M365 News for October 1
Copilot Wave 2 is coming
Let’s get into it. Microsoft announced Copilot Wave 2, and we’ll all have to get in front of the upcoming releases and learn about them.
Copilot Wave 2 News:
Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents
Learn how Copilot agents enhance collaboration within your team on Microsoft Teams.
And one more on Copilot Pages:
What were your key takeaways from the Copilot Wave 2 announcements?
Outside of the Wave 2 announcements, there was other Copilot News as well:
The Copilot Academy is now available for all Microsoft 365 Copilot users.
One Huge Challenge with M365 for Admins - An Example - Copilot Pages and Agents will be rolled out without much documentation regarding their work and the risks. This is what being an Admin in M365 is like.
It also means this - Microsoft 365 Copilot rollouts slowed by data security, ROI concerns.
Keep up with what’s happening in your tenant - Monitor Copilot usage and adoption with Copilot Dashboard.
More details on the Auto Summarization feature - Automatic Document Summary Generated by Copilot.
Once you’ve learned how to handle Copilot, you can look at extensions - Learn how Copilot extensions enhance collaboration within your team on Microsoft Teams.
Of course, you might also be thinking about Copilot for Security - Harnessing the power of Generative AI to protect your data.
Non-Copilot News:
I think that’s enough for the Copilot section. Believe it or not, new information has been published about the other parts of the M365 infrastructure, including some interesting Loop stories from the Intranet from the Trenches folks:
Building an Intranet with Microsoft Loop
Enhance Team Productivity with Microsoft Loop & Copilot
Does that last one count as another Copilot story, though? Maybe.
But what about compliance with Loop files?
Are you thinking about setting goals in Planner? - The new Microsoft Planner's Goals feature will allow you to set and track goals for plans.
If you’ve ever looked at a SharePoint list and thought that exporting to CSV and exporting to Excel seemed the same, you thought wrong.
How to export SharePoint or Microsoft Lists data into Excel or CSV.
Reporting in M365 has improved, at least from the Purview side. It’s not great, but it's better than not having reporting at all. However, all reporting could use some improvements. - A Deep Dive Into the Shortcomings of M365 Reports.
I don’t get this desire. I know why people want to do it, but I don’t get owning M365 and ignoring so much of the functionality. Dealing with OneDrive for Business Is Challenging; Disabling it isn't the Answer.
Finally, one of the last things we think about, but one of the most important areas where we need a plan - Checklist for Terminating Employees with Microsoft 365 Accounts.
That’s all for this month. Given the calendar for October, there’s a chance I’ll be back with another news roundup before November. We’ll see how much news there is. I’m betting the M365 changes and updates will be coming fast and furious before we hit the holidays.
As with all things M365, you never know until you see it. ;-)