Microsoft Teams Premium – The better way to meet

Introduction :

In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, effective collaboration tools have become the backbone of modern productivity. Microsoft Teams, a cornerstone in the realm of communication and teamwork, has taken yet another stride towards empowering users with the launch of Microsoft Teams Premium. This new offering not only enhances the existing Teams experience but also introduces a myriad of additional features designed to elevate Teams meetings to new heights.

Microsoft Teams Premium isn’t just about expanding on existing capabilities; it’s a testament to the ongoing commitment to make your virtual meetings more personalized, intelligent, and secure than ever before. In this article, we’ll dive into the intricacies of what Microsoft Teams Premium brings to the table and how it’s set to redefine the way you collaborate and connect with your colleagues. Join us on this journey of discovery as we explore the future of virtual meetings with Microsoft Teams Premium.

Microsoft Teams Premium is a Teams add-on license that allows organizations with Microsoft 365 subscriptions

• More personalized and intelligent meetings and webinars.
• Enhanced protection for meetings.
• Advanced management and reporting capabilities for IT.
• Advanced Virtual Appointments.

Features going from Teams Standard to Teams Premium

• Live translation of meeting captions.
• PPT live chapters.
• Timeline markers in Teams meeting recordings for when a user left or joined meetings.
• Custom organization Together mode scenes.
• Virtual Appointments: SMS notifications.
• Virtual Appointments: Organizational analytics in the Teams admin center.
• Virtual Appointments: Scheduled queue view.

Requirements to purchase Teams Premium

The tenant requirement is:

• Must be a commercial, worldwide public sector, EDU, GCC, or non-profit tenant at general release.
• Teams Premium for GCC became available on March 1, 2023.
• At general release, Microsoft won’t offer an EDU-specific license or EDU discounts for Teams Premium.
• GCC High and DoD licenses will become available sometime after the general release.

The user requirement is:

• An Office 365 or Microsoft 365 subscription with Teams.

When the organizer of a Teams meeting or live event is licensed for Teams Premium, the Live translation (for captions), advanced Meetings protection, and advanced Webinars features are extended to all meeting participants, including external and guest users.

External participants in Virtual Appointments don’t require a Teams Premium license to benefit from Teams Premium advanced Virtual Appointments. All meeting participants must be licensed for Teams Premium to benefit from the Intelligent recap feature.

Teams Premium licensing

When the trial licenses expire, the tenant’s uploaded Teams Premium assets like custom templates and meeting backgrounds will remain in the tenant but will be grayed out and unusable.

If your organization wishes to keep Teams Premium features after the trial period, you’ll need to purchase Teams Premium licenses when they become available and reassign the licenses to your users.

Key Deployment Scenarios of Teams Premium – Cheatsheet

Deployment Scenarios	Feature/Task	Documentation for administrators	Documentation for your end users
Protected meetings	Sensitivity labels	Configure Teams meetings with three tiers of protection
	Watermarks	Require a watermark for meetings	Watermarks for meetings
	End-to-end encryption (E2EE)	Encryption for sensitive meetings	Use encryption
	Templates, labels, and policies	Templates, sensitivity labels, and policies	Use custom templates
	Restrict who can record	Manage recordings for sensitive meetings	Record a meeting
Custom (Personalized) meetings	Meeting templates	– Overview	Use custom templates
		– Create a custom meeting template
	Meeting themes	Themes for Teams meetings	Use meeting themes
	Custom meeting backgrounds for organizations	Meeting backgrounds
	Custom together mode scenes for organizations	Content for you and your developers
	Custom policy packages
Premium events (Town Halls)	Custom emails
	Custom town hall reminder email send times
	Increased broadcast and Q&A capacity
	Increased languages for live translations
	Real time monitoring
Advanced Meetings
Webinars	Custom emails	Manage email communications	Manage webinar emails in Microsoft Teams
	RTMP-in	Manage RTMP-in for Teams meetings	Use RTMP-In in a Teams meeting
	Manage what attendees see	No admin control	Manage what attendees see in Teams meetings
	Manually approve registrants		Manage webinar registration in Microsoft Teams
	Enable and manage the waitlist for webinars beyond capacity		Manage webinar registration in Microsoft Teams
	Limit registration start and end times		Manage webinar registration in Microsoft Teams
Virtual Appointments	SMS notifications	SMS text notifications
	Reporting	Virtual Appointments usage report
		Advanced Virtual Appointments activity report
Intelligent Meetings
Live Translations
Meeting recap Features	Auto-generated chapters
	AI-generated notes and tasks
	Personalized timeline markers
	Speaker timeline markers

References:

• Microsoft Teams Premium licensing https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/teams-add-on-licensing/licensing-enhance-teams
• Microsoft Teams Premium – Overview for administrators https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/enhanced-teams-experience#protected-meetings  
• Microsoft Teams Premium: Cut costs and add AI-powered productivity https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/02/01/microsoft-teams-premium-cut-costs-and-add-ai-powered-productivity/