Stop Everyone Prompting Differently! Organizational Prompts in M365 Copilot (Full Walkthrough)
🚀 Microsoft just solved one of the biggest Copilot adoption challenges. Organizational Prompts allow admins to publish approved prompts directly to users across the organization. No more: ❌ Everyone prompting differently Instead: ✅ Standardized AI experiences ✅ Faster user adoption ✅ Company-approved workflows I just published a video explaining how it works. 🎥 Link in the comments 👇 What would be the first Organizational Prompt you'd deploy in your company? #Microsoft365 #Copilot #MicrosoftCopilot #AI #M365 #PromptEngineering #FutureOfWorkMy Microsoft Edge Copilot features get unabled when Edge is in Simplified Chinese language
This might be related to unusual flags on the account and device. On other accounts and devices, the Edge Copilot feature works fine althrough the browser language is set to Simplified Chinese. As long as abnormal accounts and devices use other languages like Traditional Chinese or English, I can use this feature normally.Two Microsoft 365 Copilot Changes That Just Make Sense
Two recent changes to the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat app have made the app easier to use. Interaction persistence is better, meaning that chat threads are always created and available to go back to if necessary, and Copilot memory is managed more easily. Copilot memory is an intensely personal capability. If you spend the time to figure out the instructions that Copilot should always remember, the quality of Copilot responses will be much better. https://office365itpros.com/2026/06/29/copilot-memory-updates/
Copilot file creation failing
When I am trying to create a file in m365 cloud environment I am getting an error saying that the file creation is failing. Here is a screenshot of it I don't know how to fix it. When searching with copilot it mentions about an entitlement issue but when I talked to an engineer in chats he said that wouldn't help and to post it here to see if anyone can help.Introducing Microsoft Copilot Cowork
For the last couple of years, generative AI has mostly acted like an eager, highly capable research assistant. You give it a prompt, it spits out an email draft, a summary, or a bit of code, and then it waits for you to tell it what to do next. It’s useful, but the operational drag of constantly guiding it step-by-step still falls squarely on your shoulders. That dynamic is officially changing. With the general availability of Microsoft Copilot Cowork, Microsoft is shifting AI from a passive conversational tool into an autonomous execution agent. Instead of prompting an AI to help you build a deck, you can now delegate entire multi-step workflows to Cowork, let it run in the cloud background, and simply review its work at key checkpoints. Here is a breakdown of what Cowork is, how it functions, and why it changes standard team workflows. What is Microsoft Cowork? At its core, Cowork is an automation and execution layer built directly into Microsoft 365. Rather than responding to single prompts, Cowork translates a high-level intent into a multi step project plan, coordinates across multiple M365 apps simultaneously, and delivers a completed result. The technology behind it stems from Microsoft’s partnership with Anthropic, effectively integrating cloud based agentic workflows under your organization's existing enterprise security, compliance, and identity controls. Driven by an organizational context engine called Work IQ, Cowork doesn't just look at a single file, it synthesizes signals across your Outlook emails, Teams chats, SharePoint documents, and calendars to understand how your team operates. How It Works: From Intent to Action Using Cowork feels fundamentally different from standard prompting. You can input an outcome request using natural language (up to 16,000 characters) and attach relevant background files. The Execution Process Deconstructs the Goal: Cowork breaks your request down into an operational roadmap. Background Execution: The agent executes the plan in a protected cloud sandbox. You can close your laptop or switch devices, and the task keeps running. Human-in-the-Loop Approvals: For medium-to-high-risk actions—like firing off a client email or posting a final update to a public Teams channel Cowork pauses and explicitly asks for your permission via a risk level indicator card. The Power of Reusable "Skills" What makes Cowork a true team framework is its underlying Skills architecture. Out of the box, Cowork ships with 13 built-in skills spanning core workplace needs: Skill Group Core Capabilities Content & Files Create and edit Word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs. Organization Automated calendar optimization, meeting intelligence, scheduling, and custom daily briefings. Communication Multi-app drafting across Email, Teams channels, and structured Adaptive Cards. Analysis Deep Research capabilities that aggregate broadly across multiple corporate sources. Building Custom Workflows Beyond the defaults, teams can create up to 20 custom skills by simply dropping a formatted markdown file (SKILL.md) into a designated OneDrive folder. Instead of every employee reinventing how they handle a project handover, a weekly status update, or client onboarding, the team can standardize a repeatable workflow. For example, a custom "Weekly Reporting" skill can instruct Cowork to scan team updates, flag blockers, cross-reference an Excel sheet, and format a client-ready summary automatically every Friday morning. Managing the Sandbox: Cost and Controls Because Cowork handles complex, long-running tasks that call multiple models, its runtime is consumption-based rather than a flat monthly fee, tracking via Copilot Credits. Tasks are categorized based on their complexity: Light/Medium Tasks: Applying structured reasoning across a few local sources to generate dual outputs. Heavy Tasks: Deep reasoning that aggregates data across a massive corporate ecosystem and outputs multiple complex documents. To prevent budget overruns, IT administrators have granular control over the ecosystem. Admins can set tenant, group, and user-level spending limits, and users can request additional credits directly from the Cowork interface when tackling particularly heavy computational tasks. Sum up Microsoft Cowork marks a distinct evolution in workplace productivity. The value isn't just about writing a single email faster; it's about reducing the daily operational chaos by automating the manual coordination that slows teams down. By handing off predictable rules-based workflows to an autonomous digital teammate, professionals can shift their energy away from administrative legwork and focus it back onto strategic decision-making.Cowork tasks not accessible - where are my cowork results?
I've been using cowork for several tasks/sessions, and I was impressed. When I was using it, I could switch between tasks/sessions and had always access to the results. Documents, and conversation. I even could continue and improve results a week later. Now, when I go to the cowork section in copilot, I still can see the list of cowork tasks at the left side. But each of them is completely empty. I mean white space, nada, nothing there.. not even a textbox to enter something. I tried with the M365 App, Edge, Firefox, new design. old design.. nada. So, what happened to my conversations and the generated documents? Is it a bug or expected behaviour? If it's expected, cowork is becoming less interesting for me. It means that I have to save my work/cowork all the time manually outside of the conversation (which I did for most of the generated documents, but not all) Help--- can I get the conversations and documents of each cowork session back, please? Dan
Has Anyone Successfully Used the Fabric Data Agent Connector with Copilot Agent?
Hi everyone, I'm facing an issue with a published Copilot agent in the Microsoft 365 app channel. The agent is configured with the Fabric Data Agent connector along with documentation as knowledge sources. However, while the agent works as expected with the Power BI connector, it fails to return responses when using the Fabric Data Agent connector in the Microsoft 365 app I understand the Fabric Data Agent connector is still in preview, but I wanted to check: Has anyone successfully used the Fabric Data Agent connector with a Copilot agent in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app? Is this a current limitation of the Microsoft 365 app channel or the preview connector? Are there any known workarounds? Is there any estimated timeline for the Fabric Data Agent connector to reach General Availability (GA) and support the Microsoft 365 app channel I'd appreciate any insights or experiences from others who have tested this scenerio Thanks!
M365 Copilot shows Basic via group-based licensing, Premium via direct assignment
Hello, I wanted to share an issue we experienced with Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing and the workaround that resolved it, in case it helps others or Microsoft can confirm whether this is a known backend entitlement synchronization issue. We assigned a Microsoft 365 Copilot license to an existing user through group-based licensing. The user also had Cowork permission enabled. However, Copilot kept showing as Basic instead of Premium in the Microsoft 365 Copilot experience. We verified the license assignment through Microsoft Graph. The user had the Microsoft_365_Copilot SKU assigned, and all Copilot-related service plans were showing as Success. The relevant service plans were: M365_COPILOT_APPS: Success M365_COPILOT_BUSINESS_CHAT: Success M365_COPILOT_TEAMS: Success M365_COPILOT_SHAREPOINT: Success M365_COPILOT_INTELLIGENT_SEARCH: Success GRAPH_CONNECTORS_COPILOT: Success COPILOT_STUDIO_IN_COPILOT_FOR_M365: Success There were no visible licenseAssignmentStates errors, and the Microsoft 365 admin center also showed the Copilot license as assigned. We tried removing the user from the Copilot licensing group, waiting until the Copilot license was fully removed from the user, adding the user back to the same group, confirming that the Copilot license and service plans were assigned again, and testing again in a clean browser session and private browser session. The issue persisted. Copilot still showed as Basic. However, when we removed the user from the group-based licensing assignment and assigned the same Microsoft 365 Copilot license directly to the user from the Microsoft 365 admin center, the issue was resolved. Copilot changed from Basic to Premium, and Cowork became available. The effective workaround was to remove the user from the group-based Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing group, wait until the group-based Copilot license was removed, assign the Microsoft 365 Copilot license directly to the user, sign out or refresh the session, and then Copilot changed to Premium. This seems to suggest that the Microsoft 365 Copilot license was technically assigned through group-based licensing, but the downstream Copilot entitlement or Premium experience was not being correctly refreshed for that existing user. Direct user-based assignment appears to have triggered the Copilot entitlement refresh correctly. Has anyone else seen this behavior with Microsoft 365 Copilot and group-based licensing? Specifically, Microsoft Graph shows the Copilot license and all Copilot service plans as Success. Microsoft 365 admin center shows the license as assigned. The user still sees Copilot as Basic. Removing and re-adding the user to the licensing group does not fix it. Directly assigning the same Copilot license to the user fixes it. This looks like a possible group-based licensing to Copilot entitlement synchronization issue, especially for existing users. Any confirmation, known issue reference, or recommended remediation from Microsoft would be appreciated.
Copilot pages not visible
My Copilot account can create pages but when I go to view my pages the listing's are blank. In the individual chat I can open the page, but not if I go through the Library. Ive tried my desktop version, browser and the mobile app on my phone. Ive spoken with Customer Service and while it was confirmed this is a server bug, nothing has happened. I still have no direct access to my pages.
