Set up and manage meetings

0:00 Then we'll jump into Outlook, where Copilot can summarize long email threads, draft responses, and even coach your writing. Let's start with Teams. Here I am in Microsoft Teams in my calendar view. Here at the Kevin Cookie Company, we hold meetings just as often as we bake cookies. I'd like to use Copilot in a meeting. So first off, I need to join a meeting. Up in the top right-hand corner, let's click on Meet Now, and right down below, let's click on Start Meeting.

0:27 This opens up a new meeting. First things first, if you want Copilot to assist you throughout your meeting, make sure that you click on the Copilot button right at the start to enable the transcript. I'll click on this, and here we see this dialog, and I have the option to start transcription. So why do we have to do that? Well, because Copilot relies on the transcript to summarize and answer questions about your meeting. Without it, Copilot won't be able to capture the entire conversation.

0:53 I'll click on Start Transcription. Here, it wants to know what language is everyone speaking. We're going to be speaking in English, US, over here. I'll click on Confirm, and when I do that, over on the right-hand side, we now see the Copilot pane where we can interact with the AI. Now, if you don't want to transcribe the meeting, you can still use Copilot, but there's a catch. You need to configure it ahead of time so that Copilot knows what to focus on.

1:20 Let's take a quick look at how you can set this up. Here I am