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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 – Enabling Knowledge Agents in SharePoint: Pain control
ByMike McBride October 16, 2025October 15, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

I will admit, as interesting as SharePoint knowledge agents are, enabling them wasn’t very simple for a PowerShell novice like myself.

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So much news from Ignite 2025
ByMike McBride November 18, 2025November 18, 2025 Reading Time: 7 minutes

I’ve only had time to watch the keynote today, and I’m already overwhelmed by the number of announced changes coming to M365 – almost all of which involve AI of some sort.

If you want to see the firehose, you can check out the Book of News.

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Who asked for this?
ByMike McBride October 5, 2025October 5, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

As I’ve said many times, Microsoft has invested too much money in AI to let users opt out of using it, even if it does ruin everything Microsoft has been known for.

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Worth Reading – Microsoft delays plan to let Copilot see your Teams screen
ByMike McBride August 23, 2025August 24, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

We may never know if Microsoft is delaying this in response to privacy concerns voiced by its customers, but we do know that many customers had strong reservations about this feature. Yet another thing for law firms and other industries where confidential information is discussed in meetings to be aware of.

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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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Anthropic now a Microsoft Subprocessor
ByMike McBride December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

This is a pretty significant change for many of us who had been concerned about vetting data protection agreements with Anthropic before allowing user access to the Claude option in Coiplot Chat, and who’ve also watched new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint rollout, but not to our tenants with Anthropic model access disabled.

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