Copilot in Outlook: Meeting Preparation Is About to Get Smarter

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.

Start creating your own "together mode scenes" in Microsoft Teams

Together mode is great and fun way to view participants in meetings, and Microsoft Teams comes with quite a few nice scenes to play around with.

Fresh off the press is the Teams Developer Tool to create and share your very own backgrounds. 

Take a look at the provided documentation, and have a go for yourself Teams together mode

For those organizations who want to control what their users are using as backgrounds and together mode scenes, this can be done by assigning individual meeting policies where the "Select video filters" is set to anything but "all filters".


The feature has just started rolling out, and it could be the end of July before the rollout is completed.