Copilot in PowerPoint with Organizational Brand Images coming soon

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Copilot in PowerPoint with Organizational Brand Images coming soon Microsoft is about to improve Copilot in PowerPoint by making it possible to connect it to your organization's brand images. Or at least connect to either Organizational Asset Library (OAL) in Microsoft SharePoint or Templafy Library (a third-party solution) for integrating brand images. The connection requires some configuration on the admin side, but none is required if the default image option in PowerPoint is good enough. This feature will require the user to have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and will work with PowerPoint for Windows desktop, Mac desktop, and PowerPoint for the web. The Organizational Asset Library (OAL) in Microsoft 365 is a centralized repository hosted on SharePoint where organizations can store and manage their brand assets, such as images, logos, icons, and templates. This library ensures that users have quick access to approved brand assets, promoting consistency and efficiency in cre...

Meeting policies in Teams have been updated in the Teams Admin Center

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Microsoft released a lot of cool features last week, an I am sure I will comment them as the get closer to General Availability. But in this post, I will focus on some of the features that has surfaced GA just recently, and discuss if there are things the organization could or should look into.

Meeting Policy Settings
Already back in May, the option to create meetings where "only me" could bypass the lobby became available. But the organization wide setting is still set to "allow all to bypass". This is still true, but now there is a meeting policy which organizations can deploy to control this for all. 
To control this, look for the "Automatically admit people" in the teams admin portal. Select what best matches your security policy, but make sure to communicate this to the users as they probably are used to the allow all.
You can also control who gets to be a presenter through the same policy now. This is nice if you want to avoid guests to take control unless explicitly granted. My suggestion is to allow user override in most cases.