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...

From the world of Teams in February

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We are mid-February and only two weeks away from my previous update, and already my list of things to mention is growing to big to wait for a monthly update. Here is a couple of important highlights from the past two weeks:

Administration and training:
The Teams Team have updated the documentation on Teams (here)
Take a look at the "Skill Enablement" series, The Foundation track has been updated (here)

Feature releases:
Anynode now certified for Direct Routing (here)
Administration of Auto Attendant and Call Queue is coming to the admin center (roadmap)
Discover easier sign-in process, released in the January updates to desktop client (here)
Teams will become a part of the Office ProPluss installation (roadmap)

Blogs of interest:
Here is a post on all the latest calling and meeting features (here)
If you are looking for the highlights from the past month or os, Take a look at Microsoft's own "February Round UP! (here)
A Teams Team size has been increased from 2500 to 5000 (uservoice)
Have you heard about "Supervision"? Read this post, and learn how you can meet regulatory requirements and more (techcommunity)
Teams Devices based on Android 5.x and higher can enroll in Intune (here)

Upcoming events:
Join the Microsoft Teams Team for a Government AMA (AMA) February 19th 9-10 AM ET

Skype for Business:
2015 Client February update (here)
2016 Client February update (here)

Other:
Not strictly related to Teams or SFB. But I have a lot of customers using voicemail, and it can be important to know what's happening with "Unified Messaging Online" (here)