The Copilot Connection Zoe Wilson and Kevin McDonnell

Is your tenant ready for Copilot? Do you know what needs to be done to be ready? This week, Kevin was joined by Michal Pisarek, CEO and Janitor at Orchestry, who has been involved in governance in Microsoft 365 for many years. We talk about Copilot Readiness and three key areas for governance:
- Understand the environment
- Review oversharing
- Sort out your sensitivity labels

Zoe and Kevin also cover a few bits of the latest news, including some Drama Llama action with Whats App, some impressive custom copilot creation from Microsoft Research and a plea from Kevin to provide ideas and feedback to Microsoft.

Don't forget that we are holding a Month of Copilot in June and still looking for people to share sessions. Submit your sessions at Month of Copilots: Call for Speakers.

Useful links:

Project VASA - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/ 
Lllama 3 launched - Meta steps up AI battle with OpenAI and Google with release of Llama 3 | Meta | The Guardian
Comparison of recent models - https://x.com/rschu/status/1781007659493212215
Meta AI in WhatsApp - How to chat with Meta AI in a group | WhatsApp Help Center
Privacy and Meta AI - https://www.facebook.com/privacy/guide/genai?entry_point=whatsapp_genai
Feedback portal has Copilot for Sales and for Service - Community (microsoft.com)

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With Copilot for Security released on 1 April, we thought we should bring some real experience of trying it out from one of the top MVPs in Security. Ru Campbell (Twitter, LinkedIn) joined us to talk about:

- What is Copilot Security?
- What is it used for and by who?
- How has his experience with it been compared with the marketing?

This was a great chat that cut through into the reality of using Copilot for Security to help with right of bang and left of bang (listen to find out what that means!) as well as how the product will evolve over time.

Useful links:

Ru's tweet threads on his initial experience with Copilot for Security
https://x.com/rucam365/status/1778703094630523065
https://x.com/rucam365/status/1775181041474711702

Ru's book on Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender (co-authored with Viktor Hedberg) - Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender: Implement Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, and Office 365 and respond to threats

Copilot for Security group on LinkedIn - LinkedIn

News and other updates:
Sorry, there's a lot of Kevin stuff this week!
Sign up for Month of Copilot and register to speak tooMVP Summit interviewsKevin chats with Peter Rising on CopilotsThink Copilot with Kevin McDonnell - Kevin talks with Garry Trinder and Waldek Mastrkarz in the build up to the Global Copilot SummitKevin's Meeting Automator - a way to create meetings with transcripts for demoing Copilot for Microsoft 365
Announcing new Microsoft AI Hub in London - The Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft Copilot Dashboard now generally available - Microsoft Community Hub
Extensibility options for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn
Google Workspace adds AI features to help with meetings and improve data security | VentureBeat
Zoom announces Zoom Workplace

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Twelth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.

Interviewee today - Mark Rackley

Mark thinks that copilot is a vague term that can mean different things to different people, and he wants to help people understand what it is. Mark has some great use cases like finding presentations that were shared with him by using natural language queries.

Listen to find out how he thinks the equity of availability of Copilot could impact the future and what he wishes for next.

Mark Rackley | LinkedIn
Mark Rackley 🐗 @NACollabSummit @Techsplaining (@mrackley) / X (twitter.com)

Eleven of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.

Interviewee today - Angeliki Patsiavou

Angeliki sees copilot as a way to increase productivity, creativity, and innovation for individuals, teams, and organizations. She uses copilot for M365 to get technical content and learn about power FX queries and functions.

Listen to find out about what concerns her around governance in Copilot.

Angeliki Patsiavou | LinkedIn
Angeliki Patsiavou 🎶 MVP Biz Apps (@a_patsiavou) / X (twitter.com)

Tenth of twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.

Interviewee today - Angel David Carillo

Angel uses Copilot a lot in Microsoft Teams, especially for searching for information. He finds it easier and faster than using other tools or navigating to the location of the information. He also uses Copilot as his personal assistant for finding answers to any kind of question.

Listen to find out how he tries to focus on the value and confidence that Copilot provides to his customers.

Ángel David Carrillo | LinkedIn

Ninth of Twelve mini episodes as we bring our interviews from MVP Summit.

Interviewee today - Pragati Jain

Pragati finds Copilot helpful to start developing something, add comments to her calculations, and learn PySpark coding but worries that Copilot is not always right and she needs to validate results.

Listen to find out how she thinks Copilot will soon be able to help with the most painful parts of her delivery.

Pragati Jain | LinkedIn
Pragati Jain (@pragati1187) / X (twitter.com)