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...

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.