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Administration of Microsoft 365 in the new era of AI

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MicrosoftEducationTeam
Brass Contributor
Mar 16, 2023

Today Microsoft 365 Copilot was announced for commercial customers. Copilot combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with organizational data in the Microsoft Graph – calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and more – and the Microsoft 365 apps.


Microsoft 365 Copilot services are not available to education customers at this time. We are listening to feedback and collaborating with the education community to further fine-tune AI powered experiences in educational scenarios.

 

During the initial private preview, Copilot services will be available by invite only to commercial customers. As these services become more broadly available, we will be providing admins with technical documentation about available controls and policies.


You can read more at aka.ms/M365AdminAI.

Updated Mar 16, 2023
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5 Comments

  • NHarzic's avatar
    NHarzic
    Iron Contributor

    I recently attended the Microsoft Envision event in London. The main topic was AI and the implentation of Copilot in Office 365. It would be amazing as an educational customer to be able to trial this as we are working with young people on the cutting edge of IT. 

  • daveyharrell's avatar
    daveyharrell
    Copper Contributor

    I teach a Business Excel course at BYU Idaho.  I really would love to get access asap.  I tried https://pureinfotech.com/enable-copilot-microsoft-excel-preview/and it didn't work. 

     

    Please let me know if anyone figures this out.  

  • Niamh_Armstrong's avatar
    Niamh_Armstrong
    Copper Contributor

    As an educator please can educators get prior access to Microsoft 365 Copilot before the general release in order to prepare modules for these exciting new developments? Thanking you

  • Vince_DiStasi's avatar
    Vince_DiStasi
    Copper Contributor

    It would be helpful for EDU customers get and early preview as well. At least for faculty (this has been done this with Viva Learning). Many faculty are producing as well as using content from publishers but could easily benefit using this technology for preparation of lecture materials and lesson plans for example. I find it odd that at times when products are introduced there is no avenue for EDU customers to test them as well. The most recent example is Microsoft Teams Premium, which DOES have options that would be welcome to EDU customers, but we (EDU) can't even purchase the license.

  • Sam Roberts's avatar
    Sam Roberts
    Brass Contributor

    Hi Team,

     

    I would like the EDU customers too to get an early preview for educators to start with before we could get students to access them.

     

    Could you please consider education customers as well please?

    Thanks