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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 can be purchased at Texas A&M's Software Center.
Teams Premium Versus 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. The chart below illustrates the differences between Teams Premium and Copilot for Microsoft 365 to help you determine which solution is best for you.
| Feature/Aspect |
Microsoft Teams Premium |
Copilot for Microsoft 365 |
| Purpose |
Advanced features focused on enhancing meetings, collaboration, and security within Teams |
AI-powered assistant that works across M365 apps (Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.) |
| Scope |
Teams meetings, webinars, and events |
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, more |
| Key Capabilities |
Advanced meeting protection (watermarking, end-to-end encryption), custom branding, intelligent recap, live translation, advanced webinars, meeting templates |
AI-generated meeting/chat summaries, document drafting, email assistance, insights, content generation, and more |
| AI Features |
Intelligent meeting recap, live translation, suggested tasks (meeting-centric AI features) |
Deep AI integration in all core M365 apps; context-aware reasoning, draft generation, summarizations, workplace insights |
| Security & Compliance |
Advanced meeting options: watermarking, sensitivity labels, E2EE, meeting controls |
Uses organization’s existing M365 data security controls, but no additional meeting security features |
| Customization & Branding |
Custom meeting templates, organization logos and backgrounds (branded meetings) |
Not applicable |
| Webinars & Large Events |
Advanced webinar features, registration management, analytics |
Not applicable |
| Personal Productivity |
Meeting focused: makes organizing, running, and attending meetings smoother |
Boosts productivity in authoring, email, analysis, research, and meetings |
| Integration with M365 Apps |
Primarily extends Teams features |
Integrated across M365 suite: adds Copilot capabilities to each major app |
| License Requirement |
Requires Microsoft Teams Premium license. Licenses can be purchased at https://softwarecenter.tamu.edu/. |
Requires Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Licenses can be purchased at https://softwarecenter.tamu.edu/. |
| Pricing |
Approximately $30/user/yr. |
Approximately $378/user/yr. |
| When to Use |
Large or sensitive meetings/events needing advanced controls and customization |
Users who want AI-powered productivity and insights across their daily workflow |
| Typical User |
Meeting organizers, event managers, organizations with strict compliance needs |
Knowledge workers, executives, anyone seeking to accelerate tasks in M365 apps |
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.
| |
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) |