Pre-fill Responses in Your Microsoft Forms
We are excited to share that Microsoft Forms now supports pre-filled links, making your data collection process more efficient and improving data accuracy. This feature not only allows you to set default answers for your questions, it empowers you to strategize how you would like the responses categorized. To help you better understand how to leverage this new feature, let's try it together with an online training feedback survey.Four Tips on How to Leverage the Microsoft Teams and Office Mobile App for Quick Feedback
With Forms available in the Office app and Teams mobile app, you can quickly create a form or poll to get feedback from your collaborators, customers, or classroom in a variety of scenarios. Here are just three quick tips on how Forms on mobile might work for you throughout the workday.Gauge employee satisfaction in your organization with Microsoft Forms
Employee satisfaction is the cornerstone of a thriving workplace, helping organizations uncover opportunities to create a more positive and productive environment. To support this effort, Microsoft Forms now offers the Employee satisfaction template, designed to make it easier than ever to gauge employee sentiment. Let’s explore how this template works and how you can use it effectively to understand and enhance your workplace dynamics. Why understanding employee sentiment matters Many organizations struggle to capture actionable insights into employee satisfaction due to time-consuming surveys, unclear focus areas, and difficulty in drawing meaningful conclusions. Employees want something quick and easy, while managers need clear insights to make changes. The Employee Satisfaction Template in Forms addresses these challenges, making it easier to understand and act on employee sentiment. Employee satisfaction template in Forms How the employee satisfaction template helps The employee satisfaction template in Forms leverages the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) methodology, a proven framework for assessing job satisfaction by evaluating key job factors. Based on JDI, the template includes pre-built questions on compensation, job content, promotion opportunities, supervisors, and colleagues, offering a comprehensive view of the factors that influence morale. Forms employee satisfaction survey Make the template your own The questions in this template are simple choice-based, designed to make the survey quick and encourage participation. While the default template offers robust starting questions, it can be tailored to reflect your organization’s unique focus areas or circumstances. Here’s how you can customize it effectively: Maintain key sections: Keep the demographic and overall satisfaction sections, which are essential for a satisfaction survey. Adapt to recent context: Include questions related to recent initiatives or events, such as adjustments during COVID-19 or specific team projects. Adjust the distribution method based on roles: For example, for frontline workers who don’t check email, place the survey on a platform they frequently access, like an intranet or mobile app. Adjust the template based on your needs Work with key stakeholders Before launching your survey, involve key stakeholders such as managers, team leads, or HR representatives to review the questions and structure. Their insights can help: Ensure relevance to organizational priorities. Address any blind spots or overlooked areas. Get approval for the survey’s distribution and follow-up actions. To do this, you can share a collaboration link with the stakeholders. Share the survey effectively Email is a formal way to share an employee satisfaction survey, highlighting its importance and showing respect for everyone’s feedback. Setting an end date for the survey also shows that you value respondents' time and expect their input. You can easily do both of these through Forms. Share the survey effectively Maximize survey responses Monitor progress: Regularly revisit the survey and send reminders from the results page to boost participation. Engage team managers: Encourage managers to motivate their teams to complete the survey. Send the survey and follow up with non-responders Dive into the survey results Once responses are collected, from Excel, you can check the overall satisfaction for your organization. Also, there will be a breakdown of focus area/aspects related to the overall satisfaction. To better analysis the satisfaction level in your organization, try: Enter history data to analyze the trend: Input your past satisfaction scores into the 'HistoryData' sheet, and a trend chart will be generated for comparison with previous results. Customize formulas in cells: Click on the data cells to view the formulas and related questions. You can modify them and map them to other questions as needed. Satisfaction summary in Excel Turn insights into actions Finally, data is only valuable if you act on it. Here’s how you can transform survey results into meaningful changes: Develop action plans - Assign area owners to create targeted plans based on specific feedback and regularly update the plan’s status to track progress and address roadblocks. Report and approval – Present findings to the leadership team, request approval, and establish a timeline for the action plan. Update employees - Share key results and planned actions with employees to demonstrate transparency and show that their feedback drives real change. Take the first step today The employee satisfaction template is your starting point for building a happier and more engaged workplace. By simplifying survey creation, encouraging participation, and providing actionable insights, it’s never been easier to gauge and enhance employee satisfaction. Try the template now and start transforming your workplace! Join our online community! Have questions or want to discuss more? Join our online community to connect with us and exchange insights. Plus, stay tuned for our upcoming customer calls where we’ll share the latest features and roadmap! Click here to register and join the conversation!Shipped! Surveys Agent now live for customers in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Frontier program)
Today, we’re excited to introduce Surveys Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, a brand-new pre-built agent developed by Microsoft, now available through the Frontier program. Think of Surveys Agent as your personal survey expert—ready to help you from start to finish. Whether you're gathering feedback from a training session, measuring employee satisfaction, or running customer research, Surveys Agent has your back. It helps you: Draft surveys tailored to your goals so you have a shareable survey right away Refine questions to make your survey easy to use, and drive meaningful results Launch your survey with a clear plan and timeline Send invitations and reminders to boost response rates Track progress and analyze results—all through a simple chat conversation Gone are the days of piecing together multiple tools to create forms, chase replies, and interpret feedback. Surveys Agent streamlines the entire process into a simple conversational experience, making survey creation as intuitive as having a chat. While drafting your survey, you can view refinements instantly alongside the conversation. When you’re ready to launch, Surveys Agent recommends the optimal timeline and distribution channels, even preparing and sending invitations to your selected audience – all from within the same conversation. From there, the agent keeps you informed by automatically tracking response rates, sending timely reminders, or notifying when it’s ready to dive into the results. You can come back to the conversation at any point to check in on the survey’s status or analyze the responses – ask questions in chat or export your findings directly to an Excel workbook. It’s like having an intelligent assistant that helps you design better questions, launch with a plan, send reminders, and analyze results without all the heavy lifting. Surveys Agent is now available to commercial users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license as part of the Frontier program that gives customers early access to new Copilot innovations while they’re still in development. You can find it in the Agent Store under Built by Microsoft—or jump straight in here: Surveys Agent (Frontier) - https://aka.ms/GetSurveysAgent. To learn more about Surveys Agent, go here - https://aka.ms/SurveysAgentStart. We can’t wait to see how you use it, and we’re eager to learn from your feedback as we improve the experience. Just give Surveys Agent responses a thumbs up or a thumbs down, and write your feedback – it really helps us continue to build and refine the product!Try Copilot in Forms with your Microsoft account
Earlier this year, we rolled out Copilot in Forms for commercial users, and now we’re excited to announce it’s now available for all Microsoft account holders! Get ready to supercharge your form creation with Copilot and easily craft all kinds of daily life forms using your personal Microsoft account. Let’s dive into the exciting details below! Form creation Imagine your birthday is just around the corner, and you’re planning to invite your friends over to celebrate. Let’s see how Copilot can make creating your birthday invitation a breeze! Specify your intention to generate Simply tell Copilot to generate a birthday party invitation, including details like food preferences, guest arrival times, preferred activities, and more. Within a minute, Copilot will provide a draft for you. You can easily adjust the draft by adding or removing questions and keep it. Generate form draft with Copilot Continue adding questions and rewrite Once you've kept the draft to use, what if you forget to include a question about whether anyone will stay for the after-party? No worries! You can access Copilot anytime to easily add this question. Continue adding new questions Also, if you notice there are only four options for activities, you can ask Copilot to rewrite the question to include more options and add with just one click. Rewrite questions Refine the form with Copilot suggestions From Copilot’s suggestions, you can add a birthday theme to the invitation and apply settings like allowing responders to save and edit their responses, just in case someone submits their answers incorrectly and needs to make changes. Finally, Copilot will recommend suitable channels for sending out the invitation. Copilot suggestions Rewrite invitation message Before sending it out, Copilot will help you personalize the default message to better match your birthday celebration. This ensures respondents have a clearer understanding of the invitation's details and timeline, making it easier for them to respond on time. Rewrite the invitation message Quiz creation Quiz generation is also available for Microsoft account holders. Let’s say that during the party, you plan to host a movie trivia quiz, and the person with the most wrong answers will perform a talent show. Let’s see how Copilot can assist with that. Generate quiz draft with detail explanation You can tell Copilot to generate a movie trivia quiz, and the quiz will be generated with correct answers and detailed explanations for each question. Generate quiz with answer explanations Other features, such as continuing to add questions, rewriting, and smart suggestions, are also available for quizzes. You can even rewrite the answer explanations for each question. Rewrite answer explanation Responders check the answer with explanation Your friends can scan the QR code to take the quiz. After submitting, they’ll immediately see the correct answers along with detailed explanations. The person with the most wrong answers will then take the stage to perform in the talent show. Check results and answer explanations after submitting To use Copilot in Forms with your Microsoft account, you need to subscribe to the Copilot Pro plan. Find it in this page under personal plan. Join our online community! Have questions about Copilot and want to discuss more? Join our online community to connect with us and exchange insights. Plus, stay tuned for our upcoming customer calls where we’ll share the latest features and roadmap! Click here to register and join the conversation!New Survey | UEBA Engine
Our Sentinel engineering group is looking for your input for our UEBA engine. Please reserve about fifteen minutes to respond to this survey. As a preparation for the next semester of engineering work, we want to understand more about your use in the UEBA capabilities space and how we can make it more relevant and focused for your needs. Find our survey here. Original Post: New Survey | UEBA Engine - Microsoft Tech CommunityNew Blog Post | Microsoft Sentinel this Week - Issue #60
Microsoft Sentinel this Week - Issue #60 | Revue (getrevue.co) Happy Friday all! I’m out and about this week at an in-person conference at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN. It’s been a fantastic week talking about Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel to a group of folks that aren’t normally focused on security. There’s real interest in how Microsoft security offerings can bolster a career and can be integrated with current workloads without overwhelming. I’ll have more to share about this week’s experiences in next week’s newsletter. … We have a couple new surveys this week that I know is of interest to a large number of people. For the first one, I published a Playbook template for sending a daily email of Sentinel Incidents recently that a lot of you found useful. We’re trying to simplify this capability because it is so popular and valuable. From the product team: Today, emails can be sent automatically when incidents and alerts are created using playbooks. There are playbook templates ready-to-use, which leverage the Outlook Logic Apps connector. Using playbooks for sending emails has great benefits: It allows full customization of the email message and advanced capabilities such as approvals. On the other hand, we hear customer challenges using this method. We are looking to allow customers to easily send emails by Automation Rules. We are seeking to learn about real-life email-scenarios to make sure we design the feature to fit your needs. We appreciate your feedback on our form. We are committed to reviewing every data point in detail and we will get back to you if we have questions. Please note that in some cases, platform limitations prevent us from developing an integration. Also, we may have limited resources, so not every request will be prioritized. Participate in the following survey: Send email from automation rules The second one is focused on Microsoft Sentinel Fusion. Microsoft Sentinel uses Fusion, a correlation engine based on scalable machine learning algorithms, to automatically detect multistage attacks by identifying combinations of anomalous behaviors and suspicious activities that are observed at various stages of the kill chain. On the basis of these discoveries, Microsoft Sentinel generates incidents that would otherwise be difficult to catch. These incidents comprise two or more alerts or activities. By design, these incidents are low-volume, high-fidelity, and high-severity. More information about Fusion: https://aka.ms/SentinelFusion How Fusion works: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sentinel-blog/behind-the-scenes-the-ml-approach-for... As we continue to expand the Fusion coverage to help you detect emerging and advanced attacks, and improve the experiences to help you speed up the investigation, we’d like to learn more from you. In this survey, we’d like to get your perspectives on: Fusion detection Customization/configuration options for Fusion You can participate in this one here: Microsoft Sentinel Fusion Survey … Lastly, I had awesome discussions with customers this week. Delivering Microsoft Sentinel sessions to a group of folks who have zero knowledge of the product was absolutely rewarding. I could see lightbulbs go off as I was describing the features and value. One individual - experienced with “other” SIEMs who is now sold on Sentinel - invented a new tagline which has now been turned into a T-shirt. I present, the “My SOC Doesn’t SUC” T-shirt: https://cda.ms/4dB All proceeds go to St. Jude. … That’s it for me for this week. It’s time to pack up and head home. Talk soon. -Rod
