Scheduling a meeting from an email thread in Copilot

One thing I really dislike doing is trying to turn a lengthy email thread into a meeting. You have to find all the people who were involved in the thread, try to find a time that works for *most* of the people, try to somehow come up with a summary and agent… But with Copilot, you can let it do most of the heavy lifting for you, turning email threads into cohesive meetings with little effort. Here’s how that works…

Linking to a forwarded message in Microsoft Teams

While you’ve been able to forward messages from Microsoft Teams for some time, there was always a problem in trying to get the context of the message. All you saw was the forwarded message and that was it. Now when you forward a message, the recipient also gets a link to the message so that you can see the surrounding context. Here’s how that works…

Choosing how you record a Microsoft Teams meeting

When you think of “recording a meeting” in Microsoft Teams, you normally envision recording both video and audio. But what if you’re sharing content during the meeting where you don’t want to have data shared via screen share to be part of the recording? Now you can choose to record Video and audio or just Audio only. Here’s how that looks…

GPT-5 is now the default model for Microsoft Copilot

For the last few months, when you are in Copilot Chat you’ve been asked if you want to try the GPT-5 model for your Copilot interactions. When you clicked the button, Copilot would look at your question and decide whether a quick response or a reasoning response would be best. Now you have the ability to expressly determine which type of interaction you want. Here’s what that looks like…

Changes to the Window Jump List for Microsoft Teams desktop

If you’re a Windows user, you are probably aware that you can right-click on an application icon in the Windows Task bar to see shortcuts to various options for that particular application. The Microsoft Teams desktop application has had some changes to the jump list that might save you some time. Here’s what it now looks like…