UC Today host Rob Scott is joined by Microsoft Teams Expert and Co-Founder of Empowering.Cloud, Tom Arbuthnot and a panel of experts from the Microsoft Teams community.
In this update, we talk through the most popular Teams news headlines from Microsoft Ignite with this month’s special guests:
- Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, enableUC
- Josh Blalock, Microsoft MVP & Chief Video Evangelist at Jabra
- Satish Upadhyaya, Microsoft Unified Communications Architect, Softel
- Ryan Herbst, Vice President & Chief Device Strategist, UnifiedCommunications.com
- Patrick Watson, Head of Research, Cavell Group
- Ståle Hansen, Founder, CEO and Principal Cloud Architect, CloudWay
Microsoft Teams News
- Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams Channels and Teams Phone, including post call
- Intelligent recap will be included with M365 Copilot in December
- Teams Phone: Voice isolation was announced, Private Line, Website click to call, Shared Calling
- Microsoft Teams Rooms: Multi-stream and Cloud IntelliFrame, Speaker recognition with existing devices, Windows Autopilot and One-time password deployment, Pro portal remote access, Ultrasonic proximity join, Teams live events on Teams Rooms
- Teams Rooms on Android: Premium features support and calendar view update
- Surface Hub 3
- Teams Rooms on Windows: First 4k device and sub-$1000 Microsoft Teams Rooms
- Shared Space discovery and reporting via Teams desktop client with Pro Management Service QR codes for space reservation and Teams Display Sign-in
- BYOD Rooms - Teams Shared Display Mode
- 3D Meetings Coming to Teams in January, Immersive Spaces and Microsoft Mesh generally available soon
Click here for the full scoop of the biggest Teams news to come out of Ignite.
It was also a rollercoaster of a week at OpenAI, with CEO Sam Altman removed from his position on Monday, leading to the vast majority of staff saying they would follow him to Microsoft if he wasn't reinstated at OpenAI. All's well that ends well, however, as Altman returned to OpenAI on Wednesday.
