Explore the latest Microsoft 365 and SharePoint advancements that transform our work. From enhancing productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot to streamlining SharePoint page design with AI, these innovations are helping businesses work smarter and more efficiently. Read on to discover how these tools can elevate your organization’s operations.

2toLead Spotlight🎉

This month, our latest case study reveals the transformative power of Microsoft 365 Copilot. It shows how it streamlined workflows and boosted productivity for a global organization. After integrating Copilot across 250 employees, the results were compelling.

Key Highlights:

• 83% Reduction in Recap Time: Thanks to Copilot's AI-driven capabilities, employees reduced the time spent on meeting recaps from 30 minutes to just 5.
• 92% Employee Adoption: Within the first three months, Copilot became a daily tool for nearly all employees, automating tasks like meeting agendas and follow-ups over 3,700 times.
  
• Significant Productivity Gains: Tasks were completed 3.8 times faster, with higher accuracy and fewer revisions, leading to faster project turnarounds.
  

Want to see how AI can elevate your business? Explore the complete case study for deeper insights into how Copilot supercharged this organization's productivity and employee satisfaction.

📣 Latest announcement

Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot continues to evolve with new capabilities aimed at boosting productivity and enhancing collaboration. February 2025 brings several exciting updates:

Key Highlights: 

• Admin Policy for Teams Meetings: New controls allow admins to enable or disable Copilot access for B2B members in multi-tenant organizations.
• GCC Availability for Teams Recaps: Copilot now supports meeting recaps in GCC, making it easier to summarize meetings and share key action points.
• Copilot Pages on Mobile: Copilot Pages are now accessible on mobile, allowing users to edit, share, and collaborate on the go.
• Enhanced Excel Features: Copilot in Excel now supports Python for advanced analytics and offers suggestions to improve workflows with smart prompts.
• PowerPoint Translation & Rewriting: Copilot can translate entire presentations into 40 languages and rewrite content for clarity and professionalism.

Innovation Moving Forward: Copilot March 2025 Updates

Microsoft 365 Copilot's February 2025 updates enhance productivity with new features like mobile-accessible Copilot Pages, improved Excel analytics with Python, PowerPoint translation into 40 languages, and meeting recaps in GCC. Admins can now control Copilot access for B2B members in Teams, streamlining collaboration and workflow.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams continues to enhance collaboration with a series of powerful new features designed to increase productivity and simplify communication.

Key Updates:

• Bots in Chat: You can now add agents or bots to group chats, allowing everyone to interact with them for tasks like answering questions or automating processes.
• Scheduled Messages: Schedule channel messages for future delivery, ensuring your communication reaches the right people at the right time, even across time zones.
• Intelligent Meeting Recaps: Premium users can now access AI-generated meeting recaps for webinars and town halls, including tasks, notes, and speaker summaries.
• Apple CarPlay Enhancements: Teams on CarPlay now offer better visuals and hands-free options for managing meetings while driving
• Retirement of Skype: On May 5, 2025, Microsoft will retire Skype, transitioning users to Microsoft Teams. This shift aims to streamline communication services under the Teams platform, offering enhanced features and integration.

Innovation Moving Forward: Microsoft Teams March 2025 Updates

Microsoft Teams introduces new features to enhance collaboration and productivity. You can now add bots to group chats for automated tasks and schedule messages for timely delivery across time zones. Premium users can access AI-generated meeting recaps for webinars and town halls, including tasks and speaker summaries. Additionally, Teams on Apple CarPlay offers improved visuals and hands-free options for managing meetings while on the go.

SharePoint

This month marks an exciting milestone for SharePoint, which has many new features to enhance collaboration and streamline workflows. From user-created cards in Viva Connections to AI-powered video creation in Copilot Visual Creator, SharePoint transforms how teams engage and work together.

Key Highlights:

• Viva Connections: Personalize your dashboard with user-created cards that add easy-to-access links and content.
• Copilot Visual Creator: Generate video content effortlessly using AI, saving time and boosting communication impact.
• Microsoft Lists: New form creation tools and features like conditional branching simplify data management and improve flexibility.
• SharePoint Document Libraries: Grid view editing improvements make navigating and managing large libraries faster and more efficient.

With these updates, SharePoint is more versatile than ever, driving smarter collaboration and better productivity

Innovation Moving Forward: SharePoint March 2025 Updates

This month brings exciting updates to SharePoint, enhancing how teams collaborate and manage content. New features like personalized dashboards in Viva Connections, AI-powered video creation with Copilot Visual Creator, and improvements in Microsoft Lists and document libraries streamline workflows and boost productivity.

However, there are some important changes on the horizon:

• SharePoint Spaces will be retired between March 10 and August 11, 2025. Users should move content to SharePoint Pages.
• Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after January 2026. Users are advised to convert files to Word or PDF before then.

SharePoint Hackathon: Innovate and Build

Finally, don’t miss the chance to participate in the SharePoint Hackathon, where you can build innovative solutions and collaborate with experts to drive SharePoint adoption.

• Collaborate with experts and peers
• Build innovative SharePoint solutions

Don’t miss out—register now!

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