Microsoft is adding new features to Teams through an advanced communications plan that allows users of the company's video conferencing software to host online meetings and events on a much larger scale. Under the new plan, team meetings can be expanded to 20,000 attendees to allow organizations to reach a broader audience and stay in touch with their employees, customers and partners. In developing this new functionality, Microsoft has focused on providing the same meeting experience customers know by ensuring that even as the meeting evolves, it's still easy for participants to manage and listen to meetings. Speakers. While Teams can now support large-scale meetings with up to 20,000 participants, the software giant has limited the size of interactive meetings to 1,000 participants with a rolling switch to ``read-only'' mode once that limit is reached.
Advanced communications plan
The new advanced communications plan for Microsoft Teams will also offer improved administrative control, and organizations will now be able to incorporate more structure into their meetings by adding their company branding to meetings for a more professional appearance. The team software giant's branded meeting room will launch in the coming months and this branding will also extend to the core meeting experience at a later date. Organizations will also be able to use the new plan to implement a compliance record policy or collaborate on their customer engagement workflows. The Microsoft Teams Advanced Communications plan can be added to any Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscription starting this week. Organizations can test these new features for themselves by getting a free 60-day trial through the Teams admin center now or by visiting the Microsoft Teams website starting in mid-August. With more people working from home than ever before, Microsoft has continued to add new features to Teams so that its video conferencing software can better compete with rivals Zoom and Google Meet.