Teams Premium is an add-on licence that can be used to enhance the Microsoft Teams experience, introducing intelligent features, advanced protection, and richer engagement in your meetings.
If you are a Local Administrator, please consult the Managing Teams Premium article for more information on pre-requisites, licence management and support.
There are also Teams Premium User Guides and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and Known Limitations pages available that can be used by colleagues in your organisation.
Teams Premium Features:
The following additional features are available with Teams Premium in the NHSmail shared tenant. More information about how to use these features can be found in the Teams Premium User Guides.
The features below are additional to the standard features already provided with Microsoft Teams.
Premium Meetings:
| Feature | Benefits |
| Control chat | Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat. |
| Control recording | Control who is allowed to record the meeting. |
| End-to-end encryption | Increased security for meetings that require a higher level of protection. |
| Hide attendee names | Organisers can hide the names of attendees from other attendees in the stage, roster, and chat. |
| Manage what attendees see | Organisers can decide whose avatars or video feeds to spotlight during a Teams meeting. Others will be hidden from view. |
| Meeting templates | Create meeting experiences which enforce specific settings. |
| Meeting theme and background | Extends the NHS visual identity across the meeting experience (logo, background image and colour). |
| Read live translated captions during meetings | Teams can detect what is said in a meeting and present real-time caption. If you are using the desktop app for Windows or Mac, there are also several caption customisation options. |
| Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP)-In | Organisers can produce their Teams meetings directly from an external hardware or software-based encoder. |
| Sensitivity labels | Sensitivity labels can be used as an extra security layer to further control meeting settings, such as new settings to control lobby, chat, chat copy, presentation, and recording functions. |
| Together mode | Together mode scenes available for meetings. |
| Watermarking | When sharing your screen, watermarks display the email address of a meeting participant, which is useful for protecting confidential information shared in meetings.
You may also apply watermarking to everyone’s video feed. |
Intelligent features:
| Feature | Benefits |
| Intelligent Recap | View the recording and auto-generated notes and tasks from meetings. |
| Speaker markers | Helps you quickly find specific speakers and their main points in a meeting recording. You can select speakers to see who spoke and when. |
| Timeline markers | Shown as various icons along a meeting recording’s timeline that mark the parts of a meeting that are directly relevant to you, such as:
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| Topics and Chapters | Identifies keywords from the meeting transcript, or content shared with PowerPoint Live to divide the meeting into sections so it’s easy to jump right to the content or moment you want to review. |
Premium Webinars:
| Feature | Benefits |
| Control chat | Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat. |
| Custom emails | Organisers and co-organisers can customise the webinar email templates sent to attendees. |
| Custom webinar reminder email send times | Webinar reminder emails are automatically sent to registrants an hour before the event starts. With Teams Premium, organisers can edit the send time to notify attendees sooner. |
| Enable and manage the waitlist for webinars beyond capacity | When the webinar’s registration reaches capacity, organisers can manage overflow registration requests through a waitlist. |
| Hide attendee names | Organisers can hide the names of attendees from other attendees in the stage, roster, and chat. |
| Limit registration start and end times | Organisers can set a time window during which potential attendees can register for their webinar. |
| Manage what attendees see | Webinar organisers can decide whose avatars or video feeds to spotlight during a Teams webinar. Others will be hidden from view. |
| Manually approve registrants | Organisers can approve or deny requests to register for their webinar. |
| Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP)-In | Organisers can produce their Teams webinar directly from an external hardware or software-based encoder. |
| Virtual Green Room | Can be used by webinar presenters and meeting hosts as a dedicated space separate from attendees, where they can discuss and collaborate. |
Premium Town halls:
| Feature | Benefits |
| Concurrent events | Host up to 50 town halls simultaneously (across the tenant). |
| Custom emails | Organisers and co-organisers can customize the town hall email templates sent to attendees. |
| Increased broadcast and Q&A capacity | Organisers can broadcast their town halls to 20,000 attendees. All attendees can use Q&A to interact with presenters, organisers, and co-organisers. |
| Increased languages for live translations | Attendees have 10 language options for live translated captions in town halls. These languages include:
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| Town hall insights | Town hall organisers can troubleshoot town halls while they are live. |
Advanced Virtual Appointments:
| Feature | Benefits |
| Analytics | View activity and trends to help optimise virtual appointments. |
| Custom waiting room | Extends the NHS visual identity across the virtual appointments experience (logo, background image and colour). |
| Scheduled and on-demand appointments queue | View and monitor all scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in the appointment calendar, with updates in real-time. |
| SMS notifications | SMS notifications can be sent to external attendees with personalised confirmations and reminders for Virtual Appointments scheduled by NHSmail users. |
How can I access Teams Premium?
Microsoft Teams Premium is an add-on licence on a per-user subscription basis, which needs to be assigned to users along with their base licence which enables them to use Microsoft Teams.
You are encouraged to use the centrally provisioned and managed trial licences before purchasing Microsoft Teams Premium licences for your organisation.
These are available for your organisation upon request. Please contact windows10@nhs.net for more information.
Please consult the article Managing Teams Premium for more information on the licence types supported for onboarding and assignment in the NHSmail shared tenant.
The Teams Premium add-on licence is not a replacement for a base licence. Users must also have access to Microsoft Teams to be able to use Teams Premium features.
Where can I find out more about Teams Premium on NHSmail?
If you are a Local Administrator, please consult the Managing Teams Premium article for more information on pre-requisites, licence management and support.
There are also Teams Premium User Guides and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and Known Limitations pages available that can be used by colleagues in your organisation.
| Last Reviewed Date | 16/05/2024 |
