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...

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.