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...

Teams meeting enhancements rolling out, or already in your tenant

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There are a lot of features and enhancements being rolled out at the moment. And here are a few highlights I have collected to stay on top of things.

Meeting end notifications:
Soon everyone will get a notice in private scheduled and channel meetings when the meeting is about to end. This feature was scheduled for a September roll out, but an updated roadmap item is now indicating an arrival in December. Hopefully this will make it easier to keep track of time, and wrap up meetings in time for the next meeting. The notification will appear when there is five minutes left of the meeting, and last for a couple of seconds. It will disappear after a few seconds, and no user action is required.

Teams meeting recording to be stored in OneDrive and SharePoint:
Rolling out now, is the capability to change the recording storage from Stream to OneDrive and SharePoint. This is a much awaited feature, and will make it easier for guest users to access recordings. And this will also make sure recordings come under the same policies as the rest of the Team has set. There will be an opt-in or opt-out possibility for a period of time, and if you need to read up on these features to prepare your organization, you can find the article here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/tmr-meeting-recording-change

Forced mute on all participants:
As an organizer of a meeting, users will now no longer just have the capability to control who can present or not. But the will also have the capability to force-mute all attendees in a meeting. This can be done from the participants pane in a meeting once the meeting has started. This is an effective way to prevent unnecessary noise in meetings. Just remember to unforce this once you want the the conversation to get started. This feature is associated with the roadmap item: 66575

Edit your meeting options from within the meeting itself:
The meeting options should now be available from with the meeting experience itself, and it will take you directly to the webpage where these settings are set. According to the roadmap item 67121 This should already be available in tenants.