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

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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...

Missing Meet URL for users of Lync Hoster Pack v2

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The company I work for deployed Lync Hoster Pack v2 in the fall of 2013. At first, all things seemed fine, but after a while we received incident tickets regarding users who did not get the meet url published when creating a new meeting.

It has been a long road tring to find the root cause of this issue, especially since we at first saw no difference between the users we created where it worked, and users where it did not work. All users were deployed through the Citrix Cortex service for provisioning.

All users were provisioned correctly with Domainmap, TenentID and ObjectID. And if we moved users from one place to another it started working again.

It all turned out to be a rights issue in Active Directory. The root OU had it's correct settings, but when we deployed several resellers through the Cortex service, these reseller OU's did not inherit the rights from the parent OU. Applying the correct rights to all the sub OU's in the tree fixed the issue for all customers.

Here's a quick script to set the correct rights for hosting on all OU's in a tree:

Import-Module activedirectory
Import-Module lync
$counting = 0
$moreISH = Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -LDAPFilter '(name=*)' -SearchBase `
'ou=reseller,ou=hosting,dc=domain,dc=net'| select DistinguishedName
foreach ($ou in $moreISH){
Grant-CsOuPermission -OU $ou.DistinguishedName -Verbose -ObjectType user
$counting ++
}
Write-Host "Set rights on $counting OU's" -ForegroundColor Green

The commands above must be run a computer where the Active Directory and the Lync module is available.

These are the changes made by the command http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849655(v=ocs.14).aspx