Dive into our July 2024 Microsoft Teams Show! Host Rob Scott teams up with special guest Tom Arbuthnot from Empowering.Cloud to unpack recent updates and announcements. Joined by a panel of seasoned Teams experts, find out what’s new in the Teams ecosystem.
In this update, we talk through the most popular Teams news headlines with this month’s special guests:
- Graham Walsh, Product Specialist at Neat
- Ryan Herbst, Vice President & Chief Device Strategist, UnifiedCommunications.com
Microsoft Teams News
- European Commission's Objections: Discussion on the European Commission's formal statement of objections to Microsoft regarding the bundling of Teams with Office 365/Microsoft 365.
- Microsoft Teams Phone Intelligent Call Recap: Now generally available, part of Teams Premium or Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
- Recording and Transcription Policies: New policies for recording and transcription including explicit consent requirements.
- Copilot Sales Plugin: AI assistant for sales meetings and CRM integration.
- Intelligent Translation of Chats: Automatic language translation in text chats.
- Multi-tenant Enhancements: Improvements for organizations with multiple tenants.
- Custom Backgrounds for Teams Rooms Panels: Consistent branding inside and outside meeting rooms, available with Teams Rooms Pro license.
- SIP Interoperability: Enhanced interoperability with third-party services through Pexip.
Teams Events
- Virtual Converge Partner Bootcamp (APAC): July 8th to July 10th, 9 PM to 1 AM PDT.
- Teams Fireside Chat with Traci Herr: July 11th, discussing Intune and Android devices.
- Microsoft Teams Devices Ask Us Anything: July 15th and 16th.
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