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

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...

A couple of favorite news about the world of Teams - Week 23

It's been almost two weeks since my previous post, and it's no accident. Week 22 was probably the first week in a long time without any notable updates or releases. Truth be told, there has not been to many updates this past weeks either, but enough to write a few words.

Microsoft has published a blog post on the Techcommunity site called "June Roundup", and this is a great post going through a lot of the updates previously mentioned here, and a few other tips on how to get the most out of Teams.

On the Skype for Business side of things, there has been a couple of client updates recently:

Teams for educational purposes is also gaining momentum, and here is a 1-year-celebration post on past, present and the future: https://educationblog.microsoft.com/2018/06/microsoft-teams-education-collaborative-learning/