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.
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