Can Copilot send Teams notifications?

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It seems the Teams dev team wants us to only get notifications for Teams meetings and they don't care if I miss all client meetings with Zoom or Google Meet links for bizarre and nefarious reasons. So to work around this egregious lack of basic functionality I want to create a duplicate meeting for all meetings with Zoom or Google Meet links and some basic ML should do the trick. Not sure why this isn't how it works now, but I need to fix my own version of Teams and this seems like the best way to do it. (Years of feedback hub stagnation suggests that's not the best solution). Can someone help me get access and describe how to do this?

I'm on a Mac so PowerAutomate isn't an option, plus I've never gotten PA to work even with Excel or Word because MS seems to have poor cache management and never actually knows when files are updated so sequences never trigger.

nicolaskheirallah · Answer

Wrong place but I'll see if I can help you.
First of you won't get notifications for other meetings than Teams meeting because teams doesn't know that those meetings have started and those clients don't have APIs to tell Teams now this meeting has started.
You should get 15min notification from outlook IF they've sent you an meeting invite to your outlook.

So with that being said, if you want more notifications you can create a power automate flow that sends your a teams notification for all your meetings at the precise time. This would be rather simple 🙂

ericbbdo · Answer

I can never find the right place to ask in MS ecosystem -- there's like 7 forums for 365 and I can't tell where 365 apps begin and end (calendar for instance). I know it's super easy to parse text with machine learning tools. Should be super easy to just look at the text in a meeting using ML to determine if there's other meeting URLs in the meeting. That's why I'm looking at Copilot. I'm pretty technical so writing a script in Python to get Teams to function would be fantastic, should be very easy to implement so I'm hoping Copilot can do this. Power Automate is way too confusing, not designed for people with my skill set and isn't really supported on a Mac anyway. I'll also try to fix Teams with Apple Automator before I stab my brain with Power Automate, what a horrid tool.

nicolaskheirallah · Answer

Yeah multiple products in the whole 365 suite, Calender should be under Outlook 🙂
You can look into this;
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/communities/ct-p/communities

I think you've gotten abit backward about how Copilot works and how Power automate works an possible mixing power automate and automate dekstop. 🙂
Power automate is competly web based as will trigger on web-based connector and APIs that are supported.

For example outlook or teams it will get the information from the webversion via graph api.

Power automate desktop is for repetive tasks that are local and this isn't supported by mac, but you won't need this anyways as above should handle everything for you 🙂

Copilot will generate content but it won't do Machine learning in for of automation. It's more you tell it what it needs and it try's to create it (or atleast a template)

So there won't be any need to script anything, what you need to do it trigger when a new event is create, check if it's a zoom meeting or google meets and schedule a notification when it's time.

This should be a good start as a guide you can modify, after getting the event you should be able to filter nd create a condition to check if it's a zoom meeting:
https://aycabas.com/2020/11/26/my-calendar-manager/

ericbbdo · Answer

Calendar is also in Teams so that's why I mention it. It's redundant, they have different UIs, and sometimes different functionality -- obviously MS isn't a design-first institution if the left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing. It should be it's own app so we can look at a calendar and chat and email at the same time, but again lack of design gets MS into these bizarre workflows.I'm not going to use PA because it's too confusing and has never worked for anything I've tried. It's sort of like trying to communicate visually in Teams, a complete waste of time. Anything with a code window will be easier and also has proper debugging. When you can't get the value of an Excel field with PA that you just updated with PA and there's no way to debug except go to one-of-seven 365 forums and get scolded because none are for PA, then it's simply not possible to use PA. (Oh and the issue for that was you need to manually save the excel file, PA is unable to refresh a file that it has already opened.)I have no idea how CoPilot works, I'm just desperate to get basic 2023 functionality out of Teams, which I understand is impossible. it should be super easy to implement meetings that are content-aware and know when something is formatted like a meeting. Even without modern ML, junk folders works quite well similarly. Even Mail in iOS has a bunch of ML under the hood, this is basic functionality anymore.It's obviously MS not wanting us to book meetings outside their ecosystem.

ericbbdo · Answer

But I do appreciate that you recognize I need to hack Teams to be able to reliably get meeting notifications. I just happen to know it's a combination of lack of design and lazy app development.

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