Skill up on Copilot and Microsoft 365

Welcome to a new blog series designed to help you improve your skills on Copilot and Microsoft 365 technologies. We hope this will be your go-to source for the latest updates, resources, and opportunities to build your technical skills on Copilot and Microsoft 365.

Start your Copilot journey with these essential resources:

• Pilot’s Lab. If you or your colleagues are just getting started with Copilot, the Copilot Lab is the perfect place to start your journey. It includes helpful introductory videos, guidance on the prompting technique, and practical everyday uses of Copilot.
• Copilot Success Kit and User Onboarding Kit (Updates coming soon). Drive Copilot adoption and provide your organization’s staff with the guidance and resources they need to become everyday Copilot users. Pilot Success Kit and User Onboarding Kit New custom email templates, end-user training, license assignment guidelines, administrator resources, and more are coming soon.
• Microsoft Copilot Scenario Library. Explore key use cases and everyday scenarios for using Copilot across your organization. The Copilot scenario library lets you view scenarios by role or use case, so you can quickly discover ways to start using Copilot in your daily work.
• “What’s New in Copilot” blog series. This monthly series highlights new features and enhancements in Copilot for Microsoft 365, helping administrators stay up to date on this powerful technology and helping users be more productive and efficient in the apps they use every day.

Copilot can help organizations of all sizes increase efficiency and streamline workflows. The following resources are especially useful for small and medium-sized organizations.

• Copilot Success Kit for Small Businesses. We are excited to announce a new Copilot Success Kit designed specifically for customers with Microsoft 365 Business licenses. The kit provides end-to-end guidance for implementing Copilot, including technical readiness and user enablement strategies.
• Grow your business with Copilot for Microsoft 365. If you’re looking for inspiration on how other companies are using Copilot, check out this new monthly series. In each post, the team will highlight customers who are successfully using Copilot in their industry and achieving great results. The series will also cover the latest product enhancements, the impact they have on your organization, and how to best leverage them to meet your organization’s unique needs.

Next learning path Microsoft Learning Provides valuable skills development opportunities for learners who want to get the most out of Copilot for Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Mechanics is Microsoft’s official video series designed for IT professionals, solution architects, developers, technology enthusiasts, and more. Check out these videos to learn how to streamline your everyday tasks.

• How to get Copilot for Microsoft 365 up and running faster | New limited SharePoint search options. Microsoft’s Jeremy Chapman shows you how to roll out Copilot for Microsoft 365 at scale in three quick steps, including how to prepare your data for discovery, apps, and prerequisites, and how to connect to the Copilot service. He also covers the quickest way to give your teams access to the Copilot service.
• Get Copilot responses based on your own files without copy/paste. Mary Pasch from Microsoft’s Copilot platform team explains how to write prompts that retrieve information on your users’ behalf, how to add context to prompts without copying and pasting, and how to get personalized responses tailored to the app they’re using (Word, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Create your own pilot! The new Microsoft Copilot extension explained. Abram Jackson, Principal Product Manager for Microsoft 365, shows you new options for building Copilot extensions. Create custom Copilot experiences that prioritize specific knowledge, add read/write integrations to external services with plugins, extend the Microsoft Graph beyond Microsoft 365 with connectors, or use a mix of all three.

The following services are specifically designed for developers and provide practical resources and opportunities to leverage cutting-edge technologies.

Learn how to apply cutting-edge technologies right away through interactive training. Our upcoming events will give you the opportunity to build your skills in Microsoft Loop, Copilot, and more.

• Microsoft Loop | A 5-part live learning series. Run demos of Microsoft Loop, learn about upcoming roadmap items, and learn about Copilot and AI innovations in this series running from August 14 to September 11, 2024. Ask questions about this next-generation co-creation experience, get time-saving tips and tricks, and provide feedback directly to the Microsoft Loop product team. Learn more. Microsoft Loop | Live, 5-Part Learning SeriesRegister for the rest of the event and watch past sessions on demand.
• Copilot for Microsoft 365 Quick Start Training. Take advantage of new interactive workshops with live support to enhance your Copilot skills. Explore real-world scenarios from a variety of departments and industries. Follow along with instant training and other demos using your Copilot license. Available in multiple languages, you can expect:
• Let’s take a quick look at how Copilot for Microsoft 365 works.
• Interactive training and prompted exercises on how to use Copilot and leverage your company’s own data to generate instant results in Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Demos showing how other users use Copilot in support, human resources, marketing, sales, and other areas.
• This is your chance to ask the experts questions.

This session can help you increase your productivity and creativity in the long run, and free up time for more valuable work by reducing manual and repetitive efforts. You must have a Copilot license to attend this training and follow the content. Check out all the details and register. Copilot for Microsoft 365 QuickStart Training.

• Microsoft Ignite. Get ready to achieve more with the power of AI and Microsoft Cloud. Join us in Chicago, November 18-22, 2024, to discover solutions that help you modernize and manage your own intelligent apps, protect your business and data, accelerate productivity, grow your community, and connect with partners. To be notified when registration opens, Microsoft Ignite Email List.
• European SharePoint Conference 2024. Join other tech enthusiasts from around the world at ESPC24, December 2-5, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden. Learn expert AI strategies to power your workflows and insights to excel in the evolving world of technology. Register now. spc24.

If you missed Microsoft Build 2024 or the Microsoft 365 Community Conference, you can still learn about the events, get presentation details, and watch sessions on-demand.

• Microsoft Build 2024. At Microsoft Build, our annual flagship event for developers and decision makers, we introduced new ways to optimize and personalize the Copilot experience, including new agent capabilities, Team Copilot, custom Copilots built in SharePoint, new Copilot extensions, and Copilot Connectors in Copilot Studio. We also launched a new era of innovation with Windows Copilot Runtime and Copilot+ PC.
• Microsoft 365 Community Conference 2024. This community event was dedicated to learning, professional development, and networking opportunities for forward-thinking professionals building technology in the AI ​​era. The conference highlighted innovations for end users, developers, and IT across Microsoft Copilot and Copilot for Microsoft 365, including use cases in Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Viva, and more. Recordings of the conference sessions, including “The Age of Copilot,” “Transforming Communications with AI,” and “How Copilot for Microsoft 365 Works,” are available on demand.