Microsoft is ramping up collaboration between people and AI in Teams. In brief: meetings, channels, and Viva Engage communities can now have their own agents that summarize, answer questions, suggest next steps, and assist with follow-ups. For organizations using SharePoint and Teams together, the point is that more work can be captured where it happens and become searchable, trackable, and reusable—but note that the expanded SharePoint integration for community agents in Viva Engage is not yet available and will roll out to Public Preview over the coming weeks.
an agent in every meeting
The new meeting agent (Facilitator) can set the agenda, keep time, take shared notes, capture tasks to Planner, and create first drafts in Word or Loop. It also works in Teams Rooms and can document ad hoc conversations from mobile. The feature is generally available for users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, while task management and document generation are in Public Preview. For Swedish teams, this can reduce manual post-meeting work and provide clearer accountability directly from the meeting.
an agent in every channel
Channel agents draw on the channel’s content and meetings to answer questions, write status reports, and manage tasks in Planner. You can also invite the agent to meetings for quick context. Microsoft also highlights support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and upcoming orchestration between agents. The channel agent is in Public Preview for Copilot users. For organizations managing projects in Teams channels, this means faster rollups and less digging through threads.
knowledge in viva engage – with sharepoint on the way
Community agents in Viva Engage analyze past conversations and—once rolled out—can pull knowledge from designated SharePoint sites and files to propose source-cited answers. Administrators can choose whether responses are posted automatically or require review. The feature is in Public Preview, and SharePoint integration is slated for the near term. This can offload experts and provide faster, verifiable answers in larger organizations.
automation, copilot, and developer support
Teams is getting a revamped Workflows experience in Public Preview with templates that leverage Copilot or the channel agent, such as a daily briefing or recurring summaries from channel discussions. Audio recap makes meeting reviews listenable in different styles. The Copilot experience in Teams is being unified starting October 1 (Public Preview) and can analyze chats, meeting notes, and calendars for smart follow-ups. For developers, the GitHub app for Teams is in Public Preview, and the Teams AI Library is generally available for JavaScript and C# (Python in Public Preview), with support for MCP and agent-to-agent scenarios. Altogether, this can streamline both everyday automation and more advanced agent solutions in Teams.
Read more:
- AI and Microsoft Teams: A New Era of Collaboration (Microsoft) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/ ※
- Facilitator agent demo (Microsoft) https://demos.microsoft.com/microsoft/play/5149/facilitator-agent#/0/0
- Agents in channels demo (Microsoft) https://demos.microsoft.com/microsoft/play/5145/agents-in-channels#/0/0
- Agents in communities – more info (Microsoft) https://aka.ms/CommunityAgent2025
Note: Availability is governed by licenses (including Microsoft 365 Copilot), and several features are in Public Preview, which may entail limited capacity and changes at general availability.
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