So, Microsoft 365 Copilot keeps getting better,
and today I'll show you how the Copilot experience
is evolving to make everything easier
with new AI-powered capabilities
to help you get even more done,
and if you're an IT,
I'll show you new options for agent management,
including updates in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center,
new data security views and controls,
and Microsoft Purview's
Data Security Posture Management for AI,
as well as improved reporting and visibility
into Copilot analytics from Viva Insights.
So let's start with updates
to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app experience,
which has evolved to make every interaction easier
and more intuitive.
Chat is the core of the experience
and where you'll find the app by default
and there's a new navigation moving what's important
to the left side of your screen where you'll find links
to Search, Chat, your Agents, new Notebooks,
and Create experiences that I'll show you in a moment.
Now moving to the center of the app, you'll notice
that there's a more streamlined view
with the prompt box taking center stage.
Under that, you'll find personalized suggestions
for what to do next, including upcoming meetings.
And as the author prompts,
you can quickly pull up an agent right from here
to bring in content sources you want like your files,
interactions with people, your meetings, emails
and more to generate what you want.
And even without referencing your work directly,
Copilot is connected to it
and can find the matching information
that you have access to.
That's because behind the scenes, Microsoft 365 Copilot uses
advanced AI native vector-based search
to find the most relevant content.
And now outside of Copilot Chat, you can use this
directly from the new Copilot Search experience.
It brings together AI search
and your work information across Microsoft Graph.
From here, you can easily get to your recommendations
and quick access to what you've been working on.
Then moving to the search bar, you'll see
that search now goes way beyond keyword search
that you're used to compared to Copilot Chat.
This is optimized to find specific content items.
Now, where you can ask in simple terms, for example,
based on what you remember, to quickly find your files,
your emails, chats, and meetings for Microsoft 365,
and even information
and other graph connected line of business systems
like you're seeing here with Jira.
Now it knows like-concepts, synonyms,
and contextual information around a topic, so you don't need
to know keywords or be precise with search terms.
In fact, many of these results
don't contain words from the search,
but they're highly relevant.
And based on the top items and the results,
Copilot can summarize
what search finds in line to save you time.
And without having to open its sighted items
in separate apps, Copilot will also help summarize
and preview those files right from the Copilot app.
Next, we've made it easier to access specialized agents,
which give you on-demand help to complete tasks
that would normally require an expert.
Now these include both Analyst
to find insights in your data as well as Researcher
for written reports,
both first-of-their-kind reasoning agents for work.
In fact, we dedicated an entire show on reasoning agents
that you can check out at aka.ms/reasoningmechanics.
And here in the navigation you'll also find your pinned
and recently used agents on top.
And clicking into all agents takes you
to the new agent store where you can find more agents
that are built by Microsoft, also the broader ecosystem,
and your company's own custom agents.
And of course, you can also create your own agents
right from here by describing what you want your agent to do
or configuring it directly with your instructions
and knowledge sources.
Then beyond agents and AI-generated content
from Copilot Chat,
the new create experience lets everyone tap into powerful
and personalized design skills
where you can create images like the samples you're seeing
on the screen here, powered by the GPT 4o Model
for image generation.
And you can design a poster or flyer like these ones
and they're also great for cover pages to your reports.
And speaking of that, from Create,
you can write a stylized draft document using templates
and right from here, you can also upload
and edit your own images to make them stand out
and select parts of images
to remove distractions like this tree.
Importantly, what sets the Create experience really apart is
that you can use brand templates
and even bring in your company's brand kit,
and these include your approved company logos,
fonts, and colors.
In fact, let me show you how this works
by creating a new image.
So I'll start by describing what I'm looking for.
I'll choose a picture of this new shoe from my local device
to work from, and now I'll choose my style that matches
what I want to create.
Here's where my company brand comes in.
I can choose the brand kit I want
with the right color palette and icon.
Now this will take a moment to generate
and now I have an image that fits my brand
and I can add to this same image.
I'd like to see a little ground cover in the image.
I'd like to ask for some moss and some rocks.
Then I'll give it a second to render a new image
and it gets even better
with new direct editing options like background removal,
object transform, and enhancements.
I'm going to choose the erase option, then select this rock
and this plant on the right and hit erase.
That's better.
Now, I just need to add a text element
and I'll paste in the shoe name and now it's ready to go
and I can download the image right from here.
And for your bigger projects
and tasks, Copilot Notebooks is then another new capability.
These help you bring together all of your relevant content
for your task at hand, including Copilot Chats.
And I'll open this one for Copilot Craft
and you'll see that I can chat with Copilot
about everything in here,
and it's filled with reference content
and related chat history to keep interactions in scope
to what's here
and even create an audio overview of this notebook.
Now the last major update
that I'll show from the Microsoft 365 Copilot app experience
is with personalization and memory.
Where from Copilot settings,
you can specify custom instructions
and enable Copilot memory.
First, custom instructions let you add details
about your interests, your preferences,
the tone of what you expect from Copilot responses.
Think of this information as something
that will get appended
to your initial prompts in future Copilot sessions
to improve its output.
Then, moving back to personalization settings,
Copilot memory works in the same way to recall a handful
of notable memorable items
from previous conversations in real time.
Again, this information sits outside
of the large language model
and is retrieved for future chat sessions.
And you have full visibility and control over
what is maintained in Copilot memory
and can delete what you don't want
to personalize its responses.
Next, I'll move on to updates for IT admins.
We're adding more controls
to the Copilot Control System so that you have the tools
that you need to manage, govern, and measure Copilot
and now also agents across your organization.
You can now manage the agents and agent deployment
right from Microsoft 365's admin center.
Here you'll see a list of agents in use
and the ones you've blocked.
Also, apps where the agents are supported and usage details.
You can also deploy agents from here as well,
scoping the right users and groups.
Next, we're also adding more insights
and controls for data security with AI apps and agents
and Microsoft Purview.
The new AI apps and agents page
in Data Security Posture Management for AI
gives you a single dashboard to view and create policies
for your AI apps and agents,
where you'll find coverage for data protection
and compliance policies that you already have in place,
and clicking into any of these items,
lets you discover more insights,
including potentially risky interactions, inappropriate use,
as well as sensitive information being shared.
And finally, for reports that you can share
beyond your administrator and data security teams,
using Copilot Analytics and Viva Insights,
you can measure the usage
and business impact of your agents.
And direct from Viva Insights,
the new Copilot Studio agents report can be shared
with your team, and it provides a comprehensive view
of agent use, session outcomes,
and you can see how assisted actions are contributing
to overall ROI.
So Microsoft 365 Copilot continues to evolve
to help you get more done,
along with enterprise grade IT controls
to help keep your data protected.
Now, to find out more, check out aka.ms/CopilotWave2Spring
and keep checking back to Microsoft Mechanics
for the latest updates.
Thanks so much for watching.