Smarter AI Workflows in Microsoft 365 Copilot has been announced on the roadmap: Tools, Source Control, and Agents

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Tool Selection in Copilot Chat: Making AI Features More Discoverable One of the most helpful updates in my opinion, is the introduction of the new “Tools” button in Copilot Chat. Users will soon see this button directly in the chat prompt box, offering quick access to a curated set of Copilot features such as Researcher, Analyst, Pages, and image generation.  This will hopefully help users with an easier path to the different tools at their disposal. The feature is turned on by default, with no admin configuration required. This feature is associated with Roadmap ID 497298 , and is expected to roll out in the last weeks of August. Source Control in Copilot Chat: Scoped Responses for Greater Relevance Another user-friendly enhancement coming up, is the ability to scope Copilot Chat responses to specific content sources. This feature will allow users to define exactly which documents, folders, or repositories Copilot should reference when generating responses. It’s a subtle but power...

P for Global Preview, reply to chat and restart Live events!

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Here are a couple of updates that have already been rolling out, or should be just around the corner in your tenant.

Microsoft has made it very obvious to the end-user if they are running public preview or not. If you are running in this mode, there will be a "P" showing next to your avatar in the top right corner of the Teams app. If you are interested in participating in the public preview, and have access to new features in the final testing and verification stage before public release? Here is how to enable the feature. 

Reply to specific chat feature has been released. This I know I've seen posted many places already, because this a feature we have been waiting for. Teams now allow a user to select a specific chat anywhere in a channel, and reply directly to that chat. The reply will embed the original post to show the context.

And finally, it will be possible to re-join/re-start a Live event that was prematurely shut down. I think this is one of the biggest issues I've had when running Live events in the past. But if someone now unexpectedly ends the stream, it should be possible to re-start and continue the event. At least after mid October when the feature should be finished rolling out.