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As the days in the UK get shorter, the grass looks brown and tired and the kids looked bored and ready for school, it's time to recap some of the news that has crept out while many were distracted with holidays. There's certainly been a few things coming through as momentum builds towards the second conference season of year. Zoe and Kevin cover some worrying news on hacking Copilot, some positive news on accessing models and some great events coming up.
Nominate your favourite community folks at the UK Technology Community Awards - https://www.ukcommunityawards.co.uk/Sign up for Scottish Summit and plan in for the Connecting the Copilots panel with Chris Huntingford, Dona Sarkar, Jose Lazaro Pinos , Sara Fennah and us - https://www.scottishsummit.comZoe is co-hosting a webinar for Syskit with Luke Evans on Copilot for M365 after one year https://www.syskit.com/company/events/copilot-for-microsoft-365-after-one-year/New speaker workshop with Sara Fennah, Luke Evans and us - http://www.communitydays.org/event/2024-09-06/microsoft-community-new-speakers-day - if you're in the UK and doing interesting things with Copilot that you'd like to share Check out the brand new Copilot for M365 MVPs! - Search | MVP Communities (microsoft.com)Hacking CopilotMicrosoft’s AI Copilot can be weaponized as an ‘automated phishing machine,’ but the problem is bigger than one company | Fortunehttps://www.perspectives.plus/p/copilot-bigger-security-threat-than-chatgpthttps://labs.zenity.ioModels in Github - Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub - The GitHub BlogWhat’s new in Copilot | July 2024 - Microsoft Community HubOneNote in Copilot supports Inked Notes - https://insider.microsoft365.com/blog/onenote-copilot-now-supports-inked-notes?ocid=usoc_TWITTER_M365_spl100006091250593Updates to Microsoft Copilot to bring enterprise data protection to more organizations - Microsoft Community Hub
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After a slightly quieter time on the podcast, Kevin and Zoe are back and we pick some of the Month of Copilot sessions to share some interesting ideas from them that will interest you.
Check out the rest of the Month of Copilot sessions in the Copilot Connection - YouTube.
Kevin mentioned Commsverse and Experts Live UK so check out the links for more info.
Finally, if you want to try out the super hero prompt that Zoe mentioned, copy the prompt below and let us know what it finds!
Look at the emails and Teams meetings that I have sent in the last 6 months. Use these messages to distill a personal brand voice document that I can use to inform copilot of my personal voice and style.Based on the above analysis, what superhero represents my style of work best? What would my super powers be? Can you format that as a dossier for superheroes -- listing my real name, and most similar existing superhero, and include the rest of the information formatted and edited in dossier style?
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In this episode of the Copilot Connection, Kevin McDonnell is joined by Garry Trinder, a developer advocate at Microsoft focused on Microsoft 365 and Copilot. With Microsoft Build taking place this week, they recap the Copilot related news that came out with a special focus on extensions and custom copilots. Plenty of chat about why you should extend, the different ways to extend and when to extend or go custom. Plus find out how many times Copilot was mentioned in the first day keynotes thanks to Vlad Catrinescu.
Useful links:
M365 Conf sessions - some online now including the age of copilots -Introducing the Community News Desk with essential content from Microsoft 365 Community ConferenceVlad Catrinescu comedy recap Microsoft Build 2024 Keynote Recap in under 5 minutes!
Book of News - https://news.microsoft.com/build-2024-book-of-news/
GPT-4o demo by Seth Juarez - Conversational website: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build 2024
Copilot+PC - Introducing Copilot+ PCs - The Official Microsoft Blog
VS Code for Education - https://vscodeedu.com
Note that you need a Copilot license to use this with Copilot Studio - Use graph connections with knowledge sources - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn
https://aka.ms/extendcopilotm365/decide
Useful Build sessions:
BRK 150: Developers guide to customizing Copilot - slides available too
BRK 151: Developer deep dive on building plugins for Microsoft Copilot
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With all the announcements made last week at the M365 Conf in Orlando, Zoe and Kevin take a dive into the roadmap to see what is coming up in the short to medium term. With a lot of key updates around Excel, cross application capabilities and graph grounded chat in other applications, take a listen to find out what you can expect in the world of Copilot over the next few months.
Month of CopilotMay Copilot be with youDona teases Project Copilot College
Key links:M365 Conf announcements
What’s New in Copilot | April 2024 - Microsoft Community HubWhat’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2024 - Microsoft Community HubAnnouncing SharePoint advanced management innovations for the AI and Copilot era - Microsoft Community HubMicrosoft 365 Roadmap - See What's Coming | Microsoft 365 - Copilot Rolling Out items
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Is your tenant ready for Copilot? Do you know what needs to be done to be ready? This week, Kevin was joined by Michal Pisarek, CEO and Janitor at Orchestry, who has been involved in governance in Microsoft 365 for many years. We talk about Copilot Readiness and three key areas for governance:
- Understand the environment
- Review oversharing
- Sort out your sensitivity labels
Zoe and Kevin also cover a few bits of the latest news, including some Drama Llama action with Whats App, some impressive custom copilot creation from Microsoft Research and a plea from Kevin to provide ideas and feedback to Microsoft.
Don't forget that we are holding a Month of Copilot in June and still looking for people to share sessions. Submit your sessions at Month of Copilots: Call for Speakers.
Useful links:
Project VASA - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/Lllama 3 launched - Meta steps up AI battle with OpenAI and Google with release of Llama 3 | Meta | The Guardian
Comparison of recent models - https://x.com/rschu/status/1781007659493212215Meta AI in WhatsApp - How to chat with Meta AI in a group | WhatsApp Help Center
Privacy and Meta AI - https://www.facebook.com/privacy/guide/genai?entry_point=whatsapp_genai
Feedback portal has Copilot for Sales and for Service - Community (microsoft.com)
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With Copilot for Security released on 1 April, we thought we should bring some real experience of trying it out from one of the top MVPs in Security. Ru Campbell (Twitter, LinkedIn) joined us to talk about:
Sign up for Month of Copilot and register to speak tooMVP Summit interviewsKevin chats with Peter Rising on CopilotsThink Copilot with Kevin McDonnell - Kevin talks with Garry Trinder and Waldek Mastrkarz in the build up to the Global Copilot SummitKevin's Meeting Automator - a way to create meetings with transcripts for demoing Copilot for Microsoft 365
- What is Copilot Security?
- What is it used for and by who?
- How has his experience with it been compared with the marketing?
This was a great chat that cut through into the reality of using Copilot for Security to help with right of bang and left of bang (listen to find out what that means!) as well as how the product will evolve over time.
Useful links:
Ru's tweet threads on his initial experience with Copilot for Security
https://x.com/rucam365/status/1778703094630523065
https://x.com/rucam365/status/1775181041474711702
Ru's book on Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender (co-authored with Viktor Hedberg) - Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender: Implement Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, and Office 365 and respond to threats
Copilot for Security group on LinkedIn - LinkedIn
News and other updates:
Sorry, there's a lot of Kevin stuff this week!
Announcing new Microsoft AI Hub in London - The Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft Copilot Dashboard now generally available - Microsoft Community Hub
Extensibility options for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn
Google Workspace adds AI features to help with meetings and improve data security | VentureBeat
Zoom announces Zoom Workplace
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Twelth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.
Interviewee today - Mark Rackley
Mark thinks that copilot is a vague term that can mean different things to different people, and he wants to help people understand what it is. Mark has some great use cases like finding presentations that were shared with him by using natural language queries.
Listen to find out how he thinks the equity of availability of Copilot could impact the future and what he wishes for next.
Mark Rackley | LinkedIn
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Eleven of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.
Interviewee today - Angeliki Patsiavou
Angeliki sees copilot as a way to increase productivity, creativity, and innovation for individuals, teams, and organizations. She uses copilot for M365 to get technical content and learn about power FX queries and functions.
Listen to find out about what concerns her around governance in Copilot.
Angeliki Patsiavou | LinkedIn
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Tenth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.
Interviewee today - Angel David Carillo
Angel uses Copilot a lot in Microsoft Teams, especially for searching for information. He finds it easier and faster than using other tools or navigating to the location of the information. He also uses Copilot as his personal assistant for finding answers to any kind of question.
Listen to find out how he tries to focus on the value and confidence that Copilot provides to his customers.
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Ninth of Twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.
Interviewee today - Pragati Jain
Pragati finds Copilot helpful to start developing something, add comments to her calculations, and learn PySpark coding but worries that Copilot is not always right and she needs to validate results.
Listen to find out how she thinks Copilot will soon be able to help with the most painful parts of her delivery.
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Eighth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.
Interviewee today - Gosia Borzecka
Gosia works in the AI space and talks here about the comparisons between Copilot Studio and AI Studio/Azure Search.
Listen to find out more about how she thinks that this plays with Copilot.
🐱💻 Gosia (Małgorzata) Borzęcka | LinkedIn
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Seventh of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.
Interviewee today - Chris Lloyd-Jones
Chris was impressed by how GitHub Copilot could generate code from comments and help him achieve a flow state.
Listen to find out how he thinks the Copilots could follow him across applications.
Listen to find out which areas of Copilot frustrate him and his hopes for what Copilot will become.
Chris Lloyd-Jones | LinkedIn
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Sixth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.
Interviewee today - Rishi Sapra
Rishi sees Copilot as a tool for creativity and insight, rather than automation. He thinks it can help technologists understand the business questions and the data model better
Listen to find out which areas of Copilot frustrate him and his hopes for what Copilot will become
Rishi Sapra ACA, MCT, Microsoft MVP | LinkedIn
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Fifth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.
Interviewee today - Vesa Juvonen
Vesa is a principal product manager in the Microsoft 365 platform who works remotely from Seattle. He is excited about Copilot's potential to increase productivity and innovation for enterprise customers.
Listen to hear his favourite features and also the magic he thinks partners can bring.
Vesa Juvonen | LinkedIn
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Fourth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.
Interviewee today - Simon Doy
Simon likes the development side of things and breaking down application barriers with Copilot. He is excited about the opportunities to bring business data and take actions with Copilot.
Listen to find out how he used Copilot to make his daughter's birthday even more special.
Simon Doy | LinkedIn
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Third of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.
Interviewee today - Marc D Anderson
Marc is a natural skeptic who thinks that Copilot often gives unsatisfying or wrong answers that require extra thinking and verification.
Find out what he thinks about the longevity and Return on Investment (ROI) of Copilot as well as any parts he might like!
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Second of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.
Interviewee today - Tom Morgan
Tom uses GitHub Copilot to develop things on Microsoft 365 platform, and finds it useful for taking out some of the tedious tasks that he already knows how to do as well as learning with it.
Listen to find out how he built using a new language to him and how Copilot may help junior developers.
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One of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.
Interviewee today - Darrell Webster
Darryl is a change manager and adoption specialist who likes creating videos and helping people make sense of technology.
Find out what he thinks about Copilot and the insights it can bring as well as the areas of concern he has.
Darrell (as a Service) Webster | LinkedIn
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After a small pause due to travel, we are back with our thoughts from the MVP Summit without jeopardising our NDAs. As well as those thoughts, we pick up on the latest news and play a longer interview with Aaron Reich, CTO of Avanade, covering his thoughts and views on the Copilots, recorded live on the Microsoft campus. Listen to the second half of the show to hear what it means to a global, multi-national consultancy to share the value of Copilot.
News:
Advancing the new era of work with Copilot, Windows, and Surface | Microsoft 365 BlogNew Microsoft AI lead - Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind and Inflection Co-founder, joins Microsoft to lead Copilot
Microsoft did with Inflection what they were planning for OpenAI, stated as an "unusual deal"
Mustafa Suleyman views on AI - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5u64GZHQcAzvQgmEWiodtm
Copilot for Security GA - Microsoft Copilot for Security is generally available on April 1, 2024 | Microsoft Security Blog
Updated Copilot success kit - Copilot Success Kit – Microsoft Adoption
Answering questions with Copilot in the style of a specific person - https://x.com/aprildunnam/status/1761068171451064382?s=20
I tried with it being Terry Pratchett - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kevmcdonnell_oh-this-is-such-a-good-idea-from-april-dunnam-activity-7166906303204818944-nH8z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
New Copilot training available - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidcervigonluna_m365copilot-m365training-microsoftlearn-activity-7167857418842976256-DM5Z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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With more and more people getting access to all the different Copilots, there are more myths that are appearing online. So, in this episode, Zoe and Kevin take a look at some of those myths and either bust them or add the detail behind the truth of each of them, Plus, we highlight some of the latest news along the way including some potential new text to video for Copilot (warning - that last comment is shameless clickbait!) in there too.
Copilot is trained on your data - Daniel Anderson's LinkedIn postCopilot just worksOne size fits allCopilot will save you moneyCopilot is collecting all your data from Office Apps - evidenceNo human involvement neededEveryone is excited about Copilot - Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Gives Some Buyer's Remorse (requires subscription)You can automate everythingYou can't do anything about Copilot choosing the right plugin - How Copilot for Microsoft 365 decides which plugin to useCopilot keeps changing how it works - Introducing the new Microsoft Copilot experience in TeamsCopilot can solve everything
Myths addressed:
API-based message extensions in Team Dev PortalDamien Bird on using ChatGPT in Excel via Office Scripts to generate sample dataCombating abusive AI-generated content: a comprehensive approachA Whole New Way of Working3 big AI trends to watch in 2024Using Copilot in Apple Vision Pro5 Takeaways From Pioneers In Microsoft Copilot AdoptionSticker Generator in Designer What was Sora trained on? Creatives demand answers.Google announces Gemini
News mentioned:
Announcing Fabric Copilot pricing
Sara Fennah's post on upcoming Roadmap items for M365
GPT Mentions: Effortlessly Streamline Your AI Search
Sora from Open AI
Other Copilot news: - Vis mere
