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Tom's Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Update

Many thanks to AudioCodes, this month's Empowering.Cloud benefactor for their support.

At Commsverse, I caught up with Gidi Adlersberg, who owns AudioCodes' Voca Contact Center, to discuss choosing and comparing Teams contact centers. Check out the video here​

Commsverse was great this week. Thanks to those who joined my panel and came to my session. I had the chance to learn from a diverse group of experts. Check out the videos below, including Randy Chapman and Graham Walsh on the test track 🏎️

Latest news:

• Microsoft blog - What’s New in Microsoft Teams June 2024​
  • Teams Phone Intelligent call recap (Teams Premium / Microsoft 365 Copilot)
  • Manage access to meeting recording, transcript, and AI-generated insights (Microsoft 365 Copilot / Premium)
  • Require participant consent for meeting transcription (new policy)
  • Copilot for Sales Teams plugin now rolling out
  • Intelligent message language translation in chats
  • Enhancements for multi-tenant organization (MTO) users
• Custom background coming to Microsoft Teams Rooms panels August​
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• ​Digital signage coming to Teams Rooms on Windows (Pro) August
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• Microsoft Teams Rooms Enhanced cross-platform SIP meeting join coming with Pexip and Teams Rooms Pro​
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• Skype for Business Server Roadmap Update - Skype for Business Server Subscription Edition coming third quarter of CY 2025​
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Empowering.Cloud Briefings ​

• ​Microsoft Teams Monthly Update: June 2024​
• ​Microsoft Mesh: The Future of Virtual Collaboration​​​

Teams Insider Podcast​​

• ​The Importance of Employee Education in Adopting AI to Drive Meaningful Change​​
• ​Truely Working from Anywhere with Teams Phone Mobile ​
• ​Making your Microsoft Teams Meeting Room Intelligent​
• ​Enhancing Efficiency at Century Communities with Microsoft Teams Phone

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Videos from Commsverse

• Andy Ramos on what makes Pure IP different​
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• Raj Varsani from Logitech on the MeetUp 2 and Logitech Sight, and Randy Champman tried to give me the Teams BYOD story and MeetUp 2 specs and pricing of the while flying around the test track​
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• Graham Walsh on the Neat device portfolio and hints a new features at 104 MPH live from the Mercedes-Benz World track
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• Preston Martin at Landis talked about their new web chat feature which goes live next week. Look out for a Teams Insider podcast soon with an interesting Landis customer
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• Elaine Ho at Microsoft and I discussed voice isolation, voice enrolment and GDPR compliance​
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• Matt Hurst at Ribbon shared his thoughts on the latest in Operator Connect, both opportunities and challenges
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• Michael Levy at Numonix explains their Teams Recording as a Service and an interesting US government use case​
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• At the Jabra stand, Lee Davis and I discussed what Jabra headsets bring that is unique in terms of the sentiment analysis the API story
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• Rick Garcia and Brandon Bradley at Momentum explained their new fax app for Microsoft Teams.
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• Mark Brunwin at Tango Networks to discuss their ability to extend your Teams Phone number to an eSIM​

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Upcoming Online Events

• Virtual Converged Communications Partner Technical Bootcamp July 8th - 10th, 2024 and 9:00 PM - 1:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
• ​Teams Fireside Chat with Traci Herr, Sr. Escalation Engineer - Teams Voice & Devices at Microsoft - 11th July.
• Microsoft Teams Devices Ask Me Anything 15 and 16 July
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I read all email replies. Let me know if you have questions, comments, or feedback.

Thanks

Tom

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