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Worth Reading – Skilling snack: Get started with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

ByMike McBride September 20, 2025September 20, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

I thought I would share this collection of Copilot Chat material for anyone who is just getting started using the free version of Copilot at work:

Are you up to date on Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat? Have you tried AI agents with it yet? The articles, downloads, and videos offered in this collection will help you brush up on different ways to access and manage these AI innovations. Don’t miss these helpful resources to set yourself and others up for success!

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Windows-ITPro-blog/skilling-snack-get-started-with-microsoft-365-copilot-chat/4454597

If you’re rolling out Copilot at work and looking for ways to teach people about using it, this might also be a good place to start.

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Worth Reading – Microsoft Copilot Email and Teams Summarization Vulnerability Enables Phishing Attacks
ByMike McBride March 16, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

If you can get Copilot to drop a link into the auto-summary, it would be less suspicious than an email sent from outside with a link. That’s probably true. After all, if you trust your AI Summarization tool to summarize the email instead of reading it, why wouldn’t you trust any links it included?

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Once Upon a Time One Retention Policy Applied to Teams and Copilot Chats
ByMike McBride October 7, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

The key was, if you had originally set it for both, and hadn’t gone back and changed it, the policy was still being enforced on both. It would, however, require you to split it across two different policies if you made a change to that policy but if you hadn’t, you were fine.

That’s about to change:

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Worth Reading – Copilot Tasks: From Answers to Actions
ByMike McBride February 28, 2026February 28, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

I think there are some opportunities in AI for completing tasks, but I also think there is a serious risk in taking action without proper oversight. I’ll be very interested in seeing how Microsoft gets this out to business customers.

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Worth Reading – Moving sales, service, and finance to the Frontier with Microsoft 365 Copilot
ByMike McBride September 10, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

I want to be charitable and say that this doesn’t reek slightly of desperation, but is instead a strategic decision, possibly to be followed by a price increase next year. Or even that they are trying to lessen the confusion around the different versions of Copilot.

Then I counted the number of “Try Copilot Chat Now!” buttons on that page and immediately realized how desperate they are to get people to use Copilot.

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Worth Reading – Copilot Health: Now in Preview
ByMike McBride June 3, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

When I saw the headline, I immediately thought about how Business Copilot uses a number of Compliance rules that would make that data available to employers. Employers should not be trusted with that. So, good for Microsoft for remembering that before they pushed out this new agent.

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Worth Reading – Find Unused Microsoft 365 Copilot Licenses
ByMike McBride November 2, 2026November 2, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

Whether someone getting only AI meeting recaps is worth the cost, of course, is for your organization to decide. I suppose the same could be said for someone who only uses it to write one email a week, or for other limited-use scenarios. It’s important to bring this reporting to the table when having these discussions, though. So, it might be worth keeping this tip around:

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