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...

Guest Access will be default "on" for Teams

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Here is a heads up for all Teams admins:
- ".. to bring Teams Guest capability into alignment with the rest of the suite, where the setting is already on by default." Microsoft is changing this policy (Allow Guest Access) to on.

I would assume most organizations have been turning this feature on, to encourage collaboration. And there is no need to take any action if you already set this policy to allow. But if some reason you need to turn this off for the entire organization, you will need to do so manually once this setting has been deployed.

According to "Message ID: MC228482" in the admin message center, this should start rolling out on February 8th.

Read more about the configuration options here.