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‑...

Tighter Outlook and Teams integration

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Users will soon be able to set their Out of Office settings and notifications from within Teams, and this will then sync with Exchange online.

Microsoft Teams have for a long time been able to read the OOF status from Exchange, but with the new update announced it will also be able to write status.

According to the Admin center, this feature will roll out during May

There will be two ways to access this feature from Teams, one through the "Set status message" panel accessible from the user profile image, the other from the "settings" page shown in the image above.