Copilot Transcription Behavior Changing for Teams Meetings
Microsoft plans to deploy an update to change how transcription behaves for Teams meetings where Copilot is enabled. New meetings will not generate a transcript unless the meeting organizer explicitly enables transcription or the Microsoft 365 tenant deploys custom meeting policies that enable transcription with Copilot. The AI features work even without a transcript. But no transcript means no searchable artifact, and that’s what some want. https://office365itpros.com/2025/09/15/transcription-teams-meetings/
New Diagnostic: Copilot Agent Functionality in Microsoft Teams.
As Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 continues to evolve, ensuring reliable agent performance within Microsoft Teams is critical to delivering a seamless user experience. To support this, we’re introducing the Copilot Agent Functionality Diagnostic—a powerful tool designed to identify and resolve issues that may prevent Copilot agents from operating in Teams. This includes validating eligibility, confirming service availability, and checking for configuration compliance. With this test, organizations can quickly verify that their environment is optimized for Copilot agents, helping users fully leverage the capabilities of Copilot within Teams. Why This Matters For Copilot agents to function seamlessly in Microsoft Teams, several dependencies must be in place—including user authentication, valid license assignment, tenant app settings, and the ability to run required custom apps in preview. If any of these prerequisites are misconfigured, users may face errors, limited functionality, or even lose access to Copilot features altogether. That’s where our Diagnostics comes in -The Copilot Agent Functionality Test helps eliminate these risks by proactively checking authentication, confirming license validity, validating Teams app configurations, and identifying settings that could block Copilot agents. By addressing these issues early, organizations can ensure users experience the full value of Copilot in Teams without disruption. What the Diagnostic Does The Copilot Agent Functionality Diagnostic is designed to help both customers and support engineers validate the critical requirements that enable Copilot agents to work seamlessly in Microsoft Teams. It performs a series of checks to confirm: Successful retrieval of Teams user authentication information Verification that users hold a valid Microsoft 365 Copilot license for Teams Confirmation that custom apps in preview are enabled to support Copilot agents Validation of Teams tenant app settings for proper permissions and availability Identification of configuration gaps that may block agent functionality By running these validations, the diagnostic ensures that the Teams environment is properly configured, reducing the likelihood of errors and empowering organizations to deliver a consistent Copilot experience in Microsoft Teams. Who Should Use It? Note: A Global Administrator account is required to run this diagnostic. IT Admins validating Teams settings, app configurations, and license prerequisites to ensure Copilot agents function correctly. Support Engineers troubleshooting Copilot agent issues related to authentication, configuration, or feature availability. Adoption & Change Management Leads confirming the Teams environment is properly prepared for users to engage with Copilot agents during rollout. Get Started To run the diagnostic, you’ll need a Global Administrator account. To access the new customer facing diagnostic, navigate to Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer, select COPILOT, then click on the “Copilot Agent Functionality in Microsoft Teams”. A Big Thank you to Rui Andre Tabares.New Diagnostic: Copilot License Details check
As Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 continues to expand its capabilities, so must the tools that ensure a seamless user experience. One of the most important steps in enabling Copilot features is validating license assignments. To support this, we’re excited to introduce the Copilot License Check Diagnostic—a powerful tool designed to streamline and validate your license readiness by confirming whether Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses are properly assigned to users, ensuring that features dependent on Copilot function as expected. Diagnostics makes it easy to validate license assignments, ensuring users are set to unlock the full power of Copilot. Why This Matters The ability to leverage Copilot for Microsoft 365 is directly tied to proper license assignment—a critical step in unlocking AI-powered productivity. Without the right license, users may be unable to access key Copilot features, leading to confusion or reduced value from your Microsoft 365 investment. That’s where our Diagnostics comes in—helping you quickly validate license readiness, ensure feature availability, and streamline the path to a seamless Copilot experience. What the Diagnostic Does The Copilot License Check Diagnostic is built to empower both customers and support engineers. It validates whether users are properly licensed to access Copilot for Microsoft 365 by checking: Assignment and validity of Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses User eligibility across Microsoft 365 services that integrate with Copilot Dependency on prerequisite licenses (e.g., Microsoft 365 E3/E5, Office apps) Checks all the service plans enabled within Copilot license. Potential gaps that could block access to Copilot-powered capabilities This diagnostic ensures that license readiness is confirmed in advance, reducing the risk of feature unavailability and helping organizations maximize the value of Copilot. Who Should Use It? Note: We can run the diagnostic either with Global admin or normal account. IT Admins validating that users have the correct Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses assigned Support Engineers troubleshooting Copilot feature availability issues Adoption & Change Management Leads ensuring users are ready to access Copilot as part of rollout plans Get Started We can run the diagnostic either with Global admin or normal account. To access the new customer facing diagnostic, navigate to Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer, select COPILOT, then click on the “Copilot License Details”. A Big Thank you to Rui Andre Tabares.
Copilot for Teams features for Channel Meetings as opposed to Regular Meetings
For several years, I've scheduled our small departmental meetings as channel meetings rather than one-to-many meetings. I think there is a benefit to doing this. We are now using our M365 Copilot trial licenses (1 Week) and I'm starting to activate Copilot during meetings. This starts the transcription service and allows you to request a recap. Because I also have a Teams Premium license - the meeting has a recap section - but that only works if you use the Teams Premium feature of recording the meeting - which starts transcription and offers a recap. With Copilot - it seems you have to formally request a recap of the meeting. If you leave the meeting first - you can go back into the chat section of the meeting and request a meeting recap after the fact. But with a channel meeting, there is no separate chat section of that specific meeting. The chat is in the channel and that's by design. If you start copilot during a channel meeting - it appears that you MUST request the recap of the meeting while you are still in the meeting - because after you leave the meeting you lose the copilot session for that meeting and you can no longer ask for a recap - because the meeting is over. You can, however, download the transcript after the fact. However, you are then stuck with a transcript but no summary. The best I could do was to re-download the transcription as a docx file and then open it in word and then ask Copilot in Word to "summarize this file." Very awkward. Bottom line - it's very unlikely that one can remember to ask for a recap of the meeting while you are still in the meeting. And since you can go back and get a recap in normal meetings after you leave - one would expect you can do so in a Channel Meeting - but so far you can't. All-in-all, while this shows potential - it is kludgy and painful at the moment. I hope this is improved.
Teams Meeting Intelligent Recap/AI Notes feature license requirement
Hello Experts, We've read that from this article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/intelligent-recap-calls-meetings The intelligent recap/AI notes for meetings license requirement is Teams Premium "or" M365 Copilot license. However, when we test this for a couple of test users that only has Copilot license(paid) but without Teams Premium. The AI Notes in Teams Meetings Recap is locked. See sample screenshot. We confirmed that the AI Notes is unlocked once you have Teams Premium license but this seems like a bug or maybe an error from the official article. Can someone from the engineering team confirm this? Your help is highly appreciated.
Want to enable and use Interpreter agent
According to this article: Discover new agents in Microsoft 365 innovation | Microsoft Community Hub Interpreter is now available in public preview. It links to the the following guide: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/interpreter-in-microsoft-teams-meetings-c7efe2bb-535d-42ab-a5c4-d2d91619b46d I am in public preview on my Mac desktop Teams client. Version is 25107.xxxx which looks like it's a Citrix/VDI version. I pulled the download from the official MS page for a fresh install and the version is the same. Not sure if that makes any difference but that's the version. How do I enable Interpreter agent for my scheduled meeting?Prompt like a pro: Powering effective communication with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams Phone
Microsoft 365 Copilot is transforming work in large and small ways. You may already be using it to get a recap of meetings you weren’t able to join, or to analyze chats for key information. It’s definitely changed the way I work and helped me be more productive with less effort.Generate AI Notes and Mentions using Copilot
I recently subscribed to Copilot and confirmed that it is in all appropriate applications. I setup a Teams meeting and ensured that the meeting option is set to enable Copilot without transcription. Even still, I turned on transcription, so I have a Transcript of the meeting in the Recap tab. However, there is nothing in the AI Notes or the Mentions on the Recap tab after the meeting ended. It says "Turn on recording and transcription, and AI can generate notes and suggest tasks to follow up on." I was able to access Copilot during the meeting, so I know that it is working. I would have expected that the AI Notes and Mentions tabs would be filled in, since I had the meeting option set to Copilot without Transcription AND I had a transcript. Am I doing something wrong? Does recording have to be turned on in addition to transcription? Does the option to enable Copilot without transcription not work if transcription is turned on? Does Copilot with transcription have to be enabled in order for AI notes to populate? Does it take time for the AI notes to populate (It's now been several hours, and still nothing)?
Prompt Like a Pro: Stay on top of your chats with Copilot in Teams
Microsoft Teams is a powerful tool for collaborating with your colleagues and sharing information in real time. However, it can be challenging to keep track of what is happening in your Teams conversations. Staying on top of everything is even harder when you have been traveling for work, are in training for a week, or work with a team that is in different time zones. How do you ensure that you haven’t missed any important action items, decisions made, topics discussed, or anything else that might be relevant to your work?
