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.

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.