Teams with Tom - Volume 7

Welcome to the next monthly edition of Teams with Tom! This month we’ll be looking at some of my favourite updates to Teams fresh out of Enterprise Connect 2024 as well as my Roundtable with Guy Campos , available in this months AV Magazine !

Product Spotlight: Microsoft Surface Hub 3

Unite hybrid teams with a more inclusive approach to collaboration and co-creation.

Surface Hub 3 for Business empowers seamless teamwork from any location, serving as a collaborative canvas and meetings platform officially certified for 微软 Teams.

Its adaptable design, complemented by flexible, modular accessories, ensures that Surface Hub 3 for Business can evolve alongside your changing space and technological requirements. Explore multiple collaboration possibilities with the Portrait mode on the Surface Hub 3 50”, featuring smart rotation ensuring the optimal orientation and angle for your meeting at any moment!

The AI-driven camera automatically adapts the video feed in response to individuals entering, exiting, or engaging with content displayed. Boasting an expansive 136-degree ultra-wide field of view, it incorporates automatic framing, premium glass optics, and an excellent low-light sensor for superior image quality.

Voice Isolation with AI

The integration of AI into Teams continues with Teams’s brand new AI Voice Isolation tool ensuring that you can be heard, even in the busiest and loudest of environments. Whether you're stationed at your desk or working remotely at a coffee shop, ambient chatter can disrupt your Teams calls and meetings. Voice isolation presents an advanced AI-driven noise suppression solution, effectively eradicating undesirable background noise such as nearby conversations. This cutting-edge technology distinguishes your voice profile, guaranteeing that only your voice is transmitted. Voice isolation can be activated for both calls and meetings and is available now.

Autopilot for Teams Rooms on Windows

Teams users now have the opportunity to leverage touchless remote provisioning of devices, a process that accelerates deployment and alleviates time constraints for IT personnel. The release of Autopilot for Teams Rooms on Windows is quite exciting as it integrates Windows Autopilot and Auto-login technologies to streamline the enrolment and configuration of devices from the cloud. This solution utilises credentials stored in the Teams Rooms Pro Management service. With Autopilot for Teams Rooms on Windows, IT teams will be empowered to significantly diminish deployment duration and expenses, all while enhancing security measures and ensuring compliance.

Join meetings with a QR code on Teams Rooms on Windows and Android

Easily initiate a meeting from a Teams Room with the introduction of a QR code, scannable with your mobile device. Upon scanning, you'll seamlessly transition into the companion mode experience within Teams mobile. The QR code is conveniently located on the Teams Room home screen and can also be utilised to launch impromptu meetings or share content from your mobile device to the Teams Room display. Administrators have the ability to manage the QR code feature through the device settings and the Teams admin centre. Expect this feature to roll out in the first half of 2024.

View the room from whichever angle you choose

Remote participants in a Teams meeting will gain the ability to manage their perspective of the Teams Room through the introduction of multiple camera view selection. With multiple video feeds originating from the same Teams Room, this feature empowers remote attendees to switch between various views at their discretion. For instance, they can seamlessly transition between observing a colleague during a presentation and focusing on the whiteboard during a brainstorming session. This functionality will be accessible for Teams Rooms Pro licences and is slated for release later this year.

AV Magazine Roundtable

In this month's AV Magazine you can find all the information you need about our recent roundtable with Guy Campos which was sponsored by TD SYNNEX Maverick alongside Shure. In the first of a series of extracts from AV Magazine’s Microsoft Teams Rooms roundtable, we sat down to discuss whether AV skills are needed in small and medium-sized rooms. Find out more here: https://www.avinteractive.com/news/collaboration/do-small-and-medium-sized-mtrs-belong-to-av-or-it-14-03-2024/ ?

Want to find out more about the capabilities of Microsoft Teams for your business? Then please do get in touch with me or your local Maverick account manager and we’ll be happy to help!