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How are you connecting OKR tracking to Copilot workflows?
My manager asked me to figure out how we can use Copilot to help with our OKR process. Right now we track objectives in a SharePoint list and its a mess. People forget to update progress, key results are disconnected from daily work, and nobody looks at it until the end of quarter scramble. Has anyone found a way to bring OKR tracking closer to where people actually work in Teams/Copilot? Or is there a Teams app that handles this better than a spreadsheet?Legal Teams: Drafting Documents Securely with Copilot
In today’s legal environment, speed matters just as much as accuracy. Legal teams are under constant pressure to draft contracts faster, review documents more efficiently, and maintain airtight compliance standards. At the same time, firms and corporate legal departments are handling larger volumes of sensitive information than ever before. This is where AI-powered tools like Microsoft Copilot are transforming the way legal professionals work. https://dellenny.com/legal-teams-drafting-documents-securely-with-copilot/How to use agents response as an input to a topic?
Hi I would like to use the agents reponse to store it in a word or excel file. For that, I would like to use the response provided by the agent, pass it on to my custom topic which triggers an agentic workflow to store the agents response in a word or excel file. I cannot sort out how to pick the agents response and pass it on to my custom topic, any help will be highly appreciated, thanks!
Architectural: Copilot should detect missing source data, avoid inference, and surface uncertainty.
Users expect the AI to detect when it lacks source data, avoid inference, surface uncertainty, and adapt to environmental constraints like character normalisation. These behaviours materially improve trust and usability. I’ve been working with Copilot on structured data extraction from a PDF and noticed a behaviour that seems like an architectural gap rather than a simple bug. Copilot attempted to infer table structure from a template when it did not have access to the actual source data. It produced confident but incorrect output instead of signalling that the source was unavailable. Additionally, Copilot attempted to output TAB‑delimited data, but the MS365 environment silently normalised TABs to spaces, and Copilot did not detect or adapt to this constraint. Recommendation: Copilot should proactively: detect when it lacks source data avoid inference when accuracy is expected surface uncertainty explicitly detect environment‑specific formatting limitations (e.g., TAB stripping) adapt output formats automatically These behaviours would materially improve trust, reliability, and user experience.
Copilot Studio Agent resetting when processing PDF drawings (300MB+) via Claude 4.6 Sonnet
Hello everyone, I am building an automated drawing review verification agent inside Copilot Studio using the Claude 4.6 Sonnet model. The goal of the agent is to read a comments package (20-40MB) and verify if those design comments were successfully incorporated into a milestone drawing set (300MB–400MB). When testing this workflow natively within Claude, the model handles the token load perfectly and returns an accurate compliance/incorporation summary within approximately 20 minutes. However, when running the exact same agent setup within Copilot Studio, the conversational canvas repeatedly crashes and resets the session. I suspect I am hitting the 100-second synchronous conversational timeout or overloading the chat runtime payload limits due to the massive file sizes. Because of corporate compliance policies, this agent must live within our Microsoft tenant so it can be scaled across our operations team via Microsoft 365. How can I fix Copilot Studio to have its performance match Claude's, as it is utilizing the same agent model. I am fairly new to working with AI but am willing explore any avenue as if I can figure out a solution this will help save a lot of time for colleagues. Thanks in advance for any insights!Cowork Custom Instructions Not Autoloading
When you tell Cowork "remember this for next time" or "always do X," Cowork suggests (or just goes ahead and makes) an update to copilot-instructions file. It tells you the preference has been saved and the file does get written. However, it doesn't automatically load the custom instructions file at the start of new sessions. You have to specifically mention it in a prompt. Once you do, it will load the and use the file to guide its responses for the remainder of the session. I feel like one of two things are happening here: 1. I'm missing something 2. The Cowork dev team missed implementing what I would consider a basic feature, even for a "Frontier" feature. Can anyone else confirm that this is the behavior they experience?Copilot studio Agent Dataverse index issues.
We are testing a Copilot Studio agent and would like to test/use Dataverse as a data source. At a very basic level, the Dataverse table has been created with the following columns: Category Question and topic Answer to customer The challenge is that our Copilot Studio agent cannot find any relevant answers or data from our Dataverse table. Under ‘Knowledge’, our Dataverse table shows a status of: ‘Unknown’. It has remained in this state for several days. Removing and re-adding the knowledge source does not help. What are we doing wrong?
Different Names for Different Products
The naming between Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot is confusing. These are fundamentally different products (thinking assistant vs work‑data agent) and should have different names entirely. Premium/Basic labeling is not sufficient. Maybe the 365 product can remain Copilot and the free version be something else, like Midshipman or something.UX Improvement Proposal: Visual Indicator Showing Which Copilot Environment Is Active
I would like to propose a small but highly impactful UX improvement for Microsoft Copilot. Suggestion: Add a small icon, badge, or color indicator in each Copilot chat session to clearly show which Copilot environment is currently active (Copilot Web, Copilot Pro, Copilot for Microsoft 365, Copilot in Teams, Copilot Studio, Windows Copilot, etc.). Reason: Each Copilot environment has different capabilities, permissions, connectors, and tools. When users switch between environments—or when two people compare results from different Copilots—it becomes confusing to understand why certain features work in one place but not in another. Real example: At my university, a professor could not understand why Copilot “wasn’t doing something it had done before.” The issue was simply that he was using a different Copilot environment without realizing it. This is a common scenario for students, educators, and professionals. Benefit: A simple visual indicator would: Reduce confusion and support requests Improve clarity for non‑technical users Help users understand available capabilities at a glance Provide better context awareness across devices and platforms This is a small UI change with a big impact on usability and learning. Thank you for considering this improvement.How GitHub Copilot Impacts Code Reviews and Collaboration
Software development has always been a team effort. While writing code is important, the real strength of modern engineering teams often comes from how effectively developers collaborate, review changes, and maintain code quality together. The rise of AI-powered coding assistants has added a new layer to this process, and one of the most widely discussed tools is GitHub’s GitHub Copilot. https://dellenny.com/how-github-copilot-impacts-code-reviews-and-collaboration/Microsoft Teams Video Recap with Copilot 🤖 | New AI Meeting Highlights Explained
Microsoft Teams just introduced a powerful new Copilot feature: Video Recap 🎥🤖 With AI-powered highlights, automatic key moments, and smart navigation, you can now revisit meetings without rewatching the entire recording. In this video, I’ll show you: ✅ What the new Video Recap experience in Microsoft Teams looks like ✅ How Copilot identifies key moments automatically ✅ Who can access this feature and licensing requirements ✅ Real-world scenarios where this saves hours of time This feature is a game changer for busy professionals, architects, IT admins, and anyone living in Teams meetings.
Copilot in Edge needs direct export integration
While using Copilot in Microsoft Edge, I noticed a key limitation: there is no option to directly save or export text snippets or summaries to OneDrive, Word, or OneNote. Users must copy manually, which breaks the reading flow and reduces productivity. Competitor comparison: Claude → PDF export, integration with Notion and Drive ChatGPT → PDF/DOCX export, integration with Google Drive Gemini → Automatic export, integration with Google Drive Copilot (Edge) → Only copy/paste or browser PDF, no native integration
Edge and Copilot App - Error code: STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
I am running Windows 11 Pro - Insider Preview - Version 25H2 (OS Build 26300-8376) My "Copilot app" from the Windows Store started giving me that error code, and Edge stopped working completely, unable to access anything at all, and shows that error on the screen. Windows support won't even look because I am on Insider Preview. Please help?The Daily Stand-Up Agent A Custom Copilot for Summarizing Jira & Azure DevOps Progress
Modern software teams move fast. Between sprint planning, backlog grooming, pull requests, deployments, and stakeholder updates, developers often spend more time discussing work than actually doing it. One of the biggest pain points in Agile workflows is the daily stand-up meeting especially when team members need to manually summarize updates across dozens of tickets in tools like Jira and Azure DevOps. https://dellenny.com/the-daily-stand-up-agent-a-custom-copilot-for-summarizing-jira-azure-devops-progress/The Architecture of Copilot Agents: Building Intelligent Assistants for the Modern Era
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has ushered in a new class of systems often referred to as copilot agents. These agents are not fully autonomous decision-makers, nor are they passive tools they sit in the middle, augmenting human capability by assisting with tasks, providing insights, and automating workflows while keeping humans in the loop. From coding assistants to enterprise productivity tools, copilot agents are becoming foundational to how we interact with software. https://dellenny.com/the-architecture-of-copilot-agents-building-intelligent-assistants-for-the-modern-era/Copilot won't edit text in existing oneNote Page
Hey All, I have tried the following in both the OneNote desktop app and the OneNote O365 web app. Both fail in the way described below. I have a oneNote page that I use for time tracking on projects. I asked oneNote to edit all listings of the date in one section to 2026-05-05. Copilot states that it is starting, but then quickly transitions to a blank white box. The copilot box remains completely empty. It is unresponsive for 10 minutes. Eventually, I can click the copilot button in the menu bar and close copilot -- if I try do this right away, nothing happens. Please let me know if there is some setting or something that I need to enable, so that copilot can edit oneNoteMicrosoft 365 Copilot Gets Smarter: GPT-5.5 Thinking and ChatGPT Images 2.0 Transform Workflows
The evolution of workplace AI is accelerating, and the latest update to Microsoft 365 Copilot signals a major leap forward. With the introduction of GPT-5.5 Thinking and ChatGPT Images 2.0, Copilot is no longer just an assistant it’s becoming a more capable collaborator for complex thinking, creative production, and multi-step problem-solving. https://dellenny.com/microsoft-365-copilot-gets-smarter-gpt-5-5-thinking-and-chatgpt-images-2-0-transform-workflows/CoPilot Agent for copying and renaming Excel spreadsheets
Hi- Does CoPilot have the functionality to build copying and renaming Excel spreadsheets into an agent? I want to design an agent to take an excel file and copy the contents into another spreadsheet by use of a CoPilot prompt. These files would be resident in a Teams channel.How Project Managers Can Automate Weekly Reporting with Copilot
Weekly reporting has long been a necessary burden for project managers. It’s repetitive, detail-heavy, and often done under time pressure—usually at the end of the week when energy is already low. But with the rise of AI-powered assistants like Microsoft Copilot, the way project managers handle reporting is rapidly changing. https://dellenny.com/how-project-managers-can-automate-weekly-reporting-with-copilot/Is the Copilot model picker available in Word for the Microsoft 365 Premium (Individual) plan?
Hello, I would like to confirm whether the Copilot model picker is available in Microsoft Word for subscribers of the Microsoft 365 Premium Individual plan. Specifically, I am referring to the feature that allows users to switch between different AI models, such as: - Claude Opus 4.7 - GPT-5.5
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