New Feature: Microsoft Teams room management within Teams Admin Center

Microsoft Teams Rooms provide a complete meeting experience that brings HD video, audio, and content sharing to meeting spaces of all sizes, from small huddle areas to large conference rooms. With this feature we are enabling easy management of Teams room devices in the Teams Admin Center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 64022.

When this will happen

• The roll out will begin in mid-June 2020 and be complete by the end of June.

How this will affect your organization

Admins will be able to see the Microsoft Teams Room devices in Teams Admin Center > Devices > Teams Rooms, with the ability to manage devices remotely.

Some of the remote management activities include: changing device settings, restarting devices, device health monitoring of the room system and peripherals like cameras or microphones. Admins can also view device usage and call quality for meetings in which the device participated.

What you need to do to prepare

To enable device management for Microsoft Teams Rooms in Teams Admin Center, admins will need to ensure their Teams room devices are up to date with the latest software provided by Microsoft.

• Plan Microsoft Teams rooms
• Manage your devices in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Updates | May 2020 and Beyond

Here is a new posting from Microsoft Mechanics that shows quite a few new Teams updated for May 2020.

Here's what we'll show you:

• Expanded view of participants from 4 to 9 of the most recently active.  
• Raise Hand feature allows you to get the attention of others in a meeting. 
• New pre-join meeting experience lets you dial in your settings and background effects prior to joining a meeting. 
• Pop-out windows for meetings, chats, and apps coming soon to Teams.  
• Microsoft Lists brings the power of lists and related workflow automation into Teams as an integrated app experience.  
• Developer and admin experiences get better with the Visual Studio extension for Microsoft Teams and simplified publishing flow from Power Apps into Microsoft Teams.

Learn more about Microsoft Lists at https://aka.ms/MicrosoftLists For a comprehensive roundup of all the new capabilities in Microsoft Teams, check out https://aka.ms/Teams2020Updates

Sophos EDR 3.0 Overview PowerPoint Presentation

Our web meeting yesterday provided us with a look at very interesting updates to the Sophos Intercept X Advanced with EDR license that will be released soon.

The features shown in this video provides a sophisticated management engine for accessing the logged data the is part of the EDR product. It will give you direct access to machines and the ability to create queries that drill into issues, equipment, status of updates and much more. In the hands of IT Administrators this will give them much greater insight into their systems that they are managing for now additional cost. 

All of this is availble now through the early access program but will soon be available in the product.

If you have been hesitating jumpiing into Intercept X Advanced with EDR these new features may be just the thing to get you there!

Overview of Live Discover and Live Response
Available in EDR 3.0 (Central Intercept X with EDR License)
Early Access Program (EAP) is open to all customers and trial accounts in Central starting in April