New Year, New Momentum: Here are three Copilot updates to get you started into 2026

It's a new year, so I thought I'd start the year by mentioning three features already released, or soon going to be released. One of the features improves the workflow of sharing files with comments, the other improves the application specific Copilot, and the last feature makes it easer to find the nest available timeslot for a 1:1 meeting. As with all of my other posts, timelines can shift, and the timelines in this post is as written in the Message Center at the time of posting. AI-Summary experience when sharing files. With this new feature, copilot intent to help users share files with clearer context in just a few steps. Users will get the capability to generate a concise summary of a file and include it when sharing from the File Explorer share dialog or the OneDrive activity center. This will make it easier to share the context of a file and giving the receiver a faster understanding of what a document or file contains before they open it. General Availability announced...

Skype for Business MVP Award

I know it's April Fools Day, but as the @MVPAward reminded us on Twitter today: This is no April Fools: .

About 4:30PM my time, my phone buzzed as I received an e-mail. I'm on vacation, and wasn't really in an e-mail reading mode. But as I glanced at the phone, my heart skipped a beat when I read the heading: "Congratulations 2015 Microsoft MVP!".

I immediately put my vacation "on hold", and powered up my laptop (never far away though, even on a vacation) to read the following email.


This is my first MVP award, and I am utterly humbled, proud, honored and flattered to be recognized by Microsoft and other professional peers like this. It is a good feeling (and indeed a very good day) to be recognized for the hard work and effort put into my work and hobby, and I must send a warm thank you to those who nominated me and supported me for this nomination.

It has been a busy year for me, but I just realized it's about to get even crazier now. I am really looking forward to work with the best of the best, and help spreading my knowledge about Skype for Business in the next months (and years?) to come.

There are posts to write, Meetups and usergroups to manage, conferences to attend as both a speaker and an attendee. And who knows what other opportunities may lay around the next corner. And all of this in addition to my regular work.

Links:
About MVPAward
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MVPAward 2015
@MVPAward Twitter