Two Major Admin Control Updates for Copilot and Agent Management

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At Ignite Microsoft showcased and talked about two new admin controls for Copilot and Agents. These controls drew a significant amount of attention for their potential to simplify management and strengthen governance across Copilot experiences and AI agents. These capabilities are now emerging in preview, offering administrators early access to improved insights, expanded control surfaces, and more secure operational foundations. Copilot Overview Page Refresh in Microsoft 365 Admin Center First off is the redesigned landing page for Copilot in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center (MAC), giving admins an at-a-glance view of the Copilot journey across Chat, Agents, and M365 Copilot. This update  centralizes critical insights and success metrics, helping organizations accelerate adoption and maintain security posture. The refreshed page introduces success metrics such as Chat active users, assisted hours for licensed users, and satisfaction rate. Each Copilot pillar now includes multi‑...

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.