Copilot in Outlook: Meeting Preparation Is About to Get Smarter

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Currently, the “Prepare for meetings with Copilot” feature requires at least three participants. Starting mid-October, this is changing. Copilot will soon support all meetings, including 1:1s. The rollout will begin in mid-October and is expected to complete by November 2025 according to the message center. With this update, you’ll also see new real-time insights in the Outlook meeting event form, summarizing relevant context, tasks, documents, and other resources. Plus, you’ll be able to chat with Copilot to confirm action items or better understand meeting goals. The more context Copilot has, the better it works. Meeting series with related emails, shared documents, Teams chats, and previous Copilot transcriptions deliver the richest experience. If your organization limits Copilot to in-meeting use only and deletes content afterward, you’ll miss out on much of this value. Here is a relevant " how to " guide for users.

A couple of favorite news about the world of Teams - Week 17

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Another week has passed, and here is another update from the world of Teams. It has been a rather quiet week, and I there hasn't been any big releases or feature updates catching my attention, but there has still been enough news and activity to write a small update from my part as well.

The biggest news (not no real surprise), was the announcement of several Windows Apps going into retirement. Skype for Business, Teams and Yammer will no longer be available for devices running Windows Phone: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4134653/windows-phone-apps-for-skype-for-business-microsoft-teams-and-yammer-a

A small updated for the Teams Powershell module was announced. Type Install-Module MicrosoftTeams -Force to update your module to version 0.9.3

A public preview of Office 2019 was announced at the techcommunity: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-Apps-Blog/Office-2019-Preview-is-ready-for-Commercial-customers/ba-p/187506

Some of my followers were confused by the following twitter message: https://twitter.com/SkypeBusiness/status/989141988523036672 but fear not. Skype for Business is not going away, Microsoft is simply merging their twitter accounts into one.

Finally, I wanted to share a rather interesting article I read at forbes.com. All about how the way we collaborate is changing in front of our eyes. Are you able to keep up?  https://www.forbes.com/sites/microsoft365/2018/04/23/as-the-way-we-work-changes-so-must-the-tools-we-use-to-create-and-collaborate/#467467ab339d