Microsoft Teams Rooms: New Facilitator agent takes notes in ad-hoc and scheduled meetings (Public Preview)

Microsoft Teams Rooms will soon feature Facilitator, an AI agent that takes notes in meetings. Admins can enable it using provided instructions. A Teams Rooms Pro license is required. The rollout starts in March 2025 for Windows and April 2025 for Android. Facilitator ensures security and compliance through Microsoft Purview. Coming soon to Microsoft Teams Rooms: Facilitator is a collaborative communication agent available to your users in Teams Rooms meetings. It combines the power of large language models (LLMs) and Teams data to record notes and help users be productive during meetings. Facilitator is not on by default. As an admin, you can use these instructions to control whether Facilitator is available to your entire organization or to a certain group of users. A Teams Rooms Pro license is required to use this feature. This message is related to MC1017117 Microsoft Teams: New Facilitator agent takes notes in meetings and chats (February 2025), which applies to other Teams platforms. When this will happen: Public Preview (Teams Rooms for Windows desktop): We will begin rolling out late March 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025. Public Preview (Teams Rooms for Android): We will begin rolling out late April 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025. We will communicate the plan for General Availability in a future post. How this will affect your organization: After this rollout, and after you use these instructions to enable Facilitator for your organization, users can scan the QR code on the first Teams Room screen to invite Facilitator from their phones to ad hoc and in-person discussions in Teams Rooms. Facilitator will create rich AI notes with a summary, action items, and speaker attribution. Teams Rooms will also create AI notes for scheduled meetings when the Facilitator agent is invited to a meeting by a remote attendee. Facilitator and Microsoft 365 are built on Microsoft’s comprehensive approach to security, compliance, and privacy. As a part of the security promise, you can discover, protect, and govern AI interactions with Facilitator through Microsoft Purview. Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI helps […]

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