Microsoft is integrating Copilot AI agents directly into Teams meetings, where they can take notes, create agendas, and manage tasks alongside participants. Image Source: ChatGPT-5
Microsoft Brings AI Copilot Agents to Teams, SharePoint, and Viva
Key Takeaways: Microsoft Adds Copilot AI Agents Across Teams
Microsoft Teams is rolling out Copilot AI agents for meetings, channels, SharePoint, and Viva Engage.
Facilitator agents can join meetings to create agendas, take notes, answer questions, and generate tasks or documents.
Channel agents answer questions from past conversations and meetings and create project status reports.
Community agents in Viva Engage support admins, while knowledge agents in SharePoint organize and summarize files.
Facilitator agents are available now, with expanded features, workflows, and audio recaps currently in public preview.
Microsoft’s AI Push: Copilot Agents for Teams and Beyond
Microsoft is expanding Copilot integration across its workplace platforms, adding dedicated AI agents for Teams meetings, channels, SharePoint, and Viva Engage. The company says these assistants are designed to support collaboration, automate tasks, and provide real-time answers within the flow of work.
The new facilitator agents can sit in on Teams meetings, generating agendas, taking notes, and responding to participant questions. They can even suggest time allocations for agenda items, alerting teams when discussions run long. Beyond note-taking, facilitator agents can create documents and tasks, with these advanced functions currently in public preview.
A mobile version of the facilitator agent is designed for quick use, allowing activation “with a single tap” so spontaneous hallway chats or in-person syncs are also captured.
Channel, Community, and Knowledge Agents Expand Support
Beyond meetings, Microsoft Teams channel agents are able to answer questions based on previous discussions and meetings. They can also generate status reports for projects, reducing manual updates for teams.
In Viva Engage, Microsoft’s company-wide social network, community agents support administrators by answering user questions and helping manage large-scale organizational conversations.
Meanwhile, knowledge agents in SharePoint work behind the scenes to organize, tag, and summarize files, streamlining enterprise content management.
Workflows and Audio Recaps Enter Preview
The release also introduces a redesigned Workflows tool that enables users to create AI-driven task automations within Teams. Another preview feature allows agents to generate audio recaps based on meeting notes, offering an alternative way to review past discussions.
According to Microsoft, these features are rolling out first to Microsoft 365 Copilot users, with facilitator agents available today. Channel, community, and knowledge agents join them in public preview.
Q&A: Microsoft’s New Copilot Agents
Q: What are facilitator agents in Microsoft Teams?
A: Facilitator agents can join meetings to create agendas, take notes, answer questions, and generate tasks or documents.
Q: How do channel agents work?
A: Channel agents review previous conversations and meetings to answer questions and create project status reports.
Q: Where are community agents available?
A: Community agents run inside Viva Engage, supporting administrators and answering questions from users.
Q: What do knowledge agents do in SharePoint?
A: Knowledge agents organize, tag, and summarize files to improve content management and retrieval.
Q: Which features are available now vs. preview?
A: Facilitator agents are available today, while document and task creation, channel agents, community agents, knowledge agents, workflows, and audio recaps are all in public preview.
What This Means: AI Agents in the Flow of Work
The arrival of Copilot agents across Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage signals a shift in how collaboration platforms are evolving. Instead of AI being an optional add-on, assistants are now positioned as active participants in meetings, channels, and workplace communities.
For enterprises, this could mean meetings where note-taking, task creation, and time management are handled automatically, freeing employees to focus on decision-making and strategy. For knowledge work, it suggests that administrative and reporting tasks—once manual and time-intensive—are increasingly becoming invisible, automated processes.
More broadly, Microsoft is setting an expectation that workplace platforms should come with built-in AI collaborators by default. If successful, this move may push competitors to embed similar agents, redefining how teams expect software to support daily work.
Editor’s Note: This article was created by Alicia Shapiro, CMO of AiNews.com, with writing, image, and idea-generation support from ChatGPT, an AI assistant. However, the final perspective and editorial choices are solely Alicia Shapiro’s. Special thanks to ChatGPT for assistance with research and editorial support in crafting this article.