Legal Teams: Drafting Documents Securely with Copilot
In today’s legal environment, speed matters just as much as accuracy. Legal teams are under constant pressure to draft contracts faster, review documents more efficiently, and maintain airtight compliance standards. At the same time, firms and corporate legal departments are handling larger volumes of sensitive information than ever before. This is where AI-powered tools like Microsoft Copilot are transforming the way legal professionals work. https://dellenny.com/legal-teams-drafting-documents-securely-with-copilot/Copilot for Planner and To Do Automating Task Management
In today’s fast-paced digital workplace, managing tasks effectively is one of the most important skills for productivity and team success. Between meetings, emails, chats, and deadlines, it’s easy for key action items to fall through the cracks. Microsoft’s latest innovation—Copilot for Planner and To Do—aims to change that by using artificial intelligence to automate and simplify task management. This powerful integration between Microsoft 365 Copilot, Planner, and To Do allows individuals and teams to automatically generate, organize, and monitor tasks using natural language. Instead of spending hours setting up task lists or following up manually, you can let Copilot do the heavy lifting. https://dellenny.com/copilot-for-planner-and-to-do-how-ai-automates-task-management/How GitHub Copilot Impacts Code Reviews and Collaboration
Software development has always been a team effort. While writing code is important, the real strength of modern engineering teams often comes from how effectively developers collaborate, review changes, and maintain code quality together. The rise of AI-powered coding assistants has added a new layer to this process, and one of the most widely discussed tools is GitHub’s GitHub Copilot. https://dellenny.com/how-github-copilot-impacts-code-reviews-and-collaboration/Copilot Chat vsus. Microsoft 365 Copilot. What's the difference?
While their names sound similar at first glance, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, they differ in several aspects. And more importantly: one is built on top of the other. What is Copilot Chat (Basic)? First things first. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is often simply called Copilot Chat. Copilot Chat (Basic) generates answers based on web content, while Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) is also grounded on users' data, like emails, meetings, files, and more. Since early 2025, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has been available to all users in organizations, becoming the entry point to AI assistance for many organizations. Copilot Chat (Basic) is the foundational Copilot experience available at no extra cost for everyone with an eligible Microsoft 365 plan, including: Microsoft 365 E3 / E5 Microsoft 365 A3 / A5 Microsoft 365 Business Standard & Business Premium Copilot Chat (Basic) is secured, compliant, and it does not required the full Copilot add-on license. Copilot Chat (Basic) is able to ground responses on: Public web content. Content explicitly shared or work data manually uploaded to the chat by the user. On-screen content or content displayed on-screen in apps like Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. When it comes to agents, Copilot Chat (Basic) offers these features: You can create your own declarative agents grounded on public web content with Agent Builder. You can use agents built by your org grounded on organizational data with the pay-as-you-go method. There are Microsoft prebuilt agents available like Prompt Coach, however Microsoft premium prebuilt agents like Researcher or Analyst are not included. The screenshot below shows how Copilot Chat looks and highlights its main capabilities. Note the Upgrade button, meaning this is not Microsoft 365 Copilot, but the Copilot Chat (Basic) experience. Note that EDP (Enterprise Data Protection) is available in Copilot Chat (Basic). What is Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium)? Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) is a paid add-on license that builds on top of Copilot Chat and unlocks Copilot's full power. It is available for selected Microsoft 365 plans, including: Microsoft 365 E3 / E5 Microsoft 365 A3 / A5 Microsoft 365 Business Standard & Business Premium With a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, users get everything Copilot Chat (Basic) offers, plus much more: Data grounding: Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) includes Copilot Chat grounded on web and/or on user's Microsoft 365 data like emails, meetings, chats, and documents. Office apps: It integrates deeply into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and more. The integration includes features like Edit with Copilot allowing Copilot to adjust live your documents or email based on your prompts. Custom agents: It brings the capability to create your own declarative agents grounded in organizational data and/or web data. You can create agent either using Agent Builder or Copilot Studio. MS prebuilt agents: Premium prebuilt agents like Researcher and Analyst are included in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium). The screenshot below shows the Copilot chat experience for users who have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Note that EDP or Enterprise Data Protection also applies here How can I access Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat? Today, Copilot Chat is accessible via https://m365.cloud.microsoft or https://copilot.cloud.microsoft using your Entra ID (work or school account). One important difference in day-to-day experience: Users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license typically see Copilot prominently surfaced across Microsoft 365 apps. Users with Copilot Chat only may not see it pinned by default on the Microsoft 365 home page. To improve discoverability, Microsoft 365 Copilot administrators can pin Copilot Chat via the Microsoft 365 admin center, ensuring that users can easily access it without friction. Especially convenient is that if you use the M365 Copilot Chat app on Windows, you can open Copilot using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C. What’s the difference? The differences between Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot mainly come down to: Licensing Data grounding (web-only vs. personal work data) Integration depth within Microsoft 365 apps I’ve listed the key differences in the comparison below. 👇
Defender Threat & Vulnerability Management Reporting
Hello, we're looking at implementing DTVM for our endpoints, but are curious about reporting. Is there a way we can get these reports in a PDF format, and scoped to specific devices only? I'd like to use the evidence paths gathered from KQL to help build the reports. Are there any guides or steps out there that shows how we can do this with tools like PowerBI? Thanks in advance.The Daily Stand-Up Agent A Custom Copilot for Summarizing Jira & Azure DevOps Progress
Modern software teams move fast. Between sprint planning, backlog grooming, pull requests, deployments, and stakeholder updates, developers often spend more time discussing work than actually doing it. One of the biggest pain points in Agile workflows is the daily stand-up meeting especially when team members need to manually summarize updates across dozens of tickets in tools like Jira and Azure DevOps. https://dellenny.com/the-daily-stand-up-agent-a-custom-copilot-for-summarizing-jira-azure-devops-progress/The Architecture of Copilot Agents: Building Intelligent Assistants for the Modern Era
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has ushered in a new class of systems often referred to as copilot agents. These agents are not fully autonomous decision-makers, nor are they passive tools they sit in the middle, augmenting human capability by assisting with tasks, providing insights, and automating workflows while keeping humans in the loop. From coding assistants to enterprise productivity tools, copilot agents are becoming foundational to how we interact with software. https://dellenny.com/the-architecture-of-copilot-agents-building-intelligent-assistants-for-the-modern-era/Microsoft 365 Copilot Gets Smarter: GPT-5.5 Thinking and ChatGPT Images 2.0 Transform Workflows
The evolution of workplace AI is accelerating, and the latest update to Microsoft 365 Copilot signals a major leap forward. With the introduction of GPT-5.5 Thinking and ChatGPT Images 2.0, Copilot is no longer just an assistant it’s becoming a more capable collaborator for complex thinking, creative production, and multi-step problem-solving. https://dellenny.com/microsoft-365-copilot-gets-smarter-gpt-5-5-thinking-and-chatgpt-images-2-0-transform-workflows/Microsoft Launches Agent 365 to Bring Control, Security, and Visibility to the Age of AI Agents
In a move that signals how rapidly artificial intelligence is reshaping the modern workplace, Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of Agent 365, a new platform designed to help organizations manage, secure, and govern AI-powered agents at scale. https://dellenny.com/microsoft-launches-agent-365-to-bring-control-security-and-visibility-to-the-age-of-ai-agents/How Project Managers Can Automate Weekly Reporting with Copilot
Weekly reporting has long been a necessary burden for project managers. It’s repetitive, detail-heavy, and often done under time pressure—usually at the end of the week when energy is already low. But with the rise of AI-powered assistants like Microsoft Copilot, the way project managers handle reporting is rapidly changing. https://dellenny.com/how-project-managers-can-automate-weekly-reporting-with-copilot/
