tandy RadioShack to Microsoft to Jabra

Michael Tressler, from Tandy RadioShack to Microsoft to Jabra

Michael Tressler, Senior Solutions Consultant at Jabra and formerly of Microsoft's device partner team, traces his career from BASIC on a Tandy TRS-80 through Windows NT consulting, OCS and Lync deployments at Deloitte, authoring the Teams Rooms and Teams Android partner boot camps, and now pre-sale

Outside Looking in with Crestron Automate VX

Outside Looking in with Crestron Automate VX

Sam Kennedy runs product marketing at Crestron, having spent 17 years at Polycom and Poly before joining. He explains how Crestron's Automate VX multi-camera system delivers an 'outside-in' room view, what it costs to deploy, how rooms are designed and troubleshot, and what its recent Microsoft Team

Teams Contact Center Options, Chris Goodwill's Perspective

Teams Contact Center Options, Chris Goodwill's Perspective

Chris Goodwill is a strategic partner manager and solution specialist at Symity with around 15 years in the Microsoft UC space, focused on voice and contact centre. He walks through the three Teams contact centre certification models, where Microsoft's own Dynamics and Digital Contact Center Platfor

Microsoft Teams Phone in Large Enterprise with Alistair Pidd

Microsoft Teams Phone in Large Enterprise with Alistair Pidd

Alistair Pidd, Professional Services Director at Pure IP, leads the teams that configure Teams, deploy SBCs on site and run enterprise voice projects. He and Tom Arbuthnot look at where Teams Phone has got to in large enterprises, the operational burden of Microsoft's pace of change, how internal re

How to be a TeamsBoss with Michael LaMontagne

How to be a TeamsBoss with Michael LaMontagne

Michael LaMontagne is an independent consultant specialising in Teams Phone, Meeting Rooms and devices, and the principal product manager behind TeamsBoss. He talks through his route from Lync 2010 and Cloud Connector Edition at a Canadian carrier to being part of the direct routing TAP, then demos