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- Sarah_Gilbert
Community Manager
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.- Thank you, Sarah, Amber, Niranjan, and Jack, for this excellent AMA!
- When or if is the Custom GPTs option coming to Copilot for Microsoft 365? As we've awaited our language to be supported in Copilot, the team has invested significantly in Chat GPT Plus custom GPTs for internal processes. We would like to port them over and also have something as straightforward as that functionality to be available for regular users. Copilot Studio current features seem not to cover those simple customizations and seem way too vast. It's a real onboarding blocker. Any comment?
- JackRowbotham
Microsoft
Hey Jakub, We did announce the new capability of building your own copilot (Microsoft's equivalent of a GPT) built by Copilot Studio, and published to Copilot for M365. This is in a limited preview right now and availability will expand soon. This will allow you to design a copilot for a specific function or persona, grounded in your knowledge, all built via a conversation and will be called by Copilot for M365 when needed. We dont have anything to share specifically about bringing OpenAI's GPTs to date.
- Sarah_GilbertHow can organizations leverage the extensibility features of Copilot Studio? I figured since we had our experts here , this question is worth asking!
- JackRowbothamAt Build, we introduced Copilot connectors that will help you extend Copilot for M365 with your own data and workflows. Copilot connectors enable anyone to ground their copilot in business and collaboration data which makes it possible to bring in data like public websites, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Dataverse tables, Microsoft Fabric OneLake (coming this calendar year), Microsoft Graph, as well as leading third-party apps. You can read more here: http://aka.ms/copilotstudiobuild24
- Is there a way to tell why Copilot gives the "Copilot could not complete the request. Please try again later." error messages (saw in today in Copilot for Powerpoint and Copilot for Excel). In the same vein, what the "system status" is (up, down, overloaded with requests)?
- cjtanThis is good feedback that it would help to be more transparent with messages like this. There could be a variety of reasons for the response. When you see this happen, please tap on the "thumbs down" action and let us know so we can make this better.
- The current price of Copilot at $20 per month is quite expensive for developing countries like India. Do you have any competitive or affordable pricing plans based on regions?
- I'd agree and build on that stating - expensive for any startup when the product doesn't even deliver the results as thought....
- Currently, Copilot works within Microsoft products. Do you have any plans to support Copilot for SAP products and other partner products?
- NiranjanDeoOur partners are building Copilot extensions to integrate with Microsoft Copilot. Check these out: https://cloudpartners.transform.microsoft.com/copilot-partner-ecosystem We don't have anything to share yet on embedding Microsoft Copilot in other applications.
- I am using Excel as part of Microsoft 365 in my office. Currently, I can only see the "Analyze Data" feature and cannot find Copilot in Excel. When will Copilot be enabled in my version of Excel? Is this feature specific to certain enterprise packages, or does it need to be enabled by my admin?
- NiranjanDeoCopilot in Excel rollout starts June 2024. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Microsoft%20Copilot%20(Microsoft%20365)&searchterms=excel
- It would be great to be able to use Copilot to "police" conversations (email, chat, messaging, etc.) and block outbound messages if the tone is not appropriate (suggesting an alternative). How would we go about doing this or is it a feature request?
- Sarah_GilbertHey there! You can usually provide feedback and requests in app or through the feedback portal. This is outlined here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/providing-feedback-about-microsoft-copilot-with-microsoft-365-apps-c481c26a-e01a-4be3-bdd0-aee0b0b2a423
- Hello from Tucson, AZ.
- Sarah_GilbertHello Hal! Hope you are having a great day!
- So far, so good. Here to learn stull and help folks if I can. Thanks!!!
- Our initial challenge was wanting Copilot to use our data and not using external data but without specifically link to a file this seemed difficult from with Word. I seem to recall somebody mentioned this has been addressed, has it and what are method of ensuring that approach (without making our own Copilot)?
