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...

Download participant list from Teams meetings

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You will soon be able to download a participant list from within your Microsoft Teams meetings. This feature can be helpful to identify who attended a mandatory meeting, but also useful as a tool to identify users with connection problems. Multiple drops and reconnects can be a sign of network issues.
The feature is not enabled by default, and will have to be enabled by an admin with the following command: 
  • Set-CSTeamsMeetingPolicy - Identity Global - AllowEngagementReport "Enabled"
If you want to limit the availability of this feature, you will have to create a separate meeting policy, assign that policy to the users and then scope the above command to that policy.
This feature is available only from within a meeting, and should be rolling out already (early may, according to the admin message center).