Two Major Admin Control Updates for Copilot and Agent Management

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At Ignite Microsoft showcased and talked about two new admin controls for Copilot and Agents. These controls drew a significant amount of attention for their potential to simplify management and strengthen governance across Copilot experiences and AI agents. These capabilities are now emerging in preview, offering administrators early access to improved insights, expanded control surfaces, and more secure operational foundations. Copilot Overview Page Refresh in Microsoft 365 Admin Center First off is the redesigned landing page for Copilot in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center (MAC), giving admins an at-a-glance view of the Copilot journey across Chat, Agents, and M365 Copilot. This update  centralizes critical insights and success metrics, helping organizations accelerate adoption and maintain security posture. The refreshed page introduces success metrics such as Chat active users, assisted hours for licensed users, and satisfaction rate. Each Copilot pillar now includes multi‑...

Microsoft Teams to increase member cap and Teams pop-out chat and meetings

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Two more announcements have recently been published to the Admin Message Center in the past weeks.

The number of members to a Team will now be increased to 10 000 members. According to the message center, this feature will be rolled out by the end of May.

The other feature is something that was announced at Microsoft Ignite 2019. The ability to pop-out a chat or a meeting and move it around. Making it possible to work in Teams at the same time you are in a meeting, is a great addition to the tool and will increase the collaboration capabilities as the application is no longer "locked" to the meeting you are attending. This feature should be available to most by the end of May as well.

None of these features requires and action by the Admin.