It is possible to schedule Teams meetings from shared mailboxes without incurring the need to license the shared mailboxes. However, Microsoft’s recent clampdown on unlicensed OneDrive for Business accounts creates a problem because Teams meeting recordings are stored in the OneDrive account for the organizer (shared mailbox). And if that account remains unlicensed for 365 days, it will be removed along with all the recordings.
The Microsoft 365 user profile card offers users the chance to record and playback name pronunciations, if tenant settings allow. The new setting is controlled by a Graph API and turns name pronunciation recording and playback on or off for the entire tenant. Microsoft says that helping people pronounce other peoples’ names properly is a good thing. It will be interesting to see how many use this feature.
Stream now boasts fast access to the video files captured for recordings of Teams meetings. This is a good step because it can be hard to find a specific recording among a mass of other videos. At least, it can be if you manage many videos, which perhaps isn’t the case for the average Office 365 user.
