“Bring your AI to work” is here: Microsoft edition - What Multiple Account Access to Copilot means

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Multiple Account Access to Copilot On October 1. 2025 Microsoft released a blog post explaining how employees now can use Copilot from their personal 365 plans to work on organizational data. This is of course, an extension of the already existing "Multi account" feature that was released for corporate accounts a "couple of months" ago. In other words, “bring your own Copilot” is now a real thing in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on desktop and mobile, with enterprise protections intact. “Bring your AI to work” is an important topic, and banning AI altogether might not be the answer. Whether sanctioned or shadow, AI has already entered everyday knowledge work. Microsoft’s new multi‑account access offers a safer path where employees can use Copilot from their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions on work files, while the file’s access, auditing, and compliance still flow through the work identity and tenant. That’s better than users copy‑pasting sensit...

Download participant list from Teams meetings

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You will soon be able to download a participant list from within your Microsoft Teams meetings. This feature can be helpful to identify who attended a mandatory meeting, but also useful as a tool to identify users with connection problems. Multiple drops and reconnects can be a sign of network issues.
The feature is not enabled by default, and will have to be enabled by an admin with the following command: 
  • Set-CSTeamsMeetingPolicy - Identity Global - AllowEngagementReport "Enabled"
If you want to limit the availability of this feature, you will have to create a separate meeting policy, assign that policy to the users and then scope the above command to that policy.
This feature is available only from within a meeting, and should be rolling out already (early may, according to the admin message center).