Ignite 2024 New Copilot Agents #82
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Agents in SharePoint: Agents in SharePoint empower employees to gain insights faster and make informed decisions grounded on specific SharePoint content. Users can easily create their own agents, tailored to specific SharePoint files, folders or sites that support common business processes. These agents can be edited to have a personalized name and certain behaviors, and can be shared across emails, meetings and chats, with users being able to ask the agents questions and get real-time responses. Agents in SharePoint follow existing SharePoint user permissions and sensitivity labels to help prevent the oversharing of sensitive information. These new agents in SharePoint are now generally available.
Employee Self-Service Agent: The Employee Self-Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat (BizChat) will expedite answers for the most common workplace policy-related questions and will take action on key HR and IT related-tasks. From BizChat, users can retrieve benefits and payroll information, start a leave of absence, request a new laptop with IT and even get assistance for Microsoft 365 products and services, all in one place. This agent is in private preview. Introducing the Employee Self-Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Community Hub
Facilitator agent: The Facilitator agent works within Teams meetings and chats for more effective collaboration. In meetings, the Facilitator takes real-time notes, allowing everyone to co-author and collaborate seamlessly. In chats, the Facilitator shares a summary of important information as the conversation happens. This agent is in preview.
Interpreter agent: The Interpreter agent enables real-time interpretation in Teams meetings in up to nine languages so each participant can speak and listen in the language of their choice. Meeting participants can also have the Interpreter simulate their personal voice for a more inclusive experience. This agent will be in preview early next year.
Project Manager agent: The Project Manager agent will automate project management in Planner, handling everything from plan creation to executing tasks. The Project Manager agent can automatically create a new plan from scratch or use a pre-configured template. The Project Manager agent then oversees the entire project, including the assignment of tasks, progress tracking, reminders and notifications and status reporting. It can also complete tasks, including content creation. This agent is in preview.
Analyze content presented in Teams for valuable insights. Copilot’s ability to reason over any content shared on screen will help ensure that no meeting details are overlooked. Copilot already analyzes spoken words and chat messages, and the addition of onscreen content will enhance the user experience with a 360-degree view of meetings. Users will be able to ask Copilot to summarize screenshared content, (i.e., “Which products had the highest sales?”), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (i.e., “What was the feedback per slide?”) and draft new content based on the entire meeting (i.e., “Rewrite the spreadsheet as a table with only the rows that are On Track”). This capability will be in preview in early 2025
