“Bring your AI to work” is here: Microsoft edition - What Multiple Account Access to Copilot means

Multiple Account Access to Copilot On October 1. 2025 Microsoft released a blog post explaining how employees now can use Copilot from their personal 365 plans to work on organizational data. This is of course, an extension of the already existing "Multi account" feature that was released for corporate accounts a "couple of months" ago. In other words, “bring your own Copilot” is now a real thing in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on desktop and mobile, with enterprise protections intact. “Bring your AI to work” is an important topic, and banning AI altogether might not be the answer. Whether sanctioned or shadow, AI has already entered everyday knowledge work. Microsoft’s new multi‑account access offers a safer path where employees can use Copilot from their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions on work files, while the file’s access, auditing, and compliance still flow through the work identity and tenant. That’s better than users copy‑pasting sensit...

Supervised chat for Microsoft Teams EDU

Teams for the EDU sector will soon support supervised chat: Many schools I have talked about Teams with have seen this as a blocker for implementing Teams in general for.

With supervision enabled, restricted users will not be able to start until a supervisor joins. The feature, when applied, will apply to all new private chats and meetings, but not old ones.

This feature is not planned to be on by default, and here are some documentation to read up on Supervised Chat. And if things go as planned, it should roll out in the April-May timeframe.