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...

Teams native federation being rolled out

This feature was announced earlier this year, but have taken some time to get implemented. This feature will give users a richer experience when chatting with users outside of the home tenant with federated functionality.

However, not all users are eligible for this feature. The official documentation has been updated with a description of how it is expected to work: Microsoft Docs

The short story is: Both users must be in a tenant set in "Teams Only" mode, and have these same settings themselves. You know this is the case when you can use features like @mentions, rich text and emojis in the chat.

According to the road-map, this feature should be well on the way to your tenants and land no later than "early December": 52394