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Microsoft Teams Shared Channels have been a top request by customers as it facilitates secured, focused collaboration and sharing with external individuals and entities at the more granular channel level vs Team level. On Monday 3/22, MidDay Café was joined by Microsoft’s Pouneh Kaufman and Eileen Zhou. Pouneh and Eileen presented all the latest around Microsoft Teams Shared Channels. It was a lively, informative, session with lots of questions from attendees. To watch the webcast video recording and see the resources go to https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
The rise of technological consumption models throughout the industry has been revolutionary for businesses. Being able to utilise services on a more flexible basis has been hugely popular. Microsoft have seen huge success in this area with their Office 365 platform including communication tools such as Skype for Business. Often, however, customers were looking for more from Skype for Business and now one of the UK's leading distributors have teamed up with global cloud communications provider NFON to offer an enhanced service. The new Skype for Business as a Service offering will allow customers to leverage the full power of Skype alongside the communication enhancements offered by NFON's integration. In this episode of Out Loud we hear from both Westcoast and NFON to understand more about the new service and how it can benefit customers.
This is the last episode of the Microsoft monthly podcast for 2018. The usual team examine some of the latest December news for the Microsoft communications and collaboration platforms including some new voice features for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft have also unveiled some new Office application icons which will be on show next year and Patrick reveals his favourite. As well as reviewing all of the other December news the guys look ahead to what might be in store for 2019. Predicting the future isn't easy, but Patrick still tries to tempt Tom into making some outlandish predictions for the development of the Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business platforms.
The calendar year is drawing to a close but the news still keeps on coming from Microsoft when it comes to communication and collaboration. In this episode the usual team review all of the latest updates including the release of a new mobile application for Office 365 and the new Microsoft Team's Academy. As well as a raft of the usual updates, news has also surfaced that some Skype for Business Online customers are in the process of being migrated to Microsoft Teams automatically. Although not a widespread procedure the ramifications could be interesting so the pod discuss Microsoft's latest approach.
Collaboration platforms are becoming more and more vital within organisations around the globe. Microsoft realised this as they began their development of the Microsoft Teams platform several years ago. Now Teams is gaining popularity around the world many organisations are now going through the processes of migrating to the platform, whether that is from Skype for Business or other applications. Not many people consider that Microsoft also need to transition internally themselves. In today's episode of Out Loud we hear from Microsoft about their own journey from Skype for Business to Microsoft teams.