New Year, New Momentum: Here are three Copilot updates to get you started into 2026

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It's a new year, so I thought I'd start the year by mentioning three features already released, or soon going to be released. One of the features improves the workflow of sharing files with comments, the other improves the application specific Copilot, and the last feature makes it easer to find the nest available timeslot for a 1:1 meeting. As with all of my other posts, timelines can shift, and the timelines in this post is as written in the Message Center at the time of posting. AI-Summary experience when sharing files. With this new feature, copilot intent to help users share files with clearer context in just a few steps. Users will get the capability to generate a concise summary of a file and include it when sharing from the File Explorer share dialog or the OneDrive activity center. This will make it easier to share the context of a file and giving the receiver a faster understanding of what a document or file contains before they open it. General Availability announced...

Spotlight an individual video participant for all attendees in a Teams meeting

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I think I missed this message in the Admin Center, but it has already been rolled out to our company's production tenant. This is a feature allowing you to set the spotlight on a video feed, and making sure this is "pinned" for all attendees. 

In Skype for Business, I believe this was called pinning a video. but pinning in Teams is a single user's ability's to lock on one of the participants. The spotlight feature will lock the feed for everyone. 

Right click on any feed and select "spotlight" in order to focus on that user. You can also easily identify if you have been spotlighted by the header message.