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‑...

A better Together Mode with content view is rolling out

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There is a new layout for Together mode and content share rolling out to tenants. With the new layout, Together mode will be displayed under the shared content, allowing users to see both the participants in Together mode and the shared content simultaneously. The new Together mode will support raised hands, reactions, and name labels.

The new layout is available for Mac and desktop users worldwide (standard multi-tenant), GCC, GCC High, and DoD cloud instances. 

This announcement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 181615. And according to the message center, it should be rolling out late January and early February.