Tag: Microsoft 365 CoPilot

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Free Copilot Chat Lands For All, Exchange Audit Logging Changes & The New Outlook Arrives: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E34

Free Copilot Chat Lands For All, Exchange Audit Logging Changes & The New Outlook Arrives: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E34

Join Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux to discuss Microsoft's latest announcements, including the surprise move to make Copilot Chat free for all Microsoft 365 users, significant changes coming to Exchange Online audit logging, and the new Outlook's arrival via Windows Update. Plus, get their takes on Microsoft's major AI reorganization with the new CoreAI division, and what all these changes mean for IT pros as we start 2025.

January 23, 2025
Practical Copilot: Creating a Declarative Agent 7 Comments

Practical Copilot: Creating a Declarative Agent

Microsoft is all in for Copilot at present and agents are a big part of the story. Multiple ways exist to create a declarative agent for use with Copilot in BizChat and Teams. This article reviews how to create an agent with the Teams Toolkit, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft 365 Copilot - and if any usage data are created for custom agents.

January 21, 2025
Practical 365 Review of 2024 2 Comments

Practical 365 Review of 2024

In our 2024 review of Microsoft 365, we consider some of the major technical advances that occured in Microsoft's cloud ecosystem in 2024 together with some upcoming changes that have the potential to affect tenant operations. As always, our choice of what's important and what's not might not match yours, so feel free to comment and voice your opinion.

December 19, 2024
Practical Graph: Analyzing Microsoft 365 Copilot Interactions Using Compliance Records

Practical Graph: Analyzing Microsoft 365 Copilot Interactions Using Compliance Records

Every time Microsoft 365 Copilot interacts with a user, the Microsoft 365 substrate captures the Copilot interaction as a compliance record in the user's mailbox. By fetching and analyzing the compliance records, we can understand how the user interacts with Copilot. This article discusses how to retrieve and analyze the records with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.

November 4, 2024
Agents are the Most Interesting Initiative in Copilot Wave 2

Agents are the Most Interesting Initiative in Copilot Wave 2

Microsoft's big launch of Copilot Wave 2 featured many new capabilities, like a super-duper focused Inbox for Outlook (one that works this time), Python in Excel, and a profusion of agents for SharePoint Online. The idea behind agents is pretty good and should be valuable, even if IT might have some dark thoughts about how agents might allow people to access information that they shouldn't (this won't happen).

September 19, 2024
Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Real World 3 Comments

Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Real World

Just over two weeks ago at Ignite 2023, Microsoft confirmed features that made the cut for Microsoft 365 Copilot, and what features are coming further down the line. With full access to the GA version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Steve Goodman takes a look at how well it works in the real world, and how it interacts with data in your Microsoft 365 tenant.

November 29, 2023