A more complete look at the Microsoft Office 365 Copilot product

Microsoft 365 Copilot

The big release yesterday from microsoft was a series of videos showing a future release product called Microsoft 365 Copilot. A series of videos showing how this new AI application can help you in many of the Microsoft O365 Apps to automate the creation of documentation products from previous examples of work, documents, messages and more. The automation being presented is smooth and slick but how well is it really going to do the job for you? 

I have included a video of the it being used in a Word Document creation scenerio for you to view. Looks neat if it will really do what they are showing.

New Waze Configuration Feature

Wow, this seemed to be the big news item yesterday! For those of you driving EV cars the new Waze feature allows the app to be configured with your car model. Why is that important? With this new piece of information you will now be shown EV stations that have your car's correct EV Connector at the EV filling station. Google states that their local map editors will keep the database up to date with the correct EV connector information.

From PortableApps.com: Notepad++ Portable 8.5 (developer's text editor) Released

A new version of Notepad++ Portable has been released. It's the handy Notepad++ text editor packaged as a portable app so you can do your development on the go. It has all the same great features of Notepad++ including support for multiple languages and an extensive plugin system, but there's nothing to install. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.

Happy Pi Day!

Pi (often represented by the lower-case Greek letter π), one of the most well-known mathematical constants, is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.  For any circle, the distance around the edge is a little more than three times the distance across.

Typing π into a calculator and pressing ENTER will yield the result 3.141592654, not because this value is exact, but because a calculator’s display is often limited to 10 digits.  Pi is an irrational number (a decimal with no end and no repeating pattern) that is most often approximated with the decimal 3.14 or the fraction 22/7.

How are you going to celebrate this special day? I think I need to read a book that I have never read called Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi

Teams Adds Explicit Consent for Recorded Meetings

In January, Microsoft released a post talking about the road map for Microsoft Teams to include explicit recording consent for Teams meetings. This appears to be a policy that needs to be applied.

The Teams’ meeting window will then request an explicit consent of all participants to be recorded. Before a user gives consent the user’s audio, video and screenshare/consent- share won't be captured in the meeting recording.

The new feature is a computer-enforced version with some added intelligence. This will help to provide a more consistent experience for your company’s meetings.

This can’t be done through the Teams admin center today, so you’ll need to update Teams meeting policies with PowerShell. The policy setting is per-user and applies to the meeting organizer. After the setting is enabled in a meeting policy, any meeting organized by accounts assigned to the policy will use explicit consent for recorded meetings.

For more information on how to do this take a look at this article by Tony Redmond of Office 365 IT Pros.