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Microsoft Teams displays now available!

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Oct 28, 2020

Reimagine your workday with Microsoft Teams displays, a new category of Teams device solutions that combine productivity, collaboration and artificial intelligence into one seamless experience. Teams display is the first all-in-one touchscreen device dedicated to bringing the Teams experience to life; by channeling your alerts, schedule, calls and meetings into one device you can free up your PC and mind space to the task at hand and minimize distractions. Most exciting, Teams displays are powered by Cortana, transforming what would be an ordinary video phone into a powerful personal assistant.

 

Whether you are at home or in the office, Teams displays change how you work.

 

1. Teams at your fingertips
As a device dedicated only to Teams, displays bring together everything you need to stay in the rhythm of work: chat, meetings, calls, calendar, and files can be accessed instantly, freeing up your PC for other tasks. Engage in high quality calling and meetings with your colleagues with industry leading microphones, cameras and speakers built in.

Dedicated Teams devices like Bluetooth headsets (left) and displays (center) create a more reliable calling and meeting experience.

 

2. Everything you need to know, at-a-glance
The customizable home screen of the display shows you key alerts from Team, your schedule highlights, and shortcuts to key communication apps like calling, contacts voicemail. Ever been heads down in a deliverable and can’t remember what is next in your day? Take a look at your display to stay caught up without skipping a beat. Customize your notifications to surface what is important to you and reduce pings and distractions from your primary work device or mobile. Finally change your wallpaper from a variety of delightful preset options, with the capability to add your own coming soon.

Microsoft Teams displays can be personalized to include wallpapers and highlight important activities and notifications.

 

3. Use the power of Cortana to go hands free

Use voice commands to leverage Cortana in your daily tasks. You can make requests like:

 

"What is on my calendar today?"

"Share this document with Megan"

"Join my next meeting"

“Add Joe to this meeting"

"Present the quarterly review deck"

 

Take back the time from little tasks with built in voice assistant capabilities.

 

4. Better together with your PC
Microsoft Teams displays seamlessly integrate with your PC to bring a companion experience that allows for seamless cross-device interaction. You can easily lock and unlock both devices from your connected PC, open files or messages on one with the option to respond on the other. You can even split the contents and participants in meetings across two screens, so you can consume information while maintaining contact with your collaborators.

Using Microsoft Teams displays allows for a distributed meeting experience across devices.

 

5. Enterprise privacy, security, and compliance
Microsoft Teams displays ensure user's privacy and meets enterprise-grade security and compliance in several ways:

  • With a camera shutter and microphone mute switch, users can feel assured that your conversations and video will remain private.
  • IT admins can securely manage, update, and monitor Microsoft Teams displays through the Teams admin portal.
  • Users will securely sign in with their enterprise Azure Active Directory credentials.
  • Voice assistance experiences are delivered using Cortana enterprise-grade services that meet Microsoft 365 privacy, security and compliance commitments.

 

The Lenovo ThinkSmart View will be the first Microsoft Teams display to market, with Yealink coming soon.

The first Microsoft Teams displays are from Lenovo (left) and Yealink (right).

 

To learn more about portfolio of devices certified for Teams, visit office.com/teamsdevices or shop the ThinkSmart View at Microsoft Stores

 

 

Updated Apr 22, 2021
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  • nomadedge's avatar
    nomadedge
    Copper Contributor

    Users: *want UWP app with improved UX*
    Microsoft: *release Teams displays* 🤡

  • Scottmatsuda's avatar
    Scottmatsuda
    Copper Contributor

    Sweet and sleek design I can't wait till I'm employed and can put in a request to the company I join for one. 

  • demvin's avatar
    demvin
    Copper Contributor

    If I hear you say "hey Cortana" during a meeting, you're fired. :stareyes:

  • Or buy a secondary monitor for a fraction of the price...as much as I love what MS are doing with Teams these days, I really dont see alot uf usecases here. 

  • RORWessels710's avatar
    RORWessels710
    Copper Contributor

    I think this would most likely be targeted as a replacement for a desk phone if you were an enterprise that made use of MSFT Teams for your telephony as well as collaboration.  This of an organization using M365 E5 licenses and using Teams as their chosen softphone, SIP, and telephony provider.  Then this would make sense as a replacement for the desk phone.  Now in a cubicle environment, this may not be practical without headsets, but in an office or even in someone's home office, I can see this being really helpful.

     

    Take the average user thrust into the work from home scenario.  Imagine if you could hand the user one of these devices and just have them connect it to their home LAN (WiFi or ethernet).  It would potentially be a lot easier than trying to get the user to setup a new headset or camera / microphone and dealing with the settings changes at the Windows as well as MSFT Teams client levels.  To say nothing of locked down configurations where users can't make changes to the OS settings.

     

    I can see a device like this being very valuable for some organizations.

  • Does it replace MS Teams rooms concept of units, or does it complement it?