Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Navigation, Voice, and Context Enhancements Arriving Soon

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Here are three new updates to the user interface of Microsoft Copilot. These releases improve usability, expand interaction options, and streamline how users incorporate work content into prompts. All three of these features were actually announced "a long time ago", and the initial release started almost 6 months ago. But I guess the setup is complicated, as the rollout hasn't completed yet. This only proves the importance of paying attention to the official roadmap and the tenant message center in order to understand when features are being implemented for your organization. Timelines may continue to evolve as deployments progress, and this summary includes the official reference IDs and documentation links for verification. Refreshed Navigation Experience There is a redesigned navigation experience for the Microsoft 365 Copilot app heading your way, delivering a cleaner, more efficient layout. The update flattens the menu structure and groups related components to help...

Copilot Pages: A New way of sharing and interacting with your data generated with Copilot

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Back in November 2024, Microsoft Copilot users signed in with an Entra account started getting the new feature called Copilot Pages. Copilot Pages offers a dynamic, persistent canvas within Copilot chat, designed to enhance multi-player collaboration.

With Copilot Pages, you can share and improve the responses you get from Copilot. This feature is great start on evolving Copilot from an individual tool to a collaborative experience.

You can easily return to a page by clicking the link in chat or the Open Page icon at the top of the associated Copilot session. Additionally, all your pages are accessible in the Pages module on Microsoft365.com, where you can continue to collaborate with others. Created pages are stored in a user-owned SharePoint Embedded container, which is managed with the user account and deleted when the account is removed.

The feature was turned on by default, but there are ways for IT administrators to manage it. The full details are available on Microsoft Learn, but here is a brief description for your convenience:

Steps to Manage Copilot Pages:

  • Sign in to https://config.office.com with your admin credentials.
  • Navigate to Customization and select Policy Management.
  • Create or edit a policy configuration.
  • Choose the scope (All users or specific groups).
  • Configure Settings:
    • Enabled: Copilot chat experience is available.
    • Disabled: Copilot chat experience isn't available.
    • Not configured: Copilot chat experience is available.
  • Save the policy configuration.
  • Reassign priority for any security group if required.

Changes to policy configurations may take up to 90 minutes to reflect if there were existing policies, or up to 24 hours if there were no prior configurations.