Imagine opening your laptop and finding every link, chat, and page instantly organized and ready to work for you. This month’s edition shows how close that reality is. Inside, you’ll see how Microsoft’s newest updates—from one-click “Hero Links” to quietly more intelligent AI—streamline the everyday tasks that slow teams down. We’ll also point you to hands-on sessions, recordings, and quick guides so you can put these ideas to work before your next coffee break.

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Our Latest Events This Month

• Automation in a Day
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Community Events This Month

• JUN, 28, 2025: SQL Saturday San Diego 2025
• JUL, 10, 2025: AI Community Conference - AICO DC
• JUL, 25, 2025: M365 Community Days NYC

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INDUSTRY NEWS //

📣 Latest announcement

Copilot

Copilot’s June wave shows the shift from “helpful assistant” to governed, context-aware productivity fabric. With richer analytics, tighter cost controls, and AI that now follows you from Edge’s address bar to Outlook mobile, leaders finally get measurable ROI without sacrificing trust or budget.

At-a-Glance Upgrades:

Copilot Control System: New “Ask & Find,” “Catch Up,” and “Draft & Brainstorm” dashboards reveal real-world usage patterns, while Intelligent Recap metrics finally show how many meetings are actually summarized. Admins also get an agent inventory with rich metadata plus departmental billing policies that cap spend per group — ideal for charge-backs and cost governance.

Context IQ Everywhere: Type “/” in Copilot Chat to pull in SharePoint, OneDrive, Salesforce or ServiceNow data, apply file-type filters, or ground a prompt on an entire meeting series. Even unlicensed users can now locate files without uploads, and proactive suggestions pop up as you write — putting institutional knowledge one keystroke away.

Mobile & Edge: On iOS/Android you can talk to Copilot, invoke on-device Researcher/Analyst agents, build Notebooks on the go, and auto-generate stories or infographics. In Edge, “Ask Copilot” lives in the URL bar, right-click summarization condenses long pages, and your favorite agents sit a click away for task-specific help.

Outlook & Teams Intelligence: Natural-language scheduling turns “Find 30 mins with the exec team next week” into a ready-to-send invite, Copilot prepares meeting-pack summaries on mobile, and classic Outlook gains sidebar chat plus attachment digests. Teams Phone now auto-creates hand-off summaries before a call transfer so nothing slips through the cracks.

Creation Boosts: PowerPoint pulls brand-approved images directly from your asset library; Excel’s inline Explain Formula breaks calculations down cell-by-cell; Copilot Chat handles 50 % longer PDFs, adds OCR for scans, and generates more photorealistic images in multi-turn conversations. A native Mac Copilot app brings all of this to the Dock.

New Surfaces: Copilot Pages now save as .page files (fully DLP/eDiscovery-ready), and Copilot Notebooks land inside OneNote so project content, links, and AI reasoning sit in one place — even creating an audio overview when you’re hands-free

Now is the moment to review your Copilot roll-out roadmap and tighten adoption metrics before FY 2026 budgets lock in.

Microsoft Teams

This month’s Teams updates push three strategic levers—smarter AI, sharper governance, and richer frontline experiences—giving digital-workplace leaders new ways to boost productivity without adding complexity.

Key Takeaways This Month:

• AI everywhere: Copilot now writes call-transfer summaries so hand-offs never lose context. An AI assistant inside the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal answers “how-to” questions and surfaces room analytics—no extra Copilot license required.
• Inclusive, friction-free meetings: Loop-powered Collaborative Notes reach GCC High & DoD, keeping agendas and action items live across chats and To Do. Town Halls add PSTN dial-in, CVI codes for external devices, granular screen-control roles, and usage analytics—all designed for events at scale.
• Streamlined chat & calls: Enhanced multi-language spell-check (up to three languages) and the new chat/channels experience roll out to GCC. Mobile gains custom ringtones, small-window calls, call-waiting beep, and Real-Time Text for accessibility.
• Enterprise-grade security & governance: Meetings can now inherit sensitivity labels from shared files, automatically aligning protection policies.
• Frontline & hybrid spaces: Viva Amplify campaigns publish straight to Engage, while new BYOD-room health signals and certified devices (Yealink Meeting Board Pro, Logitech Rally Board 65, and more) extend Teams to every corner of the workplace.

These updates show Microsoft doubling down on practical AI and end-to-end governance, while flattening the tech stack for hybrid spaces.

SharePoint

The new SharePoint Template Gallery puts a curated library of modern page and news-post templates—plus your own custom layouts—one click away, so communicators can focus on storytelling, not formatting. Rolling out worldwide in July–August, this update signals a broader shift toward governed, modular intranet design that scales with brand and business needs.

Why it matters

On the horizon: Microsoft is exploring tenant-wide template distribution and Copilot-powered page creation for even deeper scale and AI assist.

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