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Effective February 1, 2023, Microsoft Teams Premium is available. Microsoft Teams Premium is a new offering that builds on the current Microsoft Teams experience with additional features that help make Teams meetings even more personalized, intelligent, and protected. It also enables premium capabilities for additional meeting scenarios, including Virtual Appointments
Effective January 10, 2023, there is a free Microsoft Teams Premium trial available that can be activated in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. It contains 25 Users for 30 days. Effective February 1, 2023, Microsoft Teams Premium will be generally available. With Teams Premium, customers can: Extend their organization’s brand
Effective December 1, 2022, Microsoft Common Area Phone has been rebranded as Microsoft Teams Shared Device. Microsoft Teams Shared Device (TSD) enables the use of non-Teams Rooms shared devices with Microsoft Teams. This license will still be used for Teams Phones deployed in shared areas. Furthermore, it now also supports
Effective November 1, 2022, Microsoft Operator Connect Mobile for Microsoft Teams has been renamed Microsoft 365 Teams Phone Mobile. Teams Phone Mobile is another option for providing Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) connectivity with Microsoft Teams and Phone System. With Teams Phone Mobile, a user’s SIM-enabled phone number is also
Effective February 1, 2023, Microsoft Teams Premium will be generally available, and will be in Public Preview starting December 1, 2022. Teams Premium will be licensed via an add-on to Microsoft Teams. Additional features through Teams Premium include for example: Intelligent recaps to summarize meetings with actions Live translation for
Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic and Pro replace the former Standard and Premium offers Effective September 1, 2022, Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic and Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro replace the Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard and Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium offers. Microsoft Teams Rooms allows you to Teams-enable your conference room, creating the
Effective September 1, 2022, Microsoft Enterprise Content Delivery Network (eCDN) is included in Microsoft Teams. Microsoft eCDN is an enterprise Content Delivery Network that enhances live video-streaming experiences for Microsoft Teams and other video products. This WebRTC-based solution reduces bandwidth usage helping mitigate impacts to network and line of business
Effective August 31, 2023, Microsoft Kaizala retires. This is a phone number-based, simple and secure work management and mobile messaging app for organizations. There are two versions of Microsoft Kaizala available – the free Microsoft Kaizala App and Microsoft Kaizala Pro, which both retire. Between now and then, current Kaizala
Effective August 1, 2022, Microsoft Teams Phone with Calling Plan is launched for use outside of the US (worldwide). The existing offer will be updated to be a US-specific one. Also, effective August 1, 2022, Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) offers for Calling Plan are introduced for all regions globally where Domestic Calling
Citrix now part of the Cloud Software Group On September 30, 2022, Citrix joined the Cloud Software Group by merging with TIBCO Software. The Citrix
Since March 7, 2023, Microsoft Syntex pay-as-you-go licensing is available for Microsoft 365 Commercial Cloud customers. What is Microsoft Syntex? Launched in October 2022,
Later in 2023, Microsoft 365 Copilot will become available. It combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph
