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The latest Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 expert community briefings, Podcasts and upcoming community events.
Expert Briefings
Understanding BYOD Microsoft Rooms with Microsoft Teams – Experience, Features and Licensing
MVP Randy Chapman of Logitech and Chris Fitzsimmons of AVI-SPL provide an in-depth overview of BYOD Meeting rooms with Microsoft Teams.
- BYOD meeting enhancements, including automatic device detection, speaker recognition and layouts
- Administrative processes for effective BYOD deployment and management within organizations
- Licensing and how it aligns with Features like speaker attribution and intelligent recap
- How BYOD relates to Microsoft Places and desk booking
Ribbon Edge 8500 & Use Cases for a Scalable Modular SBC/Gateway/Router with Application Support
The latest addition to Ribbon’s Edge 8000 series, the Edge 8500, brings enhanced scalability and modularity to enterprises maintaining legacy voice infrastructure while migrating to cloud services. Senior Director Gordon Eddy showcases how this robust appliance addresses critical enterprise communications needs.
- The Edge 8500 features expansion slots supporting up to 96 analogue FXS ports, 16 T1/E1 PRI connections and application solution modules for third-party software
- With capability for 1,000 concurrent calls, the Edge 8500 delivers enterprise-grade reliability
- The solution combines SBC, gateway and 10G routing capabilities into a single device, simplifying deployment and management for branch offices and enterprise networks
- Network modernisation is made possible by facilitating analogue and TDM services over IP networks, addressing the ongoing analogue-to-IP transition challenges
Microsoft Teams Monthly Update May 2025
https://empowering.cloud/microsoft-teams-monthly-update-may-2025/
MVP Tom Arbuthnot shares all the Microsoft Teams news and announcements for May in less than 15 minutes.
- Microsoft Earnings FY25 Q3 – M365 Highlights
- Microsoft 365 news from Microsoft Build
- Office 365 / Microsoft Teams EU antitrust update
- 9 Microsoft Teams Roadmap Highlights
- Operator Connect and Teams Phone Mobile updates
- Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android updates
- Teams Devices updates
- Events
Microsoft Teams Insider Podcast
Inside Gong’s AI Microsoft Teams Integration
Patrick Burke from Gong shares insights on how they are using AI to maximise RevOps and how they use Numonix TraaS to pull insights from Microsoft Teams meetings.
Rolling out 200 Teams Rooms globally in 90 days and driving savings at SCOR
Tom Arbuthnot talks with Reto Schadegg, Global IT Infrastructure Manager at SCOR about how they rolled out 200 Microsoft Teams Rooms across 35 countries in just 90 days.
Compliance Recording in Microsoft Teams: What it Really Takes and How to Choose
Tom Arbuthnot chats with Michael Levy, CEO of Numonix, about what it really takes to deliver compliance-grade recording in Microsoft Teams.
Bookable Desks in Microsoft Teams Explained
Microsoft’s Evie Grimshaw dives into bookable desks in Microsoft Teams and how they fit into the broader solution with Microsoft Places.
Upcoming Community Events
Teams Fireside Chat – 11th June| 16:00 BST | Virtual
Join us for this month’s Teams Fireside Chat, where we’ll be joined by MVPs Habib Mankal and Michael LaMontagne to dive deep into the topic of Facilitator. Bring along all your Facilitator questions and feel free to bring a friend!
Microsoft Teams Devices Ask Me Anything
June Sessions:
EMEA/NA – 16th June | 16:00 BST / 08:00 PT
Hosts: MVP Graham Walsh, Michael Tressler, Jimmy Vaughan
APAC – 17th June | 15:30 AEDT
Hosts: MVP Graham Walsh, Phil Clapham, Andrew Higgs, Justin O’Meara
Microsoft Teams Devices Ask Me Anything is a monthly community which gives you all an update on the important and Microsoft Teams devices news, as well as the chance to ask questions and get them answered by the experts. We have 2 sessions to cover different time zones, so there’s really no excuse not to come along to at least one!
Copilot Fireside Chat with Daniel Laskewitz, Senior Cloud Advocate (Power Platform) – 25th June | 16:00 BST / 08:00 PT
Join Microsoft MVPs Zoe Wilson and Kevin McDonnell for the new monthly Copilot Fireside Chat series! The next session is on 30th April at 16:00 BST and we’ll be joined by Daniel Laskewitz, Senior Cloud Advoacte (Power Platform) at Microsoft who will be discussing Copilot Studio, MCP and Dataverse with Copilot.
Copilot Fireside Chat is a virtual event that usually takes place on the last Wednesday of each month at 16:00 GMT. All are welcome to come along and discuss everything Copilot. Bring along your Copilot questions and get them answered by the experts, with special guest appearances alongside hosts Zoe and Kevin.