Microsoft Teams Security & Fundamentals: What's New at Microsoft Ignite 2025

Microsoft Ignite 2025 delivered major advancements in the security and administration capabilities of Microsoft Teams. With new threat protections, deeper analytics, and improved admin automation, Teams continues to strengthen its foundation for secure, large-scale enterprise collaboration.

Copilot in the Teams Admin Center

Copilot now assists administrators directly within the Teams Admin Center.

Key functions include:

• Reviewing call quality issues
• Summarising policy configurations
• Highlighting misconfigurations
• Suggesting optimisation steps
• Helping set up protected meetings

This accelerates troubleshooting and reduces admin workload.

Ignite News day 2

Some nice announcements about Skype for Business vNext today.

New release of “Skype for Business Server 2019” will available by the end of 2018. /

Requirements

• Windows Server 2016
• SQL Server 2016 Only enterprise edition will be available. You can run 1, 3,4… up to 16 front end servers. (2 front end servers not).

The directors, persistent chat role and the standard edition will be dropped. SBA/SBS don’t change.

New features in Skype for Business Server 2019

• Call queues
• Attendant
• Voicemail Service

Migration

• Server 2013 -> Server 2019
• Server 2013 -> Server 2019

No in place upgrade available.

Ignite News day 1

So what’s the most interesting news on Ignite 2017 for today (so far), will update this blog!

• Skype Operations Framework moves into Practical Guidance for Cloud Voice on Fasttrack
• MyAdvisor will help you with setting up Voice (link)
• Skype for Business Server will be updated second half of calendar year 2018
• Microsoft Teams client will take over Skype for Business Online client
• Cloud PBX renamed to Phone System
• PSTN Conferecing renamed to Audio Conferencing

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