Our usual expert guest and Microsoft MVP Tom Arbuthnot, from Modality Systems, joins Patrick to review all of the Microsoft Teams news from the past few weeks.
Both Patrick and Tom have been away at different industry events. Tom has been at the Microsoft MVP Global Summit in Redmond, while Patrick was attending Enterprise Connect 2019, where there were a host of Microsoft Teams announcements.
Before reviewing the Enterprise Connect announcements, Tom tells Patrick about the latest development with Direct Routing for Teams. Media Bypass has now been made available. Tom explains that this new feature allows organisations to send media directly from an end user to the Session Border Controller (SBC), removing the need for it to be relayed back from Microsoft's cloud Phone System.
Patrick and Tom then move on to discuss the raft of new Microsoft Teams updates unveiled at Enterprise Connect. There were eight new updates in total, including the release of customisable backgrounds for meetings, a physical whiteboard optimisation feature and the introduction of private channels.
Tom talks Patrick through all of the different updates and explains how they will work for organisations in practice. One of the updates that has been most eagerly anticipated and requested by the Microsoft community is private channels. Useful in situations where sensitive information needs to be restricted, the channels allow Teams users to create channels where only selected members of the team have access to the chat and files.
