Microsoft released preview of Microsoft Teams Premium. The updated service comes free for a 30-day trial period.
Those interested can test the service through its admin center Microsoft 365 without paying anything.
Teams Premium is essentially a Microsoft Teams add-on and brings more personalization, AI functionality and security features. With the premium service, Microsoft aims to make virtual meetings more personalized, intelligent and secure.
The company has listed up to five features that Teams Premium users can try out right now:
- Extend your organization's brand and corporate culture in meetings with brand, and organization functions.
- Use AI to make the meetings you attend (or miss) more productive and efficient through live translation with subtitles to break down language barriers and smart recap features with smart recordings, auto-generated chapters, AI-recommended action items and information to fast track missed meetings where your name was mentioned.
- Apply advanced meeting protection such as watermarking, end-to-end encryption for meetings, and sensitivity protection for meetings by preventing copy/paste of conversations.
- Deliver a high-quality webinar experience through advanced capabilities to streamline workflow, with registration waitlisting and manual approval, facilitating behind-the-scenes actions via a virtual green room for presenters (separate from attendees) before the event starts, and management of the participants' experience.
- Manage your end-to-end virtual appointment experience with advanced features like text reminders, custom branded virtual meetings and a central dashboard control virtual dating for quick projection in periodsletterlists and analytics to track key usage information such as wait time per appointment.
If all goes as planned, Microsoft Teams Premium will be available in February 2023 and will cost $10 per user per month.
