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...

Join any meeting with Lync mobile, no account required.

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Lync got an update for iOS tonight, and there was one particular feature I found interesting: the ability to join any Lync meeting, even if you yourself is not a Lync user. 

Here is how it works:
Click on the meeting invite, like this one:

This will bring you to the well known meeting page. But instead of staying there, with Lync Mobile installed, Lync will launch and ask you how to connect:


You may now select to connect to the meeting as a guest (just as the website will). Enter your name, and connect to the meeting. 


Here is a short list of the other new features/fixes as well. Great work team!