UC Today 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 Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, enableUC Josh Blalock, Chief Video Evangelist at Jabra BIG NEWS: Microsoft to Decouple Teams from Office! Teams Phone’s New Horizons Upcoming Queues app in Teams Premium (Summer 2024) Re ..read more

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 with this month’s special guests: Graham Walsh, Product Specialist at Neat Satish Upadhyaya, MVP, Microsoft 365 UC Architect Amanda Sterner, MVP, Technical Architect, Advania – Knowledge Factory Microsoft Teams News Copilot for finance Copilot new languages Teams Rooms Android Rooms Big Updates Daily maintenance restart window for Te ..read more

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 with this month’s special guests: Graham Walsh, Product Specialist at Neat Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, enableUC Microsoft Teams News 10 years of Satya Nadella Highlights from ISE 2024 Android Roadmap Update Microsoft Teams and other Office Apps on the Apple Vision Pro Improvements for BYOD meeting spaces Microsoft Copil ..read more

What is Microsoft Designer? Microsoft Designer was announced on October 12, 2022. It is an AI-powered (with DALL.E 3 and GPT 3.5) web-based graphic design application. It is designed to help create social media posts, invitations, digital postcards, and graphics. How can I use work created in Microsoft Designer? “The Azure OpenAI service and the Designer app are governed by their respective service terms. Under these terms today, Microsoft does not claim ownership of either content input by customers or content output by the service. Except for our acceptable use policies, Microsoft’s te ..read more

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. Microsoft Teams News New Front Line Worker Teams Phone License Operator Connect in India Is 2024 the year of Copilot or the year or Premium? Join Teams work meetings from Microsfot Teams (free) and vice versa Loop components in Teams channels Teams Andriod Auto Upcoming Events ISE – 30th Jan https://www.uctoday.com/events/ise-2024/ Michel Bouman – Teams ..read more

Today, Microsoft announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Business Standard users at the same $30 per person per month, with no minimum seat count. Commercial customers can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider partners, meaning partners can now sell licences and make a margin on the licences. Previously, only customers who were commercially direct with Microsoft could buy Copilot for Microsoft 365. The 300-seat purchase minimum for commercial plans has been completely removed and Copilot ..read more

Today, Microsoft announced a new Copilot (yes, the list is growing all the time), simply called “Copilot Pro”. Copilot Pro is actually not for professionals but for consumers. You must be a paid Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriber, and you can then add on the $20 PUPM Copilot license. Copilot Pro provides: Copilot in Word, Excel (in preview), PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on PC, Mac and iPad for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers. Priority access to the very latest models – starting today with OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo. Enhanced AI image creation with Image Creator from Des ..read more

Business users want to message to consumer platforms, but what about compliance? In many cases, business users want to message customers or partners on consumer platforms like WhatsApp, Apple iMessage and WeChat. If the business user uses those platforms natively using their personal phone number or business mobile number (as we all know they frequently do), it creates a compliance gap. The business has no record of these conversations. In some verticals, such as Finance, this can lead to hefty fines. LeapXpert aims to enable business users to message users on these consumer platforms in a sec ..read more

UC Today’s Rob Scott introduces Microsoft Teams experts, who make their big predictions for what will be happening in the Teams space in 2024. Predictions include: Significant developments in mobility solutions More immersive end-user experience through Microsoft Teams Premium features Challenges for SMBs adopting new technologies such as Copilot Potential for Microsoft to introduce a comprehensive contact center solution Significant advances in Copilot which could redefine Teams Premium’s functionality Possible closer integration of Teams with social apps Evolution in voice-assisted technol ..read more

Microsoft Q1 results 320 million Microsoft Teams monthly active users 10,000 customers using Teams Premium Microsoft Teams Rooms revenue grown triple-digits for nine consecutive quarters General Availability of the new Microsoft Teams app “Enterprise” General Availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft Teams Android 9 Phones certification end date extension Operator Connect – 77 Operators, 77 countries Surface Hub 3 Shipping Dec 5th Events Microsoft Teams at Microsoft Ignite Cavell Enable 28th November Microsoft UC User Group London 28th November Call and Contact Center Expo 29th an ..read more