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Details Emerge on Microsoft Teams RoadmapDetails Emerge on Microsoft Teams Roadmap

Company plans to expand messaging, meetings, and calling capabilities in Q2 2018.

Beth Schultz

October 24, 2017

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Enterprise organizations pondering the future of Microsoft Teams as the "hero experience" promised of it should look to second-quarter 2018 for some of the functionality that'll get it there.

In a blog post today, Microsoft laid out its roadmap for expanding on the messaging, meeting, and calling capabilities already available in its team collaboration app, as well as for bringing more intelligent communications functionality to Teams. By the end of Q2 2018, Teams will support:

  • Screen sharing during chat and federation between companies, for an enriched messaging experience (For messaging, Teams already supports persistent chat, private one-to-one chat, and group chat)

  • Skype Room Systems plus cloud video interoperability capabilities so third-party meeting room devices will be able to connect to Teams meetings

  • Use of existing PSTN voice lines to activate calling services in Office 365. Additionally, Microsoft said voicemail for Teams will be available later this current quarter

  • Intelligent communications capabilities, such as the ability to record a meeting, store it in Teams, add transcription to it, and then run keyword searches of the meeting

In addition, as Microsoft preps Teams as its ultimate communications and collaboration client for Office 365, it's decided to simplify some of its naming for communications services: PSTN Conferencing is now simply "audio conferencing," Cloud PBX becomes "phone system," and PSTN Calling is "calling plan."

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Beth Schultz

In her role at Metrigy, Beth Schultz manages research operations, conducts primary research and analysis to provide metrics-based guidance for IT, customer experience, and business decision makers. Additionally, Beth manages the firm’s multimedia thought leadership content.

With more than 30 years in the IT media and events business, Beth is a well-known industry influencer, speaker, and creator of compelling content. She brings to Metrigy a wealth of industry knowledge from her more than three decades of coverage of the rapidly changing areas of digital transformation and the digital workplace.

Most recently, Beth was with Informa Tech, where for seven years she served as program co-chair for Enterprise Connect, the leading independent conference and exhibition for the unified communications and customer experience industries, and editor in chief of the companion No Jitter media site. While with Informa Tech, Beth also oversaw the development and launch of WorkSpace Connect, a multidisciplinary media site providing thought leadership for IT, HR, and facilities/real estate managers responsible for creating collaborative, connected workplaces.

Over the years, Beth has worked at a number of other technology news organizations, including All Analytics, Network World, CommunicationsWeek, and Telephony Magazine. In these positions, she has earned more than a dozen national and regional editorial excellence awards from American Business Media, American Society of Business Press Editors, Folio.net, and others.

Beth has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and lives in Chicago.