Microsoft 365’s Intelligent Meeting Recap offers a comprehensive view of meetings with recording and transcription. Accessible through the Team’s calendar app, it includes meeting recordings, attendance details, manually entered and AI-generated notes, transcripts, tasks, and speaker details. This feature requires a Team Premium or Copilot for M365 license. It surpasses Copilot in Outlook or Business Chat for recaps.
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Copilot for M365: Indirectly Create a Presentation from a OneNote Notebook
This article explains how to create a PowerPoint presentation from a OneNote notebook. It involves saving a section as a Word Document in OneNote, getting a link to the new document from OneDrive, and creating a presentation from the file in PowerPoint. The process resulted in a 46-slide presentation.
Copilot for M365: Business Chat : Examples
The training program for Copilot for M365 covers examples of using it with Outlook, Business Chat, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Teams. Copilot for M365 Business Chat combines AI with work data, allowing users to query and access Microsoft 365 data. It improves data discoverability and can perform various tasks like summarizing meetings and finding documents.
Copilot for M365 in OneNote: Examples
This content discusses using Copilot for M365 in various Microsoft applications. It covers tips and examples for using Copilot in OneNote, including summarizing sections, creating tables from internet content, and more. Additionally, it provides a reference to a blog article on creating a PowerPoint presentation from OneNote.
Copilot for M365 in PowerPoint: Examples
In our Copilot for M365 training program, we offer numerous examples for using Copilot in Outlook, Business Chat, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Teams. This article focuses on tips and examples for using Copilot in PowerPoint, such as creating presentations from online books or Word files, and summarizing presentations. For OneNote-related presentation creation, refer to our blog.
Copilot for M365 in Outlook: Examples
The training program for Copilot for M365 covers examples and tips for using it in Outlook, Business Chat, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Teams. The Copilot pane can be accessed from the top application bar and within the body of an email. Examples include catching up on unread emails and summarizing meetings.
Copilot for M365 in Word: Examples
This training program focuses on using Copilot for M365, covering Outlook, Business Chat, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Teams. The article shares usage tips, such as opening the Copilot pane and invoking functions in the document. It also provides examples like generating new content, rewriting, summarizing a document, and creating a table from text.
Copilot for M365 in Excel: Examples
This training program for Copilot for M365 includes extensive examples for using it in Outlook, Business Chat, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Teams. However, Excel stands out as the most effective. Tips for using Copilot in Excel include accessing the panel from the Home menu, operating it against a table, and various data manipulation tasks.
Azure AI Studio Architecture: Leveraging RAG and LLM for Chat with SaaS Systems
Azure AI Studio is a platform for developing and managing AI applications. It uses a RAG-based architecture to generate accurate responses and interacts with various LLM models. An example use case involves creating a chat interface with ServiceNow using SharePoint authentication, API Management Services, Prompt Flow, Open AI Service, and ServiceNow’s REST endpoints.
Extending Copilot for M365 with External Data via Graph Connectors
This article is for C-Level executives interested in expanding Copilot M365’s reach beyond M365 data. External graph connectors can integrate data from non-M365 sources, enhancing Copilot’s natural language processing abilities and search efficiency. It’s crucial to understand security considerations, limitations, and testing for seamless interaction with external data. Pricing involves purchasing quotas for indexed items.
Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence: Series Overview 2021
There are thousands of tools that support Microsoft 365 migrations, administration, governance, communication, custom application development and collaboration workloads. This article provides a classification system for these tools that we use in scoping each article in our Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence Series of articles, an ambitious undertaking to catalog, detail and compare everyContinue reading “Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence: Series Overview 2021”
Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence: Migrations 2021
Anyone who has been working in the SharePoint ecosystem for any period of time knows that the title of this blog post, “Every SharePoint Migration Tool…” is a bold statement. Purpose of this article: The purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the SharePoint Online / Teams / OneDrive migration toolsContinue reading “Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence: Migrations 2021”
Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence: Governance Automation 2021
The primary goal of this article is to educate IT executives and technologies on the roles and capabilities of governance automation tools available for Microsoft 365. In this article, we’ll answer the following questions: Why do I need governance in Microsoft 365? How does M365 governance fit with overall IT governance? What should the roleContinue reading “Every Microsoft 365 Tool in Existence: Governance Automation 2021”
Distributed Logic Corp. Partners with ReplaceMagic
Every so often we come across a technology that we know will make a fast and positive impact for our clients and our work. We’re excited to announce that we’ve found such a technology and partner in ReplaceMagic, a software built to address an often overlooked issue: broken document links that surface after a SharePointContinue reading “Distributed Logic Corp. Partners with ReplaceMagic”
Timing is everything: how to achieve efficient intranet builds and roll-outs
Having a clean and powerful intranet is a “must have” for organizations. It’s where employees stay up to date, communicate, and access important information such as policies, procedures, forms, documents, and templates. The intranet is also a pivotal part of defining and instilling company culture and collaboration across departments and geographies. At Distributed Logic, weContinue reading “Timing is everything: how to achieve efficient intranet builds and roll-outs”
Collaborative Design: are the right stakeholders at the intranet table?
We have all been part of projects that get stuck in loops of feedback. It’s a painful place to be, and it’s the primary reason that we developed our Collaborative Design stage for intranet builds. It’s a crucial step to avoid going down the path of the endless project. Whether the intranet build is intricateContinue reading “Collaborative Design: are the right stakeholders at the intranet table?”
Prevent the collaboration free-for-all! Get governance in place for Microsoft Teams
We’ve been vocal about the rise of Microsoft Teams as a collaboration tool, and think that for most clients it is a better tool than Slack or Skype for Business. In fact, Teams is deceptively simple for such a complex tool, and if users are left to their own devices (pun intended) there are countlessContinue reading “Prevent the collaboration free-for-all! Get governance in place for Microsoft Teams”
Winter is coming…and 2018
With 2018 quickly approaching, we’re working with our clients to plan priorities and budgets for the New Year. Most organizations that we come across understand that even if Office 365 is their toolbox of choice, it isn’t a plug-and-play solution. Indeed, there is a wide range of combinations within O365 that can create a highlyContinue reading “Winter is coming…and 2018”
Move Fast – Your Users Aren’t Waiting for You
As cloud services are now more the norm, it’s easy for employees to use a multitude of collaboration tools for free or for a nominal monthly fee. While this might seem at first to take some of the burden off IT departments, it quickly sprawls. You start to see tickets and support calls come inContinue reading “Move Fast – Your Users Aren’t Waiting for You”
The Classic vs. Modern SharePoint Showdown: is it time to get Modern?
We’ve discussed before how quickly things move in the SharePoint world; we know how important it is to stay up to date so that our clients don’t have to. Part and parcel to that, however, is our belief that new doesn’t necessarily equal better, so we don’t always rush to recommend the latest release. SuchContinue reading “The Classic vs. Modern SharePoint Showdown: is it time to get Modern?”