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‑...

Teams 9x9 video in meetings should be hitting your tenant soon

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This is another feature many have been waiting for. An increase in the number of simultaneous video streams in a meeting is supposed to be rolling out late April / Early May.

According to the road-map this will automatically be available, but the client will try to decide the best view for each user based upon media and video quality (network capability). It can be an idea to inform the users of this, so they understand why (potentially) their meetings might have 2x2 OR 3x3 video layout.