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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:...

Setup Microsoft Teams on Elgato Stream Deck

Microsoft Teams has official support for the Elgato Stream Deck. This gives you physical shortcut keys to take the following actions: Toggle camera on/off Toggle mute on/off Toggle record on/off Toggle background blur on/off Leave the meeting Post live reactions Raise/lower hand Record Here is how to install Microsoft Teams buttons on the Stream Deck 1. In the Microsoft Teams desktop client...

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