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Status of Microsoft Places
In a community call last year, there was a demo of Microsoft Places. Can anyone provide an update regarding the release date of this? We are interested in the hotel desk component of this tool. Also,...
Wow!!! Will it ever actually be released though? Any information about the pricing and licensing, and is Copilot required?
AI brings new life to flexible work with Microsoft Places
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2024/05/13/ai-brings-new-life-to-flexible-work-with-microsoft-places/
Deployment guide for Places - Deploy Office | Microsoft Learn
Prerequisites
Microsoft Places Preview requires one of the following subscriptions:
- Microsoft 365 Business Standard
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium
- Microsoft 365 or Office 365 (E1, E3, E5)
- Microsoft 365 or Office 365 (A1, A3, A5)
More information on feature availability by license type will be shared as we get closer to general availability.
- That is amazing @Claudio!! Is there a way that one can get access to the preview?
Hi Hejnzzz,
you should be able to log in to the preview. But I haven't tested it yet. There are instructions here (unfortunately only in German) on which steps you should carry out.https://www.msxfaq.de/cloud/funktionen/microsoft_places.htm
Source:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/frankcarius_msxfaq-activity-7196286970963132417-_f8s?utm_source=share
Relatively surprisingly, Microsoft made the function available to all tenants as an optional component. This does not mean that your users can now get started straight away. The order is
- Find out whether Places is even interesting
- Clarify the issue of data protection and what additional information you provide here in the cloud
- Fill out a form to have the feature activated. (and wait afterwards)
- Maintain your rooms, floors and buildings via PowerShell or CSV import (there is no GUI yet)
- Wait a bit again
- In selected clients (OW, Teams) you can also search for rooms based on the building and floor for appointments.
It's a "public preview" and things are certainly not going smoothly yet. I don't expect Places to affect your other productive data but keep that in mind
- Features can come and go
- Behavior can change at any time
- Inform your employees about the restrictions
- Administratively there are still “unfinished business”, e.g. RemoteRooms with Exchange Hybrid
But such a preview allows you, for example in a test tenant, to adapt your provisioning of rooms for later production. Anyone who is already creating rooms automatically today should start doing this early on
