Microsoft Teams Premium

Coming in December is a preview of a Teams Premium add-on, according to Microsoft. General availability is planned for February. Availability for new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities will start to roll out in the first half of 2023.

Premium will include meeting guides to have the right Teams settings for client calls, brainstorms, support and other scenarios, according to Microsoft. Premium users can brand meeting experiences with custom logos and backgrounds for the lobby and custom scenes for together mode.

This add-on will include an intelligent recap feature for personalized highlights from Teams meetings, tasks generated by AI automatically assigned from the meeting and intelligent playback for navigating recorded meetings.

Other features include personalized insights that identify when someone shared a screen, a user’s name was mentioned and when people joined and left; an intelligent search for transcripts; and live translations for captions for 40 spoken languages, according to Microsoft.

Premium adds watermarking to deter leaks and limit recordings, according to Microsoft. Customers with a Microsoft 365 E5 license can use existing Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels to apply meeting protection options automatically.

Webinars in the premium add-on will have a registration waitlist, manual approvals, automated reminder emails and a virtual green room for hosts and presenters.

Virtual appointments in the premium add-on will come with pre-appointment text reminders, branded lobby experiences and post-appointment follow-ups.