Overview of Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Teams Rooms
When you're considering deploying Copilot and AI-based features for your Teams users, there are many things to consider. The number and type of AI-based features is dependent on the type of license you assign to your Teams users, the devices you're using for Teams Rooms, and the type of license assigned to your Microsoft Teams Rooms resource account.
There are four separate sets of AI-based features that can be deployed to your users when you assign a specific license for those users and Teams Rooms.
Copilot: Copilot bot integration. Adding it to all the apps including Teams. Ask questions to resolve issues, catch up during meetings (meeting recap), organize meeting points.
Teams Rooms: Live transcripts and captions. Intelligent Speaker - identify in-room participants.
Meetings and collaboration: Policy changes for transcription, captions, and recording.
Microsoft Teams: AI-based noise suppression and video optimization. Cameo overlay. Voice isolation. Speaker attribution, face, and voice enrollment.
Admin set up for Teams Rooms
Within your organization, there are several settings that you'll either need to turn on (they're off by default) or verify that they're turned on to let end users get the full advantages of Copilot in Microsoft Teams Rooms specifically. Settings like transcriptions, captioning, recording, voice isolation, voice enrollment are a few of the settings that you want to set up or turn on for your end users in your organization in order for users to benefit from Copilot and Microsoft Teams Rooms.
Assign licenses
After you've prepared your organization for Copilot, you can manage your Microsoft 365 licenses from the Microsoft 365 admin center. You can assign licenses to individual users or to groups of users and reassign licenses to other users depending on the level of AI support that would be needed.
| Feature | Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams Premium | Microsoft 365 Copilot |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI-based noise suppression | Yes | ||
| AI-based video optimization (brightness and backgrounds) | Yes | ||
| Suggested replies | Yes | ||
| Live meeting captions and transcript | Yes | ||
| Cameo video overlay on screen share and PowerPoint Live | Yes | ||
| Real-time translation of meeting captions and transcripts | Yes | ||
| Intelligent recap (after recording) - standardized AI notes and AI tasks | Yes | Yes | |
| Intelligent recap (after recording) - video, speaker, chapter markers | Yes | Yes | |
| Ask any question during meeting? | Yes | ||
| How did the team react to proposal? | Yes | ||
| Does this plan's timeline have any conflicts? | Yes | ||
| Create a table with pros and cons | Yes | ||
| Microsoft Copilot UX | Yes | ||
| Other: AI-powered web grounding and Microsoft 365 Graph grounding | Yes | ||
| Other: Microsoft Copilot and Copilot Studio | Yes | ||
| Other: Copilot in core Microsoft 365 apps | Yes |
In Teams, there are different types of user licenses that you must assign. First, you must assign at least one user license to your users depending on what features you want available to your Teams users. Second, to take advantage of all of the AI-based features you must then assign a Microsoft Teams Pro license to each Teams Rooms console in your organization.