Microsoft Teams Premium enhances the standard Teams experience with advanced features geared towards making meetings more secure, intelligent, and customizable. Some of the standout features include:
Advanced Meeting Protection: Teams Premium offers features like sensitivity labels for automatic meeting protection settings, watermarking to deter information leaks during screen sharing, and the ability to limit recording access to safeguard sensitive discussions.
AI-Powered Meeting Assistance: Teams Premium integrates AI to provide features like intelligent recap, which automatically generates meeting notes and action items, and live translated captions to help reduce language barriers. It also includes AI-driven features for more efficient meeting reviews, such as personalized timeline markers and AI-generated chapters in PowerPoint Live presentations.
Enhanced Customization and Control: You can infuse your organization’s brand into every meeting with customizable backgrounds and branded meeting experiences. There are also new controls for IT admins, such as the ability to set up meeting templates with predefined settings for different types of meetings.
Virtual Appointments and Webinars: Teams Premium allows for a streamlined management of virtual appointments with features like SMS reminders for attendees and customized virtual lobbies. For webinars, it offers capabilities like registration waitlists, manual approval of registrants, and customized communications to enhance attendee engagement.
Town Halls and Large Events: With the town hall feature, Teams Premium supports large-scale events with advanced production capabilities, allowing up to 20,000 attendees, providing Q&A support, and offering detailed analytics on engagement and event performance.
How does Teams Premium compare to Teams?
Purchasing the Teams Premium add-on license provides admins and end users with extra features on top Teams along with their Microsoft 365 subscription.
The following tables compare key features between Teams and Teams Premium. Because Teams Premium is an add-on license to Teams, users need Teams and Teams Premium licenses to access all features listed below. Teams Premium licenses don’t replace users’ standard Teams licenses.
Meetings
| Feature | Teams | Teams Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Host and attend Teams Meetings | ✔️ | |
| Experience Teams’ standard look and feel | ✔️ | |
| Use standard and custom meeting backgrounds at the user level | ✔️ | |
| Read live captions during meetings and live events | ✔️ | |
| Set up a green room for meeting presenters and organizers | ✔️ | |
| View attendance reports | ✔️ | |
| Customize meeting templates for your organization | ✔️ | |
| Add organization branding to meeting lobbies | ✔️ | |
| Customize meeting backgrounds for your organization | ✔️ | |
| Customize Together mode scenes for your organization | ✔️ | |
| Add branding to meeting invites and meeting join launch pages | ✔️ | |
| Read live translated captions during meetings | ✔️ | |
| Manage what attendees see | ✔️ | |
| Use RTMP-In for meetings | ✔️ | |
| Hide attendee names | ✔️ | |
| View engagement reports | ✔️ | |
| Translate post-meeting transcriptions (coming soon) | ✔️ | |
| Turn on eCDN Meetings* | ✔️ |
Webinars
| Feature | Teams | Teams Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Require attendees to register | ✔️ | |
| Assign a co-organizer | ✔️ | |
| Limit the number of people who can register | ✔️ | |
| Allow registered users to bypass the lobby | ✔️ | |
| Turn on Q&A for webinars with up to 1000 attendees | ✔️ | |
| View attendance reports | ✔️ | |
| Set up a green room for webinar presenters and organizers | ✔️ | |
| Manage what attendees see | ✔️ | |
| Send custom and reminder emails to registrants | ✔️ | |
| Create a webinar wait list | ✔️ | |
| Webinar organizers can view engagement reports | ✔️ | |
| Manually approve registrants | ✔️ | |
| View engagement reports | ✔️ | |
| Limit the day and time when people can register | ✔️ | |
| Use RTMP-In for webinars | ✔️ |
Town halls
| Feature | Teams | Teams Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Broadcast town halls to 10k attendees | ✔️ | |
| Host up to 15 town halls simultaneously | ✔️ | |
| View attendance reports | ✔️ | |
| Manage what attendees see | ✔️ | |
| Provide town hall video on demand | ✔️ | |
| Provide a unique join link for presenters | ✔️ | |
| Set up a green room for presenters and organizers | ✔️ | |
| Turn on third party or Microsoft eCDN for town halls | ✔️ | |
| Use RTMP-In for town halls | ✔️ | |
| Town hall Q&A capacity of 10k attendees | ✔️ | |
| View live translated captions in six languages | ✔️ | |
| Broadcast town halls to 20k attendees | ✔️ | |
| Host up to 50 town halls simultaneously | ✔️ | |
| Town hall Q&A capacity of 20k attendees | ✔️ | |
| Use Microsoft eCDN for town halls* | ✔️ | |
| Choose an eCDN provider for town halls* | ✔️ | |
| View Microsoft Town hall insights | ✔️ | |
| Town hall organizers can view engagement reports | ✔️ | |
| Edit town hall emails | ✔️ | |
| View live translated captions in 10 languages | ✔️ |
Advanced Collaboration Tools
| Feature | Teams | Teams Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Admin can view insights on inactive external domains* | ✔️ | |
| Admin can view insights on inactive teams* | ✔️ | |
| Admin can view insights on external collaboration by user* | ✔️ | |
| Admin can view insights on external collaboration by team* | ✔️ | |
| Admin can view insights on external collaboration by guest* | ✔️ | |
| Users can block incoming chats from people in your organization | ✔️ |
Meetings protection
| Feature | Teams | Teams Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Manage meeting lobbies | ✔️ | |
| End-to-end encryption for one-to-one calls | ✔️ | |
| Moderate meeting chats | ✔️ | |
| Control who can present | ✔️ | |
| Add watermarks to meetings | ✔️ | |
| End-to-end encryption for meetings with up to 50 attendees | ✔️ | |
| Control who can record | ✔️ | |
| Prevent copy/paste in meeting chats | ✔️ | |
| Assign Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels for meetings* | ✔️ | |
| Custom user policy packages | ✔️ |
Virtual Appointments
| Feature | Teams | Teams Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Access Virtual Appointments with the Bookings app for scheduling, appointment management, and email notifications | ✔️ | |
| Integrate Virtual Appointments using APIs | ✔️ | |
| Join appointments from a browser | ✔️ | |
| Join appointments in Teams | ✔️ | |
| Allow users to join a virtual lobby waiting room | ✔️ | |
| Integrate with Microsoft Forms | ✔️ | |
| Customize the lobby waiting room with themes and logos | ✔️ | |
| Send SMS notifications* | ✔️ | |
| Organizational and departmental analytics | ✔️ | |
| View and manage scheduled appointments in the queue | ✔️ | |
| View and manage on-demand appointments in the queue | ✔️ | |
| Send post-appointment follow-ups (coming soon) | ✔️ |
Meet app
| Feature | Teams | Teams Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Access Virtual Appointments with the Bookings app for scheduling, appointment management, and email notifications | ✔️ | |
| Integrate Virtual Appointments using APIs | ✔️ | |
| Join appointments from a browser | ✔️ | |
| Join appointments in Teams | ✔️ | |
| Allow users to join a virtual lobby waiting room | ✔️ | |
| Integrate with Microsoft Forms | ✔️ | |
| Customize the lobby waiting room with themes and logos | ✔️ | |
| Send SMS notifications* | ✔️ | |
| Organizational and departmental analytics | ✔️ | |
| View and manage scheduled appointments in the queue | ✔️ | |
| View and manage on-demand appointments in the queue | ✔️ | |
| Send post-appointment follow-ups (coming soon) | ✔️ |
At Logitel, we embrace the challenge of doing more with less, supporting IT departments as they navigate tight budgets, limited personnel, and stringent timelines. Our approach is consultative and vendor-neutral, focused on ensuring that technology acquisitions align with your transformative objectives and keep pace with your business demands.
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