Outlook used to be where you worked. Starting today, it's where Copilot works for you.
Until now, Copilot in Outlook helped with the task in front of you: drafting an email, catching up on a long thread, or finding a time to meet. Useful, but not the hardest part. The real work is everything around it: the follow-ups that slip, the messages that need attention, and the schedule changes that pile up before the day even starts.
That’s what’s changing today. Copilot in Outlook is now agentic, taking on the ongoing work of running your inbox and calendar. It triages emails, reschedules conflicts, and surfaces what matters most before you even ask.
Manage your inbox with Copilot
Managing your inbox isn’t just about reading and replying. It’s the steady work of keeping things moving. Copilot in Outlook now takes on that work, prioritizing emails, surfacing what needs a response, drafting follow-ups, and setting up rules to keep your inbox clutter-free.
You tell Copilot what you need, and it works through the steps, showing what it’s doing along the way so you can review, adjust, or step in whenever you choose.
Prompts to try:
- Help me with follow-ups: Identify people who haven’t replied to my emails after 24 hours, prioritize the ones that matter most, and draft polite follow-up emails for me.
- Draft complex emails: Pull the latest updates on [project name] over the last week. Draft a confidential, high‑importance update email for my manager.
- Stay on top of important emails: Create an inbox rule that assigns the “High Priority” category to all new emails from my manager where I’m on the “To:” line.
- Catch up after vacation: I just returned from vacation. Help me catch up: summarize what I’ve missed, highlight what’s most urgent, and draft a short briefing email. Then suggest emails I can safely archive and 1-2 tasks I should focus on first.
Availability: Available via the Frontier program for all Outlook endpoints beginning April 27.
Delegate calendar management to Copilot
Scheduling a meeting is the easy part. What comes after, reprioritizing, resolving conflicts, and finding time to prepare, is what really takes the effort.
Copilot in Outlook now does continuous work in your calendar. It keeps your schedule on track, handles routine changes, and helps you align your time to what matters most.
Proactively monitor and manage your schedule
Based on your preferences, Copilot can proactively manage your calendar. It can respond to meeting invites, resolve 1:1 conflicts by rescheduling, rebook meeting rooms, and block focus time when you need it.
And when you need to make a change yourself, Copilot can help from chat or in the meeting form - rescheduling or canceling a meeting, updating details, or drafting an agenda based on the goal, audience, and tone you have in mind.
Prompts to try:
- Schedule a Copilot-managed 1:1 meeting: Schedule a weekly 1:1 with my manager for Monday afternoons. Reschedule when conflicts occur.
- Protect my time: Automatically follow all large meetings if they are outside my working hours, unless sent by my leadership team.
- Adjust my schedule: Reschedule all of my 1:1s with my direct reports for next week to the Friday afternoon that week.
- Draft an agenda: Create an agenda for tomorrow's product launch standup. Focus on open blockers, owner assignments, and a go/no-go decision.
Availability: Available via the Frontier program for Outlook for Windows and web beginning April 27.
Align your time to your priorities
It’s not always clear where your time goes at work. Copilot helps you step back and adjust your schedule around what matters most, so you can see your priorities, spot where you’re overbooked or context-switching, gather what you need to prepare, and protect focus time before important meetings.
Prompts to try:
- Prioritize my time: Review my calendar next week and recommend which meetings I should decline, follow, delegate or convert to async in order to reduce meeting load while maintaining output quality.
- Prepare for meetings: Help me prepare for my meeting with [customer name] tomorrow. What do I need to know, what should I ask, and what risks should I watch for?
Availability: Available via the Frontier program for Outlook for Windows and web beginning April 27.
Get started
Copilot in Outlook now handles the work across your inbox and calendar. Join the Frontier program to get early access and help shape these new agentic experiences.
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