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.

Advanced Communications add-on for Microsoft Teams

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The Advanced Communications add-on was recently released for Microsoft Teams. This is a set of features you don't get with your regular E3 or E5 licenses. 

So what do you get for $12 per user (have in mind, only organizers of meeting need these licenses in order to use them).

Upon release:

  • Live events support for up to 20,000 participants, 50 concurrent events, event duration of 16 hours per broadcast.
  • Compliance recording integration (ISV)
  • Contact Center solution integration (ISV)

Coming later, but obviously in the works:

  • Interactive Teams meetings for up to 1,000 participants
  • Interactive Teams meetings for 1,000 participants with the capability to enable up to 20,000 in a view-only meeting experience
  • Custom branded meeting lobby
This last item, has also been announced in the Admin Center. The ability to add companywide, custom logos that will display in the pre-join screen and the lobby. Listed as Roadmap ID 67113

You can read more about the advanced licenses in the Teams documentation