What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot - September 2024
We're excited to announce the latest updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot. This month brings new features and enhancements designed to boost productivity and collaboration for both admins and end-users. Highlights: Admin Tools: User Enablement Toolkit: Accelerate Copilot adoption with customizable communication templates and resources. Microsoft Copilot Academy Access: Now available to all Copilot-licensed users—no Viva license needed. Enhanced Teams Meeting Controls: Gain greater control over Copilot availability in Teams meetings with new settings. End-User Features: Image Generation in Business Chat: Create visuals directly within your workflow using natural language prompts. Expanded Business Chat in Outlook: Interact with Copilot directly in Outlook mobile and Outlook for Mac to summarize emails and prepare for meetings. Private Copilot Chats in Loop: Brainstorm and ask questions privately without disturbing your team. Enhanced Copilot in Word: Reference longer content blocks and jumpstart documents with one-click example prompts. Think with Ink in OneNote: Analyze both typed and handwritten notes simultaneously, and handwrite prompts in the Copilot chat pane. For more details on these updates and how they can enhance your workflow, read the full blog post here
Copilot Retrieval of Emails
Has anyone tried to retrieve a list of emails over a one-year span based on a particular subject? I was asked to prepare a timeline for a contract. I asked Copilot to locate and list the emails in an excel spreadsheet with columns for date, from, to, subject, one line summary and name of attachments if any. Copilot acknowledged there were 525 emails and populated a "sample" of 5. when I asked for a complete dataset of all 525 emails Copilot only came back with another 5-10 listings. I tried asking in multiple different ways and that's all I would get - and they were sometimes the same emails, sometimes different. Is there any expectation that Copilot should be able to handle the complete task?
Use Copilot with Microsoft ToDo
It would be great if I could have Microsoft Copilot Pro talk to and be able to query these few responses. 1. What are my important task that I am missing? 2. What task do I need to focus on in the next few days? 3. Look at this project/doc/sharepoint file and add additional task to my ToDo that isn't currently on my list.
