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October 31, 2022

Microsoft Presenter + Review

Like similar clickers on the market, the Microsoft Presenter + can be used to control your PowerPoint and PowerPoint Live presentations. The similarity ends here, however, as Presenter + is…
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October 19, 2022

The latest partnership between Cisco and Microsoft is the most significant breakthrough in video conferencing interoperability we seen yet.

Overview Don’t underestimate this announcement. This news is huge in the world of collaboration. Cisco and Microsoft have always been competitors in this space. For years, customers have been asking…
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October 18, 2022

You now now annotate collaborately from any app in Microsoft Teams

Collaborative Annotations is another enhancement coming to Teams. Powered by Microsoft Whiteboard, collaborative annotations is designed to further simply the ability to collaborate with others while screen sharing in a…
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October 12, 2022

Ignite 2022: Microsoft Teams will be natively available on Cisco Meeting Devices

In what could be good news for Business and VC/Collab partners alike, organisations will soon be able to choose between running Cisco Webex or Microsoft Teams natively on their Cisco…
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September 6, 2022

Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro and Basic

TL;DR Microsoft has just launched Microsoft Teams Pro which is, in their words, “designed to provide an integrated experience and bridge the gap between physical and digital workspaces“. In short,…
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August 23, 2022

Surface Headphones 2+ now Teams Certified without a dongle!

For users / owners of Surface Headphones 2+ (for Business), Microsoft are rolling out a new firmware update which enables the devices to be Microsoft Teams® certified using native Bluetooth®…
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March 2, 2022

What was new to Teams and Webex in Feb 2022

Following on from a packed January of new features, the slew of updates and enhancements to Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex isn’t slowing down. Here’s my pick of the new…
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December 7, 2021

Microsoft Teams gets support for “Loop components

Microsoft has rolled out an update for Microsoft Teams that brings the first set of “fluid” Loop Components. This has the ability to further innovate and disrupt the way people…
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December 6, 2021

Microsoft SIP gateway service let’s you use legacy SIP phones with Teams

Microsoft’s SIP gateway service was officially released as of today today. This means organisations can now repurpose a wide range of ‘old’ SIP phones and use them with #MicrosoftTeams helping…
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December 3, 2021

Microsoft Teams Phone System SLAs is now 99.99% and financially backed

Microsoft has updated the SLAs for Teams Calling Plans, Phone System, and PSTN Audio Conferencing to four nines / 99.99%. This reflects the continuous work Microsoft are doing in the…
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September 27, 2021

Enterprise Connect 2021: Microsoft announces 5 new Calling Plan countries taking total to 33.

At Enterprise Connect today, Nicole Herskowitz made a handful of announcements about further enhancements and improvements to a Teams including the announcement that Microsoft Teams Calling Plans is being expanding…
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September 1, 2021

More new stuff rolled to Teams while the kids on their summer 2021 holidays!

Here’s my summary of the top new capabilities and changes that were released in Microsoft Teams over the summer break. As usual the official teams blog details all the changes…
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July 18, 2021

The next version of Microsoft Teams is coming… ditches ‘electron’ and looks very different..

The next big update to #MicrosoftTeams (dubbed Teams 2.0) will be faster, allow multiple accounts, provide seemless integration into #Windows11 and will look and behave much more like a native…
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September 23, 2020

Microsoft Ignite ‘flooded’ with these incredible new #MicrosoftTeams enhancements

Day one of Ignite yesterday (Sept 22 2020), was full of many new announcements across Microsoft 365, Azure and Power Platform but day 1 was certainly dominated by a new…
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August 4, 2020

Skype for Business (3PIP) phone support extended beyond original 2023 end date

Great news for any organisations using Skype for Business and moving to #MicrosoftTeams, was announced yesterday.
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July 28, 2020

“Tasks” across Microsoft 365 being revamped as Teams gets new Tasks app

#MicrosoftTeams updated Tasks app is the first in a major overhaul and realignment of intelligent tasks across Microsoft 365 and its coming to Teams now…
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April 8, 2020

New Teams Meeting Experience rolling out to SurfaceHub

We heard a couple months back that big changes are coming to both SurfaceHub 1 and 2S as the SurfaceHub and Microsoft Teams product groups work to continuously improve the…
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