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Copilot for Microsoft 365
In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, staying ahead of the curve is crucial for any business aiming to thrive. The Fulcrum Group understands this imperative and is excited to offer services that maximize the potential of Microsoft 365’s revolutionary Copilot feature. By integrating AI-driven insights and automation into your daily workflows, Copilot transforms how you operate, collaborate, and innovate
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Microsoft has incorporated AI-driven copilots into its flagship offerings, revolutionizing coding efficiency via GitHub, transforming workplace productivity with Microsoft 365, redefining search experiences with Bing and Edge, and delivering seamless contextual value across applications and PCs with Windows.
Copilot is now accessible within Microsoft 365, providing a comprehensive AI companion that seamlessly integrates web context, work data, and real-time PC activity to offer enhanced assistance while prioritizing privacy and security.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that this suite of generative AI tools within the Microsoft 365 suite fundamentally alters the way we work. But what exactly is it? How will it enhance both organizations and employees? And what factors should be considered before implementation?
Requirement Tips
Microsoft 365 Apps must be deployed. Use the Microsoft 365 Apps setup guide in the Microsoft 365 admin center to deploy to your users.
Users must have Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) accounts. You can add or sync users using the onboarding wizard in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is available as an add-on plan with one of the following licensing prerequisites:
- Microsoft 365 E5
- Microsoft 365 E3
- Office 365 E3
- Office 365 E5
- Microsoft 365 Business Standard
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium
- Microsoft 365 A5 for faculty*
- Microsoft 365 A3 for faculty*
- Office 365 A5 for faculty*
- Office 365 A3 for faculty*
The Office Feature Updates task is required for core Copilot experiences in apps such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote, to work properly. This task should be allowed to run on its regular schedule, and allowed to access the required network resources.
For more information about the Office Feature Updates task, see Office Feature Updates task description and FAQ. For more information about which network resources should be allowed, see Network requirements.
Some features in Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, such as file restore and OneDrive management, require that users have a OneDrive account. You can use the OneDrive setup guide in the Microsoft 365 admin center to enable OneDrive for your users.
Deployment Tips
Before you can assign Copilot licenses, you need to make sure that you’ve already provisioned users in your tenant. If you haven’t done so yet, you can follow the steps in the Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 setup guide or Add users and assign licenses in Microsoft 365. These resources will guide you through the process of creating users and assigning licenses. To learn more about assigning Microsoft 365 licenses with PowerShell, see Assign licenses to user accounts.
To assign and manage Copilot licenses, you can use the Microsoft 365 admin center. Here are the steps:
- Sign in to the Microsoft 365 admin center and go to Billing > Licenses.
- Select Copilot for Microsoft 365.
- In the product details page, assign licenses to users and manage their access to Copilot and other apps and services.
- To check if a user has been added, go to Users and then Active Users. The user will be displayed along with their active license.
We recommend that you enable all feedback settings for the Microsoft 365 Apps. This allows Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 users to provide details with their thumbs up or thumbs down reaction to what Copilot produced from their prompt. You can use either the cloud policy service or group policies to enable the feedback for your users. Once all the policies are enabled, users will have the option to provide logs, screenshots, an email address for further contact about their feedback submission.
After your users have had a chance to use Copilot, we recommend running and reviewing the Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage report to get a summary of user adoption, retention, and engagement with Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. The report can be found in the Microsoft 365 admin center under Reports > Usage.
IT administrator Tips
- Microsoft 365 Business Standard, Business Premiun, E3, or E5 are licensing prerequisites.
- Entra ID- based account is required.
- Must buy and assign the license to user and they must sign in with that account
- Install may experience issues if company managing updates, you have volume license install or you might need to Update License in one of your apps
- Several features require users to have a OneDrive account
- Download newest versions of Office 365 from tenant and install. NOTE: Outlook Copilot requires “New” version for functionality.
- The richness of the cross-app experience will depend on the data sources indexed by Microsoft 365. Tenants with the richest data in Microsoft 365 (Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams) will get the best result
What you need to know first about Copilot
Three-phase approach to business progress
Copilot for Microsoft 365 works alongside you in the apps used every day delivering increased productivity and creativity as you are set free from repetitive tasks so you can focus on the work that matters most – like serving your customers and growing your business – all with the peace of mind coming from our commitment to security and responsible AI.
Readiness
- Project- Copilot Readiness Assessment
- Decide licenses strategy
- Start with quick wins
- Manage expectations
- Build feedback loops
- Set the stage for success
Adoption
- Project- Copilot Security and Policy Remediation
- Target specific knowledge workers and / or leaders as your Copilot champions and early adopters
- Communicate best practices early and often
Measurement
- Celebrate champion successes and brainstorm where else useful, new uses
- Quantify impact with the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard
- Meet with your AI council regularly
- Publicly celebrate successes
Prepare for Copilot with a Microsoft Copilot Readiness Assessment
As AI tools have gained widespread adoption over the past year, concerns about the safety and security of data have surfaced. In response, Microsoft introduces Microsoft Copilot, an innovative AI-powered tool designed to offer real-time guidance, insights, and automation across various organizational tasks and roles.
To kickstart your journey with Copilot, we’re offering the Microsoft Copilot Readiness Assessment. This service is tailored to assist organizations in adopting and optimizing Microsoft Copilot, specifically targeting companies already utilizing Microsoft 365 with active usage and subscriptions.
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Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 aims to revolutionize how we work. However, for organizations integrating Copilot into their systems, there are potential risks to be mindful of.
Since Copilot leverages your SharePoint tenant for accessing knowledge, it’s crucial to ensure that your tenant is configured with the appropriate permissions. Preventing unauthorized access is paramount; for instance, you wouldn’t want Copilot to disclose sensitive information like your CEO’s salary upon command.
Initial Remediation Plan will correct past vulnerabilities but not future ones without ongoing efforts .
Technical Readiness Verification: Ensure all essential Microsoft 365 applications are installed and kept up to date. Prepare your infrastructure to meet the requirements of Microsoft Copilot effectively.
Customization to Suit Your Requirements: Utilize Microsoft Copilot Studio to customize Copilot’s functionalities to align with the specific workflows and industry demands of your organization.
Emphasis on Training and Adoption: Provide thorough training sessions for users, highlighting the tangible benefits and features of Microsoft Copilot. This emphasis will facilitate a seamless adoption process and maximize the utilization of the tool within your organization.
What to expect from a Remediation Plan
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is transforming work
Top 10 new user tips- Copilot for Microsoft 365
For more prompts, visit Copilot Lab at: aka.ms/CopilotLab
Focus on what matters most
what can Copilot Do for you
Supercharged productivity
Unlock access to data and knowledge across your organization
- Create impactful communications to customers by leveraging coaching tips to help you hit just the right note.
- Clear your inbox in minutes, not hours, by summarizing long messages and generate suggest action items and replies.
- Easily track discussions and suggested action items in real time.
- Produce conversation summaries with citations to keep you up to speed and organized.
- Quickly catch up on meetings you miss.
- Get up to speed and complete tasks in no time with integrated cross-application intelligence working across all your data.
- Quickly pull together information from multiple sources using Microsoft Copilot.
Amplified creativity
Amplify human ingenuity and innovation with AI
- Partner with Copilot in Word to write, edit, and summarize content.
- Transform written content into compelling pitch decks and presentations with a single command.
- Create custom graphics right in your document with Microsoft Designer to build your brand.
- Enjoy all the rich capabilities of Excel at your fingertips.
- Create powerful, professional visualizations, project trackers, and more.
- Explore your data without modifying it.
- Ask Copilot to turn ideas into designs and summarize whiteboard content.
- Gather ideas on specific topics and run more creative and efficient meetings.
- Create original images in Whiteboard with Microsoft Designer.
Trusted security
Count on responsible, secure AI from a partner you can trust including Microsoft’s Copilot Copyright Commitment
- Individual users and admins are always in control as Copilot inherits your security, compliance, and privacy policies set up in Microsoft 365.
- Copilot respects individual and group permission policies.
- We’ve got you covered as Copilot for M365 is architected to protect data. Your data never leaves its secure partition, and it is never used for training purposes.
- Microsoft Copilot delivers real-time access to both your content and context in the Microsoft Graph.
- Get accurate, relevant answers anchored in your business content and working context.
- Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Business Premium customers can leverage Microsoft Copilot now to access the power of an AI-powered chat for work with commercial data protection.
Replace AI outside your control with better AI and controls that business users need
As an IT administrator, everybody else’s emergency is your emergency. Enter Copilot, formerly Bing Chat Enterprise, an AI-powered web chat solution that seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365 (yes like Chat GPT and even based on Open AI GPT-4).
The beauty is it gives you:
– User-Level Admin Controls to deploy it org or a few users. for feedback, you have the flexibility to tailor the experience.
– Data Protection that sees the Internet and can add your tenant data, but behind your information barriers.
– Seamless Integration protected by your policy settings.
Users can go to https://copilot.microsoft.com/, You can add it into their Edge browser sidebar or they can add an app to their smartphone and take it with them
Tinker with Copilot today and see how it can replace the search engine as your “go to” for research. Did we mention it is FREE for basic?
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