UCStatus Podcast Episode 67: Commsverse 2025 and other recent Teams news

Hello Readers, I hope you’re well.

Welcome to Episode 67 of the UCStatus Podcast. This episode features me (@randychapman), Mark Vale (@markvale) and Shawn Harry (@shawnharry).

This week we chat about Commsverse which is next week. There are, at the time of writing, still tickets to be had. Commsverse 2025 – Tickets

We also had a short list of recent news from the message centre and roadmap

• Message Centre
  • Android based auth changes coming soon
    • To enhance security capabilities such as Continuous Access Evaluation and IP-based conditional access enforcement, Microsoft is transitioning these devices to modern, secure authentication using Entra ID (AAD) based tokens.
    • Will require a specific version.
  • AOSP migration update
  • Support for making a silent test call
  • New MTRA app
    • Facilitator
    • Local PTZ
    • Speaker recognition
    • Improvements and fixes
  • New AI assistant for admins in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal
  • New threaded conversation layout option for channels
  • Microsoft Teams for iOS/Android: New location sharing settings for emergency calls and more
  • Check-in and auto release for non-Teams meetings and in-person meetings
  • Automatically set work location by connecting to a Wi-Fi network
  • Adding and editing external contacts on Teams phone devices
  • Remotely manage contacts in Teams admin center
• Roadmap
  • Apply partial settings for Android devices using configuration profiles in the Teams admin center
  • Shared spaces insights in the Pro Management portal
  • Browser support on Teams Rooms on Windows touch boards
  • bulk operations on Teams Devices through the Teams admin center and Pro Portal

We didn’t have the Copilot recap notes for this one for some reason. Sorry

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