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π₯ Microsoft 365 AI Workplace 15 minute Update May 2026 π₯
Thanks to @LogitechBiz, this month's Community Benefactor.
π£ Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365 GA
π£ New Models in Copilot from Anthropic and OpenAI
π£ Copilot Cowork gets Skills, Plugins and Mobile
π£ AI Skills in SharePoint
π£ Real-time voice agents in Copilot Studio GA
π£ Modernising M365 Change Management - New MCPs
π£ Teams Phone Multi-line GA and Copilot call delegation
π£ Upcoming Events
#Microsoft365 #MicrosoftTeams
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NEW VIDEO from UCStatus
I show you how to manage your custom backgrounds for #MicrosoftTeams Rooms and Teams Panel directly in the Teams Pro Management Portal.
youtu.be/O0v2hLOMKxU
π₯ My Microsoft Teams Enterprise Update for October 2026 π₯
Thanks to @LogitechBiz, benefactor this month, and with some big device announcements this month!
π£ Teams Phone Agent is generally available β an AI voice agent with usage-based billing through Copilot Credits.
π£ Queues app updates β shared call history, shared voicemails and a Teams Premium trial for eligible tenants.
π£ Azure Communication Services standalone services are retiring β whatβs changing and Teams Integrations
π£ Deepfake detection is coming to Teams meetings through third-party providers.
π£ Teams events licensing β who gets Foundational and Advanced capabilities, and what the changes mean for Teams Premium.
Plus 10 Teams Quick Hits, 6 Teams Phone Quick Hits and 8 Intelligent Spaces Quick Hits, all in under 15 minutes β²οΈ
As always, sharing, questions and feedback welcome!
#MicrosoftTeams #Microsoft365
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Register now for Logi Launch!
Final plug for the @LogitechBiz launch tomorrow. It is the biggest VC launch in Logitech's history. So much amazing innovation to share, I can't wait for you to see it, then talk about it with you afterward.
Register here: events.logitech.com/event/loβ¦
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Haleem Gul from @Gamma_uk spoke about the challenge of accelerating network transformation without compromising security with @empoweringcloud during Ribbon INSIGHTS London.Β Β
Join us on November 10-12 at Ribbon INSIGHTS Fort Lauderdale to learn more:Β hubs.la/Q04z0-3x0
A quick explainer from Graham Walsh, on the @neatmeetings Microsoft Teams schedulers, Neat Pad Pro and Neat Pad Gen 2, both on MDEP.
π£ Neat Pad Generation 2 (8-inch): Higher angle, matte finish, cable lock, full RGB LED bar
π£ Neat Pad Pro (10-inch): multi-mount bracket in the box, dual mics with always-on mic mixing borrowed from Neat Center
Bonus: Teams scheduling panels now do digital signage via Pro Management Portal. Appspace, Xogo, or any URL - Graham has done some cool stuff with this.
#MicrosoftTeams #UCaaS
Lots of Copilot Super App news last week - New Code and Autopilot capabilities are coming, and Usage-Based Billing updates.
I've collected all the information, dates, and details from the message centre and put it together.
empowering.cloud/the-new-copβ¦
Questions/thoughts/feedback welcome π
#Microsoft365
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Azure Communications Services (ACS) standalone offerings, including bulk/application email, will be retired on September 30, 2028. If you're using ACS today, or planning to adopt it, review the retirement timelines and sign-up deadlines carefully, as some changes take effect soon xf.ms/ACSRetirement
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Next version of OpenClaw uses a decision model to automatically decide between steer or queue.
(Lab feature, we support Jef* and API-compat (e.g. local models like Kef...) and ONNX variants)
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Foundry guidance on voice-to-chat architecture for call centres. Focus on reliability, latency, and clean handoff to human agents.
techcommunity.microsoft.com/β¦
Septemberβs Microsoft Teams Enterprise Update is here, and thereβs plenty to catch up on!
π£ 11 Microsoft Teams Updates
π£ 5 Intelligent Spaces Updates
Many thanks to @ribboncomm, this monthly community Benefactor
Everything you need to know, including:
π£ Teams Android device management is moving out of the Teams Admin Center and into the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal during September.
π£ Automatic recording and AI recaps for Call Queues
π£ Meeting consent and security reporting, plus protection against QR codes from external senders
π£ More control over recording, transcription and profanity filtering
π£ MDEP, Microsoft Places and the latest Teams Rooms updates
Watch the full update below; the deck and links are over on @EmpoweringCloud, You can also catch it on YouTube and the podcast feed.
#MicrosoftTeams #Microsoft365
π£ Microsoft FY26 results: 30 million paid Copilot seats
π£ Copilot super app confirmed β chat, agents and Code, one app, this quarter
π£ Computer Use moves from Frontier into Copilot Cowork β Cowork keeps absorbing Frontier features, on consumption pricing
π£ Nadella makes the MAI strategy explicit
π£ OpenAI now a subprocessor in M365 Copilot
π£ Teams gets a voice agent certification programme β AudioCodes first, more coming
#Microsoft365
π₯ Microsoft 365 AI Workplace Update β June Build M365 News Special π₯
Thanks to @Pure_IP, this month's community benefactor.
π£ Microsoft Scout β Microsoft's desktop AI agent. Based on OpenClaw, secured and productised, with its own Entra identity.
π£ Copilot Super App β Chat, Cowork, Code + Autopilot, all in one desktop app.
π£ Work IQ APIs GA (16 June) β REST, MCP or A2A access. Watch the consumption pricing.
π£ Project Solara β a chip-to-cloud platform for agent-first hardware based on MDEP
π£ 7 new MAI models, including Microsoft's first reasoning model, are now free to build their own.
Plus 6 Copilot updates, NVIDIA laptop chips + Surface Ultra, and the latest Teams devices news.
#Microsoft365 #MicrosoftTeams #Copilot
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MTR on Android April 2026 update youtu.be/ez_n_oZ6-xs?si=9FpT⦠via @YouTube
My Microsoft 365 & AI Workplace Update for April 2026 is live π₯
Thanks to @AudioCodes, our benefactor this month, for all their support.
πΆ M365 E7 Frontier Suite pricing & bundle details now out
πΆ Copilot Cowork now available in Frontier (with Anthropic models enabled) β this is the Copilot experience I feel we wanted from day one
πΆ Multi-model Copilot β Anthropic Claude models landing in Copilot chat, auto model selection coming, and a new setting to make Anthropic the default for Word, Excel & PowerPoint
πΆ EU data boundary update β new flex routing lets LLM inferencing burst outside the EU on demand
πΆ New SharePoint experience rolling out with redesigned navigation
πΆ Teams licensing changes landed - Places & events capabilities now in Teams Core
πΆ Teams meetings roadmap β third-party AI bot detection in the lobby, audio recap in 7 new languages, video-based recaps, pre-join mic/speaker test, and a new long-term Copilot memory archive on the roadmap
πΆ Teams Phone roadmap β Copilot Work IQ integration, multi-line support, AI recap without transcript (June), and hints at voice AI agents in PowerShell 7.0
πΆ Facilitator agent gets proactive β listening and answering questions in meetings (June)
πΆ Rooms & devices β Cisco Room Kit Pro G2 and Barco/Hudley bundle newly certified. Cross-platform SIP join from Android rooms coming June
#MicrosoftTeams #Microsoft365
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Microsoft has been on a speedrun in destroying the originally very strong (GitHub) Copilot brand.
This is chefβs kiss: if there is one group that has an absolutely allergic reaction to AI in the software they buy: itβs gamers.
Xbox already struggled vs Playstation - now thisβ¦
Gaming Copilot coming to Xbox consoles later this year:
"[...]we will bring Gaming Copilot to the current-generation consoles, and we will continue to bring it to more services that players are playing", said Manager for Gaming AI at Xbox Sonali Yadav
β‘οΈ gamesradar.com/games/xbox-juβ¦
Microsoft 365 AI Workplace Update - March 2026 π¬
Copilot Wave 3 - Claude taking multi-step actions for you and new E7 details
Many thanks to @ribboncomm, our benefactor this month, for their support.
π Claude in Copilot β Anthropic models now available in M365 Copilot.
π Copilot Cowork β Built with Anthropic, multi-step agentic actions in Microsoft Cloud. Reschedule meetings, prep decks, research companies and more
π Agent 365 details β GA 1st May, $15/user/month. User-based licensing, not per-agent
π Microsoft 365 E7 β $99/user/month. E5 + Copilot + Agent 365 + Entra capabilities. Who is it for?
π Meeting bot identification β Clear labelling of third-party bots in the lobby
π Teams Phone Multiple phone numbers per user β Up to 10, mix of OC/DR/Calling Plan
π Teams Rooms auto-remediation β Pro Portal starts proactively fixing issues
Plus SharePoint at 25 with Jeff Teper, channel agent improvements, new certified devices from Cisco and Jabra, and upcoming events.
#Microsoft365 #MicrosoftTeams #Microsoft365Copilot
π₯ Microsoft 365 AI Workplace Update February π₯
So much to update on after ISE! Licensing Changes, new features and new hardware. Many thanks to @neatmeetings, the community benefactor this month π
π Ilya Bukshteyn's ISE keynote
π Enhanced M365 Copilot Memory
π Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 in GitHub Copilot
π Microsoft Teams Licensing Changes April 2026
π Places Roadmap Updates
π Express voice enrolment
π Meet App Becomes Events App
π Teams Live Events and API are retiring
π All the Teams devices news from ISE
π Transitioning Teams Android Device Management to Pro Portal
#Microsoft365 #MicrosoftTeams #ISE2026
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