New Year, New Momentum: Here are three Copilot updates to get you started into 2026

It's a new year, so I thought I'd start the year by mentioning three features already released, or soon going to be released. One of the features improves the workflow of sharing files with comments, the other improves the application specific Copilot, and the last feature makes it easer to find the nest available timeslot for a 1:1 meeting. As with all of my other posts, timelines can shift, and the timelines in this post is as written in the Message Center at the time of posting. AI-Summary experience when sharing files. With this new feature, copilot intent to help users share files with clearer context in just a few steps. Users will get the capability to generate a concise summary of a file and include it when sharing from the File Explorer share dialog or the OneDrive activity center. This will make it easier to share the context of a file and giving the receiver a faster understanding of what a document or file contains before they open it. General Availability announced...

Users of classic Teams will be moved to New Teams soon.

Microsoft Teams has announced that it will automatically upgrade classic Teams users to new Teams after March 31, 2024. Though the upgrade will not apply to Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) users, be aware that classic Teams on VDI support will end on June 30th 2024 as well as for the regular desktop. 

If you are a classic Teams user, you will at first see banner messages encouraging you to move to the new client. If you postpone the upgrade, you will have to do the upgrade on June 30th 2024 

If you are an admin and want to control the process, take a look at the following article on how to use policies in Teams Admin center.