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...

What is Microsoft Teams Exploratory Experience and can you manage it?

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Microsoft Teams Exploratory experience is a great feature for users without a Teams license to get to know Teams, and get involved with other organizations already migrated to Teams. The Microsoft Teams Exploratory Licence will replace the Commercial Cloud Trial license available today.
If a user has already been assigned a Teams license, the feature will not be available for that user (Also, the feature is not available for GCC, GCC High, DoD or EDU customers).

If, for some reason, you do not want your users to start playing with this experience (Let's say you are not ready to support the features, or you want an absolut controlled migration from SFBO to Teams, as many of my customers like), there are a couple of ways you can manage this.

The only way to turn this feature off completely, is to globally disable the use of trial apps and services. This can be done under the M365 admin center and "Services & add-ins", provided the organization is eligible in the first place.

If a user have already been playing around with the feature, the licence will have to be removed in M365 admin panel where all the user's licences are managed.

I highly recommend reading the documentation here if this is something you need to look into.