Microsoft Groups Premium is now obtainable for public preview, enabling customers to check AI-powered sensible options resembling stay translations, customized assembly branding, and superior assembly protections.
Microsoft Groups Premium is an add-on for the Microsoft Groups conferencing service that introduces a bunch of latest options that make conferences on the platform “extra personalised, clever, and safe,” in line with a new Microsoft blog post. The preview is out there as a 30-day free trial by way of the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.
Options obtainable to check out embody stay translation of 40 languages into captions, customized assembly templates, and superior webinar experiences (which incorporates registration of as much as one thousand attendees, interactivity with Q&A, and attendee reporting). The preview additionally contains options to guard delicate content material resembling watermarking and labels, and end-to-end encryption for conferences. These assembly protections may also be used to limit customers from recording conferences and duplicate/pasting the assembly chat.
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Not each Groups Premium function teased back in October might be instantly obtainable to check out in the course of the free 30-day trial. Customized branding for conferences (permitting organizations to set branded backgrounds and place company logos throughout the assembly foyer) is coming to the preview trial in January, whereas different options resembling clever recap — an AI digital assistant of types that shares assembly highlights and mechanically generates chapters and insights — are merely listed on the weblog announcement as unavailable for the December preview of Microsoft Groups Premium. In the event you’re considering making an attempt out a selected function, you possibly can examine availability over on the Microsoft Tech Community blog.
Microsoft will in any other case be rolling out options for Groups Premium all through December and January, and customers can join a mailing list for extra updates. As soon as the 30-day free trial ends, customers will lose entry to Groups Premium options. Common availability of Groups Premium is scheduled for early February 2023, and is presently anticipated to value $10 a month.