Dive into our MAY 2024 Microsoft Teams Show! Host Kieran Devlin 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
• Randy Chapman, Solutions Engineer in Video Collaboration, Logitech

Teams News

• Microsoft is reportedly developing its own AI platform to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT. What does this mean for Microsoft, its AI strategy and its OpenAI partnership?
• Microsoft Quarterly earnings - 20 million Teams Phone users, an increase on 17 million last July
• Over one million Microsoft Teams Rooms customers
• Teams Rooms on Windows 5.0 - Lots of new features for Teams Rooms!
• New Teams update now on Teams Rooms
• Zero Touch Deployment with Windows Autopilot
• Skype for Business Deprecation
• Meeting Chat shown by default in Gallery View for Teams Rooms on Windows
• Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Portal Remote Access - How does it work and could it be a gamechanger for IT admins?
• Restricted SharePoint search began rolling out in public preview for Copilot for Microsoft 365
• New Notebook for Copilot (on the web) - What exactly is it and how does it work?

Teams Events

• European Collaboration Summit - May 14-16
• Microsoft Teams Devices Ask Me Anything - May 21-22
• Microsoft Build, Seattle and Online - May 21-23
• UCX Manchester - May 21-22
• Teams Fireside Chat with Juan Rivera - June 13
• Commsverse - June 26-27