Empowering.Cloud Community Update – September 2024

Check out the latest expert briefings, Teams Insider Podcasts, Microsoft Teams Operator Connect updates, and upcoming community events.

Expert Briefing

Search team messages

https://app.empowering.cloud/briefings/372/searching-for-teams-messages

In a recent community briefing, MVP Nikki Chapple explained three ways to search your Microsoft Teams messages.

• Here are three ways to search your Teams messages:
  • User Search, Content Search, and eDiscovery Standards
• User Search: Fast, threaded conversation display for end users, enhanced security
• Content Search and eDiscovery Standard: For administrators, searches the entire tenant, but is limited to individual messages.
• eDiscovery Premium: Comprehensive search for administrators, threaded conversation visibility, and detailed exports

Microsoft Teams Monthly Update August 2024

https://app.empowering.cloud/briefings/373/Microsoft-Teams-Monthly-Update-August-2024

MVP Tom Arbuthnot covers the latest Microsoft news and updates you need to know this month.

• Microsoft Revenue FY24 Q4 Modern Work Insights
• Improved multiple team clients
• Custom emoticons and reactions
• Copilot Dashboard for all M365 Copilot users
• Speaker recognition for all Teams Rooms on Windows
• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows 5.1.24.0
• Microsoft Teams Device Updates
• Android Teams Room and Teams Phone support date changes
• Teams Displays support ends September 2025
• Roadmap Watch

Microsoft Teams Insider Podcast

Microsoft Mesh, Real-World Use Cases, and the Future of AI

Audio Podcasts | youtube

Jeremy Dalton, PWC’s Immersive Technologies Lead, and Cathy Moya, Microsoft’s Mesh Team Customer Success Program Manager, dive deep into Microsoft Mesh adoption and use cases, and how virtual reality and virtual worlds can enhance collaboration and communication.

Converging AV and UC, John Bailey, Senior Vice President, AVI-SPL

Audio Podcasts | youtube

John Bailey, SVP of Technology and Innovation at AVI-SPL, discusses industry changes and the convergence of AV and IT.

Microsoft Devices Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) Description

Audio Podcasts | youtube

Yoav Barziley, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, explains the Microsoft Devices Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) and how it fits into the Microsoft Teams device ecosystem.

Lessons learned from BT’s large-scale Microsoft Teams Rooms deployment

Audio Podcasts | youtube

James Robinson, Director and Principal AV Consultant at AVenture Audio Visual, shares his extensive previous experience deploying Microsoft Teams Rooms at scale at BT.

Microsoft Teams Operator Connect Update

The race to 100 countries or 100 operators continues, with both countries and operators at the 97 mark. There isn’t much to report this month, but vendors are expanding Microsoft Teams Operator Connect coverage to more countries.

Change provider:

• Momentum – Canada and the United States

Change country:

• HALO – USA
• LoopUp – Korea
• Orange Business Services – Mexico
• Tata Communicaitons – Uganda, South Africa and Dominican Republic

Check out the full Power BI report for all Operators here.

https://members.empowering.cloud/microsoft-teams-operator-connect-providers

Upcoming Community Events

Teams Fireside Chat with Ron Pessner – 12^Day Sep | 16:00 BST | Virtual

Join other community members in Teams Fireside Chat in September. Ron PesnerThe Vice President of Product Management at Microsoft will be on hand to share his insights.

Teams Fireside Chat will be held on the 2nd.^~is Every Thursday at 4pm (UK time). Each session will feature a guest speaker from Microsoft who will share their insights. The latter half will be open for discussion and Q&A, giving the experts a chance to answer your questions.

Microsoft Teams Device Ask Me Anything

September Session

Europe, Middle East, Africa/North America – 16^Day Sep | 16:00 BST | Virtual

Hosts: MVP Graham Walsh, Michael Tressler, Jimmy Vaughn

Asia Pacific – 17^Day Sep | 15:30 AEST | Virtual

Hosts: MVP Graham Walsh, Phil Clapham, Andrew Higgs, Justin O’Meara

Microsoft Teams Devices Ask Me Anything is a monthly community that provides updates on important Microsoft Teams device news, as well as the opportunity to ask questions and get answers from experts. With two sessions covering different time zones, there’s no excuse not to attend at least one!