Microsoft Highlights Latest Improvements to Copilot in Microsoft 365
- Paul Thurrott
- Jun 01, 2024
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This month, Microsoft has updated Copilot in Microsoft 365 with numerous new features for users and admins.
This is the fourth monthly update Microsoft has provided documenting new Copilot in Microsoft 365 updates. You can see the previous updates here, here, and here.
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“This month, we’re excited to share how admins can manage risk and compliance requirements for AI apps in the new Microsoft Purview AI Hub, automate tasks across the organization using Copilot extensions, and more,” Microsoft’s Seth Patton writes. “We’re also adding exciting new capabilities that enable you to act on employee suggestions quickly using Copilot in Glint, use Copilot in Planner to transform teamwork, expand new prompt collections for industry roles, and much more.”
Here are some of the key new features:
Copilot connectors. Starting this month, businesses can use Copilot connectors to ground copilots using specific data sources like public websites, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Dataverse tables, Microsoft Fabric OneLake, the Microsoft Graph, and third-party apps.
Copilot in Planner. Rolling out in preview to Planner in Teams, this new feature will help teammates collaborate on projects together by using natural language to generate plans with goals, tasks, subtasks, and buckets; manage plans; and track progress.
Copilot Labs improvements. In May, Microsoft added new prompt publishing capabilities related to roles (HR, marketing) and industries, and it’s improving on that now with suggested prompts.
Catch up. This new Copilot chat feature is rolling out this month. It will help you keep up on your workday, provide proactive suggestions, document updates and activity, and more.
Copilot in Loop. Copilot in Loop is rolling out now so users can co-prompt with Copilot in Loop components used in other apps like Outlook and Teams.
Copilot in Forms improvements. Rolling out now, Copilot in Forms will email response rates to a form owner and offer proactive recommendations for follow-up actions.