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.

Supervised chat for Microsoft Teams EDU

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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.