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Our New AI Virtual Assistant is A Game-Changer for Meetings and Calls, Learn Why.

Let’s agree on something: meetings can be a big pain when not handled in the best way.

Do you often lose track of the tasks and reminders that were set during the meeting? Have you ever had to bring someone up to speed about what happened in a meeting they missed? Does it take you a long time to prepare for a meeting, send files & agenda to all participants via email?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need to keep reading this post, for sure.

Meetings allow everyone in the company to make their voices heard. It’s where information is shared and key decisions are made. However, when the meeting is over, only a few action items and due dates will be remembered. Most of that information will go by endless email threads and one of the most likely scenarios is that the meeting will have to be repeated.

Introducing Agi – AI Virtual Assistant

AGAT is proud to present what is the future in meeting virtual assistants.

With the help of our AI engine, Agi – our Virtual Assistant uses the conversation transcript from the recording to automatically generate insights, summaries and most importantly automatically pull tasks to your own task management system such as Asana, Monday.com, Trello, Microsoft Planner and more.

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Overview of Virtual Assistant Insights Tab

How does Agi AI Virtual Assistant improve your workflow?

Agi works during and after the meeting to ensure no wasted efforts and help organize your meeting content. Here is how it works:

During the meeting:

Never let any item fall between the cracks with our Virtual Assistant. Agi is able to detect meeting insights like tasks, notes, decisions, agenda, and summary. You can use the trigger words to ask Agi to do things with just your voice like Agi, write a decision.” Agi can also identify tasks without specifically saying the trigger words by using the Assistant AI Insights Engine. 

After the meeting:

To achieve better continuous collaboration, instead of sharing meeting highlights with participants via email, Agi allows you to continue your collaboration using Webex space or MS Teams group chat. Thus, creating a central meeting collaboration place which everyone can use as a reference.

The space / group chat created for the meeting automatically includes the following content:

  1. Meeting recording
  2. Meeting transcript including who was the speaker and the time of utterance
  3. Chats and files shared
  4. All meeting highlights by category: agenda, decisions, notes and summary
  5. List of tasks and action items that are linked to your preferred task management system (Asana, Microsoft Planner, Monday.com, Trello, and more)
  6. Follow up meetings needed
  7. List of notes to sync to your CRM customer information
  8. List of reminders

AI Virtual Assistant – Agi facilitates the follow-up process on tasks that were set during the meeting. This can be done by syncing your tasks to your preferred task management system and displaying their live status from the task manager to Webex space / MS Teams group chat. In the Webex space / MS Teams group chat, you will also be notified when the time is due for the reminders that were set during the meeting.

Even more Functionalities:

Save your time with Agi by automating the meeting management process. From creating a space / group chat to creating meeting minutes. Agi will auto-generate the meeting minutes for you to facilitate the process of bringing people up to speed. Meeting minutes can also be exported as a PDF. Agi also uses AGAT’s AI engine to generate a meeting summary ensuring that participants present and absent know what was discussed during the meeting. This is done without the need to specifically saying the trigger words to create the summary during the meeting.

AI Virtual Assistant uses the latest technology to identify sentiments in meetings. To improve communication and identify potential risks, our AI engine analyzes meeting transcripts and is able to detect sentiment behind the speech. Sentiment can be joyfulness, happiness, neutral, surprise, anger, disgust or sadness. Then, you will get a positive or negative score which will aid in identifying situations where more attention is needed because of high negative sentiment or cloning positive behavior. In addition, taking advantage of the sentiment analysis capabilities, users are presented with insights on their network by showing the ‘Your Network’ analysis. You can see the people in your company with whom you are most positive or negative. The results can be used to enhance your relationships with others in your organization.

And lastly, if you haven’t finished your discussion in the allotted time, Agi will help you schedule a follow up meeting automatically.

Watch the Assistant in action:
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Conclusion – you need to try it!

In a world where meetings are far from disappearing, and only increasing, it’s important to have the means of preventing wasted time as well as optimizing manual and tedious processes that are often neglected. That’s where AGAT’s AI Virtual Assistant – Agi comes in. 

Contact us today to see how AI Virtual Assistant can help you and your team become more productive. 

For more information about AI Virtual Assistant – Agi, please visit our website.

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Guest Users Microsoft Teams

Everything you need to know on granting external and guest access in Microsoft Teams.


In this article we’ll explain to you in a very simple and concise way everything you need to know on external and guest access for Microsoft Teams, plus a lifesaving tip to increase productivity in this platform.

1-External Sharing

1- External Sharing: gives you the chance to communicate through chat, and coordinate meetings with a common calendar. Also, it is handy sharing documents, files, libraries and event complete sites by SharePoint Online. This feature is the best option to collaborate with someone outside your institution, when you invite him this member becomes a guest access. 

Now let’s dig into this type of access and its characteristics. Allows you to invite external users to become members of your team, which means you are giving access to an individual and not to a domain.  

So, what are the permissions for a guest access? 

  • They will have the capability to create channels, and share the channel files 
  • Can participate in a channel conversation, and private chats  
  • Be able to post, delete, and edit messages 

Permissions of Team Members and External Users with Guest Access

2- How to enable guest access in Microsoft Teams? 

In teams guest access is turned off by default and the only way to enable it is to be an Office 365 global admin. These are the following steps you need to go through:  

  • In the Microsoft Team Admin Center go to Org – Wide Settings and tap on “Guest Access” 

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  • Switch the “Allow guest access in teams” to ON and click save (Can usually take up to 24:00 hours for changes to become effective) 

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3 – Configure guest access in Microsoft Teams

This is a vital section of the setting up phase, because here you will manage what the guest will be able to see and do. In the same spot where we allowed guest access you can configure the settings for (Calling, Meeting and Messaging). Leaning on what you want to allow by clicking on or off and afterwards save it so it applies to your new settings  

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Remember guests once in the team can get access to all public channels, be aware.

Also a guest is not limited in actions (file sharing, calls, etc.)

4 – Now it is time to start adding some guests !!  

Only Team Owners can add guests in teams. Firstly, make yourself an owner of a team in (Teams > Manage) and start adding new users 

  • In the teams app on the left sidebar select “Team” and go to the team you want to add a guest  
  • Select more options and click on add a member  
  • Introduce the guest email address, afterwards click save and your guest will receive a welcome invitation email  

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With guest access your content never leaves your sight, because all your data gets saved on your tenant. Here you can protect it, oversee it and manage it. Different projects require different needs that’s why it’s essential to educate your users in order to have a secure environment where your data is secure.  

How to solve the issue with guest access being able to participate in every channel?

There is bad news and good news with this respect. The bad news is that this kind of control is not possible within the platform itself.

The great news is that AGAT has the simplest way to manage guest access into Microsoft Teams. Sphereshield for Microsoft Teams offers, amongst its complete suite, the possibility to get a granular customization on guest access and define which channels a guest can and can’t do.

To get a FREE live demo, contact us today.

Most of the content in this article was retrieved from https://sharegate.com/blog/microsoft-teams-guest-access-permissions-settings-how-to-add-guest

For more information on the capabilities and limitations of Microsoft Information Barriers read this post -> https://agatsoftware.com/blog/information-barriers-microsoft-teams-capabilities-and-limitations/