{"id":2585,"date":"2021-12-20T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2021-12-20T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T12:02:32","slug":"teams-virtual-sbc-closing-azure-network-ports-warnings-for-azureloadbalancer-and-virtualnetwork-2-2-2-2-3-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/?p=2585","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams &#8211; Advanced Communications add-on for Microsoft Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">The Microsoft Teams Advanced Communications add-on for Microsoft Teams has been announced in April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">In the past months, there was some confusion about this license because some features (voice recording, meeting analytics) <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\"><strong>were expected to require the Advanced Communications<\/strong><\/span> license but, after some complaints from customers, the requirement has been removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">There are also some talks about Advanced Communications license baing a requirement for advanced Teams Live Events (that <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\"><strong>up to the 30th of June 2022 are still included in the other licenses<\/strong><\/span>, as for the table below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Note: the Advanced Communications license <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>is on a per-user base<\/strong><\/span> but, eventually, only the meeting organiser needs it to access the additional features<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"937\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image.png 937w, https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-768x355.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 937px) 100vw, 937px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">So, what is left in it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Advanced Communications add-on for Microsoft Teams Features:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-list\"><li><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\"><strong>Custom pre-join screens for meeting, including  company logo in the pre-join and lobby screens<\/strong><\/span> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-list\"><li><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\">Customized backgrounds for Together mode<\/span><\/strong> ( <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoftteams\/platform\/apps-in-teams-meetings\/teams-together-mode\">Custom Together Mode scenes in Teams<\/a> )<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-list\"><li><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\"><strong>Deploy company customised Teams policy packages<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Original Microsoft post: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoftteams\/teams-add-on-licensing\/advanced-communications\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoftteams\/teams-add-on-licensing\/advanced-communications\">Advanced Communications add-on for Microsoft Teams <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft Teams Advanced Communications add-on for Microsoft Teams has been announced in April 2021. At the moment it includes Custom pre-join screens for meeting, including  company logo in the pre-join and lobby screens, Customized backgrounds for Together mode and Deploy company customised Teams policy packages <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[765,753,752,757],"tags":[762,803,802,800,801,759,751,77,755,799],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-765","category-microsoft365","category-microsoft-teams","category-office-365","tag-microsoftteams","tag-advanced-communications","tag-custom","tag-live-meetings","tag-meetings","tag-microsoft-365","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-office-365","tag-teams","tag-together-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modern-workplace.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}