Our usual expert guest and Microsoft MVP Tom Arbuthnot, from Modality Systems, joins Patrick to review all of the Microsoft Teams news from the past few weeks.
The news of the confirmed retirement date for Skype for Business Online was announced after the original podcast recording. So Patrick and Tom add in a bonus section to discuss the details. Tom explains that this news was expected and it no way impacts Skype for Business Server customers. From September this year all new Office 365 subscribers will be directed to use Microsoft Teams as an alternative. Patrick asks Tom about the two year timeline before the deadline date and Tom explains that this should be an ample amount for organisations to migrate over to Teams with assistance from Microsoft.
After the Skype for Business Online retirement reaction is concluded we move back onto the original podcast. Firstly Tom takes Patrick through all of the news from Microsoft Inspire. Inspire is Microsoft's partner focused event and Teams was one of the most prominent platforms during the show. Microsoft revealed some impressive figures announcing that Teams now has 13 million daily active users. Patrick and Tom also discuss how this might impact rival collaboration platform Slack.
There was also one Teams feature discussed during Inspire and this was the potential ability to provide compliant call recording. Microsoft have intimated that this will be available shortly and Tom explains why this is so important to certain customers.
Next the pod moves on to discuss some news relating to Skype for Business Server. Cumulative Update 1, CU1, is now available for the platform. There are some new features which Tom talks Patrick through including; a HMTL5 based control panel, SEFAUtil abilities in native Powershell and Automatic Response Group Failover.
