Microsoft unveiled new device management and monitoring options for Microsoft Teams and expanded the use of third-party apps within its collaboration software.
Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium is a new “real-time management service” that costs $50/device per month and lets Microsoft handle meeting room operations for companies using Microsoft Teams. It was previously known as Microsoft Managed Meeting Rooms.
“Microsoft provides 24/7 management and monitoring of your room operating system and software, surfacing insights and alerts around any action needed on-site and taking remote action on your behalf as permitted,” Microsoft 365 Corporate Vice President Jared Spataro wrote in a blog post. “Today’s offering is just the beginning, and we look forward to expanding with additional premium experiences in the future.”
Microsoft already offered a non-managed version of the service called Meeting Room. It renamed that offering to Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard and added new capabilities within the Teams Admin Center. Teams Rooms Standard is $15/device per month.
Microsoft today also expanded the ability for developers to create third-party apps that run inside Teams, and rolled out a new low-code data platform for Teams called Microsoft Dataflex.
Teams now has more than 75 million daily active users and has seen growth due to the work-from-home mandates amid the pandemic. Microsoft is battling Slack, Zoom, and other collaboration software makers.
The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant made a bevy of other new product and service announcements as part of its Inspire conference.
Our partner ecosystem is critical to our customers’ success, and today we’re introducing new capabilities across our tech stack to enable them to help organizations drive digital resilience and transformation during this time of unprecedented change. https://t.co/UjlkFN7EFP
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) July 21, 2020
