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‑...

Prepare for shared channels in Teams

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According to a post in the message center not long ago, the shared channels feature in Teams is about to roll out in GA after being available in preview for some time.

Although shared channel seems to be available by default in the Teams client, please note that this is only an internal availability, unless the admin of the tenant has enabled/allowed the b2b-directconnect in Azure AD. 

I recommend reading up on this article in order to familiarize yourself with the configuration. It is not enabled by default, and there are several options available. A good approach could be by opening to specific partners and not allowing "everyone". If the company has invested in AAD P1 or P2 licenses, it is also possible to trust the partner's MFA and Compliance checks in conditional access, easing the usage for users.

This feature adds to the mix of external user access. It does not replace the guest user feature, nor anonymous access to teams meetings. But the real benefit of shared channel in my view, is how it adds the channel in the external user's existing list of teams and channels and does not require a tenant switch.

According to the message center post, this should be rolling out mid July and the following weeks.