Speaker 1: So the new Microsoft Teams Premium is here. It's an add-on and will be available in preview in December. Let's explore what's included in this brand new Teams Premium and dive into a little bit more about it. If you're new here, welcome. Please do join us here on Keep Productive for more videos about Microsoft and plenty of productivity tools. You can subscribe here. So this new edition will be available for preview in December, and it's built off of the experience of Teams collaboration, which many people know and love. I found out today that over 800,000 teams in the US use Microsoft 365, and many of them Teams in that. Now, Teams Premium will apparently make meetings or every meetings from one-to-ones to virtual points to webinars more personalized, intelligent, and secure. So that's a pretty good indicator of what it's gonna offer, the personalization, intelligence, and security. Well, Teams Premium will bring the Teams meeting innovation into one offering and will make meetings more personalized with something called meeting guides that will allow users to pick the right meeting experience. Essentially, they're easily customized and managed by IT, but you can select a guide, like a client call, a brainstorming meeting, or help desk support, and options will be available to basically reduce time, to manage your thought process around getting the meeting right. So an interesting partly template functionality to help improve different types of meetings that you have. They'll also have the ability to brand the meeting experience with custom logos, backgrounds for Teams lobbies, custom backgrounds at an organizational level, and custom seams for together mode to infuse the company's brand into virtual interactions. Quite an interesting addition. So these two meeting guides and the branding of the meeting experiences are part of their personalization aspect of Microsoft Teams, and something that I'm sure a lot of people with that sort of ability to take this sort of experience to make it feel more, you feel a little bit more part of the meeting or part of your brand would really like. So in terms of making it more intelligent, probably what a lot of people will want to see is that there will be an intelligent recap feature. And I had a little look at this, and I'm not gonna lie, it did excite me. But this ability and premium will give the users personalized highlights from Teams meetings to help you discover information that matters most. So you can basically miss a meeting and not be misinformed. It's quite interesting how it works. So essentially what it will do is basically extract actions from what you're saying from the transcription and bring together recommendations. This is really interesting. So it's basically using technology while you're in a meeting so that people don't have to attend every meeting. And it's a really interesting technology, definitely something I'm really interested in. So this will extend to the AI-generated tasks. And these are automatically assigned from meetings so the actions are not missed. It's basically like having a virtual assistant attending every meeting. This is a really cool addition. I saw a good example of how this recap functionality can work where you can basically approve what they recommend for your tasks, which is a really cool addition. They've got another ability and premium called Intelligent Playback, which will automatically generate chapters to easily navigate a team's meeting recording and help you understand the content of the meeting discussion. This, again, super useful if you're somebody that, say, is tuning into a webinar that you and your company is doing about company updates and you might want to skip across all of the developer stuff and scrape to marketing. But it's quite interesting that that ability will be available. You'll also have personalized insights in meeting recordings that will call out important moments in the meeting, such as when a user's name was mentioned, a screen was shared, and when people have joined and left. That's pretty cool in terms of just summarizing. Intelligent Search will allow you to search transcripts with suggested speakers personalized for the user so they can quickly refer to the specific points and live captions as a real-time AI-powered technology for 40 spoken languages, which is a nice addition. So the premium experience will make it more secure, and they're doing that by using advanced meeting protection, which will make it easier to safeguard confidential meetings such as board meetings, financial discussions, or undisclosed product launch reviews. With new meeting options like watermarking, deter, leaks, and limiting, who can record users can get additional protection to help that confidentiality in that meeting. Very interesting pieces of technology here. They're also going to extend the familiar experience of Teams to users to engage more deeply, and that includes the likes of advanced webinars, advanced virtual appointments, and they'll be rolling out these features, apparently, from December 2022 as part of Teams Premium Preview. Apparently, the general availability won't be available till 2023, and the availability of the new AI capabilities such as intelligent meetings will be rolling out the first half of 2023. So actually, a little bit of time to wait, sadly, but it's definitely a new addition and a new experience that a lot of people are going to love. So anyway, Microsoft Teams Premium coming to you very soon. And with all of the other updates like Together Mode being improved, the Teams Live Share experience, I'm sure they're really fine-tuning this much further. Anyway, folks, I hope you enjoyed this roundup of Microsoft Teams updates. Please do let me know if you have any comments. We've got a video about Microsoft Loop that is available now if you want to check it out too. And thank you very much for stopping by here on Keep Productive. So make sure you subscribe, and I'll talk to you all very soon. Cheerio.