Copilot in Outlook: Meeting Preparation Is About to Get Smarter

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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.

Teams Premium licenses (Trial) available

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Trial licenses for Teams premium are now available for self-signup for users. These licenses are valid for 60 days. Teams premium licenses includes a lot of enhancement for teams like:

  • Customization of meeting templates for your organization
  • Organization branding in to meeting lobbies
  • Customization of meeting backgrounds and applying custom scenes for Together mode throughout your organization.
  • Live translated captions during meetings
  • Translation of post-meeting transcriptions
  • Advanced Virtual Appointments
  • Advanced, high-quality webinars
  • Help safeguard confidential information with enhanced protection for your organization
  • Meeting recap
These are all great features, and innovative employees might already have signed up for these licenses. But not all organizations appreciate the self signup of features they are not yet ready to support the new features. For companies who wants to disable this feature, the self signup can be controlled through the MSCommerce PowerShell module, not just for Teams premium bot a few others as well.