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Today’s blog is one that I’m very excited about - I’m going to show you all about how to use the brand new Copilot Prompt Gallery, or as they are calling it, “Prompts”, which is rolling out now. It’s a place to store your favorite prompts and share prompts with your teams. Two things to note: One is that, as of right now, this does require an M365 Copilot license to use as an app in Teams.

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Welcome to Ignite 2024! We’re excited to share a LOT of really innovative and useful new features with you. Getting everything ready to present at Ignite keeps us incredibly busy this time of year, as you might imagine. But it’s also a time when I find myself reflecting on the impact that all of these Teams features that we’re about to highlight can have on so many different aspects of work. I’m continually impressed that with each update, collaboration in Teams gets smoother, and new Copilot features help me be more productive, and work smarter and faster. This year’s additions to Teams move the bar even further as they support a richer flexible working experience and harness the power of AI to help you do more. There’s exciting news to share in every one of our categories, and I hope you’ll scroll through the healthy list of updates below, and let us know which ones you think will benefit you the most. Or if you’d like, jump to your favorite category first: Microsoft Places Chat and Collaboration Meetings, Mesh in Teams, Webinars and Town Halls Teams Rooms and Devices Teams Phone Teams Fundamentals Frontline Worker Solutions   Microsoft Places One of the most exciting products being announced at this year's Ignite is Microsoft Places, an AI-powered workplace solution for flexible work available with a Teams Premium license. Places alongside Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Teams make up the AI-powered workplace, solutions reimagining flexible work in a way that empowers every employee to achieve their best outcomes. Places intelligently allows you to coordinate your hybrid team to make the most of in-office days, modernize how employees make connections, and optimize space management with occupancy and utilization data.   Recommended in-office days with Copilot: Generally available now Deciding whether to go to the office depends on your in-person meetings and who else plans to be there. Copilot in Places makes this decision easier by recommending if today is a good day to come into the office based on your scheduled in-person meetings, your coworkers’ planned attendance, and any leader guidance that exists.   Managed booking with Copilot: Generally available now With schedules and meetings constantly shifting, avoid the frantic rush to update your room booking at the last minute. Places goes beyond a simple booking app, using Copilot to help you manage room bookings. Regardless of shifting schedules, Copilot will ensure you always have the right space to work.   Places finder: Generally available now All meeting rooms and desks are not created equal. Save yourself time figuring out which room or desk has the space and technology you need using Places finder, your booking helper.   Workplace presence: Generally available now No more missed connections when you and your colleagues are in the office. Seamlessly coordinate meetings, teamwork, and connections with workplace presence. Your workplace presence updates with your work plan and includes an automatic update of your location to “office” when connecting your laptop to a monitor at an in-office desk or peripheral in a bring your own device (BYOD) room. Users have control of this feature and can also update their workplace presence manually to set where they are. See who is nearby in 1:1 or group chats to easily coordinate lunch, brainstorming sessions, or in-person meetings.  You can find location information on your colleagues’ profile card or in the participant list in group chats. In 2025, workplace presence will automatically update with Wi-Fi signals.   Space analytics with Copilot: Generally available now Optimizing space for a hybrid workforce is difficult if you don’t have visibility into how often employees are coming into the office and what spaces are actually being used. Make better space decisions with occupancy and utilization insights and Copilot recommendations from intent data, check-ins, and device signals, with space analytics. Make sure your workplace is working for your employees.   Team guidance: Generally available now Trying to create the right in-person cadence for your team is challenging. Find the best work patterns for your team with team guidance, which identifies a purpose for team days in the office. Meet the needs of the group by working with team guidance to establish expectations and adjust the rhythm.    Quick book: Generally available now Forgetting to book meeting rooms for the day leads to a last-minute rush to book. For in-office meetings without a room booked, Places will prompt you to book rooms and offer recommendations from the Places card. View suggested rooms for each meeting, and 'quick book' rooms in bulk for the day. Book a space for all your meetings all at once.       Chat and Collaboration Copilot file summary in chat: Public preview in early 2025 When a file is shared in a chat, you don’t always have the time to open it, read through, and grasp the key ideas. With new file summaries in 1:1 and group chats in Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot can quickly summarize content from Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs, so you can understand the main points without opening the file. This feature is also available on mobile, making it easier to grasp key ideas without reading an entire document on a small screen while on the move. It respects the file's security policies, ensuring that only users with access to the file receive a summary, which will carry the same sensitivity label as the original file.   Storyline integrated in Teams: Public preview in early 2025 Employee communications are often scattered across multiple locations, leading to frustration, delays, and overload. Storyline in Teams empowers leaders to share communications with an entire company, and simplifies the ways you and your colleagues share and connect. The Storyline integration provides a new way to discover content, contribute your ideas and perspectives, and express yourself while staying in your flow of work in Teams.  Integration of communities with Teams and much more is coming next year.    The new chat & channels experience: Available now in public preview The new chat and channels experience is designed to help you collaborate more efficiently and effectively. It’s simple by default, enabling everyone to stay on top of what matters, and it’s powerful on demand, allowing you to organize information and communicate your way. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, use filters to triage messages, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, and more. Join hundreds of customers like Eaton, Vodafone, VML, Itaú Unibanco S/A and Kyndryl who are using the new chat and channels experience as part of the Teams private preview program. Learn more here.   Loop workspace in a channel: Generally available in early 2025 Channels in Microsoft Teams streamline collaboration by bringing people, content, and apps together and helping to organize them by project or topic. You will be able to add a Loop workspace tab to standard channels enabling your team to brainstorm, co-create, collect, and organize content—together in real-time. Everyone in the Team gets access to the Loop workspace, even as Team membership changes, and the workspace adheres to the governance, lifecycle, and compliance standards set by the Microsoft 365 Group backing the team. To get started, click the plus sign (+) at the top of the channel and select Loop from the app list.   Name pronunciation: Available now in public preview, generally available in early 2025 You can now record and share the correct pronunciation of your name, fostering inclusivity and ensuring colleagues pronounce names accurately. Simply open your profile card to make a recording. This recording will be accessible on your profile card to individuals at your workplace or school using Microsoft 365. With a single click, you can listen to your colleagues' name pronunciations.   Skin tone setting for emojis and reactions: Generally available now The new skin tone setting for emojis and reactions in Teams lets you personalize your digital interactions by selecting a skin tone that best represents you. In your settings, you can choose from a range of skin tones. Once selected, this will be consistently applied across chat, channels and meetings as well as on various clients, allowing you to express yourself more authentically in conversations.   Changing skin tone in Teams Settings > Appearance and accessibility in Teams for Desktop: To change your skin tone go to Teams Settings-> Appearance and accessibility in Teams Changing skin tone in the emoji menu in Teams for Desktop   Meetings, Mesh, Webinars, and Town Halls Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen: Public preview in early 2025 Maximize meeting insights with Microsoft 365 Copilot’s new ability to analyze content presented in Teams. Copilot’s ability to reason over any content shared on screen ensures that no meeting details are overlooked. Copilot provides a 360-degree view of meetings by analyzing spoken words, chat messages, and now, on-screen content. This comprehensive data enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., ‘Which products had the highest sales?’), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., 'What was the feedback per slide?'), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., 'Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat’). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date.     Liv

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