Tom Talks Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 news and opinions

AuthorTom Arbuthnot

A Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Master, Tom Arbuthnot is Founder and Principal at Empowering.Cloud as well as a Solutions Director at Pure IP. Tom stays up to date with industry developments and shares news and his opinions on his Tomtalks.blog, UC Today Microsoft Teams Podcast and email list. He is a regular speaker at events around the world.

Microsoft Teams Predictions 2024 – UC Today

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...

Microsoft Teams UC Today Podcast November 2023

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...

Understanding and how to turn on Bing Chat Enterprise

Bing Chat for Enterprise is Bing Chat (GPT-4 enriched with web results) but with “commercial data protection.” “Commercial Data Protection” means user and business data is protected, chat data is not saved, Microsoft has no eye-on access to data, and chat data is not used to train the underlying models. Bing Chat enterprise does *not* have access to your M365 data...

Teams Phone Resource Account licence (Virtual user licence) now required for all Resource Accounts used by Teams

This is an important change to be aware of. Previously, a Teams Phone Resource Account license (previously called Virtual user license) was only required when assigning a phone number to a resource account. Now, all resource accounts used in Microsoft Teams must be assigned a Teams Phone Resource Account license, regardless of whether they’ll be assigned a phone number. All auto attendants...

Microsoft Teams MS-720 exam to be replaced with MS-721: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer

For all my MS-720 friends out there, it’s time for a new exam. The MS-720 Microsoft Teams Voice Engineer exam, which earned you the title Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Voice Engineer Expert, will be retired on June 30, 2023. A replacement exam, Exam MS-721: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer, will be available in mid-March 2023. Which will give you Microsoft 365 Certified:...

Tom Talks Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 news and opinions