M365 Roundup, October 2022: Teams Premium Gets a Price Tag
TL;DR
- Teams Premium reaches general availability in February 2023 at $10 per user per month, and several features customers use today, including live translated captions and custom Together mode scenes, move into it.
- Starting January 17, 2023, Microsoft stops creating DAP relationships for new customers and begins removing DAP relationships inactive for 90 days.
- The GDAP bulk migration tool retires on March 1, 2023, after which Microsoft transitions remaining DAP relationships to GDAP with limited Azure AD roles.
- Endpoint Privilege Management, previewed in late October 2022, dynamically elevates standard users for approved tasks so nobody needs to be a permanent local admin.
- Outlook for Windows began migrating local signatures to the cloud automatically in late October 2022, with no manual steps required.
October 2022 hands MSPs one licensing conversation and one deadline. The licensing conversation is Teams Premium, a new $10 per user per month SKU that will absorb features some customers already use for free. The deadline is GDAP: Microsoft put hard dates on the end of DAP. Below is everything relevant from October, action items first, then the feature news by product.
Action required: GDAP's DAP removal dates are now on the calendar
Starting January 17, 2023:
- Microsoft will stop creating DAP relationships when a new customer or reseller relationship is created.
- Microsoft will start removing inactive DAP relationships that have not been used in 90 days.
Starting March 1, 2023:
- The bulk migration tool for upgrading existing customer-granted DAP connections to GDAP will no longer be available.
- Microsoft will begin transitioning remaining active DAP relationships to GDAP with limited Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) roles for least-privilege customer management. Partners will need to perform additional steps to keep access to Azure subscriptions after the limited roles are granted, as documented.
Full announcement: October 2022 announcements, Partner Center (opens in new tab)
Ignite news
Some Ignite highlights appear throughout this roundup; for the complete picture, see the Microsoft Ignite 2022 Book of News (opens in new tab).
Teams: a premium SKU and five more announcements
Teams Premium arrives in February 2023 (new license)
Microsoft introduced a new licensing model for Teams with a wide range of features; the complete list is in Introducing Microsoft Teams Premium (opens in new tab).
The part that needs a customer conversation: these existing features move to Teams Premium when it becomes available in February.
- Live translated captions
- Custom Together mode scenes
- Timeline markers in Teams meeting recordings (join and leave events)
- Virtual Appointments: SMS notifications, organizational analytics in the admin center, and the scheduled queue view
Teams Premium will sell for $10 per user per month. General availability comes in February 2023.
An example feature:
Payments app in Teams (new feature)
The Payments app in the Teams app store lets businesses get paid for appointments, classes, or events hosted on Teams. It is free to use with a Teams or M365 subscription, aimed at small businesses (or any size business) growing revenue. At launch it supports only businesses registered in the United States and Canada.
Users install the app from the Teams store during the public preview, connect a third-party service like PayPal or Stripe, and can then request payment during a Teams meeting, with customers paying in a few clicks.
Rollout: available in the Teams app store as a public preview in November 2022.
Browser screen pop for incoming PSTN calls (new feature)
In Teams Admin Center, under Voice, Policies, admins can enable automatic launch of a web app or URL for users, specify the page to launch, and pass the caller ID (phone number) to it. Policies can be scoped so only specific users get the capability. The result: accepting an incoming PSTN call pops a browser with relevant CRM data, case data, and similar context.
Rollout: early November, completing by late November.
Microsoft Places (new feature)
Microsoft Places is hybrid scheduling built on common data signals from Outlook and Teams: see the week ahead and when co-workers and close collaborators plan to be in the office, spot the days with the most in-office attendance, and adjust your schedule for in-person time. Intelligent booking finds available spaces with the right technology for the meeting's purpose and mix of in-person and remote participants, and commute recommendations tell you when to leave based on that day's traffic and meetings.
More info: Introducing Microsoft Places (opens in new tab)
Rollout: 2023, no official dates yet.
A 360-degree camera built for Teams Rooms (new hardware)
The Yealink SmartVision 60, available in early 2023, is the first center-of-room, 360-degree panoramic camera designed for Teams Rooms, built from the ground up by Microsoft engineers with Yealink, Intel, NVIDIA, and Ricoh.
It delivers multiple video streams so remote attendees see each person in the room in their own frame, supports AI active speaker tracking, and in the coming months adds people recognition: after enrolling biometrics into the secure Microsoft cloud, enrolled users' profile information appears on their individual video frames in the room.
Cisco joins the Teams Rooms device program (new partner)
Cisco will become a Microsoft Teams Rooms Certified Devices partner, expanding the certified device portfolio for Teams Rooms. Cisco plans its first wave of Teams Rooms devices in early 2023.
Intune: privilege management preview and Chrome OS visibility
Endpoint Privilege Management (new feature)
This is the one to watch. Endpoint Privilege Management automates and manages when workers can use admin privilege for specific tasks on Windows cloud-connected and co-managed endpoints. Users keep standard account privileges and get dynamically elevated for specific admin-approved tasks based on company policy, no permanent local admins required. Productivity stays intact; the standing-privilege problem shrinks.
It will ship as part of a larger premium offering for Microsoft Intune. More information: Reduce your overall TCO with a new Microsoft Intune plan (opens in new tab)
Rollout: late October.
Chrome OS devices appear in Intune (new feature)
A public preview adds company or school owned Chrome OS devices to the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center. Establish a connection between the Google Admin console and Intune, and device information for Chrome OS endpoints syncs into the All devices list. Basic remote actions, deprovision, restart, wipe, and lost mode, are available from the admin center.
Rollout: late October.
Outlook: signatures finally roam
Outlook for Windows clients with this enhancement migrate local signatures to the cloud automatically, with no manual steps required.
If a customer uses a third-party signature management solution, they will likely not be affected for now: Microsoft provided a mechanism to maintain existing behavior while it works with those partners on cloud signature storage alignment. Questions go to the signature solution vendor.
More information: Outlook roaming signatures (opens in new tab)
Rollout: late October.
Frequently asked questions
Which existing features move into Teams Premium?
Live translated captions, custom Together mode scenes, timeline markers in Teams meeting recordings for join and leave events, and Virtual Appointments capabilities including SMS notifications, organizational analytics in the admin center, and the scheduled queue view.
Does the Outlook cloud signature change affect third-party signature tools?
Probably not for now. Microsoft provided a mechanism that maintains existing behavior while it works with signature management partners, so check with your signature vendor if you use one.
What should MSPs do about the GDAP dates announced in October 2022?
Migrate before the windows close: after January 17, 2023 new customers get no DAP to fall back on, and after March 1, 2023 the bulk migration tool is gone and Microsoft transitions remaining DAP relationships itself with limited roles.
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