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Are there any update on the graph connector route to extend the M365 Copilot reach ? In earlier presentation there is the Graph Connector option and the Copilot Plugin (Studio) option. The announced Copilot Agents appear to be an update on the Plugin option. Is that correct ?
- sebastienlevert
Microsoft
Copilot agents are related to API plugins but also to other knowledge source, including OneDrive and SharePoint, Web Search and Graph connectors. The content retrieved and augmented can be coming from these sources today. Also, there was a great post on some updates regarding Graph connectors today: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-copilot/microsoft-graph-connectors-update-expand-copilot-s-knowledge/ba-p/4243648sebastienlevert thanks for all your replies and pointers.
I will attend the coming Ignite event in November, when the session schedule is available, can you please point me to related sessions about this subject ?
In Copilot Agents can we expect the agent to call tools that expose their functionality in an OpenAPI (swagger) way ? Similar to what we can do with langchain: https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/tools/openapi/ ?
- sebastienlevertAPI plugins are based on OpenAPI descriptions and match function based on the provided description, similar to how langchain is doing it!
- In Copilot Agents we are extending the reach of Copilot to systems outside M365 and even the Microsoft Cloud. How can we invoke actions on behalf of the users in these other systems ? Are the Identity Managment requirements like OpenId Connect ? Will the user be prompted for permissions like in OAuth ?
- sebastienlevertYes! Authentication is supported for API plugins and would support API key and OAuth today. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/extensibility/api-plugin-authentication
- Detail what features will be available for education tenants.
Copilot and all other AI systems pose an existential crisis to creative writers like me. I'm an author of science fiction books, but I could soon be replaced by AI generated stories that are little more than regurgitated intellectual property, stolen from me and every other human author. My trade organization, the Science Fiction Writers Association, has written a detailed letter to the US Copyright Office on this danger (read it https://www.sfwa.org/2023/11/03/sfwa-comments-on-ai-to-us-copyright-office/). I'm especially concerned about Microsoft incorporating AI into writing tools like Microsoft Word, which I use daily to write my books. If my copyrighted work is sucked into an AI tool without my consent, this would be a grave copyright infringement. How can authors be absolutely sure that this will not happen? As SFWA notes in their letter to the USCO: "We recommend requiring proof of license or legal right to all training data before any AI-generated work based on that data can be incorporated into a copyright registration." It is not enough for a CEO to say, "we don't use copyrighted material". Use of Copilot to generate text should require proof of the legal right to that specific text.
- aschilbachThank you for your question. I can understand why this is a concern. Copilot is not trained on customer data. You can find detailed information about this and Microsoft 365 Copilot's data, privacy, and security policy here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-365/microsoft-365-copilot-privacy Second, if you ever do choose to use Copilot for your writing, Copilot in Word generates content based on language patterns it has found throughout the internet. Sometimes its results will be very similar to existing internet content. Or, Copilot might generate the same or very similar content for multiple people who are prompting Copilot in the same way. For example, everyone who instructs Copilot to create a "recipe for apple pie" is likely to wind up with identical or nearly identical content. When originality is a concern, check for similarity to online sources (on the Home tab, go to Editor, and scroll down to Similarity). You can find some other common Q&A here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/frequently-asked-questions-about-copilot-in-word-7fa03043-130f-40f3-9e8b-4356328ee072
- I have been using Copilot for a few weeks now and am actively looking for practical use cases in a business context. Specifically in Excel I would love to see more practical examples with proven added value. Both for new as for experienced users. Are there any communities around the topic?
- KC_Lemson
Hi Sara, I work on the Excel team, here are a couple of resources to check out, please let us know what you think:
#1: http://aka.ms/ExcelCopilotBlog - for the last few weeks we've been posting a series of examples 5 days a week of how to take advantage of Copilot in Excel. Every week we then link to the previous week's daily posts on the Excel blog.
#2: http://aka.ms/Copilot/ExcelGetStarted - this is a deck with a variety of concrete examples in it showing screenshots & explanations. - Following!
- We will likely need to disable Python in Excel until we are able to assess it. How are we able to do this across our tenant?
- DavidM
You can find relevant information on Data security and Python in Excel | Microsoft Support
- I would be really interested to understand when we might see GPT-4o's new voice features appearing in Copilot. I can see so many great enterprise benefits in terms of a coaching experience with this capability.
- We have evaluated M365 Copilot and cannot justify a wider roll out across the organisation as the identified benefits do not match the high cost. We are therefore considering Teams Premium and would like to know about the key differences between the two Copilot products and whether there is any significant functionality or capabilities we would be missing out on by pursuing the Teams Premium route?
- The only overlap between Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams Premium is the Intelligent recap. With Teams Premium there is no way to ask questions to Copilot about the meeting. If you search for "teams premium vs copilot for m365 graphic" there is a good visual comparison that explains the experiences.
- Hi Graham - any chance you could reply with the link to the comparison visual as my searches for it have drawn a blank so far?
We are having to group of Copilot users in our organization, one group with M365 copilot license and group without, Regarding Copilot with enterprise data protection (EDP) being enforced, we are looking for a one-page or the needed pages required to provide that overview for the user experience for users with and without an M365 Copilot license after Copilot with enterprise data protection (EDP), is enforced - This could cover the following entry points for Copilot, http://www.microsoft365.com/chat http://www.office.com/chat • https://www.bing.com/business/chat • http://www.copilot.microsoft.com , Copilot app in Teams, Copilot app in left menu in Outlook , Copilot icon on search bar in Edge browser, Copilot in the, Edge sidebar, Window 11 search bar - And maybe more entry point exist – we have hoped for a one-page document providing this overview, but it appears such an overview does not exist - Seem to some scenario described for users with no M365 copilot license here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/overview - but not a unified overview - We cannot be the only costumers requesting such an overview ?
- I would appreciate this as well for my org, thank you.
