The Lenovo Microsoft Teams Rooms Portfolio Explained and the Huddly Partnership

Sean Langley of Lenovo runs through the ThinkSmart Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows range, including the Core Gen 2 now shipping with dual NICs and integrated BYOM, the One Pro bar and the entry-level Tiny kit. He covers the Huddly partnership, C1 and L1 Crew camera setups, and ThinkSmart Manager features such as remote reimaging, Intel vPro BIOS access and Huddly C1 control.

Sean Langley, Smart Collaboration Technologist at Lenovo gives a lightning update on the Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows portfolio and the growing partnership with Huddly.

• Overview of the ThinkSmart product range including the Core Gen 2 with dual NICs and integrated BYOM, the One Pro all-in-one bar, and the entry-level Tiny kit

• Huddly C1 Crew and L1 camera setups for meeting rooms, plus the latest firmware enhancements

• How Huddly's AI-driven camera technology brings TV production-style framing to Microsoft Teams Rooms

• ThinkSmart Manager capabilities including remote recovery, BIOS access via Intel vPro, and Huddly C1 integration

• Zero-touch deployment with Windows Autopilot for large-scale Microsoft Teams Rooms rollouts

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Chapters

• 0:06 Introduction and Lenovo pre-sales team
• 2:30 ThinkSmart Core Gen 2: dual NICs and BYOM
• 3:06 One Pro, Hub Gen 2 end of life and Bar 180
• 3:35 ThinkSmart Tiny entry-level kit
• 4:46 Huddly C1, C1 Crew and L1 Crew setups
• 6:47 Q&A: BYOD on the Bar 180 and Thunderbolt ports
• 8:29 Huddly spatial awareness firmware video
• 10:29 Why Teams Rooms on Windows
• 12:31 Zero-touch deployment with Windows Autopilot
• 13:31 ThinkSmart Manager and Intel vPro
• Windows 10 refresh and close

Key insights

• ThinkSmart Core Gen 2 now ships with dual NICs as standard on all models, with single NIC available via CTO.
• Core Gen 2 comes in Ultra 5 with 16GB and Ultra 7 with 32GB configurations and integrated BYOM over USB-C.
• ThinkSmart Hub Gen 2 reaches end of life this summer, though stock remains available for refreshes.
• A new firmware for the Huddly C1 and C1 Crew shipped the day before the session, improving microphone pickup.
• Huddly 1.9 builds a live 3D map of the room and syncs spatial data between cameras for framing.
• ThinkSmart Manager can reimage a Teams Room fully remotely in about 40 minutes; the feature was fixed a few months ago.
• Core Gen 2 BYOM is disabled by default and must be enabled in BIOS or ThinkSmart Manager, optionally as content-only.
• Lenovo can register Teams Rooms devices with Windows Autopilot in the factory for staggered global deployments.

Insights summarised by AI from the episode transcript, reviewed by the Empowering.Cloud team.