After my last blog on the launch of the Microsoft Teams premium add-on license, I activated my trial license of 30 days on Teams tenant.
Like a few others, I was under the impression that a generic intelligent recap feature is available for use with the trial license however that is not the case. Looks like, in the excitement of this news, I chose to ignore the "additional" word written in the release along with this feature.
When I activated the trial and configured all the required settings to enable the Teams premium license, I was able to create meeting templates and apply sensitivity label to the templates however one thing that left me glued to the screen for hours was how to enable intelligent recap.
After some failed attempts I started looking into the release notes again and the blog posted on Microsoft Tech Community and that's where I felt disheartened.
All the enthusiasm to try this cool feature was lost.
Following features are not yet available on Teams Premium license:
Intelligent meeting recap
Custom meeting lobby branding
Stream recording timestamps
If you all can remember, the only caption image that was seen on social media platforms was of intelligent recap and that is missing here.
One can still see under the Teams premium license, that service of intelligent recap is enabled. Microsoft could have kept this service disabled until the feature was launched.
Another thing that works partially for me was watermarking. While recording on Teams meeting and option to apply watermark on shared content is enabled, I can only see non watermarked content shared with recording on. There are still scenarios where I want to record the meeting and still share watermarked content to all participants.
To summarize, I would have loved to wait for another month or so and see all features released in one go rather than this half-baked feature set released for trial and use.
I would have also loved if Microsoft would have provided a help card to make users understand that few features are missing while ordering for the trial license.
Few things to note:
You can only enable the trial license in a set of 25 for users.
Trial licenses can be enabled only once for a duration of 30 days.
Once trial license is expired, the license has to be renewed even if you want to explore the intelligent recap feature.
Now that intelligent recap will be available only in Q2 of 2023, I won't be able to test it with trial licenses as it expires in a month unless Microsoft extends the trial for free.
Question to you all:
Was this a planned move to leverage the limelight of GPT in the current situation and let users explore other features while keeping them hooked for "intelligent recap"?
If not, then what was Microsoft thinking?
Would love to hear your comments. Thank You.
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