Microsoft 365 Copilot AMA

Thank you all for joining our AMA today! I'll be locking this event to new questions but you should always be able to see all the questions and answers here on this page, so feel free to bookmark. We will also be following up on any existing threads for follow-up questions. If you have more questions, feel free to check out the Microsoft 365 Copilot Discussion Space here on Tech Community and stay tuned for our follow up blog on this AMA!

"would like this use case... ""Find a :30 minute block of time next week with sarah burton to discuss X-Y-Z"" Copilot suggest 3 timeslots and book based on my feedback, automaticallychoosing a slot that works for the person's time zone, and automatically populating the topic and objective and asking me ""before I send, is this ok?"" with ability to modify before sending. "

"1. Copilot does not offer prompts such as ""Send an email reminder to"" , ""Create an outlook task"" , ""Create a reminder for "" 2. Copilot is not available in calendar, meeting invites , tasks ... 3. Copilot high level summaries have good accuracy on the output. 4. Copilot email drafts are innacurate (i.e. built with general information in mind that is not pertaining to the context) "

Another statement from Microsoft - „ When you have data that's encrypted by Microsoft Purview Information Protection, it won't be returned by Microsoft 365 Copilot unless the user is granted at least the View usage right.“ What about data that is not encrypted by Microsoft Purview Information Protection? Will it be returned regardless the user is granted at least the View usage right? Can you please explain your statement in more sentences? Thank you

Will copilot be able to view and extract data from a marketing targets linkedin account and profile

Will copilot be able to build mail merge documents and contact lists for manual approval and editing?

Hello, on one hand, Microsoft states that “Microsoft 365 Copilot is built on top of Microsoft’s current commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. There's no change to these commitments.“ (see Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Learn). On the other hand, another statement from Microsoft explains “While Microsoft 365 Copilot generated content currently doesn't inherit the most restrictive permissions or label from the source, Microsoft 365 Copilot cites the original source, which will retain the protection.” (see Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Learn). My questions is - do users get responses generated from documents the user has in fact no permission?

After a license is upgraded to use copilot, is there going to be a single setting somewhere in the admin controls to temporarily pause all copilot access to that users account?

A usecase I would love to have available is something along the lines of "take the 150x marketing leads on this spreadsheet, and based upon their titles, and company sizes, write 3x separate marketing email sequences around product offering XXX with value props and solution examples segmented by department. IE a marketing thread for finance titles, for IT director and C-level titles, and a thread for lower level IT admin titles. save each email thread into a separate word doc in directory XXX on network drive XXX" is this going to be possible?

Will there be a way to allow copilot to access bing / google search results from within a spreadsheet? example: "search bing for each of these companies on this sheet, and add a url in column E to any news article denoting if these companies have suffered a ransomware attack in the last 180 days etc"