Announcements and roadmap is all very exciting - but so is getting hands on with the functionality when it drops. Needless to say the introduction and release of functionality for Teams remain relentless. This is ideal insofar that we don't have to drill down through the control bar where we may, for example, accidently stop recording or turn off live captions if we are in a rush.

We are now also seeing the View Switcher in meetings, the ability to switch seamlessly between modes such as between the gallery and together mode and focus mode. However, there is an important caveat to know.

Microsoft Whiteboard is being rebuilt on top of OneDrive for Business and this will become the default starting in January 2022. First, we now have the ability to now opt in to using OneDrive to store Whiteboard. Now, setup for the labs for courses are always opportunities to spot features in preview or GA and this week I spotted a few which were ripe to send to the blog. For those who worked with OCS, Lync and SfB these are the kinds of things we always wanted to see. But the news last week, together with the news that comms credits will run through an Azure subscription, is all pointing in the direction we are looking. True - after all these years it still hasn't got 100% of the old Skype for Business features and yes, still no sign of native compliant call recording and smaller SKU's. And so I had to facelift it again with all of the awesome news which dropped: native contact centre, SIP gateway, workspace management and the device dashboard.

I had spent the previous week facelifting the course aligning it to Microsoft's new branding of Teams Phone for the calling workload. First up? Microsoft Teams Phone Essentials.

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