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This month, we explore how AI and innovative collaboration tools reshape the workplace. From Microsoft 365 Copilot's latest updates to the power of Copilot Agents in streamlining workflows, we're helping you unlock new efficiencies. Plus, don't miss our upcoming events and expert resources to drive your business forward.
Featured Events 📅
AI Agents at Work: Driving Value While Governing Risk
📅 Date: April 24, 2025 🕑 Time: 11:00 AM EST
Are you struggling with AI adoption or governance? Without effective strategies, AI implementation can lead to chaos and security issues.
Join our Virtual CIO ThinkTank for a peer-driven discussion on overcoming these challenges. Hear from experienced IT leaders on navigating AI governance, balancing innovation with control, and scaling AI solutions safely.
Featured Panelists:🗣️
Richard Harbridge, CTO at 2toLead
Dan Lausted, Global Director, Cloud and Modern Workplace Solutions at Paragon Micro
Iain Paterson, CISO at WELL Health Technologies Corp.
Michael Paul, VP of IT at Speedy Transport Group, Inc
The latest updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot bring exciting new capabilities designed to empower users, streamline workflows, and enhance productivity. These features, rolling out in the coming months, leverage AI to offer smarter tools for everyday tasks, ensuring your team can stay ahead of the curve.
Copilot Data Source in Microsoft Purview: Starting in April, a new data source tracks when Copilot prompts or responses match sensitive information, improving security and compliance.
Copilot Business Case Builder: Small and medium-sized businesses can now estimate the ROI of AI adoption, with insights into potential gains in sales, marketing, and customer service.
Pay-as-You-Go Billing for Copilot Chat: Admins can now set up pay-as-you-go billing for Copilot Chat within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, offering flexibility for non-licensed users.
Copilot in Teams Calls: Starting in May, users can access Copilot during Teams calls without transcription or recording, ensuring privacy while capturing key meeting insights.
Enhanced Copilot Pages: New features allow users to create interactive content like diagrams and charts, enhancing collaboration and content sharing.
Copilot in Excel: Copilot can now pull live data from the web directly into Excel, streamlining workflows and ensuring up-to-date information.
OneDrive Image Insights: Copilot in OneDrive now lets users query images for specific details, eliminating the need for manual searching.
Microsoft Teams continues to evolve with March 2025 updates designed to improve your chat, meetings, and organizational workflows. These new features offer greater security, better user experience, and enhanced flexibility for larger-scale events.
New Chat and Channels Experience: The updated chat and channels layout improves navigation and organization, ensuring you stay on top of what matters most. This streamlined experience helps you manage conversations with ease.
Join Teams Meetings with One-Time Passcode (OTP): External attendees without a managed Teams account can now join meetings via a one-time passcode sent directly to their mailbox. This feature enhances meeting security, ensuring only the right external participants are admitted.
Storyline Integrated in Teams:Viva Engage's Storyline feature is now closer than ever to Teams. Leaders can share personalized updates, while employees can celebrate milestones, share experiences, and connect with colleagues—all within Teams workflows.
Admin Control for In-Meeting Chat: Teams Admins can now set policies to control the duration of in-meeting chat. With this feature enabled, chat will only be available while the meeting is active, offering more control over communication during meetings.
Town Hall Concurrent Attendee Increase: Teams Town Halls can now accommodate up to 50,000 concurrent attendees—doubling the previous cap.This expansion enables organizers to reach larger audiences while maintaining event quality and stability. For events exceeding 20,000 attendees, some interactivity features will be disabled, but the event’s core experience remains unaffected.
Teams Queues App: Real-Time Service Level Stats: Teams’ Queues app now includes real-time service level stats, allowing authorized users to monitor performance and adjust staffing as needed to meet service goals.
These updates make Microsoft Teams even more powerful for secure communication, efficient collaboration, and large-scale events. Keep an eye out for more features coming soon to help you work smarter and stay connected.
SharePoint
The March 2025 SharePoint update is packed with game-changing features that redefine how users create, manage, and interact with content.
Page Creation with Copilot: Now you can use Microsoft’s Copilot and Microsoft Graph to generate pages quickly in SharePoint, leveraging your Word, PowerPoint, PDF, and Loop documents. The integration of AI enhances speed and creativity, making page creation effortless and more intuitive.
Viva Connections Enhancements: A new SharePoint News experience within Microsoft Teams elevates content visibility. News tailored to your interests and permissions flows dynamically, allowing for greater interaction and engagement.
Improved PDF Annotation: New annotation tools in SharePoint make working with PDFs simpler, with options to highlight, add text, and erase annotations, all while keeping your content securely stored.
Approval Workflows in Lists and Libraries: Effortlessly add approval workflows to any SharePoint list or library, streamlining document approvals directly within Teams.
SharePoint Hackathon Highlights: The recent SharePoint Hackathon showcased the innovative spirit of the community, with winning solutions focused on improving intranet design, creativity with SharePoint agents, and Viva Connections dashboards. We're proud to announce that our design team won the SharePoint Portals category and earned recognition for the Most Artistic SharePoint Visualization.
In addition, the SharePoint agents trial continues through June 2025, providing valuable usage data through new PowerShell cmdlets.
Our latest resources, whitepapers and articles 📚
Streamline Your Viva Engage Administration
Maximizing the potential of your Viva Engage platform starts with understanding the permissions tied to each admin role. Our Viva Engage Permissions Toolkit, featuring the Admin Role Comparison Guide, provides a clear overview of the features, settings, and configurations available to different administrative roles, allowing you to streamline your management processes.
This guide helps you assign the right permissions to the right people, ensuring efficient operations and maintaining governance across your organization. By understanding role responsibilities, you can enhance both security and compliance while managing key features like campaigns, leadership identification, and network settings.
Microsoft Copilot Agents are revolutionizing collaboration by turning traditional search into actionable insights. These customizable AI-driven assistants automate tasks and streamline workflows, improving productivity. A global company, for example, used Copilot Agents to enhance board meetings, reducing prep time and automating follow-ups.
