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...

Teams auto renewal - Groups expiration policy

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If your company have Azure AD Premium licenses, there is a new "housekeeping" feature coming this month. Microsoft 365 roadmap feature 56784 is being rolled out, and it will slightly change how the expiration policy works.

Where you previously set an expiration policy and an notification was sent out to every admin, groups will  now be auto renewed based on activities within the group.

The following actions will lead to auto renewal:

  • SharePoint: View, edit, download, move, share, or upload files
  • Outlook: Join group, read/write group message from group space, Like a message (in Outlook Web Access)
  • Teams: Visit a Teams channel
I encourage all my customers with the premium license to use this feature as a part of their lifecycle management, and I think the experience just got better as active teams now will be renewed automatically and not require manual actions by group owners (which can be seen as "nagging" when the expiration timer is set with a short timer.