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.

Better lobby control in Microsoft Teams

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There is a new lobby setting coming this spring, that will guarantee only invited users are allowed to bypass the lobby. If an invited user should forward an invitation, the user who gets the forwarded invitation will have to wait in the lobby even if the original invite allowed the original user to join directly.

Users can find this option on the meeting option page of a meeting. 


This feature was announced some time back, but the release have been slightly delayed. According to the Admin Message center, we should expect this feature soon.