Thursday, January 2, 2025

December 2024 M365 Copilot and Microsoft Teams

Here are some of the new capability releases for M365 Copilot and Microsoft Teams for the month of December 2024:

  • M365 Copilot was released to Microsoft GCC cloud.
  • Viva Learning and Copilot Academy 
  • New templates and reports in Copilot Analytics to better understand employee readiness, adoption and impact which can be used along side of the Copilot Dashboard.
  • Copilot on OneNote for Mac and iPad.  Leverage copilot to understand, summarize, rewrite or do further brainstorming.
  • New Excel Copilot functions for “understanding” data.  For instance, leverage Copilot has Clean Data detectors to help find inconsistencies with data and provides recommendations.  Plus Copilot will recognize patterns and provide suggested formulas.
  • Word Copilot can now read aloud responses in the chat pane.
  • Word Copilot will allow users to ask questions about images by simply putting the image into the chat.  Copilot can then extract text, get a description of a chart, translate information or generate alt text.
  • Intelligent recap in Teams is now available for meetings that started using the “Meet Now” function.  This allows ad-hoc meetings to have the same AI meeting experiences that a schedule meeting has.
  • Teams Meetings now supports the “take control” feature in Teams web app.
  • Webinar and Town Halls now support RTMP-In 708 captions are a closed captioning standard that provides enhanced captioning capabilities.

References

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilotblog/whats-new-in-microsoft-365-copilot--december-2024/4359815

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftteamsblog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-microsoft-teams--december-2024/4359658


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