After announcing the offering at its annual Ignite conference in October, Microsoft is making Microsoft Teams Premium broadly available for preview as a limited trial for commercial customers, giving organizations the ability to try out advanced features in the company’s flagship collaboration app.
The features under the offering began rolling out this month and will continue to roll out through January, the company says.
Microsoft first announced Teams Premium during its Ignite event in October, calling the advanced service a new meeting offering that includes several intelligent features such as intelligent recap, live translations, meeting guides, advanced meeting security, virtual appointments and more.
In addition, Microsoft says Teams Premium will allow organizations to extend their brand and culture with company branding, backgrounds and together mode scenes. The offering also includes new webinar experiences that feature advanced capabilities to streamline event workflows with registration waitlist and manual approval, virtual green rooms for presenters, and attendee management tools.
Security features in Teams Premium include watermark, end-to-end encryption for meetings, sensitively labels for meetings with prevent copy/paste of meeting chat, and control over who can record meetings.
Although offered in Teams Premium, some features will have to be enabled by both IT admins and by users while setting up a meeting. For example, IT admins can enable end-to-end encryption for users, groups or tenant in the Teams Admin Center. However, the enhanced encryption will be off by default for users when they schedule a teams meeting, and they will need to turn it on manually as a meeting option.
For a full list of Teams Premium features and how to enable them, read Microsoft’s blog.
IT admins can enroll in the trial through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and activate a free Teams Premium licensing trial. General availability is slated for February 2023. Then, customers with existing Microsoft 365 or Office 365 licenses can purchase Teams Premium as an add-on service.
According to Microsoft, the expected price for Teams Premium is $10 per user per month. Official pricing will be shared once Teams Premium hits general availability in February.
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