Microsoft AI Daily Brief
6 sections · 17 items · published 07:35 UTC
Admins can now mark specific SharePoint sites as authoritative from the SharePoint admin center, so trusted content such as company news and policies is prioritized across Copilot Search (roadmap 561323).
Why it matters: Partners can lift Copilot answer quality for customers by steering Search toward vetted sources instead of stale or duplicate content.
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Copilot in Outlook now delivers coaching suggestions through chat as you draft, edit, and format an email, and applies the suggestions you pick directly in place. Previously coaching ran in canvas and applied all suggestions at once. On Android, Windows, iOS, Mac, and Web.
Why it matters: Selective, in-chat coaching is a cleaner adoption story for customers rolling out Copilot for everyday email.
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Copilot meeting prep, already in new Outlook for Windows, Web, Mac, and Mobile, now reaches classic Outlook for Windows: it summarizes context, action items, and documents and lets you chat to prepare further. Requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
Why it matters: Extends a proven Copilot scenario to customers still on classic Outlook, closing a common feature-parity gap.
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Once an organization connects its Adobe Experience Manager asset library to Microsoft 365, Copilot in PowerPoint can build presentations using the org's approved images in Edit mode, on Web and Windows (roadmap 516038, 516039).
Why it matters: Keeps AI-generated decks on-brand by drawing from governed enterprise assets rather than generic stock imagery.
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Copilot in PowerPoint can now start a new presentation straight from the web app home screen for Copilot Basic and Premium users, removing the step of opening or creating a file first.
Why it matters: A lower-friction entry point that helps partners demo and drive Copilot-in-PowerPoint usage.
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Copilot in PowerPoint can now pull relevant online sources into a new presentation and cite them, on Web, Windows, and Mac.
Why it matters: Grounds AI-built decks in current web information, cutting the manual research step for time-sensitive topics.
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Copilot in Word now lets users pick Anthropic models in addition to OpenAI models when editing a document.
Why it matters: Model choice in Word gives customers flexibility to match a model to the editing task; note the data-handling terms differ by model provider.
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Users will be able to insert Agents and Skills into prompts from the Add work content option in the plus (+) menu, or by typing / and @, on Desktop and Web (roadmap 569213).
Why it matters: Makes first-party and custom agents easier to discover in the flow of a prompt, aiding agent adoption.
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Copilot Notebooks will accept JPG and PNG files as knowledge sources, using text, charts, and diagrams inside them as grounding context. Preview Sep 2026, GA Oct 2026, on Android, iOS, and Web (roadmap 569211).
Why it matters: Broadens what customers can ground a notebook on, including scanned or visual material.
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Copilot Notebooks will accept CSV and TSV files as knowledge sources so Copilot can generate more relevant presentations, reports, and briefs from structured data. Preview Sep 2026, GA Oct 2026 (roadmap 569210).
Why it matters: Lets customers feed tabular data into notebooks without a connector or manual reformatting.
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The redesigned Copilot Notebooks experience (persistent AI workspace organizing chats, outputs, and references) comes to the DoD, GCC, and GCC High government clouds, on Desktop and Web (roadmap 569203).
Why it matters: Government-cloud customers gain the same Notebooks workspace already available in commercial, a frequent sovereignty-driven ask.
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Planner Agent, previously limited to premium plans, is now available to Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users in all group-based Planner plans including basic plans, on Windows, Mac, and Web (roadmap 511820).
Why it matters: Customers no longer need a plan upgrade to trial Planner Agent, widening the pool of users a partner can onboard.
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Copilot connectors now run content crawl and identity crawl in parallel instead of sequentially, so new or updated content and permission changes surface in Copilot faster, with no loss of permission accuracy.
Why it matters: Fresher connector content reduces "why can't Copilot see this yet" support cases during deployments.
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The ServiceNow Knowledge and Catalog connectors now enforce access based on ServiceNow roles (admin, knowledge manager, knowledge admin), not just user criteria, for more granular permission alignment.
Why it matters: Partners deploying ServiceNow grounding can mirror the customer's existing role model, easing security review.
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A new Viva Insights Consumption Dashboard tracks Copilot credit usage across Cowork and Work IQ API services, scoped to managers with 5+ direct reports, Insights analysts, and Global admins. On by default, but requires usage-based billing set up via Cost Management in the M365 admin center; tenant-wide leader access is not in this release (roadmap 566302).
Why it matters: A native view of where Copilot credits go, supporting budget and adoption conversations with customers.
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The Teams workflow builder will let you add multiple sequential steps when creating a workflow from scratch, on Desktop and Mac (roadmap 569209).
Why it matters: Reduces the need to jump to Power Automate for simple multi-step automations inside Teams.
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