Microsoft 365 Copilot: New Navigation, Voice, and Context Enhancements Arriving Soon

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Here are three new updates to the user interface of Microsoft Copilot. These releases improve usability, expand interaction options, and streamline how users incorporate work content into prompts. All three of these features were actually announced "a long time ago", and the initial release started almost 6 months ago. But I guess the setup is complicated, as the rollout hasn't completed yet. This only proves the importance of paying attention to the official roadmap and the tenant message center in order to understand when features are being implemented for your organization. Timelines may continue to evolve as deployments progress, and this summary includes the official reference IDs and documentation links for verification. Refreshed Navigation Experience There is a redesigned navigation experience for the Microsoft 365 Copilot app heading your way, delivering a cleaner, more efficient layout. The update flattens the menu structure and groups related components to help...

An update to the Lync 2013 Enterprise Backup script

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I have now updated the Backup script for Lync 2013 Enterprise to support a topology with a mirrored back-end server (SQL). The script is tested on systems with and without a mirror configuration.

Also, the script is updated to take backup of the persistent chat server. If none is deployed in your topology, either ignore the error message, or REM out that part of the script.

Thanks to Dino Caputo for alerting about the error in my script!!

The script can be found right here, and the other links are all updated.