Copilot - A whole new (AI-based) way to work

I prepared for You the summary of the most important news, announcements and articles about Microsoft 365 from the last week. Enjoy!

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Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot—A whole new way to work

Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 in two ways. It works alongside you, embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more—to unleash creativity, unlock productivity, and uplevel skills. Today, we’re also announcing an entirely new experience: Business Chat. Business Chat works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data—your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and contacts—to do things you’ve never been able to do before. You can give it natural language prompts like “tell my team how we updated the product strategy” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails, and chat threads.

Public Preview in Microsoft Teams

Advanced users of the Microsoft Teams application want to get access to the Public Preview features of Teams.

You can manage who in the organization has access to Microsoft Teams Public Preview features.

Learn what Microsoft Teams Public Preview is and how to give users access to new Teams features.

Microsoft Teams Phone gives you PSTN connectivity choice

Whoever came up with the concept of “one size fits all” originally, likely wasn’t responsible for planning calling and connectivity for a multi-national organization with remote offices, on-the-go salespeople, and front-line workers.

Organizations often have a variety of connectivity needs depending on their geographic footprint and unique business requirements – which can complicate the decision-making process. Some scenarios may be 100% cloud-based, while others may require an on-premises setup with connectivity to legacy hardware, and others require mobility or speedy deployment. Organizations may also want to port numbers or work with their existing connectivity provider.

Tips for using Teams chat to stay organized, engaged, and have fun

Chat has quickly become an indispensable mode of communication across organization types, industries, and geographies – facilitating easier conversations and quicker collaboration, and is certainly a fundamental function within Microsoft Teams. But for all of its promise for improving communication with customers, partners, and colleagues, it can sometimes be challenging to keep track of it all. To help, we’ve pulled together a collection of the most used Teams chat features designed to keep you organized and engaged and maybe even having a little fun.

Authenticator Lite – Approve Azure MFA prompts with the Outlook app

Microsoft released a new feature where the Outlook mobile app now has some of the Microsoft Authenticator App features onboard. Users can now enroll for Azure MFA using just their Outlook mobile app. No additional installation of the Microsoft Authenticator app is needed. This preview brings both push notifications and TOTP to the Outlook mobile app. Users are prompted for enrollment or can manually register their app to work with a Microsoft 365 account once this feature is enabled.

Power Platform is leading a new era of AI-generated low-code app development

Microsoft Power Platform is reinventing software development with AI-powered no-code development. Today, Microsoft Power Platform is announcing Copilot in Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents further democratizing development and enabling even more people to create innovative solutions through natural language. Now, if you can imagine your solution, you can simply describe it in everyday language, and copilot can create it for you via an intuitive and intelligent low code experience. Copilot will accelerate development for citizen and professional developers alike.

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