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- Sarah_Gilbert
Community Manager
Thank you all for participating in today's AMA! This thread is now closed for new questions, but you can revisit all Q&As on this page—consider bookmarking it. For any follow-ups, we'll continue the conversation in the existing threads. Further questions? Join us at the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Discussion Space. Also, mark your calendars for the Tech Accelerator on Feb 28-29 for a deep dive into Copilot with our experts. More info at: https://aka.ms/AccelerateCopilot
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- I'd like to know how to get Copilot to.use information better shared in Teams chat.. For example if someone shared a table in a chat is like to be able to use it to create a document or something else.. Or add to it using Copilot like I could a table in Word.
- Sarah_GilbertWelcome to the Microsoft 365 Copilot Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA)! This live hour gives you the opportunity to ask questions directly to the Microsoft team. Please post any questions in a separate, new comment thread on this event. We also wanted to remind you to save the date for the Tech Accelerator on Feb 28—two days of Copilot deep dives and expert Q&A. You can find more details here: https://aka.ms/AccelerateCopilot
- In Meeting Options, Meetings can be set to “automatically record”. Is there a plan to add “automatically transcribe” as an option?
- GabeHo
Microsoft
Hey Christopher, thank you for the feedback, I don't think there's anything announced on this specifically, but we'll bring this back to the teams. Just to add too, auto-recording does mean that transcription is on as well.Yes, understood. There is greater sensitivity tied to recording. Recording brings all notification and anti-wiretapping rules into place where a transcription where a recording is not retained does not. Operationally, a person has to remember to turn on transcription in the meeting to have copilot generate durable post-meeting artifacts. It reduces the likelihood that I can have copilot catch me up on what I missed if I were to join late or miss the meeting completely. It would be a valuable pre-meeting setting to have available.
- Can Copilot activity be audited, i.e. to determine what data in SharePoint/OneDrive was accessed?
- ScottSchnollYes, all Copilot interactions are in the Audit log, and eDiscovery tools can be used to see what resources were used in each interaction.
- Does copilot also read content from images? Files in sharepoint
- ScottSchnollNot yet. But we're working on that.
- Is there a preferred \ best practice to enable M365 Copilot to access data that resides on Windows file servers and Azure Files? Users setting up their own through Copilot Studio or custom developing a connector?
- GabeHoHey Dave, I think that depends on the volatility of the data. Both are valid options. A connector could bring the data into the Microsoft Graph and enable native querying, while a plugin would call for the latest whenever asked to. If the data is constantly changing, perhaps a plugin would better serve you.
Copilot seems to have very limited knowledge and understanding of the structure or the filesystem itself. I.e., folder and file organization, relative locations, even what "contains" means. I have the sense this isn't really something in the "nature" of LLMs, but here goes:
e.g.,
- query:"are there any ps1 files in the workbench folder in my onedrive?"
- reply:"Yes, there is at least one ps1 file in your workbench folder in your OneDrive. The file refreshXMLAUser.ps1 was mentioned in the bpcm-2181_deploymen_essbase_filest.txt file1 Is there anything else you would like to know?"
There wasn't any such file there. But there was another file that had content *describing* it. So again it is all content based. No "cognizance" of structure of filesystems.
However, if i limited it to questions like this:- query:"in my onedrive folder, are there any folders with the word "project" in their names?"
- query:"in my onedrive are there any folders named "crypt"?"
Results seemed accurate and useful. And yet, this resulted in a "sorry don't know":
query:"of those folders, how many contain files with the filename extension "SVG"?
underneath the special projects folder, and recursively descending, find files with the filename extension "SVG" "Are there prompting or configuration techniques that will give Copilot "awareness" of file-and-folder structures useful for querying? And/or is this something that is on the roadmap?
- GabeHo
Hey Justin, it may be that your user data is still being indexed and therefore Copilot may not have a reference to it yet. If you're an admin, you can check the status of indexing through the Microsoft 365 admin center. Check out these articles for more https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftSearch/semantic-index-for-copilot#enablement
as well https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftSearch/semantic-index-for-copilot#enablement
Otherwise, the index isn't so much about file structure or system, more so about the relevancy and context of the data.- Understood, thank Gabe. I guess my feedback on that point is this: many businesses will actually capture a lot of context and "metadata" in the filesystems. E.g., folder structure is regional hierarchy state/district/county/city/office and then under that maybe a couple of special folders for "YET_TO_BE_PROCESSED". And even if it is best practices to have rich detailed "document properties" type metadata that also captures this, there are many filetypes that do not offer such metadata (even if I could get the budget to have people go back across all the files and insert and update metadata like that).
- Will Copilot have full functionality on mobile versions of M365 Apps for Android and iOS?
- DanNarlochHI Anthony, thanks for the question. Yes, we will be bringing Copilot for Microsoft 365 functionality to Android and iOS devices. Many features have already been added which you can reference on our roadmap site and searching by the product Copilot for Microsoft 365 and platform, Android or iOS. More will be added as product releases continue. link to Android roadmap: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?ms.url=m365comroadmap&rtc=1&filters=Microsoft%20Copilot%20for%20Microsoft%20365%2CAndroid
- Not specifically mentioned on that roadmap (I think): the Android app "Copilot", seemingly the equivalent of Microsoft Copilot Chat, i.e., https://copilot.microsoft.com/ offers a Sign in option, but it does not offer a "Work or school account" sign in option, and thus, when I attempt to login with my work account, I get "We couldn't find an account with that email address or phone number" , and thus I'm stuck with the web-only non-enterprise context/grounding interactions.
- Similarly if I ask copilot to review documents on OneDrive it I can't figure out how to ask it to review everything folder just specific documents can you help provide some guidance?
- GabeHo
Hey Jeremy, thanks for the feedback. Have you tried adding the link to the specific folder in your prompt?
- No I will try adding a link, I rather conceptionally would prefer to reference the data inside the chat then provide a "link" to the chat as that workflow could reffrence external or internal data
- I have been exploring CoPilot and I have never seen the "Catch up with CoPilot" in outlook. What are the criteria for that to show up?
- i want in!! i want to learn how to gosx
- Sorry, what is gosx?
- ScottSchnollWhat version of Outlook are you using? Is this the New Outlook (desktop) or web app?
