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Upcoming April 2026 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

JessieHwang — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:56:33 GMT

Join our next community call on MApril 28, 2026, where we'll learn more about what's new with People Skills and the Skills Agent.

Reminder: Our community calls are in the Teams webinar format, so you must register to receive the link to join. The join link will be sent to you in email with your webinar registration confirmation.

The calls will still start at 5 minutes past the hour for both sessions (at 8:05 AM and 5:05 PM PT), and it will still end at the top of the hour (9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively).

While our calls are open to everyone, you must be a member of the Microsoft 365 Champion Program in order to access the presentation materials - the access link is in the initial welcome email and the monthly newsletter emails sent the week before the community calls.

An on-demand recording will still be available on our Driving Adoption > Events pages, as well as on our Microsoft Community Learning YouTube channel.

If you have not yet joined our Champion community, sign up here to get access to the monthly newsletters, calendar invites, and program assets (e.g., the presentations).

Microsoft 365 Champion community call | April 2026 | PM

JessieHwang — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:09:53 GMT

Join our next community call on April 28, 2026, to learn more about what's new with People Skills and the Skills agent.

Host: Tiffany Lee
Guest: Anirudh Bajaj
Moderator: Jessie Hwang

📢 NOTE: our community call formats are Teams webinars so you must register at https://aka.ms/M365ChampionCallAM to receive the link to join. The join link will be sent to you in email with your webinar registration confirmation.

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

👋 Was this forwarded to you? Join the Microsoft 365 Champion program today! Champions combine technical acumen with people skills to drive meaningful change. Our community calls are open to everyone, but only Champion program members have access to the presentation resources (access link is in the initial welcome email and in the monthly newsletters). Join now: https://aka.ms/M365Champions.

Microsoft 365 Champion community call | April 2026 | AM

JessieHwang — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:08:41 GMT

Join our next community call on April 28, 2026, to learn more about what's new with People Skills and the Skills agent.

Host: Tiffany Lee
Guest: Anirudh Bajaj
Moderator: Jessie Hwang

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

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腾龙总部办公室 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:17:24 GMT

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《如t l后接4-5位数字》且无统一官方声明，可能涉及非授权或虚假链接，

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该类平台在境内属违法行为正规企业如，北京腾云天下科技有限公司，大数据服务商，

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PowerPoint: Edit with Copilot, Brand Kit and Image Gen: Overview + demo- March 2026 M365 Champions Community call

TiffanyLee — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:04:07 GMT

Hello Champions!

Here’s a recap and top Q+A from our March M365 Champions monthly call of 2026, featuring PowerPoint: Edit with Copilot, Brand Kit and Image Gen with Anubhav Nigam and Khaleel Amarshi from the PowerPoint product team.

We kicked off the call with two major community event announcements. First, the recap of SharePoint 25th Birthday Celebration on March 2, 2026—a free digital event highlighting SharePoint’s most defining innovations and offering a forward‑looking view into its AI‑driven future, with insights from Microsoft leaders. We also shared that the Microsoft 365 Community Conference returns April 21–23, 2026 in Orlando, where attendees can connect with Microsoft experts, explore hands‑on labs, and dive into the latest advancements across AI and Microsoft 365.

Anubhav and Khaleel led the main sessions with a deep dive into what’s new in PowerPoint with Copilot, highlighting how presentation creation and editing are becoming significantly more intelligent and intuitive. Formerly referred to as “Agent Mode,” Edit with Copilot uses natural language to plan, execute, review, and deliver complex presentation tasks—going far beyond simple text edits. Copilot can reason across an entire deck, restructure content, rewrite slides for clarity or time, and ground its output using work content, files, the web, and the current presentation, all while continuously self-correcting to better match user intent.

A major focus of the session was brand‑aware, on‑brand creation by default through the combined use of organizational templates and Copilot Brand Kits. Templates act as the primary source of truth, while Brand Kits enhance results by supplying logos, colors, fonts, imagery styles, layouts, and brand voice—helping Copilot generate slides that truly look like they were created by the organization. The product team also showcased advances in context‑aware image generation and AI‑powered image editing, enabling users to generate, refine, and polish visuals directly in PowerPoint without relying on external tools. Together, these updates position PowerPoint Copilot as a powerful creative partner that reduces effort while raising the quality and consistency of presentations.

Q+A from this month's session:

1. Our Brand Kits we created seems to disappear all the time (shared as Official corp brand kit as brand admin). Sometimes they return but now seem to have fully disappeared.

Answer: Can you please report this via feedback? We will track this. This should not be happening and possibly some bug we will definitely look into.

2.Are we going to discuss the recently announced changes to Copilot Chat (basic) access in M365?

Answer: We're gathering more information and will bring it to everyone as soon as we can! Edit with copilot is on web already. And soon rolling out to desktop app.

3. What model does edit with copilot use?

Answer: OpenAI; We have a model picker coming soon. You will be able to pick the model to use (OpenAI or Claude)

4. Do the templates be in a particular format for the agent to read them and replicate the company branding?

Answer: It is recommended for templates to have example brand slides and brand info that guides the system. More information in this doc Keep your presentation on-brand with Copilot - Microsoft Support. The templates will appear in the chat pane contextually for your selection

5. Can we use templates at all? We don't have brand templates

Answer: You can use it without templates as well.

6. This functionality will leverage on templates in SPO Brand?

Answer: It will leverage templates from OAL or brand kits in Create

7. Do Brand Kits enable creating a branded deck from the main Copilot Chat landing page, or should users use Copilot in the PPT app itself? How do Brand Kits play into this?

Answer: For now, it will be available via "Edit with Copilot" inside PowerPoint. We will eventually have it at other surfaces as well.

8. If an official Brand Kit is added to Copilot Create, will it be available for PowerPoint?

Answer: Yes, the brand kits from Create are leveraged in PowerPoint edit with Copilot

9. My company has many business units with distinct branding - can the feature handle that?

Answer: Yes, you can have multiple brand kits at company level

10. How can you apply and use brand templates that are not built / or does not use SharePoint Asset Libraries? We have specific brand guidelines but are unable to use the branded PPT template we have available with Copilot. Any guidance would be appreciated, thank you

Answer: Keep your presentation on-brand with Copilot - Microsoft Support Hope this article will help. The Edit with Copilot leverages templates from either Copilot Brand kits or from Organization Asset Library)

11. Can the team consider have "authorized users" to setup a Brand Kit. Like Marketing or Sales Department personnel?
Answer: You can define a group of brand managers who can only create and publish official brandkits. You can also define edit access for a shared brand kit. Create and manage official Brand kits in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app - Microsoft Support

12. If we update slides in the organizational template would the presentations that use those slides also update?

Answer: Yes, we use the latest template available in OAL or brandkit.

13. Does the Brand Kit capability access an existing Organizational Asset Library in SharePoint?

Answer: Yes, while setting up a brand kit, you can reference your assets in OAL.

14. The brand kit intermittently disappears and fails to open, and now it doesn’t appear at all.
Answer: Can you please report this via send feedback option on Create Copilot. Will help us get the necessary information to debug the issue.

15. Is the Brand Kit the same as the SharePoint Brand Centre?

Answer: Brand kits and brand center are different. Brand center allows you to add part of brand information for applying brand to SharePoint sites and Viva. Brand kits help provide richer information for your brand including brand guidelines, styles, color palettes, voice etc. Brand kits are used by Copilot for branded content creation (image generation, presentation generation, video generation).

16. The experience has been that Brand Kits/Creating PPTs from brand templates is really best done in https://m365.cloud.microsoft/create vs. the Copilot desktop app.. does that sound accurate?

Answer: You can setup brand kits both from web or Copilot desktop app. There should not be a difference

17. Is Agent Mode available in the GCC environment?

Answer: +2-2.5 months after GA, this is the typical rollout timeline.

18. Are there any plans to make Brand Kits accessible via an API (such as MS Graph)?

Answer: Can you please share the use case?

19. How does a creative person export a brand kit to someone who has access to OAL? Typically those aren't the same person.

Answer: Export to brand kit is not available, but you can refer OAL assets in brand kit. Would love to understand the requirement for exporting brand kit to OAL

20. Our users are asking for Copilot chat to leverage OAL templates, OAL images, official Brand Kits, without having to find the 'agent mode' buried under hidden settings in the apps. Is there a way to set the default templates, images, brand kits, etc. for Copilot chat so that when users simply use the main Copilot chat window to create a PPT deck, it defaults to a specific corporate template/kit?

Answer: Getting brand kits work with Copilot chat is on the roadmap. More details on - Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint (Frontier) - Microsoft Support

21. If we like someone else's slide themes, can we upload sample slide decks for the agent to learn from to build our slides in a similar theme?

Answer: Edit with Copilot treats the input template as source of styling, layouts, and formatting. So depending on your input PPT/templarte your output look and feel will change.

22. Do the Brand Kits work with the old Office Themes? And actual potx (not just pptx)?

Answer: You can add both to a brand kit

23. Who can create brand kits?
Answer: IT administrator has to grant you access as Brand Manager. You also require a Microsoft Copilot license. Anyone can create a personal kit, but official kits can only be created by brand managers which can be configured by an office policy configuration. Create and manage official Brand kits in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app - Microsoft Support

24. With Copilot in PowerPoint, will it recognize the PPT templates or does the brand kit work better for keeping layout, color and other details consistent?

Answer: Edit with Copilot leverages templates first, and enhances with brand kit for on-brand output.

26. Is this using Claude models?

Answer: Currently, it's using OpenAI; We have a model picker coming soon. You will be able to pick the model to use (OpenAI or Claude).

27. Will Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint be on by default for the user like Edit with Copilot in Excel and Word?

Answer: Yes, change coming soon. It will save you those multiple clicks to get to agent and be on by default.

28. Is the Brand Kit the same as the SharePoint Brand Centre?

Answer: No, these are two different things as of today. Brand center leverages your info for SharePoint branding but brand kits on Create help you created branded images and PowerPoints via Copilot.

29. Can you have multiple brand kits for different clients?

Answer: Yes, you can have multiple brand kits.

30. Can the team consider have "authorized users" to setup a Brand Kit. Like Marketing or Sales Department personnel?

Answer: You can define a group of brand managers who can only create and publish official brandkits. You can also define edit access for a shared brand kit. Create and manage official Brand kits in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app - Microsoft Support

Join us next month on April 28th for our next community call featuring People Skills + Skills agent.

Haven't joined the program yet? It's free! Join here: https://aka.ms/M365Champion.
Bring your questions to our discussion forum: https://aka.ms/DriveAdoption.

Microsoft 365 Champion community call | March 2026 | PM

JessieHwang — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:14:22 GMT

Join our next community call on March 24, 2026, to dive into PowerPoint: creation in Copilot and agent mode.

📢 NOTE: our community call formats are Teams webinars so you must register at https://aka.ms/M365ChampionCallPM to receive the link to join. The join link will be sent to you in email with your webinar registration confirmation.

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

Note: If you are unable to watch the recording on YouTube, try watching it here.

Microsoft 365 Champion community call | March 2026 | AM

JessieHwang — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:14:09 GMT

Join our next community call on March 24, 2026, to dive into PowerPoint: creation in Copilot and agent mode.

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

Note: If you are unable to watch the recording on YouTube, try watching it here.

Upcoming March 2026 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

JessieHwang — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:02:39 GMT

Join our next community call on March 24, 2026, to dive into PowerPoint: creation in Copilot and agent mode.

The calls will still start at 5 minutes past the hour for both sessions (at 8:05 AM and 5:05 PM PT), and it will still end at the top of the hour (9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively).

An on-demand recording will still be available on our Driving Adoption > Events pages, as well as on our Microsoft Community Learning YouTube channel.

If you have not yet joined our Champion community, sign up here to get access to the monthly newsletters, calendar invites, and program assets (e.g., the presentations).

Release Notes for adoption.microsoft.com

arinkomins — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:44:58 GMT

Hi all!

Just checking, but it doesn't look like adoption.microsoft.com's release notes (Release notes – Microsoft Adoption) has had any updates since the end of January -- which feels wrong. Is something misbehaving with that feed?

Word, Excel and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Overview + live demo- February 2026 M365 Champions Community call

TiffanyLee — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:17:58 GMT

Hello Champions!

Here’s a recap and top Q+A from our February M365 Champions monthly call of 2026, featuring Word, Excel and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot with Alex Yang, Chelsea Fesik and Sangeeta Kulkarni of the Office AI product team.

We kicked off the call with two major community event announcements. First, the SharePoint 25th Birthday Celebration is happening on March 2, 2026—a free digital event highlighting SharePoint’s most defining innovations and offering a forward‑looking view into its AI‑driven future, with insights from Microsoft leaders. We also shared that the Microsoft 365 Community Conference returns April 21–23, 2026 in Orlando, where attendees can connect with Microsoft experts, explore hands‑on labs, and dive into the latest advancements across AI and Microsoft 365.

Alex and Chelsea introduced the new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agents coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot, explaining that they are designed to solve the “blank page” problem by turning natural‑language intent into finished, professional artifacts, not just drafts. They positioned these agents as task‑specific “thought partners” that help users move from conversation to completed documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, grounded in enterprise data and the web while respecting permissions. The agents ask clarifying questions when needed (such as audience, tone, or format) and support multi‑turn iteration so users can refine content conversationally rather than starting from scratch.

During his demo, Alex focused on the Excel (and PowerPoint) agent experience, showing how Copilot can create a fully built Excel workbook directly from a natural‑language request. In his demo, the Excel agent generated a multi‑tab spreadsheet complete with formulas, structured models, and sourced data, then seamlessly handed the file off to Excel for further refinement. He explained that the agent intelligently decides when to use enterprise data versus web research and highlighted the workflow distinction: using agents in Copilot chat for creation from scratch, then switching to in‑app agent mode for precise, iterative edits once the file exists.

Next, Chelsea demonstrated the Word agent, emphasizing long‑form, structured writing scenarios such as guides, reports, and proposals. Her demo showed how Word agent asks clarifying questions (like audience, tone, and theme), then generates a polished document that users can refine through conversation—adding sections, changing tone, or expanding details. She highlighted multi‑turn iteration, visible references, and how the agent acts as a thought partner that helps users move past the blank page while still keeping them in control of the final output.

For more information on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agents coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot, read the official release blog by Sangeeta Kulkarni here!

Q+A from this month's session:

Can Word Agent use organizational templates?

Answer: Not fully today. Users can reference existing documents or templates and the agent will try to replicate them, but native support for organizational template libraries is still in progress.

Will Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents be available without Copilot Premium?

Answer: Rollout is currently prioritized for Microsoft 365 Copilot Premium customers, with broader availability planned after the initial rollout completes.

When will these agents be available worldwide (including Australia)?

Answer: Rollout started roughly two weeks before the call, with Microsoft aiming to saturate most worldwide tenants during March.

Will agents support corporate brand kits and branding guidelines?

Answer: This is planned but not fully supported yet. Agents can reuse referenced documents today, but formal brand kit and template integration is under active development.

Will these agents be embedded directly inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint?

Answer: They are accessed via Copilot Chat and the Tools/Agents menu. Inside the apps, users interact through Agent Mode, which is the preferred in-app experience.

When is the best time to use these agents in Copilot app vs agent mode in Word/PPT/Excel?

Answer: The Word/Excel/PowerPoint Agents in the M365 Copilot app are best suited for creating new documents. When you have a document already created and want to iterate on your document with Copilot with the document open side-by-side, then Agent Mode is best-suited for that.

How do Word/Excel/PowerPoint Agents differ from Researcher Agent?

Answer: Researcher is optimized for deep, long-running research. App agents are optimized for creating polished, app-native documents with layouts, charts, and formatting.

How does Microsoft reduce hallucinations in generated content?

Answer: Newer models have significantly lower hallucination rates, and agents surface citations, flag missing data, and provide templates when data can’t be verified.

Are sources and citations included in generated documents?

Answer: Yes. Agents generate explicit source lists for facts and numbers, especially for Excel and research-heavy outputs.

What happens if the agent can’t find reliable data?

Answer: Instead of fabricating information, the agent will flag missing data or provide a structured template for the user to complete.

Are these agents user-created or personal agents?

Answer: No. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Researcher, and Analyst are first‑party Microsoft agents, not user-created agents.

What happens to agents when a user leaves the organization?

Answer: Agents remain available. Files created by the user follow standard OneDrive offboarding and governance processes.

Do these agents live in a user’s OneDrive or SharePoint?

Answer: No. The agents themselves do not live in user storage; only the generated documents do.

Why am I seeing “Frontier agent availability is restricted” errors?

Answer: This indicates the tenant is not enrolled in the Copilot Frontier program and the GA version has not yet rolled out to that tenant.

Do I need to enable Anthropic as an AI provider for these agents?

Answer: Anthropic enablement is required for Frontier access, but many users simply need to wait for GA rollout to their tenant.

Will the Frontier agent disappear once GA is available?

Answer: Yes. The Frontier version will be replaced by the general availability agent when rollout completes.

Will these agents appear in the Copilot Tools menu?

Answer: Yes. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents will appear alongside Researcher and Analyst in the Tools menu.

Is there any difference between accessing the agent from copilot for m365 app or within the app itself?

Answer: The agents in the M365 Copilot app and from within the app itself are similarly capable. The M365 Copilot app agents are tuned towards creating documents, whereas if you want to do lots of iterative work, we recommend using the Agent Modes inside of the apps.

Can Excel Agent generate full financial models?

Answer: Yes. Excel Agent can generate multi-sheet workbooks with formulas, projections, dashboards, and scenarios.

Can Word Agent pull from enterprise data like meetings and files?

Answer: Yes. Word Agent can pull from Microsoft Graph sources such as emails, chats, meetings, and documents—respecting permissions.

Can agents generate charts, graphs, and visuals?

Answer: Yes. Word and Excel agents generate charts and tables, and PowerPoint Agent generates slides with visuals.

Can users iterate on generated content after creation?

Answer: Yes. Users can continue refining content either in Copilot Chat or directly in the app using Agent Mode.

Can prompts and agent behavior be version-controlled in SharePoint?

Answer: This is not applicable because these agents are not user-created; they are global first‑party agents.

Are governance controls the same as other Microsoft 365 files?

Answer: Yes. Generated files follow the same sensitivity labels, permissions, and compliance controls as any other file.

Are Word/Excel/PowerPoint Agents the same as Copilot Studio agents?

Answer: No. Copilot Studio agents are custom and user-created, while Office app agents are first‑party Microsoft features.

We have a managed property "Sensitivity" applied to OneDrive and SharePoint. These labels include "Corporate, sensitive, confidential, etc.) to assign to documents and data. Does - or - can Copilot agents be made to respond to Managed Properties to not include specific content with its creations?

Answer: Yes, all of the agents support sensitivity labeling and Azure Information Protection.

Is it possible to limit the data source to our tenant's content or is it always assumed to look/use the web?

Answer: Select Work (at top) then go to Settings and turn off Web search.

So, what's the best way to describe the different between Analyst and Excel Agent, or Researcher and Word Agent?

Answer: The Word and Excel agents are scoped specifically to functionality within those applications. Researcher will use content from a variety of sources in your enterprise and is meant for deeper analysis.

I'm in a GCC Tenant, are these available in there now?

Answer: These are currently in the process of rolling out the agents to users in the Worldwide (non-GCC) environments. We will be rolling them out to GCC at a later date.

The game changer and what I am waiting for is actually calling the WXP agents from an agent flow so that it can create documents in a deterministic way. When will that be possible?

Answer: No timelines to share about this just yet, but this is something we also really want as well. ;)

Join us next month on March 24th for our next community call.

Haven't joined the program yet? It's free! Join here: https://aka.ms/M365Champion.
Bring your questions to our discussion forum: https://aka.ms/DriveAdoption.

Upcoming February 2026 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

JessieHwang — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:07:27 GMT

Join our next community call on February 24, 2026, to learn more about Word, Excel and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

The calls will still start at 5 minutes past the hour for both sessions (at 8:05 AM and 5:05 PM PT), and it will still end at the top of the hour (9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively).

An on-demand recording will still be available on our Driving Adoption > Events pages, as well as on our Microsoft Community Learning YouTube channel.

If you have not yet joined our Champion community, sign up here to get access to the monthly newsletters, calendar invites, and program assets (e.g., the presentations).

Microsoft 365 Champion community call | February 2026 | PM

TiffanyLee — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:27:16 GMT

📢 NOTE: our community call formats are Teams webinars so you must register at https://aka.ms/M365ChampionCallPM to receive the link to join. The join link will be sent to you in email with your webinar registration confirmation. Clicking RSVP here will not provide a join link.

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

👋 Was this forwarded to you? Join the Microsoft 365 Champion program today! Champions combine technical acumen with people skills to drive meaningful change. Our community calls are open to everyone but only Champion program members have access to the presentation resources (access link is in the initial welcome email and in the monthly newsletters). Join now: https://aka.ms/M365Champions.

Note: If you are unable to watch the recording on YouTube, try watching it here.

Microsoft 365 Champion community call | February 2026 | AM

TiffanyLee — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:22:41 GMT

Join our next community call on February 24, 2026, to learn about Word, Excel and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

📢 NOTE: our community call formats are Teams webinars so you must register at https://aka.ms/M365ChampionCallAM to receive the link to join. The join link will be sent to you in email with your webinar registration confirmation. Clicking RSVP here will not provide a join link.

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

👋 Was this forwarded to you? Join the Microsoft 365 Champion program today! Champions combine technical acumen with people skills to drive meaningful change. Our community calls are open to everyone but only Champion program members have access to the presentation resources (access link is in the initial welcome email and in the monthly newsletters).

Join now: https://aka.ms/M365Champions.

Note: If you are unable to watch the recording on YouTube, try watching it here.

Excel Copilot now supports local files (Preview): what this means for everyday users

Anirudh07 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:55:06 GMT

In the Microsoft 365 Current Channel (Preview), Excel Copilot Chat now supports local Excel files, not just workbooks stored in the cloud.

This is a meaningful usability improvement because many users, especially students and early-career professionals, still work primarily with datasets stored locally on their devices.

Why this matters for adoption:

Users can now interact with Copilot Chat while analysing local Excel files.
This reduces friction for offline work, assignments, and exploratory data analysis.
It makes Copilot more practical for everyday learning and productivity workflows.

For users learning data analysis, reporting, or business intelligence, this update lowers the barrier to using Copilot consistently rather than only in cloud-based scenarios.

I am exploring how these preview features can improve real-world adoption and learning experiences, particularly for students and early-career users who work with Excel daily.

Helping students adopt Microsoft 365 tools for learning & productivity

Anirudh07 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:31:43 GMT

Hi everyone,
I’m a Microsoft 365 Champion and MSc Data Science student, and I’m currently helping fellow students get started with Microsoft tools such as:

• Power BI (data analytics & dashboards)

• Microsoft Learn learning paths

• Microsoft 365 productivity tools

I’m curious:

What are the biggest challenges you’ve seen when introducing Power BI or Microsoft Learn to students or early-career professionals?

I’d love to learn from your experiences and share what’s worked in an academic environment.

Measuring success in Microsoft 365 & Copilot adoption

Anirudh07 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:18:22 GMT

As a student Microsoft 365 Champion, I’m starting to notice that successful adoption isn’t just about enabling tools — it’s about how adoption is measured and guided.

In my learning, simple analytics (usage trends, engagement patterns, feedback loops) combined with tools like Power BI seem to make a big difference in understanding what’s actually working and where support is needed.

I’m curious — for those working on Microsoft 365 or Copilot adoption, what KPIs or signals have you found most useful beyond basic usage counts?

Copilot Pages: Overview + live demo- January 2026 M365 Champions Community call

TiffanyLee — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:13:50 GMT

Hello Champions, and Happy New Year!
Here’s a recap and top Q+A from our first monthly call of 2026, featuring Copilot Pages with the Copilot Pages & Microsoft Loop product team members Constance Gervais, Senior Product Manager and Oby Omu, Product Manager.

Constance introduced Copilot Pages as the next evolution after Copilot Chat—turning conversational output into flexible, collaborative canvases. She highlighted how pages support rich content types, enable sidebyside editing with Copilot, and can be generated instantly using intent based prompts like “create a page.” She also shared practical prompts attendees can use to build structured pages, refine content, or even experiment with interactive UI prototypes.‑by‑side editing with Copilot, and can be generated instantly using intent‑based prompts like “create a page.” She also shared practical prompts attendees can use to build structured pages, refine content, or even experiment with interactive UI prototypes.

Oby followed with a live demo showcasing how Copilot Pages simplify research, ideation, and content creation. She demonstrated starting with the Researcher agent, adding results into a page to further refine the research output, and then generating a PowerPoint from that page to quickly communicate key takeaways to colleagues — highlighting how Pages seamlessly move content into whichever M365 app best supports your next step. Her walkthrough also demonstrated real‑time editing with Copilot — including turning text into tables, shortening sections, and adjusting tone and formatting with Copilot shortcuts — as well as restoring previous page versions.

She showed how Pages are built for collaboration with capabilities like comments, content author identification, presence indicators, @mentions, and sharing — with particular emphasis on sharing a page as a component in M365 apps such as Teams to enable real‑time collaboration without leaving the app. Lastly, she previewed emerging capabilities for creating interactive UI experiences using code‑backed pages.

We wrapped with a live Q+A session featuring Constance, Oby and our colleague Patrick Gan, Principal Product Manager from Copilot Pages and Microsoft Loop product team, who helped answer attendees’ top questions.

Prompts to try out!

Creating a page (“Create a page” )

Create a wiki for onboarding new team members that explains our team’s goals, key tools, workflows, and who to contact for help. Create this as a polished page with sections.
Based on our recent chat in the [Team/Project/Support] channel, create an FAQ page covering common questions and standard responses
Convert this chat thread into a page with a table of decisions, rationale, and tasks. Flag unresolved questions. Post a 3‑bullet recap at the top for a quick scan. Output directly on a Page.

Editing a page when page is open

Add an introduction section to the top of the Page, and a short table of contents based on the themes or headers
Update references from “2024” to “2025” and update headers to be collapsible
Turn the 3rd paragraph into a diagram with accessibility labels and a title

Generating visual content (“create an interactive UI”) - currently rolling out in Web tab

Make an interactive UI explaining Microsoft Environmental Strategy.
Create an interactive UI that helps me manage my weekly team scrum. It should randomize the order of participants, time everyone with 3 minutes to speak and remind them to mention achievements, help needed, and fun plans for the weekend.
Build an interactive UI seating chart that lets me explore different seating layouts based on the dimensions of the room and the number of people registered for my conference

Try out the new Copilot Pages features and share your feedback! Download Microsoft 365 Copilot App | Microsoft 365

Q+A from this month's session:

1. Can Copilot Pages be shared with users who don’t have an M365 Copilot license?

Answer: Yes. Anyone with an M365 license can access and use Copilot Pages; only certain features (like Researcher) require the paid Copilot license.

2. Is a Copilot Page the same as a Power Page?

Answer: No. Copilot Pages are separate and built leveraging the Loop experience; they are not connected to Power Pages.

3. Why don’t I see the Researcher agent in my Copilot app?

Answer: Possible reasons include:

You don’t have an M365 Copilot license,
Your admin has disabled agents, or
The feature hasn’t rolled out to your tenant yet.

4. What’s the difference between free Copilot Chat and paid M365 Copilot?

Answer:
• Free Copilot Chat: Web only grounding.
• Paid M365 Copilot: Web + Work grounding, including files, emails, meetings, SharePoint/OneDrive content.

5. Do Copilot Pages have version history?

Answer: Yes. You can view and restore past versions of a page.

6. Does the post call Copilot experience require the meeting to be recorded?

Answer: Yes. Copilot depends on having a meeting recording available.

7. Can Copilot-generated PowerPoints use corporate branded templates?

Answer: Yes. You can apply company templates by starting from a branded deck or using Designer-supported templates.

8. Is Copilot Memory available for saving tone or communication preferences?

Answer: Yes. Copilot Memory can store preferred writing styles; custom Agents can also help maintain tone.

9. Are interactive UI pages available to everyone?

Answer: No. This feature is rolling out and currently only available in the Web tab for some users.

10. How do I reopen a Copilot Page after closing it?

Answer: Pages appear in the Copilot Library and in the Loop app (Recent Pages). Both access the same file.

11. Does free Copilot Chat ever access my organization’s data?

Answer: Not automatically. It only uses your data when you manually upload or attach a file.

12. Can admins control who creates agents?

Answer: Yes. Tenant admins can govern agent creation policies.

13. Does Outlook’s Agenda/Loop component behave the same as Loop in Teams?

Answer: No. Some experiences appear similar but function differently across apps, leading to user confusion. The product team is working on alignment.

14. Is it possible to export a Copilot Page to a SharePoint Page?

Answer: Not currently but can you say more of what you might want to do? We are always interested in learning new scenarios!

15. Can I automate tone or message style based on my manager’s patterns?

Answer: Yes. This can be done using Copilot Memory or by building a custom agent with your preferred tone instructions.

16. Can Copilot Pages be converted into Word or PowerPoint?

Answer: Yes. Pages can generate Word documents, PowerPoints, or PDFs from the Page tool bar menu.

17. Can I use Pages in Teams without leaving the chat?

Answer: Yes. Pages can be shared as components that update live inside Teams chat.

18. Do components update in real time for all collaborators?

Answer: Yes. Live presence and simultaneous edits are supported.

19. Can Pages be used without Loop Workspaces?

Answer: Yes. Even if your organization hasn’t enabled Workspaces, Pages still function and can be shared individually.

20. Can users without Loop or Pages access embedded components?

Answer: Yes, as long as they have M365 identity and access permissions.

21. Can I upload my own template for Copilot-generated presentations?

Answer: Yes — Copilot honors the template used when starting from an existing branded file.

22. Why can’t I see Pages in Teams?

Answer: You may need to access Copilot through the browser (“work/web” toggle) or your admin may have disabled features.

23. Can you embed a Copilot Page inside SharePoint?

Answer: Not natively today. You can share links/components, but not publish as a SharePoint page.

24. Is it possible to get list of prompts/steps done for the demo? As it be a big help to run something similar for our organization.

Answer: yes we will try to share! We are also doing a webinar on this so stay tuned :-)

25. How can you organize Pages?

Answer: You can try and organize your pages with Copilot Notebooks. In the page header you'll find a "..." where you can Add to Notebook.

26. What would be the difference between app building in Copilot Pages vs App Builder Frontier agent ?

Answer: Copilot Pages can be used to visualize concepts, create interactive reports/dashboards, and even simple tools for team collaboration. Pages are files in Microsoft 365 and can be shared and managed as such. To create line of business applications for your entire tenant, App Builder is our recommended solution that provides additional governance and management as well as scalable data to meet your needs.

27. Can Copilot create a PowerPoint in your company's PowerPoint-branded template from Copilot pages?

Answer: Yes it can! If your company has connected branded templates.

28. Please advise if M365 copilot chat that comes with the M365 business premium license has direct access to your company data, there is confusion from staff when looking at your M365 copilot hub page where there is a copilot chat overview however I don't think they are the same thing, can you confirm that the M365 paid copilot chat and the M365 included copilot chat are the same and therefore has access to your company data -hopefully I am making sense

Answer: Business Premium users will see both Work and Web as options for Chat - meaning that they can query Copilot on items in their tenant. Customers who don't have the Copilot license but have access to Copilot Chat, and that chat is only based on the web.

29. It seems like copy/paste component is like Loop, is there a comparison somewhere?

Answer: Yes, Pages are very similar to Loop and can be shared like Loop components.

30. Does the call need to be recorded for the after call experience to be available with Copilot regarding the new feature announced on the call today?

Answer: Yes, the call needs to be recorded, or have transcription turned on, in order to use Copilot on the call itself.

31. When it creates a page is it loop and where does it save?

Answer: Copilot Pages are stored in SharePoint Embedded. They are based Loop but are slightly different - see this faq! Frequently asked questions about Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages - Microsoft Support

32. Is this page referring to Power Pages, or is it a separate page feature within Copilot?

Answer: This is a separate feature from power pages

33. Do pages or these components have version history ?

Answer: Yes, Pages have version history! View or restore previous versions of Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages

34. Where exactly do Copilot Pages and Copilot Notebooks live?

Answer: They are stored as a .page file in SharePoint Embedded, inside a user-owned container. For more information please read: Overview of Copilot Pages and Copilot Notebooks storage | Microsoft Learn

35. If a user leaves the organization, how can admins or managers access their Copilot Pages?
Answer: Pages follow the same governance pattern as OneDrive:

The SharePoint embedded container is lifecycle managed with the user account and is deleted when the user account is deleted from the organization.

You can't permanently reassign content to a new owner.
The container follows the same cleanup schedule as OneDrive: 30 days active, then soft deleted, and permanently purged 93 days after soft deletion.
Admins can recover the entire container (including all Copilot Pages and Copilot Notebooks) during the soft delete period using the SharePoint Admin Center or PowerShell.

37. Can retention policies be applied to Copilot Pages?
Answer: Yes.
SharePoint Embedded containers respect SharePoint retention policies set by IT administrators. For more information please read: Purview management for SharePoint Embedded containers | Microsoft Learn

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Upcoming January 2026 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

JessieHwang — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:46:56 GMT

Join our next community call on January 27, 2026, to dive into Copilot Pages!

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JessieHwang — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:33:58 GMT

Join our next community call on January 27, 2026, to learn more about Copilot Pages.

Host: Tiffany Lee
Guest: Constance Gervais
Moderator: Jessie Hwang

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Microsoft 365 Champion community call | January 2026 | AM

JessieHwang — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:33:42 GMT

Join our next community call on January 27, 2026, to learn more about Copilot Pages.

Host: Tiffany Lee
Guest: Constance Gervais
Moderator: Jessie Hwang

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

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