Microsoft Teams Premium enhances the standard Teams experience with advanced AI-powered features, improved security, and tools designed for more engaging and efficient virtual collaboration.
Features
Key features of Teams Premium for meetings and webinars include:
- Intelligent Meeting Recap: Automatically generates meeting summaries, including notes, tasks, and personalized insights for each participant. AI organizes meeting recordings into structured chapters and topics, making it easier to find relevant information without watching the entire recording.
- Live Translated Captions: Provides real-time captioning in over 30 languages, allowing participants to follow discussions in their preferred language. This feature improves accessibility and inclusivity for global teams.
- Advanced Webinar Capabilities: Enhances webinar management with tools for attendee registration, automated confirmation emails, and engagement tracking. Organizers can analyze attendance data and control what participants see during the session. Teams Premium supports up to 1,000 attendees, with basic webinar functionality available without a premium license.
- Advanced Meeting Protections: Strengthens security with features like watermarking to deter leaks, sensitivity labels to classify and protect meeting content, and end-to-end encryption for sensitive discussions. Admins can also restrict who can record meetings to prevent unauthorized sharing.
- AI-Generated Backgrounds: Uses AI to create custom virtual backgrounds that enhance the appearance of a participant’s real-world environment, making meetings more visually engaging and professional.
Teams Premium also includes:
- Virtual Appointments: Streamlines scheduling and management of customer or client appointments with features such as SMS notifications, branded waiting rooms, and usage analytics. Basic and advanced appointment scheduling is also available without a Teams Premium license via Microsoft Bookings.
License Purchase
Departments can use the following process to purchase Microsoft Teams Premium licenses for individual faculty or staff members. Each license costs $20 annually and is charged to the requester's department. Please allow up to one month to complete this process.
- The requester will complete this form:
- The requester's supervisor will get a notification to approve the purchase
- The license will be assigned, and the prorated annual cost will be charged to the requester's department
- Each September, users assigned a Microsoft Teams Premium will be contacted via email to confirm whether they wish to have a license purchased for the following year, beginning on October 31.
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