Tom's Microsoft 365 Perspective

Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 news and views

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Many thanks to Ribbon, this month's Empowering.Cloud benefactor. I am looking forward to speaking at their upcoming Ribbon Insights customer and partner event on September 10-12 in Prague.
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Get up to speed on all the key news in 18 minutes with my August monthly update video and PowerPoint deck.

Even though it's August, there is plenty to talk about. Also, check out the events list for some great upcoming online events covering MDEP, Loop and the AOSP devices migration.

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Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 News

Roadmap: Microsoft Teams Intelligent recap (Premium/M365 Copilot) is coming for ad-hoc meetings and calls, e.g. meet now and calls from chat from October.

Custom backgrounds for Teams Rooms on Android are now rolling out in update 1449/1.0.96.2024080804; details of how it works in docs here.

New Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows, including touch boards, now support changing the display scaling settings to adjust the text size and all other UI elements on the front-of-room display. This shipped with the last update and is also in the current 5.1.28.0 (8/8/2024).

Digital signage on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows (Pro) is due in September. Integrations with selected third-party digital signage providers (Appspace, XOGO) are available as well as using web URLs as signage sources. More details in MC862235​

Great blog from Michael Tressler: The Most Epic Blog Article on IntelliFrame That There Ever Was and That There Ever Will Be. It's a great breakdown.
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Microsoft Teams Rooms, Phone and Copilot Partner Technical Bootcamp Videos are now all available on demand here.

Finally, as part of the security drive, Microsoft is enforcing multifactor authentication for all interactive sign-ins on the Azure and Microsoft 365 admin portals, but you already have that setup, right? If not, be sure to set up before October 15, 2024 MC862873.

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Briefings

• ​Teams Private Line - MVP Carsten Lund Meilbak
• ​Hands-on with Microsoft Teams Walkie Talkie, iPhone and Android with the Jabra Perform 45 push-to-talk headset - Tom Arbuthnot

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Teams Devices Recently Certified:

• ViewSonic's first Microsoft Teams Rooms, TeamJoin TRS10​
• ​Aver VC520 Pro3 as a Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows Camera
• Yealink MVC S40 for Microsoft Teams Rooms for Small to Medium Rooms
• ​Shure MXW6X/C Cardioid Boundary Transmitter, MXWAPXD2 Access Point and MXN5W-C Ceiling Speaker certified for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

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Teams Insider Podcast​ - Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube​

• ​Lessons from BT's Large Scale Microsoft Teams Rooms Deployment with James Robinson, Director & Principal AV Consultant at AVenture Audio Visual
• ​Understanding Teams SIP Gateway with Chandranshu Singh, Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway
• ​Support Timelines for Android Teams Rooms and Phones - a Customer Perspective with Dan Hall, Global IT Collaboration Solution Owner - a great customer perspective
• ​Shawn Harry's Journey Deploying Microsoft UC in Big & Complex Customers with Shawn Harry, Microsoft 365 Solutions Architect

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Online Events

• ​MDEP Unwrapped - MVP's Michael Tressler and Joshua Blalock, August 28th
• ​Get Ready for AOSP! - Changes affecting Android-based Teams devices and Intune, Matt Slomka, August 29th​
• ​Teams Rooms Learning Hour - Jimmy Vaughan and Matt Slomka, September 3rd
• ​Teams Fireside Chat Looking at Microsoft Loop with Ron Pessner, Corporate Vice President - September 12th
• ​Microsoft Teams Devices Ask Me Anything - EMEA/NA and APAC - September 16th / 17th

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In-Person Events

• ​Logi WORK Event - September 5th, London
• ​Ribbon INSIGHTS - September 10-12th, Prague
• ​Microsoft UC User Group London - September 19th, London
• ​UC Expo London - October 2nd-3rd, London

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Thanks

Tom

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