Meet your new Copilot 365 assistants: Skills agent, Interpreter agent, Project agent and the facilitator

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Making your tasks easier for you: The other day I wrote about the new Skills feature coming to Microsoft 365 in the following weeks. But the Advanced tier os the new skills feature is just one of three out-of-the-box agents already in place or coming the next weeks and months (and many more in the future, I'm sure). This agents are designed to handle "everything" from simple tasks to complex multi-step processes where you choose to implement them. In this rather length post, I’ll try to break down each agent’s capabilities, why they’re useful, and how you can prepare to make the most of them. Skill Discovery (Skills Agent – Powered by People Skills) Let's start with the skills agent. In my previous post, I mentioned the release of the "skills feature" that will be released in two tiers. One basic, and one advanced. The advanced tier is driven by AI, more specific the "Skills agent". This agent is all about connecting people and expertise. The agent...

Lost in the virtual time....

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No, this isn't a sci-fi blog. It's about windows time in a virtual environment. Some applications depend on the computers having the same time. And this is no problem if all virtual machines are running on the same host. But in my case, I have a one server running virtual servers, and one or more computers running virtualPC images to access the VM's on the server.
Now, in a perfect scenario, all computers should have the same time scource (At least within the same campus). But as in my case, the lab is totally isolated. Time servers are not available to the hostserver or the vm's (who always, unless told otherwise sync with host-time).
I have recently discovered a way to stop the virtual pc from syncing the hostoperating system. There is no gui for this, and you have to turn your VM off first. Then edit the .vmc file:
Find the section of the .VMC file that looks like this:
<integration>
<microsoft>
<mouse>
<allow type="boolean">true</allow>
</mouse>
</microsoft>
</integration>
Change it to look like this:
<integration>
<microsoft>
<mouse>
<allow type="boolean">true</allow>
</mouse>
<components>
<host_time_sync>false
</enabled>
</host_time_sync>
</components>

Restart the virtual machine, and set any time you like. Very handy, also when testing betas that have expired ;)