Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 News
Today was Microsoft's big Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 announcement. A lot of updates and a rebrand. I did a fast video edit of all the demos from the keynote in under 10 minutes here π₯
Here is what you need to know:
Microsoft 365 Copilot - the new, much better name for what was "Copilot for Microsoft 365", which gives Microsoft 365 apps and services Copilot abilities.
In the 18 months since Copilot was announced, there have been more than 700 product updates and 150 new features including moving to GPT-4o.
In the future, Microsoft plans to leverage the new OpenAI o1 with Advanced Reasoning.
The two main Copilot interfaces/modes:
Copilot Chat - The Free web version. This includes enterprise data protection when you sign in with an Entra (Azure AD) account. Soon, you will be able to pin Copilot Chat directly into Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook. No Microsoft 365 Copilot licence is needed.
Business Chat (BizChat) - Copilot with Web/Work mode, signed in with Entra ID and with a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence. Allowing Copilot to pull data from multiple sources in your work environment, including SharePoint and meeting transcripts.
Microsoft 365 Copilot new features:
Copilot Pages - a new dynamic, persistent canvas AI collaboration (think Loop) that works alongside Copilot Chat. To create and share content created with Copilot assitance. Available to free, web Copilot when signed in with their Entra account and with Microsoft 365 Copilot/BizChat. IT Admins, here is what you need to know about Pagesβ
Copilot Agents - Broadly speaking, agents automate and execute business processes. They can reason, remember, be trained, and even know when to ask for help. Agents range from simple prompt and response to more advanced agents that automate tasks to sophisticated agents that are fully autonomous and can orchestrate other agents. Agents are now generally available in BizChat
Microsoft demonstrated simple and more advanced Copilot Agent creation right in SharePoint, using SharePoint for source information and connecting to Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to invoke a parts order directly from the agent.
Copilot agents built in Copilot Studio can now be published directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Agent builder - a lightweight Microsoft Copilot Studio experience. Build agents from within SharePoint and Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat (BizChat).
Copilot in Excel - now generally available. Copilot in Excel can now reason over text. Copilot in Excel with Python Preview released.
Copilot in PowerPoint - Narrative builder, creating a deck, respecting enterprise templates with Brand Manager, adding speaker notes and transitions
Copilot in Teams - can now reason over both the meeting transcript and the meeting chat.
Copilot in OneDrive - You can summarize one or multiple files or compare 2 files in your OneDrive web app without opening each file.
Copilot in Word - Coming in September 2024, Copilot in Word will enable you to quickly reference not only web data and work data like Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, and encrypted documents and also emails and meetings.
Copilot in Outlook - Prioritize My Inbox can now help you prioritize your inbox. It analyzes all your emails using both the content of your messages and the context of your job to highlight what's most important.
Microsoft also launched Major updates to the Copilot Success Kitβ
See the demos of all of the above in less than 10 minutes here, and for more, check out the Microsoft blog here and the full keynote session video here.
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Copilot really stole the show this update, but if you use Microsoft Teams call queues and have compliance recording, check out this important to understand update on transfer mode/conference mode.β
Also, Microsoft is changing Microsoft Teams voice and face enrollment - from off by default to on by default.