Get ready to supercharge your productivity and unlock even more AI-powered potential with the latest wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot updates! From enhanced visibility in Copilot Studio to groundbreaking AI analysis in Excel and streamlined admin controls, these innovations are designed to make your work smarter, faster, and more intuitive.

Copilot Studio: Deeper Insights & Seamless Connections

For developers and power users, Copilot Studio is getting some serious upgrades that boost control and efficiency:

• Increased Visibility into Agent Runs: Have you ever wondered exactly what your autonomous agents are doing? Now, you can follow every agent session from start to finish and examine actions, inputs, and outputs in a single, centralized location. This means faster debugging, better behavior optimization, and simpler compliance documentation.
• Monitor Autonomous Agents with Detailed Analytics: Get a comprehensive understanding of your autonomous agents' performance. Instantly view run volume, trigger breakdowns, success rates, action paths, and run-time details. Proactively identify failures, optimize performance, and ensure reliability before issues impact your users.
• Single Connector for Knowledge and Actions: You can now reuse connector actions across multiple Copilot deployments, eliminating the need to recreate them each time. For example, an action built for Copilot for Sales can be published to Copilot for Customer Service with just a few clicks. This enhancement streamlines deployment and significantly reduces redundant work.

Excel: Your Spreadsheet, Supercharged by AI

Excel users, prepare for a revolution in data analysis and interaction:

• Advanced Analysis with Python and Copilot This is a big deal! Chat directly with your spreadsheet and let Copilot run Python scripts to find trends, create visual reports, and test "what-if" scenarios. And yes, it's now fully localized for your team's language (Windows). Mac users, you can also use Copilot in Excel with Python for Mac to create forecasts, do machine learning, and create stunning visuals. The results will appear right on your grid!
• Ask Copilot About Any Part of Your Sheet: Copilot has become much more familiar with your worksheet. Ask questions about any selected area, even beyond tables and ranges, and Copilot will use that broader context to inform its answers in chat (Web, Mac, Windows, iOS).
• Easily Access Copilot on Web: A dedicated Copilot icon now appears in your web spreadsheet, offering one-click access to AI-powered insights without breaking your workflow.
• Visual Cue for Copilot’s Data Context: A simple outline now shows you the exact cells or tables Copilot is working with. This gives you immediate visual confirmation that the right data is selected for insights or edits.

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Smarter Management, Powered by Copilot

Admins, managing your AI adoption and billing just got a whole lot easier:

• AI Adoption Score: A new feature in Adoption Score helps organizations understand how Microsoft Copilot features are being used across Microsoft 365. This feature offers valuable insights into your AI journey.

• Manage Pay-as-you-go Billing for Copilot: Admins can now manage pay-as-you-go billing directly within Copilot settings in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This feature is available to those with Global admin, AI admin, and Global reader roles.

• Overview of Copilot for Admin: Copilot offers real-time insights that are relevant to your Microsoft 365 admin center. These insights help you make decisions based on data.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: Enhanced Conversations & Collaboration

Your Copilot chat experience is becoming even more intuitive and powerful:

• Conversation History Organized by Time: You can easily go back and look at past conversations again. You can do this with new daily and weekly views. This makes it very easy to scan and manage your chat history.

• Copilot Pages in Government Clouds: Government Cloud users can now use Copilot Pages. These are interactive, shareable canvases in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. They are used for multiplayer AI collaboration. Turn Copilot responses into content that can be used and shared for a long time.

• Create Web-Aware Agents in Agent Builder: Create tools that use information from up to four public websites to give more exact, source-linked answers in Microsoft 365 chat experiences.

• Image Generation in Mobile Copilot Chat: You can create images using natural language directly within Copilot on Microsoft 365, Teams, and Outlook mobile apps (Android, iOS).

• Unified Prompt Box Across Web and Work Chats: Enjoy a consistent prompting experience, whether you're in work or web chat modes, with an input box that looks and behaves the same.

Microsoft Graph & Viva: Developer Power & Admin Control

• Agent Plugins for Semantic Kernel (Developer): Make your Copilot solutions faster by adding ready-made plugins that use Microsoft 365 data and actions through Semantic Kernel. This will allow you to build smarter agents with a lot less code.

• AI Administrator Can Manage Microsoft Copilot Dashboard Settings (Viva): You can give the new Entra AI Administrator role control over the Delegate Copilot Dashboard. This will allow it to have the necessary permissions, even though it does not have full AI admin privileges.

OneDrive & PowerPoint: Visual Intelligence & Design Assistance

• Ask Copilot Questions About Images (OneDrive): Select up to five pictures in OneDrive Web and chat with Copilot to summarize, extract text, or describe what's inside. It's great for organizing photos or extracting info from scanned documents.
• Get Slide Template Suggestions as You Create (PowerPoint): Copilot now recommends polished layouts the moment you add or name a slide, helping you stay focused and avoid manual design searches (Windows, Mac, Web).

Viva Insights: Deeper Understanding of Copilot Impact

• Viva Insights Now Included in Microsoft 365 Copilot Subscriptions: With your Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription, you can get full access to Viva Insights. This will allow you to create advanced, custom reports. These reports can help you understand how Copilot is being used, how productive people are, and the business impact of Copilot.

Word: Smarter Document Summaries & Exploration

• Choose the Level of Detail for Summaries: Start each document with the summary style that you like best – choose brief, standard, or detailed insights to match how you work (on the web).
• Key Statistics at a Glance in Copilot Summaries: You can instantly see important numbers like totals, dates, percentages, and more in the "Understanding" tab. This helps you understand a document's quantitative story in seconds (Web).
• Suggested Questions Help You Explore Any Document: The "Understanding" tab now suggests questions about the file you're reading. Just click on a question to see Copilot's answer and learn more without having to create your own question (Web).