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.

Raise hands coming to Teams

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Raise hands is a new feature coming to Teams, and it is a really great feature to keep track of who's turn it is to speak, or a way signalling you have a question or comment to the ongoing discussion or speaker. According to road-map item 62755 it should be rolling out by the end of April, and should be hitting your tenant any time now, if it's not there already.

This feature is on by default, and all you have to do is to decide how this feature should be used in your organization and start training the users.