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Explore Microsoft Teams Premium and Copilot to understand their AI productivity features and select the product license best suited for your team’s needs.

Microsoft Teams has gained widespread adoption over the last several years. Nearly two-thirds of companies use Teams, according to Metrigy’s “Workplace Collaboration MetriCast: 2023” study, which surveyed more than 1,400 businesses. Teams is also the most widely adopted app for team messaging and video-enabled meetings.

Now, Teams users have the ability to take advantage of new add-on options that deliver new capabilities to improve productivity and management.

Microsoft introduced Microsoft Teams Premium in early 2023 as an add-on option for existing Teams license holders. At the same time, Microsoft also introduced Copilot for Microsoft Teams, with subsequent feature enhancements announced in July and November of the same year.

What is Microsoft Teams Premium?

Microsoft Teams Premium is an add-on license that provides several additional capabilities on top of the base Teams feature set, including the following:

  • Customizable meetings for branding and templates.
  • In-meeting closed captioning, with translation.
  • Increased meeting host controls over content sharing.
  • Meeting participation reporting.
  • Support for enterprise content delivery networking to optimize bandwidth for large one-to-many meetings, like town halls.
  • Enhanced features for webinars, such as reporting and attendee management.
  • Larger audience support for town halls.

Microsoft Teams Premium also uses OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 large language model to provide AI-based meeting capabilities, including the following:

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