Microsoft Teams Premium

Microsoft Teams Premium builds on the basic Teams experience by offering advanced features like custom meeting branding, end-to-end encryption, AI-powered meeting recaps, and real-time caption translations. It supports larger meetings and webinars, up to 10,000 participants in view-only mode, and provides deeper analytics and enhanced security options like conditional access. Compared to the standard Teams, Premium offers more control, customization, and enterprise-level security for organizations. Use this link to learn more about Microsoft Teams Premium

How to Get Microsoft Teams Premium

About Microsoft Teams Premium

Microsoft Teams Premium is an add-on license that adds to the basic Teams experience by offering advanced features like   

• AI-generated meeting summaries  
• Real-time caption translations  
• Custom meeting branding  
• End-to-end encryption   

Teams Premium also supports larger meetings and webinars, up to 10,000 participants in view-only mode (compared to basic Teams, which is up to 1,000), and provides deeper analytics and enhanced security options, such as conditional access.  

UWIT and UW Medicine enable only features that are FERPA-compliant and meet UW privacy and security policies. UW Medicine has only reviewed these features for HIPAA use cases involving transitory communication and incidental (i.e., accidental or unintentional) Protected Health Information (PHI).   

Benefits of UW Teams Premium

• Supports more free-flowing discussion because meeting participants are not burdened with taking notes.    
• Preserves institutional data within Teams Premium, where privacy and security agreements are in place. Eliminates the need for third-party external AI tools that may not be approved for use  (e.g., otter.ai or read.ai) to generate a meeting summary and provides an alternative to ZoomAI for units that prefer Teams.  
• Streamlines comprehension of key takeaways and action items by organizing meeting summaries recorded to the cloud into short sections.  

Guidelines for using AI tools   

Protecting UW information for our students, faculty, and staff is a shared responsibility for everyone at the UW. Before using Teams Premium, review the guidelines for using AI-based tools at UW.   

For UW Medicine workforce, including UW School of Medicine, please review UW Medicine’s Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Healthcare Setting.   

How UW Teams Premium handles your data  

Teams Premium does not use your data to train external AI models. Teams Premium does not use any of your audio, video, chat, screen sharing, attachments or other communication—such as poll results, whiteboard and reactions—to train Microsoft’s or any third-party artificial intelligence models.  

Features included with Microsoft Teams Premium  

AI-Powered Intelligence  

• Intelligent Recap: Auto-generated meeting notes, action items, and personalized highlights  
• AI-generated chapters in meeting recordings for easy navigation  
• Personalized timeline markers showing when individuals joined/left  
• Significant time savings on post-meeting admin work (Microsoft reports up to a 45% reduction)  

Security & Compliance   

• End-to-end encryption for highly sensitive meetings  
• Watermarking on screen shares and video feeds  
• Sensitivity labels (integrated with Microsoft Purview) that control lobby access, chat, and recording permissions  
• Protection against meeting invite forwarding  
• Advanced collaboration analytics and external domain monitoring  

Meeting Customization  

• Meeting templates for consistent policies  
• Branded meetings with organizational backgrounds  
• Custom user policy packages  
• Control over who can record and transcribe  

Webinars & Large Events  

• Advanced registration with waitlisting  
• Virtual green room for presenters  
• Presenter bios and branding elements  
• Attendee view management  
• Enhanced town halls with an Enterprise Content Delivery Network (eCDN) for better video streaming  

Limitations of Microsoft Teams Premium AI Features

While AI-powered features can be valuable tools that increase productivity, AI outputs and AI-generated content do have limitations and are not perfect. The performance of AI-powered systems is based on the data they have been trained on, which can lead to errors or inaccuracies (such as leaving out critical information or creating inaccurate content, also called “hallucinations”) when presented with new or unexpected situations. UW Teams Premium utilizes developing AI technology, and Team Premium features may provide incorrect, inaccurate, misleading, or offensive responses. It is important for individuals using UW Teams Premium features to verify the accuracy of any AI-generated content.   

• Microsoft Teams Premium
• User Guide

License Details

• A Microsoft Teams Premium License is assigned to an individual, and all its features will be available to the assigned user when signed in to Microsoft Teams.
• The license cannot be assigned to a Shared NetID.
• UWIT’s annual subscription billing is automatic:
UWIT will automatically bill your UW funding source for this software subscription in the next license term, which begins every (fiscal) year on June 1.
• Do you need to reassign the license to another person? You can make a reassignment request at any time during the subscription period by going to Manage My Subscriptions and completing the request form to transfer the subscription.
• Should you need to cancel the subscription:
If you decide not to continue with another subscription term, you can stop UW-IT’s automatic billing and cancel the subscription. Canceling your subscription means it will end on May 31. Use the Manage My Subscriptions Form, and do so no later than April 1.

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