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...

Copilot Pages: A New way of sharing and interacting with your data generated with Copilot

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Back in November 2024, Microsoft Copilot users signed in with an Entra account started getting the new feature called Copilot Pages. Copilot Pages offers a dynamic, persistent canvas within Copilot chat, designed to enhance multi-player collaboration.

With Copilot Pages, you can share and improve the responses you get from Copilot. This feature is great start on evolving Copilot from an individual tool to a collaborative experience.

You can easily return to a page by clicking the link in chat or the Open Page icon at the top of the associated Copilot session. Additionally, all your pages are accessible in the Pages module on Microsoft365.com, where you can continue to collaborate with others. Created pages are stored in a user-owned SharePoint Embedded container, which is managed with the user account and deleted when the account is removed.

The feature was turned on by default, but there are ways for IT administrators to manage it. The full details are available on Microsoft Learn, but here is a brief description for your convenience:

Steps to Manage Copilot Pages:

  • Sign in to https://config.office.com with your admin credentials.
  • Navigate to Customization and select Policy Management.
  • Create or edit a policy configuration.
  • Choose the scope (All users or specific groups).
  • Configure Settings:
    • Enabled: Copilot chat experience is available.
    • Disabled: Copilot chat experience isn't available.
    • Not configured: Copilot chat experience is available.
  • Save the policy configuration.
  • Reassign priority for any security group if required.

Changes to policy configurations may take up to 90 minutes to reflect if there were existing policies, or up to 24 hours if there were no prior configurations.