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‑...

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.