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Overview
Microsoft Teams Premium leverages the power of AI to enhance the standard Teams experience. Teams Premium offers powerful tools designed to improve productivity, protect sensitive content, and provide a professional meeting experience for Texas A&M faculty, staff, and students.
This add-on is ideal for customers who frequently host or attend meetings, manage events or collaborate across departments or organizations.
Teams Premium and Copilot for Microsoft 365
If you already have Copilot for Microsoft 365, you do not need a separate Teams Premium license. Many Teams Premium features, including AI-powered meeting summaries and intelligent recaps, are already provided by Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Key differences between Teams and Teams Premium
The basic version of Microsoft Teams contains a wealth of features to make collaboration easy and feature full. Microsoft Teams Premium builds on these features to provide an even more intelligent, engaging, and protected collaboration experience.
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Microsoft Team |
Microsoft Teams Premium |
| Enhanced security |
Encryption for one-on-one meetings only |
End-to-end encryption for meetings with up to 200 participants, content sharing controls, and watermarks |
| Live captions and transcription |
English only |
Multilingual captions and transcriptions for more than 40 languages |
| Meeting customization |
Basic customization only |
Custom organization branding, meeting templates, and watermarks |
| Intelligent Recap |
Not available |
AI-generated post-meeting notes and action items, speaker time lines, and auto-generated meeting chapters (coming soon) |
| Webinars |
Basic features |
Additional features such as wait lists, defined registration windows, and participant engagement reports
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For a full list of additional features and differences between Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams Premium, please refer to Microsoft's official documentation.
Use cases for Teams Premium
The increased security and features of Teams Premium makes it a compelling solution for several common use cases at Texas A&M University.
| Use case |
Benefits offered by Teams Premium |
| Research interviews and business meetings |
End-to-end encryption, watermarking, security level labelling, content sharing controls |
| Lectures, workshops, and webinars |
Control what attendees see, view participant engagement reports, get audio, video, and screen sharing quality alerts |
| Multilingual classrooms and projects |
Real-time multilingual captions and transcripts for more than 40 languages during meetings enhances participation and understanding |
| Streamlined administrative work |
Recorded and/or transcribed meetings benefit from AI-generated post-meeting notes and action items, speaker time lines, meeting chapters (coming soon) |