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...

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.