Microsoft today announced the general availability of Microsoft Teams Premium subscription. Microsoft Teams Premium includes several new AI-powered features including Intelligent recap, live translations for captions, meeting guides, AI-generated tasks, advanced webinars features and more. You can now try Teams Premium for free for 30 days or buy before July 1, 2023, for just $7 per user per month—30 percent off the standard $10 pricing.
Microsoft Teams Premium features:
- With intelligent recap in Teams premium, you’ll get automatically generated meeting notes, recommended tasks, and personalized highlights to help you get the information most important to you, even if you miss the meeting.
- AI-generated chapters divide the meeting into sections so it’s easy to pick and choose the content most relevant to you. This is available today for PowerPoint Live meeting recordings.
- Available today, personalized timeline markers—that only you can see—call out when you joined or left a meeting in the meeting recording, so you can quickly click and listen in on what you missed.
- Soon, these personalized meeting highlights will expand to include speaker timeline markers that show you who spoke during the meeting, when they spoke, and allows you to jump to that moment.
- With AI-generated notes automatically created and powered by GPT-3.5. Follow-up is easy with AI-generated tasks and action items automatically suggested for you.
- AI-generated chapters for PowerPoint Live and personalized timeline markers for when you leave and join a meeting are available today. The additional intelligent recap capabilities shared here will be available in the second quarter of 2023.
- With live translations (for captions) now available in Teams Premium, you get AI-powered real-time translations from 40 spoken languages.
- Branded meetings let everyone see the logo and colors of your company when you join the meeting, and allow your brand colors to be infused in the meeting itself.
- During the meeting, Teams Premium users can enable brand-approved organization backgrounds and organization together mode scenes, so that what makes your company and your people unique will shine through in every part of the meeting.
- Now with Teams Premium, IT admins can create customized meeting templates—like a client call, brainstorming meeting, or help desk call— to automatically include the correct settings, reducing the time and thought process it takes to create and get the meeting right.
- With the now available custom user policy packages, IT can save time by creating a customized bundle of policies for users with similar roles in the organization.
- With advanced meeting protection available today in Teams Premium, you can easily upgrade safeguards for confidential business meetings without hampering the meeting experience. New meeting options, like watermarking to deter leaks and limiting who can record, give you additional protections to keep the discussion private.
- IT-enabled users can apply end-to-end encryption (E2EE) option to the meeting.
- For Microsoft 365 E5 customers with Teams Premium can now enable Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels for Teams meetings.
- With Teams Premium, it’s now easy to connect with customers and manage the end-to-end customer experience with Virtual Appointments in Teams, saving you time and money on additional add-on or point solutions. You can delight customers with a seamless join experience that allows external attendees to join virtual, branded lobby rooms through text messages or email on any device browser—without them having to download an app.
- Your scheduling administrators are empowered to set up and manage scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in one location with advanced capabilities like appointment queuing.
-  Teams Premium includes webinars to easily host these events while also saving you time and money—no need for add-on solutions or working across different platforms. Webinars allow presenters to join the virtual green room so that preparation before the webinar is seamless.