“Bring your AI to work” is here: Microsoft edition - What Multiple Account Access to Copilot means

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Multiple Account Access to Copilot On October 1. 2025 Microsoft released a blog post explaining how employees now can use Copilot from their personal 365 plans to work on organizational data. This is of course, an extension of the already existing "Multi account" feature that was released for corporate accounts a "couple of months" ago. In other words, “bring your own Copilot” is now a real thing in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on desktop and mobile, with enterprise protections intact. “Bring your AI to work” is an important topic, and banning AI altogether might not be the answer. Whether sanctioned or shadow, AI has already entered everyday knowledge work. Microsoft’s new multi‑account access offers a safer path where employees can use Copilot from their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions on work files, while the file’s access, auditing, and compliance still flow through the work identity and tenant. That’s better than users copy‑pasting sensit...

Proper presenter or attendee roles in Teams

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Rolling out these days are the new presenter and attendee roles for meetings in Teams. This is yet another feature which brings Teams closer to the Skype for Business experience many are asking for.

Road-map feature 51047 should complete by the end of November, and will be enabled by default. I do recommend an update to training and user-guides.

To set the roles ahead of time, use the "meeting options" in the meeting entry to open up a web page where these settings can be set.

Locate the "Who can present", and choose from : "Everyone", "People in my organization", Specific people" and "Only me".

After you have selected "Specific people", use the search tool to pick the presenters.