Empowering.Cloud

Sign in Subscribe

Teams Insider

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.

Copilot Cowork vs. Scout with Microsoft's Alev Tamer and Chris Wheeler

Copilot Cowork vs. Scout with Microsoft's Alev Tamer and Chris Wheeler

Alev Tamer, Sr. Partner Solution Architect, and Chris Wheeler, Senior Copilot Solution Engineer aligned to UK healthcare, unpack the Copilot announcements made the day before at Microsoft Build. They compare cloud-based Copilot Cowork with the local Scout/"ClawPilot" desktop agent, explain the multi

Microsoft Planner Roadmap - AI Agents, API and MCP With Howard Crow, Director of Product, Microsoft

Microsoft Planner Roadmap - AI Agents, API and MCP With Howard Crow, Director of Product, Microsoft

Howard Crow, Director of Product at Microsoft, has spent nearly 30 years at the company, writing the original Web Parts code for SharePoint before moving on to lead the Project, Planner and To Do teams. He sets out how Planner is being unified into a single product, how its multi-agent runtime works

Microsoft Teams Facilitator: The First Group AI Agent for Meetings With Madhu Sudan, Microsoft

Microsoft Teams Facilitator: The First Group AI Agent for Meetings With Madhu Sudan, Microsoft

Madhu Sudan, Partner Director of Engineering at Microsoft, has worked on the communications stack from Skype through Skype for Business to Teams and now leads AI work in Teams. He explains how Facilitator works as a group-level meeting agent, how its permissioning model differs from one-to-one assis

Microsoft Teams Call Quality Dashboard (CQD): Intelligent Classifiers, Silent Test Call and Power BI

Microsoft Teams Call Quality Dashboard (CQD): Intelligent Classifiers, Silent Test Call and Power BI

James Parkes, Siunie Sutjahjo and Victor Guzman from Microsoft walk through the current state of Teams call quality tooling, from the history of CQD on-premises to the new intelligent classifiers, the v5.3 Power BI QER report pack, silent test call and admin-initiated remote log collection. Victor a

Microsoft 365 Message Center and M365 Change Explained with Brian McGough, Principal Program Manager

Microsoft 365 Message Center and M365 Change Explained with Brian McGough, Principal Program Manager

Brian McGough has run Microsoft 365 Message Center since 2018 and leads change communications across the M365, Dynamics, Windows and Intune posting teams. He explains the operational machinery behind Message Center and Roadmap, the shift to a frontier/standard/deferred release model, and the new MCP

Microsoft 365 Agents Explained - Declarative, Copilot Studio, Pro-Code or Skills in Copilot Cowork?

Microsoft 365 Agents Explained - Declarative, Copilot Studio, Pro-Code or Skills in Copilot Cowork?

Graham Hosking, Senior AI Solutions Engineer at Microsoft covering around 54 ISV customers across Europe, unpacks the agent options in the Microsoft stack — from declarative Agent Builder through Copilot Studio to pro-code on Foundry — and explains where the new Skills and Copilot Cowork capabilitie

What is Microsoft 365 Frontier, Work IQ, Cowork and Agent 365 with a Copilot Global Black Belt

What is Microsoft 365 Frontier, Work IQ, Cowork and Agent 365 with a Copilot Global Black Belt

Brett Johnson, a Copilot Global Black Belt at Microsoft UK who supports field teams across Microsoft 365 Copilot, agents and Copilot Studio, returns for a second conversation with Tom Arbuthnot. He decodes the Frontier Program, the Anthropic model integration and its sovereignty implications, Work I