Microsoft Launches Copilot for All Initiative
The Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat app is the free to use chat app available to commercial Microsoft 365 customers. The free chat app now supports Copilot agents, including agents that are grounded against Graph data (on a pay-as-you-go metered basis). The free chat app is highly functional and Microsoft hopes that it will convince customers to buy the full-fledged Copilot. https://office365itpros.com/2025/01/16/microsoft-365-copilot-chat-jan25/Blocking Microsoft 365 Copilot Making Inferences in Teams Meetings
The Copilot inference and evaluation policy controls if users can ask Copilot in Teams to evaluate the emotions of other meeting participants. It sounds creepy that meeting participants can ask Copilot how someone is feeling based on their contributions to a meeting, but AI is happy to answer unless blocked by policy. Maybe blocking big brother monitoring should be the norm rather than an exception? https://office365itpros.com/2024/12/19/copilot-inference-and-evaluation/Restricted Content Discovery
SharePoint Advanced Management includes a feature called "Restricted Content Discovery" aka RCD. The FAQs mention that: Restricted Content Discovery only affects tenant-wide search (SharePoint home, Office.com, Bing) and Microsoft 365 Copilot But then it goes on to mention: Restricted Content Discovery doesn't remove content from the tenant search index. and: Restricted Content Discovery is a site-level property. I completely understand that its intended use is to give organisations time to review and/or audit permissions and deploy access controls while onboarding Copilot in a safe manner. My focus is custom search solutions and custom apps that use search and should respect the RCD property. Being a property and the content remains in the index, it could be interpreted that RCD feature only works in the named services i.e. SharePoint Home, Office.com, Bing and Microsoft Copilot and it does not apply in Micrsoft Search, custom organisation-wide Search solutions e.g. using PnP-Search, API calls using the Graph etc. Is that the case? Also can the property be queried and retrieved using the Search API or is it limited to PowerShell?The Confusing Renaming of Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft loves branding exercises. At least, that can be the only reason why the Microsoft 365 Copilot rename is happening. I can think of no other reason why Microsoft would seek to confuse its customers by applying the Microsoft 365 moniker to an app that can’t access Microsoft 365 data, unless of course people pay to use Copilot agents. It’s all very confusing. https://office365itpros.com/2024/12/20/microsoft-365-copilot-rename/Loop governance, lifecycle, manageability for IT Admins – Nov 2024
Dive into our latest update on Loop governance, lifecycle, and manageability tailored just IT admins! Discover how Loop's seamless integration with Microsoft 365 can transform your team's productivity with real-time co-authoring, versatile components, and enhanced security features. From Copilot Pages to comprehensive manageability roadmap items, this blog has everything you need to confidently pilot and fully enable Loop in your organization.
Announcing Microsoft 365 network connectivity test for Microsoft 365 Copilot public preview
Hi everyone I am excited to share the Microsoft 365 network connectivity test for Microsoft 365 Copilot public preview from today, you are welcome to have a try (https://connectivity.office.com/copilot) on your device now. Please note, you can run the tests on both PC or your mobile phone. ✌️ The announcement to customers has posted through the message center yesterday, and the public document has also updated. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/office-365-network-mac-perf-onboarding-tool Please let me know your thoughts and share your feedback by leaving the comments here, your support is great appreciated.How to Stop Microsoft 365 Chat Accessing the Content of Confidential Documents
You can't prevent Microsoft 365 Chat finding documents based on searches against Microsoft 365 Search and the semantic index. But you can stop Copilot from using the content of sensitive documents in its summaries and generated text. This article explains how the different ways to block Copilot in Microsoft 365 work. https://practical365.com/microsoft-365-chat-blocks/Stopping Copilot Access to SharePoint Online Sites and Document Libraries
Two methods exist to exclude a SharePoint sites from Copilot being able to use its contents – you can exclude the site (or document library) from search results or use sensitivity labels. Given the choice, sensitivity labels are more flexible and powerful, but removing sites from search indexes is easier to implement. https://office365itpros.com/2024/02/21/exclude-sharepoint-site-from-copilot/The Impact of Generative AI on Technology Websites
Generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot are nice to have, but the content in the LLMs used by these tools must come from somewhere. The impact of generative AI on technology websites is very real and will have a far reaching effect if websites close due to reduced traffic and revenues. How will the LLMs used by generative AI refresh their knowledge base if websites don’t create that information for them (for free)? https://office365itpros.com/2024/11/25/impact-of-generative-ai/Edge, Rewrite with Copilot, Work Profiles
I was enjoying the rewrite with CoPilot (Alt +I) feature in edge when using my online database for communication notes. With the "improvement" to Microsoft 365 & edge, they locked it down with enterprise data protection. I get it and understand the need for it. But... I need to disable this. I am my own global admin to my Microsoft 365 premium subscription. I have 3 users/employees. (One is my spouse). I have spent the last several days going through my Entra settings and Edge/Copilot settings in the Admin panel to try and figure out how to turn this feature back on in our Edge Work Profiles. Could someone here please explain it to me like I am 5 years old, the process in which to enable this rewrite with Copilot feature again? I understand I need to override the data protection settings it cannot figure out how to get it to work. Some of the technet articles are beyond me with all these policy & profiles. Does it need to be so difficult?
