Four Microsoft 365 Copilot Features That Will Make Your Workflow Easier

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Microsoft has announced four Copilot updates, some already live or in preview, others rolling out soon, that are designed to simplify tasks, improve control, and boost productivity. These enhancements include smarter content referencing, flexible reasoning modes, customizable response scoping, and integrated meeting scheduling. Timelines may change, so keep an eye on official updates.  Copilot Chat Enhancements: Reference Files and Emails Easily Copilot Chat for users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license is being enhanced by introducing quick access to emails directly in prompts. By typing “/” in the prompt box, users can search and reference relevant content without manual uploads, improving prompt quality and Copilot responses. Suggested prompts beneath the input box will also include relevant files or emails for faster starts. This capability will surely reduce friction and ensure responses are grounded in the right context (Also now known as ContextIQ). This update is associate...

Start creating your own "together mode scenes" in Microsoft Teams

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Together mode is great and fun way to view participants in meetings, and Microsoft Teams comes with quite a few nice scenes to play around with.

Fresh off the press is the Teams Developer Tool to create and share your very own backgrounds. 

Take a look at the provided documentation, and have a go for yourself Teams together mode

For those organizations who want to control what their users are using as backgrounds and together mode scenes, this can be done by assigning individual meeting policies where the "Select video filters" is set to anything but "all filters".


The feature has just started rolling out, and it could be the end of July before the rollout is completed.