In this episode of the Copilot Connection, Kevin McDonnell is joined by Garry Trinder, a developer advocate at Microsoft focused on Microsoft 365 and Copilot. With Microsoft Build taking place this week, they recap the Copilot related news that came out with a special focus on extensions and custom copilots. Plenty of chat about why you should extend, the different ways to extend and when to extend or go custom. Plus find out how many times Copilot was mentioned in the first day keynotes thanks to Vlad Catrinescu.

Useful links:

M365 Conf sessions - some online now including the age of copilots -Introducing the Community News Desk with essential content from Microsoft 365 Community Conference

Vlad Catrinescu comedy recap Microsoft Build 2024 Keynote Recap in under 5 minutes!

Book of News - https://news.microsoft.com/build-2024-book-of-news/

GPT-4o demo by Seth Juarez - Conversational website: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build 2024

Copilot+PC - Introducing Copilot+ PCs - The Official Microsoft Blog

VS Code for Education - https://vscodeedu.com

Note that you need a Copilot license to use this with Copilot Studio - Use graph connections with knowledge sources - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

https://aka.ms/extendcopilotm365/decide

Useful Build sessions:

BRK 150: Developers guide to customizing Copilot - slides available too
BRK 151: Developer deep dive on building plugins for Microsoft Copilot
BRK203: Building a copilot: Azure AI Studio or Copilot Studio

With all the announcements made last week at the M365 Conf in Orlando, Zoe and Kevin take a dive into the roadmap to see what is coming up in the short to medium term. With a lot of key updates around Excel, cross application capabilities and graph grounded chat in other applications, take a listen to find out what you can expect in the world of Copilot over the next few months.

Key links:

• Month of Copilot
• May Copilot be with you
• Dona teases Project Copilot College

M365 Conf announcements

• What’s New in Copilot | April 2024 - Microsoft Community Hub
• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2024 - Microsoft Community Hub
• Announcing SharePoint advanced management innovations for the AI and Copilot era - Microsoft Community Hub

Microsoft 365 Roadmap - See What's Coming | Microsoft 365 - Copilot Rolling Out items
Microsoft 365 Roadmap - See What's Coming | Microsoft 365 - Copilot In Development items

Is your tenant ready for Copilot? Do you know what needs to be done to be ready? This week, Kevin was joined by Michal Pisarek, CEO and Janitor at Orchestry, who has been involved in governance in Microsoft 365 for many years. We talk about Copilot Readiness and three key areas for governance:
- Understand the environment
- Review oversharing
- Sort out your sensitivity labels

Zoe and Kevin also cover a few bits of the latest news, including some Drama Llama action with Whats App, some impressive custom copilot creation from Microsoft Research and a plea from Kevin to provide ideas and feedback to Microsoft.

Don't forget that we are holding a Month of Copilot in June and still looking for people to share sessions. Submit your sessions at Month of Copilots: Call for Speakers.

Useful links:

Project VASA - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

Lllama 3 launched - Meta steps up AI battle with OpenAI and Google with release of Llama 3 | Meta | The Guardian
Comparison of recent models - https://x.com/rschu/status/1781007659493212215

Meta AI in WhatsApp - How to chat with Meta AI in a group | WhatsApp Help Center

Privacy and Meta AI - https://www.facebook.com/privacy/guide/genai?entry_point=whatsapp_genai

Feedback portal has Copilot for Sales and for Service - Community (microsoft.com)

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