MidDay Cafe Episode 46 - Ignite Recap for M365, Viva, and Copilot!

Mike Gannotti · Nov 17, 2023

It has been an incredible week of innovation coming out of the Microsoft Ignite conference and MidDay Café is coming in hot! In this week’s session we cover the great announcements coming out around Microsoft 365 services, Microsoft Viva announcements, as well as Microsoft 365 Copilot. After the video be sure to check out the resource links provided.

Covered in this episode:

Microsoft 365
- Introducing Microsoft SharePoint Premium
- Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Stream
- Microsoft Clipchamp and app integrations for Microsoft Designer now available
- Microsoft Loop now generally available with updated features
- New Updates to Microsoft 365 for frontline workers
- The new Microsoft Planner brings together to-do’s, tasks, plans, and projects
Microsoft Viva
- Updates to Microsoft Viva and Amplify
- Microsoft 365 Chat integration and Copilot in Viva updates
Microsoft Copilot
- Bringing Copilot to everyone
- New capabilities in Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
- Extend and enrich Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 with plugins and Connectors

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Tyrelle Barnes
A hey, Mike.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Welcome to midday cafe.

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Tyrelle Barnes
I'm Terrell Barnes.

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Michael Gannotti
And I might janati it.

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Michael Gannotti
And do you wanna kick off?

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Michael Gannotti
This should be the Terrell show.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Ah, I don't know about that, but we have so many exciting announcements that we just made over the last couple days at Ignite.

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

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Michael Gannotti
Yep.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Mike, it's like, wow, I mean, a tremendous number of of copilot announcements and all of the neat things that we're doing and bringing into into the product stack with copilot.

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Tyrelle Barnes
So I think we're just going to walk through those today and kind of just give a little brief around, you know, what's new.

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Tyrelle Barnes
It's exciting.

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Tyrelle Barnes
And what customers can start to take advantage of?

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

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Michael Gannotti
And I think what we I what we talked a little bit about this, but we're gonna break it down because it's not just copilot, although copilot seems to be everywhere these days.

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Michael Gannotti
Everything's I'm going to, by the way, we're we're not talking about this, but there is a new thing called the copilot Designer.

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Michael Gannotti
It's a point and click and I'm going to design my coffee.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Ohh wow.

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Michael Gannotti
Copilot then then I need to build a a robot to deliver my coffee.

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Michael Gannotti
But.

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah. What?

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Michael Gannotti
I was going to say is there's a couple of main sections, so we'll be talking about some of the Microsoft 365 announcements that may not be necessarily copilot today, but definitely when we talk about employee experience, they're part of that extended experience beyond just Viva, although they integrate with Viva, many of these we'll talk about Viva and then copilot and how it's inserting itself into a bunch of stuff.

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Michael Gannotti
And you're right, there is just a ton of announcements and we kick off with one of my favorites, which is.

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Tyrelle Barnes
SharePoint premium.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Yay.

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Michael Gannotti
Share point I.

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Michael Gannotti
So that's what I my my roots go way back to SharePoint, you know originally and yeah.

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Michael Gannotti
So a lot of information around that and I don't know, have you had time to digest any of that yet, tyrelle?

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Tyrelle Barnes
A little bit, yeah, Mike.

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Tyrelle Barnes
I mean, I think it's really exciting how we're modernizing SharePoint and continuing to add value there.

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Michael Gannotti
Yep.

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Tyrelle Barnes
And so, yeah, I'd love to hear your take on it.

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

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Tyrelle Barnes
SharePoint samurai.

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Michael Gannotti
So you know the name itself?

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Michael Gannotti
I I'm glad they made the name change.

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Michael Gannotti
I I can see that there might be some customer confusion at first.

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Michael Gannotti
Like what does this mean?

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Michael Gannotti
Is this a whole bunch of new stuff on SharePoint?

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Michael Gannotti
And the answer is yes and no.

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Tyrelle Barnes
OK.

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Michael Gannotti
We have had some premium offers that sit on top of SharePoint like SharePoint like syntax like the Microsoft excuse me, the SharePoint Premium management of pieces and So what we've done is we've wrapped those in with some additional new features around AI that we're bringing in and adding to what was syntax and we're calling that SharePoint premium.

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Michael Gannotti
So you're not.

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Michael Gannotti
We're not like adding saying ohh now if you want to do this new.

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Michael Gannotti
If you want more around SharePoint SharePoint, the base product will continue to be added to a new all kinds of new innovation coming to it.

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Michael Gannotti
As a Ben doing, but really this is taking some of those premium features that were branded with other names.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Mm-hmm.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah, yeah.

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Michael Gannotti
But then people would look and say, but isn't that in SharePoint and that share and we're bringing them.

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Michael Gannotti
So bringing couple of paid additions and then calling it one piece.

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Michael Gannotti
So some of it's a naming and marketing and skew versus product, but also they talked about you know really that idea of using the power of AI to drive some of that labeling, you know, sensitivity labels, other labeling which can then boost other things like topics in Viva.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Right.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

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Tyrelle Barnes
And so we we went from so some similarly we're we're kind of modernizing that that functionality that we had as Viva topics and just it's really across suite feature now.

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Michael Gannotti
Yep.

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Tyrelle Barnes
And so it's going.

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Tyrelle Barnes
It's not going to be available as a standalone.

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Tyrelle Barnes
It's going to be called.

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Michael Gannotti
Yep.

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Michael Gannotti
Mm-hmm.

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

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Tyrelle Barnes
You know, we've changed the name to topics and Viva and similarly to skills in Viva it it kind of spreads across the different modules and creates that AI layer that's gonna be automatically bringing the knowledge and expertise into some of the other solutions that we'll get into a little later like Viva answers and Viva engage and Viva amplify.

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

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Tyrelle Barnes
So it's all kind of working together.

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Michael Gannotti
Coming together and then, you know, one of the things people don't think about is again, when we talk about the graph, that semantic index and, you know, bringing all that information through copilot to make the answers more and more relevant when you're doing something like what was formally syntax.

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Michael Gannotti
But now you know that SharePoint premium and you're getting that advanced labeling capabilities and automated that just increases the relevancy and that kind of data connectivity.

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Michael Gannotti
So it can even better understand than just taking pure simple pure, you know text indexing a features where you're getting all these labels.

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Michael Gannotti
Now that provide more insight into the data itself.

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Michael Gannotti
The enterprise.

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Michael Gannotti
So yeah, I'm excited about that SharePoint premium.

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Michael Gannotti
There's a lot of content.

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Michael Gannotti
We'll have links.

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Michael Gannotti
We'll have links to all this stuff that we're condensing down for you, but some exciting pieces including some videos.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Great.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

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Michael Gannotti
So what do we have next?

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Tyrelle Barnes
And which clip champ?

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Michael Gannotti
Yep.

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Tyrelle Barnes
This is something that you talked about early on when we started doing our podcast and you were showing it to me.

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Tyrelle Barnes
And I really at the time, couldn't understand how cool it was or you know what that meant about it becoming available and in teams and in our stack.

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Tyrelle Barnes
And so, yeah, I'd love to hear more about Clipchamp now because I had a customer actually ask about it.

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Tyrelle Barnes
They were asking about, you know, how do we how do employees?

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Tyrelle Barnes
How can employees do podcasts?

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Michael Gannotti
Right.

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Tyrelle Barnes
They want to do podcasts internally, so yeah, I'd love to hear what you think about the clip, Champ and app integrations.

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

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Michael Gannotti
So Clipchamp kind of one step back.

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Michael Gannotti
Clipchamp was a third party service like many of those out there.

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Michael Gannotti
It was designed for quick content creation and editing.

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Michael Gannotti
The full featured with an eye towards social media and propagating information out and doing things of that nature and what we've done is we've purchased it and now it is fully integrated into the Microsoft 365 stack.

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Michael Gannotti
So if you're an E3 customer or an E5, you can turn that on, enable it for your users, and they'll find it.

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Michael Gannotti
It'll surface in a number of places in the flow of work, and that's a beauty.

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Michael Gannotti
We meet people where they're at.

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Michael Gannotti
So number one, we have a meeting right now.

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Michael Gannotti
We're doing a teams meeting when we record it, so I wanted to play back that teams meeting.

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Michael Gannotti
It would open in the browser, but now at the top.

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Michael Gannotti
One of the options to click is edit and clip champ.

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Michael Gannotti
So people who said before, you know, jeez, I'd like to take out the junk in the beginning.

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Michael Gannotti
The end?

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Michael Gannotti
Maybe there's a couple of things that are sensitive and I don't want everybody else seeing blunt.

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Michael Gannotti
Let's pull that.

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Michael Gannotti
Maybe I wanna drop some other.

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Michael Gannotti
Put a splashy intro.

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Michael Gannotti
You can do that.

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Michael Gannotti
It's one click and it literally opens the video in Clipchamp to do it full featured.

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Michael Gannotti
It also shows up in your OneDrive where you click add new where you can do documents.

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Tyrelle Barnes
App.

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Tyrelle Barnes
It's a mouthful.

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Michael Gannotti
It's now at the bottom of there, and then finally, if you go into the waffle or the app launcher in the upper left and you click see all apps, if it's turned on for you, then you can search for it or browse to it and find the clip Champ amp clip champ A and it will be available, but it's full featured web based editor that allows you.

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Michael Gannotti
It has, you know, we have premium content around sound effects music, you know, we're all free.

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Michael Gannotti
Music is included with it royalty free premier imaging royalty free premiere video content.

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Michael Gannotti
There's effects.

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Michael Gannotti
All that kind of stuff there.

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Michael Gannotti
When you're done, you can click output and you have options from very low res all the way to 4K and great.

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Michael Gannotti
I use it for our podcast to trim off our beginning and end.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Yes, awesome.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Well, thanks, Mike.

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Michael Gannotti
So yeah.

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Tyrelle Barnes
And that brings me that brings us to Microsoft Loop and then this is something else that we use.

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Michael Gannotti
Yes.

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Tyrelle Barnes
We're using right now to do our to do our collaboration for our podcast, but lots of us are starting to use loop more internally.

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Tyrelle Barnes
So tell us about what's the cool thing about loop?

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

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Michael Gannotti
So first of all, the big announcement was it when general availability, so it's now available to orgs not in preview.

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Michael Gannotti
So it falls under your terms of service and that whole bit as a part of it.

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Michael Gannotti
That's a big deal, but when we talk about loop loop really to me is you know, I was a big OneNote user.

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Michael Gannotti
I managed teams and different things.

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Michael Gannotti
I'm not a formal project manager, but I had a need to create in the past notebooks of pages around content.

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Michael Gannotti
I use it for my updates and one on ones with my manager.

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Michael Gannotti
I've migrated over to Luke because Luke is a little more dynamic.

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Michael Gannotti
Same similar basic structure instead of a notebook you create a workspace.

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Michael Gannotti
Then you create pages and then in those pages, just like in OneNote, you could add things like not a graph, a a table.

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Michael Gannotti
You could add tables, bulleted lists, all kinds of components that you can add free type, but each of those becomes what they call a loop component when you add it to the page.

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Michael Gannotti
And the beauty of it is you can copy and paste that loop component elsewhere like we're in a teams meeting.

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Michael Gannotti
You could drop it into the chat.

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Michael Gannotti
You have a whiteboard.

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Michael Gannotti
Drop it into the whiteboard.

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Michael Gannotti
Drop it into word, drop it in an email and it's dynamic and updated in real time across.

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Michael Gannotti
So if we dropped a loop component in this chat tyrelle and you started editing the original one would show that edits in real time as well as anywhere else it's showing.

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Michael Gannotti
So yeah.

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Tyrelle Barnes
I love that and I'm gonna start using loop now because I was yesterday.

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Michael Gannotti
Umm.

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Tyrelle Barnes
I have some new customers I'm working with and so I was creating some OneNote and I think that I'm not gonna.

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Tyrelle Barnes
I'm just gonna leave that and and try loop because it sounds a little bit more umm dynamic so yeah.

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah, it.

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Michael Gannotti
And they announced just a couple of quick things highlights, new things that they added, a work workspace status.

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Michael Gannotti
Uh, that's being updated to give you new all kinds of new info with upcoming deadlines as a part of it.

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Michael Gannotti
So you'll get alerts around that workspace descriptions where you can surface files and other things.

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Michael Gannotti
That's there power automate integration.

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Tyrelle Barnes
What?

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Michael Gannotti
I thought this was an interesting they'll integrate power automate to simplify task tracking and project management within your loop.

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Michael Gannotti
That's cool.

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Michael Gannotti
You'll be able to start a loop workspace right from teams as a new addition, like when you create a team.

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Tyrelle Barnes
There's a loop.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Ah.

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Michael Gannotti
Boom, and it'll drop in a workspace, and we're doing it in meetings as well.

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Michael Gannotti
So it's just really cool a lot there with loop.

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Michael Gannotti
Again, we'll have links to the resources.

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Michael Gannotti
Check it out to one of my favorite tools these days.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah, that is really cool.

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Tyrelle Barnes
And then we have new updates for Microsoft 365 for frontline workers. Wow.

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Michael Gannotti
E Yeah, so there's a couple of things that I thought were interesting that they put out.

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Michael Gannotti
One, I'm gonna save the whole Bing chat enterprise now, copilot.

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Michael Gannotti
We'll talk about that in a bit, but a couple of things that they've added here.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

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Michael Gannotti
One you know, the Microsoft app shifts shifts that frontline workers use, and they can drop it into teams.

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Michael Gannotti
They're putting a shifts plug in for Microsoft copilot for 365 so that people will be able to start taking advantage of AI and scheduling finding free shifts and all that kind of stuff, right?

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Michael Gannotti
Umm.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Ohh wow, that's gonna be really for like really impact the efficiency and optimization of people trying to do that and and change shifts and that's that's been a big need for a while.

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Michael Gannotti
I had.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Well.

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Michael Gannotti
I actually had this question asked just the other day and I hadn't seen that update yet as it well, I don't know.

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Michael Gannotti
I had to get back to him.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Well, that's.

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah, they they're also having a deploy and manage those teams using dynamic with they're calling dynamic membership capability before you had to manually add each of the people.

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Michael Gannotti
Now you'll be able to take advantage of Entra, formerly known as Azure Active Directory, which I it's gonna take me a while.

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Tyrelle Barnes
We changed the name of add to.

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Michael Gannotti
You didn't know that? Yeah.

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Tyrelle Barnes
No, I'm finding out now.

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Michael Gannotti
Entra it's entra ID.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Wow, entra ID interesting.

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah, I I keep saying Azure Active Directory it's entra ID but being able to use dynamic groups from for the the artist formerly known is as your Active Directory.

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Michael Gannotti
That's coming as well.

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Michael Gannotti
And then finally deploying it at scale is another thing.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Oh.

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Michael Gannotti
Being able to go across multiple locations and teams, et cetera with a single shift app that those are some big asks that they've had, but that's the and again, we'll have the links and information around that, that's frontline.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Oh, awesome.

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Michael Gannotti
And then the next one's pretty cool.

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Michael Gannotti
Planner.

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Michael Gannotti
So we've had all these things like to do tasks planner we're bringing.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Project, yeah.

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Michael Gannotti
Yeah, I mean, it's crazy, but we're bringing it all together.

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Tyrelle Barnes
Yay.

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Michael Gannotti
Finally, finally, not just showing up as tasks into a single, it's bringing together also project for the web.

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Michael Gannotti
It's so really what it's pulling is Microsoft to do.

0:15:20.780 --> 0:15:28.560
Michael Gannotti
Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Project for the web into a single experience that we're calling Microsoft Planner.

0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.110
Michael Gannotti
So think of it you're planner.

0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:33.870
Michael Gannotti
Which people have loved anyways?

0:15:38.470 --> 0:15:38.890
Tyrelle Barnes
Barry.

0:15:34.140 --> 0:15:45.270
Michael Gannotti
Getting amped on steroids for capability, and of course you know, we couldn't do any of that was out starting to look at having AI integrated in.

0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.670
Michael Gannotti
So we have a number of different things around AI that'll help.

0:15:49.520 --> 0:16:2.330
Michael Gannotti
We have project plan, scheduling resources, tools and things they did not have previous in there and so you'll see all this getting consolidated and coming in the months to come.

0:16:3.320 --> 0:16:4.290
Tyrelle Barnes
Awesome.

0:16:4.440 --> 0:16:6.170
Tyrelle Barnes
Well, that'll be exciting.

0:16:6.760 --> 0:16:7.380
Tyrelle Barnes
Well, cool.

0:16:6.950 --> 0:16:9.160
Michael Gannotti
So I have stuff for you.

0:16:9.170 --> 0:16:10.10
Michael Gannotti
I want you to cover.

0:16:10.730 --> 0:16:12.400
Tyrelle Barnes
What about Viva?

0:16:12.980 --> 0:16:13.270
Michael Gannotti
Viva.

0:16:12.470 --> 0:16:23.570
Tyrelle Barnes
We have some really exciting Viva announcements around Viva engage and Viva amplify and so one thing for people been really excited about Viva Amplify.

0:16:32.510 --> 0:16:32.750
Michael Gannotti
Mm-hmm.

0:16:24.310 --> 0:16:36.550
Tyrelle Barnes
It allows companies to really umm do multi channel corporate communications and and leverage our technology to make it really simple.

0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.470
Tyrelle Barnes
But now that's gonna be available for multi tenant organizations.

0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.720
Tyrelle Barnes
So it's gonna be able to be used like Viva.

0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:47.770
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:16:43.730 --> 0:16:52.690
Tyrelle Barnes
Engage will be able to use for cross tenant communications so that leaders can communicate at scale and build community across the organization.

0:16:52.700 --> 0:16:59.90
Tyrelle Barnes
So that's been something that's been a big ask for a while, and then there'll be generally analytics around that.

0:17:4.30 --> 0:17:4.210
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:16:59.100 --> 0:17:6.990
Tyrelle Barnes
So you can really see like like how are people engaging with the communication so that you can kind of streamline based on that.

0:17:7.60 --> 0:17:8.630
Tyrelle Barnes
It's generally available now.

0:17:9.80 --> 0:17:13.190
Tyrelle Barnes
There's also gonna be the ability to publish from Viva Amplify to Viva engage.

0:17:16.890 --> 0:17:17.70
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:18.730
Tyrelle Barnes
That's been a big ask cuz we have customers who are really are big users of Viva engage.

0:17:19.10 --> 0:17:19.280
Michael Gannotti
Umm.

0:17:18.740 --> 0:17:27.550
Tyrelle Barnes
And so now for corporate to be able to communicate and those channels and those Viva engage communities and have storylines that's really gonna help.

0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:33.550
Tyrelle Barnes
And then they'll be reports available as well and Viva amplify so they can see how that is being consumed.

0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:39.430
Tyrelle Barnes
So it's that's actually it's in private preview starting early next year.

0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:44.590
Tyrelle Barnes
So that'll be coming to GA probably mid mid next year.

0:17:54.860 --> 0:17:55.40
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:18:5.430 --> 0:18:5.640
Michael Gannotti
Mm-hmm.

0:17:45.580 --> 0:18:5.810
Tyrelle Barnes
Umm, something super exciting is Viva goals and Viva engaged now have integration so that's being able to bring that mission and alignment and results into the communities, into the conversations and then helping them be able to like build goals around that and then view the progress of those goals directly in Viva engage.

0:18:5.820 --> 0:18:16.970
Tyrelle Barnes
So that's gonna also create that community across the different parts of the organization and then help with leaderships top down, communication and interactions.

0:18:24.10 --> 0:18:24.310
Michael Gannotti
Right.

0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:24.350
Tyrelle Barnes
So they'll be able to see how that's impacting different, you know, progress against goals that they have.

0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:29.460
Tyrelle Barnes
So that's also gonna be generally available starting on the first half of next year.

0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:30.920
Michael Gannotti
Nice.

0:18:31.50 --> 0:18:47.850
Tyrelle Barnes
And yeah, and then for answers, which is that AI powered knowledge solution that we have available, we are going to be able to leverage AI to generate questions and answers from existing files and import them.

0:18:53.170 --> 0:18:53.970
Michael Gannotti
That's huge.

0:18:48.40 --> 0:18:54.190
Tyrelle Barnes
Also, the AI can automatically route open questions to people who might have the answer, so it's going to kind of be able to tell.

0:18:54.700 --> 0:18:55.410
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:57.690
Tyrelle Barnes
So that it's actually doing its job.

0:18:59.520 --> 0:18:59.720
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:18:57.700 --> 0:19:4.60
Tyrelle Barnes
It's it's that intelligence layer that's saying, hey, I know Mike Gannotti knows everything about SharePoint.

0:19:12.380 --> 0:19:12.650
Michael Gannotti
Umm.

0:19:4.70 --> 0:19:21.990
Tyrelle Barnes
I bet he has the answer to this question and so then users can identify like the right topics for question, they can see top similar responses before publishing and so that's really going to aid in that routing to the experts that's gonna start rolling out actually later this year.

0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:33.90
Tyrelle Barnes
And then we've already made updates to Viva Amplify, so it's going to include publication templates for campaigns and AD localization and more than 50 languages now.

0:19:38.980 --> 0:19:39.120
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:19:33.100 --> 0:19:44.370
Tyrelle Barnes
So we'll have better reporting too for the systems to incorporate the the custom data from HR tools and and then that's all going to be available actually in December.

0:19:44.380 --> 0:19:46.590
Tyrelle Barnes
So that's coming out really soon.

0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:48.140
Michael Gannotti
Awesome.

0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.50
Tyrelle Barnes
So those are the latest.

0:19:49.60 --> 0:19:56.100
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah, those are the latest kind of Viva engage and Viva amplify announcements that I wanted to share.

0:19:56.850 --> 0:19:57.210
Michael Gannotti
That's.

0:19:57.220 --> 0:20:23.280
Michael Gannotti
I mean, that's big stuff and I the answers piece excites me because it really is living up to the promise of answers and making it something I think orgs are gonna be very much gravitating towards the idea that it can pull all that data through AI and give you an automated response with documents and stuff, but also automatically route to the appropriate people.

0:20:23.340 --> 0:20:24.370
Michael Gannotti
That's that's huge.

0:20:24.780 --> 0:20:25.140
Michael Gannotti
That's huge.

0:20:24.910 --> 0:20:25.680
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

0:20:25.780 --> 0:20:28.60
Tyrelle Barnes
It's like bringing like what used to be.

0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:31.980
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:20:36.810 --> 0:20:37.30
Michael Gannotti
Yep.

0:20:28.70 --> 0:20:38.380
Tyrelle Barnes
You're sitting in an office and you know the person who knows, and you go to their office and ask them and get the answer right, and then maybe share it with others.

0:20:38.420 --> 0:20:50.620
Tyrelle Barnes
So like Fast forward and maybe that was, you know, 5-6 years ago and now here we are and we're able to do that digitally across thousands of people in thousands of locations.

0:20:51.130 --> 0:20:52.180
Tyrelle Barnes
I mean, it's incredible.

0:20:53.430 --> 0:20:54.40
Michael Gannotti
It is.

0:20:54.90 --> 0:20:55.80
Michael Gannotti
It's a it's.

0:20:55.90 --> 0:21:1.480
Michael Gannotti
This is exciting times, so that was the Viva piece.

0:21:1.490 --> 0:21:10.600
Michael Gannotti
But if we there's this other piece around and I said we've kind of put it off around bring bringing copilot to everyone.

0:21:9.950 --> 0:21:13.90
Tyrelle Barnes
To every yes, yes.

0:21:13.50 --> 0:21:15.580
Michael Gannotti
So you got something to say on that?

0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:26.80
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:21:16.690 --> 0:21:40.200
Tyrelle Barnes
Well, I wanna say that it's it's, that's like kind of a we're gonna change the the the naming nomenclature basically of Bing chat enterprise and we're it's going to be copilot and it's it's just simply going to for customers that are using copilot and Bing and Edge that's gonna be available and it's automatically enabled.

0:21:40.210 --> 0:21:41.910
Tyrelle Barnes
Right Mike so.

0:21:41.620 --> 0:21:42.70
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:21:42.80 --> 0:21:44.500
Michael Gannotti
So that's and I'm glad you just said that.

0:21:44.510 --> 0:21:48.410
Michael Gannotti
That's something I think customers should absolutely be aware of.

0:21:50.700 --> 0:22:4.300
Michael Gannotti
It's enabled by default, so you need to if you know if you want to step back as an organization and I as a technologist and former corporate architect, I Holly support that.

0:22:6.700 --> 0:22:8.850
Michael Gannotti
That you might wanna take a look.

0:22:8.860 --> 0:22:11.410
Michael Gannotti
You might wanna turn it off while you evaluate.

0:22:11.420 --> 0:22:14.830
Michael Gannotti
At least you know and do that in a demo tenant or something.

0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:16.90
Michael Gannotti
Take a look at it.

0:22:16.180 --> 0:22:17.550
Michael Gannotti
It's awesome features.

0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:18.350
Michael Gannotti
We're using it.

0:22:18.360 --> 0:22:25.250
Michael Gannotti
I just showed you a use of it within Microsoft 365 chat, so they have the plug in there.

0:22:25.260 --> 0:22:29.120
Michael Gannotti
That's also turned on by default to get web content.

0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:30.200
Michael Gannotti
Umm.

0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:35.460
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:40.150
Michael Gannotti
And so I showed you how I could toggle it to for a question and then get and then it said from your organization and then from the web.

0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:41.810
Michael Gannotti
So it had two sections.

0:22:42.20 --> 0:22:47.470
Michael Gannotti
The two section answer with references to where they came from in both.

0:22:47.580 --> 0:22:54.340
Michael Gannotti
One was showing organizational teams chat and the other was showing web based publications from Ignite.

0:22:55.210 --> 0:22:55.710
Tyrelle Barnes
Right.

0:22:56.10 --> 0:22:57.900
Michael Gannotti
So powerful.

0:23:1.70 --> 0:23:1.190
Michael Gannotti
Yes.

0:22:56.210 --> 0:23:3.480
Tyrelle Barnes
So yeah, it's it's really cool, but go to the admin center where you can turn it off if you want to.

0:23:6.980 --> 0:23:7.240
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:23:3.490 --> 0:23:10.40
Tyrelle Barnes
Like further, you know, investigate before you have that because it's it's automatically turned on now, yeah.

0:23:9.570 --> 0:23:12.930
Michael Gannotti
And I'll I'll have the links to the documentation on managing it.

0:23:12.940 --> 0:23:18.540
Michael Gannotti
They both can be turned on and off, so take a look at that.

0:23:18.610 --> 0:23:23.800
Michael Gannotti
I do know though of a number of organizations when it was available in preview before you could.

0:23:27.250 --> 0:23:27.450
Tyrelle Barnes
Mm-hmm.

0:23:25.580 --> 0:23:27.500
Michael Gannotti
Before it just was on that.

0:23:27.510 --> 0:23:28.930
Michael Gannotti
They turned it on for their orgs.

0:23:33.500 --> 0:23:34.230
Tyrelle Barnes
Great.

0:23:28.940 --> 0:23:34.710
Michael Gannotti
I had a a CIO who said I'm using all the time. Yeah.

0:23:34.330 --> 0:23:36.610
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah, it's very powerful and it is.

0:23:36.620 --> 0:23:46.120
Tyrelle Barnes
It is security trimmed and and they're you know it is completely safe and in compliance with your services terms and agreements under Microsoft.

0:23:45.30 --> 0:23:49.920
Michael Gannotti
I actually look, it's actually so it doesn't fall under those.

0:23:49.930 --> 0:23:56.140
Michael Gannotti
And here's the reason why it is all we do things that nobody else is doing on the Internet.

0:24:1.140 --> 0:24:1.420
Tyrelle Barnes
OK.

0:23:56.150 --> 0:24:10.810
Michael Gannotti
So let me take one second to explain that so that we folks get this when you're pulling it, we're leveraging the API to generate that generative AI answer based off of Internet content.

0:24:10.820 --> 0:24:20.210
Michael Gannotti
When you're leveraging that, so that's just like going again to Google, to Bing, to Yahoo, to DuckDuckGo or whatever.

0:24:20.260 --> 0:24:21.810
Michael Gannotti
Searching, finding stuff.

0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:23.200
Michael Gannotti
None of those search engines.

0:24:28.430 --> 0:24:28.790
Tyrelle Barnes
OK.

0:24:23.890 --> 0:24:30.520
Michael Gannotti
Umm would fall under anybody's terms of service agreements cause they're public facing entities.

0:24:30.760 --> 0:24:31.420
Tyrelle Barnes
Right. OK.

0:24:30.590 --> 0:24:49.450
Michael Gannotti
Having said that, what we do for what's now called copilot with enterprise features, formerly known as Bing Chat Enterprise, we take it one step further for our customers because we do wanna give you the highest level of comfort and safety, right?

0:24:49.540 --> 0:24:59.580
Michael Gannotti
So #1, just like we do with Microsoft 365, we bring in copies of the generative AI models as large language models.

0:24:59.910 --> 0:25:5.920
Michael Gannotti
We bring them into that environment and we lock them for enterprise customers.

0:25:6.50 --> 0:25:9.330
Michael Gannotti
Your data does not or any data that you're doing.

0:25:9.340 --> 0:25:12.690
Michael Gannotti
We don't train the model with data.

0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:28.610
Michael Gannotti
We also when you go to initiate that prompt, when that prompt goes out versus searching on the Internet, it knows information about you based off of your browser, your IP address, all that kind of stuff is there.

0:25:28.740 --> 0:25:32.830
Michael Gannotti
We strip all that we de identify you, you or your IP address.

0:25:32.910 --> 0:25:42.180
Michael Gannotti
All that gets stripped out of the prompt and then the prompt like we do with Microsoft 365 copilot.

0:25:42.430 --> 0:25:46.540
Michael Gannotti
We purged the prompt after so we're not keeping any data.

0:25:46.550 --> 0:25:58.260
Michael Gannotti
We're not training it as opposed to public services on the Internet or if you go to open AI or any of these other public AI services where they're they're capturing all that kind of stuff.

0:25:58.270 --> 0:26:1.700
Michael Gannotti
So we do do that, but because it is a public service.

0:26:3.510 --> 0:26:7.880
Michael Gannotti
We we can't put that under our terms of sale agreement.

0:26:8.570 --> 0:26:9.440
Tyrelle Barnes
I see.

0:26:9.450 --> 0:26:10.680
Tyrelle Barnes
Thanks for explaining that.

0:26:13.430 --> 0:26:15.200
Tyrelle Barnes
And I think there's a lot of questions.

0:26:13.100 --> 0:26:15.440
Michael Gannotti
Yeah, I got sidetracked.

0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:17.810
Tyrelle Barnes
Yes, you know, though that was really good.

0:26:17.820 --> 0:26:26.440
Tyrelle Barnes
I think that that that needs to be emphasized cause it's it is a definite question that a lot of people have, yeah.

0:26:26.300 --> 0:26:26.730
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:26:26.740 --> 0:26:30.810
Michael Gannotti
And again, you know, we'll provide the documentation, look at it yourselves.

0:26:30.860 --> 0:26:33.370
Michael Gannotti
I think it's a tremendous boon to orgs.

0:26:33.680 --> 0:26:45.450
Michael Gannotti
I mean it just it gives you that not only internal research capability and and generative AI but external as well which there's always a lot of that.

0:26:45.460 --> 0:26:57.0
Michael Gannotti
And I think of clinicians want to get the latest data around disease and stuff from, you know, from publications, right, that are trusted sources and being able to bring all that in.

0:26:58.590 --> 0:26:59.440
Tyrelle Barnes
That's really cool.

0:26:57.10 --> 0:26:59.480
Michael Gannotti
They could do that with that.

0:27:0.480 --> 0:27:1.780
Tyrelle Barnes
I love that use case.

0:27:2.560 --> 0:27:3.70
Michael Gannotti
All right.

0:27:3.80 --> 0:27:4.290
Michael Gannotti
What was our next?

0:27:2.720 --> 0:27:7.620
Tyrelle Barnes
Well, our next one I think is super exciting, Mike.

0:27:8.360 --> 0:27:8.640
Michael Gannotti
Ohh.

0:27:15.130 --> 0:27:15.440
Michael Gannotti
Please.

0:27:7.630 --> 0:27:17.720
Tyrelle Barnes
And that's how do you measure if all these copilots are having an impact in your organization and actually helping change the way people work and making them more productive.

0:27:18.900 --> 0:27:20.750
Tyrelle Barnes
Well, now we have a way.

0:27:19.380 --> 0:27:21.480
Michael Gannotti
How do you? Yeah.

0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:21.830
Tyrelle Barnes
We have.

0:27:21.900 --> 0:27:27.210
Tyrelle Barnes
We're going to we have Microsoft copilot dashboard which is powered by Viva.

0:27:27.580 --> 0:27:35.20
Tyrelle Barnes
So it's powered by Microsoft Viva and that's gonna help give leadership dashboard where they can see.

0:27:36.330 --> 0:27:36.620
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:27:35.860 --> 0:27:40.350
Tyrelle Barnes
You know, do first of all see what their copilot readiness is and their organization.

0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:44.380
Michael Gannotti
Hmm.

0:27:40.580 --> 0:27:48.750
Tyrelle Barnes
They can drive adoption and then they can measure the impact that that copilots having and that's gonna be part of the Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:49.920
Michael Gannotti
Yes.

0:27:49.40 --> 0:27:57.30
Tyrelle Barnes
It starting today and it's coming to the Viva Insights app in teams and it'll be available on the web in December.

0:27:57.80 --> 0:28:9.860
Tyrelle Barnes
So I mean this is coming out right now and if you heard Jared Spataro's keynote, you saw that we're seeing tremendous impact to organizations early on for the employees that are using copilot.

0:28:9.750 --> 0:28:9.950
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:28:9.950 --> 0:28:17.380
Tyrelle Barnes
So they're they're becoming way more productive and they feel like if they had that, they absolutely do not wanna give it up.

0:28:17.550 --> 0:28:22.380
Tyrelle Barnes
And so they're using generative AI and copilot as a part of their work day now.

0:28:22.390 --> 0:28:29.790
Tyrelle Barnes
And it's helping so that is going to be available for leaders to understand how it's impacting the organizations.

0:28:30.320 --> 0:28:30.950
Michael Gannotti
What?

0:28:31.40 --> 0:28:37.70
Michael Gannotti
One of the things that you said were you talked about then dashboard powered by Viva, right.

0:28:37.290 --> 0:28:37.650
Tyrelle Barnes
Umm.

0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:40.190
Michael Gannotti
I think that that brings up an important point, right.

0:28:40.200 --> 0:28:46.880
Michael Gannotti
So there's elements of Viva we've been talking about that we're getting elements of copilot announced.

0:28:47.830 --> 0:28:58.140
Michael Gannotti
But really, we're seeing the synergy between that AI for generative AI and all it's doing, and the employee experience because they're one in the same.

0:28:59.960 --> 0:29:0.690
Michael Gannotti
Right.

0:28:58.850 --> 0:29:1.110
Tyrelle Barnes
Umm, absolutely, yeah.

0:29:0.880 --> 0:29:3.910
Michael Gannotti
So like, you're talking about insights, right?

0:29:3.920 --> 0:29:27.50
Michael Gannotti
All the value you get out of insights where we have the ability to slice and dice at different levels like organizational levels, what's going on and now being able to leverage that power to really, really light up what's happening with generative AI in your users that's that's that's a whole other level.

0:29:27.660 --> 0:29:28.880
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah, it's a game changer.

0:29:29.900 --> 0:29:30.140
Tyrelle Barnes
Umm.

0:29:30.150 --> 0:29:30.870
Tyrelle Barnes
And and it is.

0:29:30.880 --> 0:29:32.170
Tyrelle Barnes
It's all interconnected.

0:29:33.300 --> 0:29:33.500
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:29:32.180 --> 0:29:40.310
Tyrelle Barnes
I mean the the, UM it's it's hard to to and we've seen this over the years as as you can't silo things anymore.

0:29:40.360 --> 0:29:41.890
Tyrelle Barnes
It's gotta be cross functional.

0:29:41.900 --> 0:29:45.10
Tyrelle Barnes
It's gotta be considered at the leadership level.

0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:50.740
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:29:57.420 --> 0:29:57.560
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:29:45.240 --> 0:30:3.0
Tyrelle Barnes
Cross functionally because it's impacting the employee and if you put the employee at the center, which is what we've done starting several years ago when we first launched the Viva platform is really to to try to come at it from the employees viewpoint.

0:30:3.100 --> 0:30:4.70
Tyrelle Barnes
And So what?

0:30:4.80 --> 0:30:8.750
Tyrelle Barnes
How does how do we bring all this to the employee where they're at in the flow of work?

0:30:8.800 --> 0:30:16.590
Tyrelle Barnes
I'm whatever device they're happening happening to be using and, and that's what we're seeing come to life here and now being able to measure that.

0:30:16.600 --> 0:30:18.940
Tyrelle Barnes
How is it going and which teams? Maybe.

0:30:18.380 --> 0:30:19.460
Michael Gannotti
Which is important.

0:30:19.950 --> 0:30:20.350
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:21.740
Tyrelle Barnes
Which teams are struggling?

0:30:21.750 --> 0:30:23.330
Tyrelle Barnes
Which teams are really benefiting?

0:30:32.970 --> 0:30:33.200
Michael Gannotti
Mm-hmm.

0:30:33.270 --> 0:30:33.560
Michael Gannotti
And.

0:30:33.250 --> 0:30:40.550
Tyrelle Barnes
Or to other groups that aren't maybe using copilot yet or don't have access to it yet and you're able to do that with the copilot dashboard.

0:30:41.300 --> 0:30:42.270
Michael Gannotti
That is awesome.

0:30:42.560 --> 0:30:44.270
Michael Gannotti
I I I I can't.

0:30:45.200 --> 0:30:52.90
Michael Gannotti
I cannot conceive of an organization rolling copilot out with not ensuring they have that capability.

0:30:53.170 --> 0:30:53.590
Tyrelle Barnes
Right.

0:30:53.970 --> 0:30:54.440
Tyrelle Barnes
Yes.

0:30:54.830 --> 0:30:55.300
Michael Gannotti
Just me.

0:30:54.450 --> 0:30:55.480
Tyrelle Barnes
And you know what?

0:31:0.600 --> 0:31:0.920
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:31:3.820 --> 0:31:4.0
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:30:55.570 --> 0:31:6.580
Tyrelle Barnes
I'm so glad you said that cause organizations do that all the time they they make changes and they don't measure, they don't know what how it impacted things until maybe a year later when nothing changed.

0:31:6.990 --> 0:31:14.870
Tyrelle Barnes
And you know the the transformation they were looking for wasn't achieved and they don't find out until it's almost too late.

0:31:15.490 --> 0:31:15.710
Michael Gannotti
Yep.

0:31:14.910 --> 0:31:24.810
Tyrelle Barnes
It's like the the more you can find out, you know, as you're going in real time in weeks, not months and years, the better off you're going to be.

0:31:25.230 --> 0:31:25.650
Michael Gannotti
Hmm.

0:31:25.20 --> 0:31:26.280
Tyrelle Barnes
That's agility, right?

0:31:26.870 --> 0:31:27.480
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:31:27.530 --> 0:31:28.940
Michael Gannotti
No, I agree.

0:31:29.80 --> 0:31:42.840
Michael Gannotti
So if you're looking at rolling out copilot like the rest of the world is looking at it, it seems these days you you really should be looking at because you really do wanna to measure that.

0:31:43.170 --> 0:31:43.350
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

0:31:43.700 --> 0:31:52.730
Michael Gannotti
There were some other things that they announced in that portion too, around 365, like a the whole White Board and copilot and teams.

0:31:52.740 --> 0:31:53.250
Michael Gannotti
Did you see that?

0:31:54.650 --> 0:31:55.160
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

0:31:55.170 --> 0:31:56.140
Tyrelle Barnes
Tell me more about it.

0:31:56.150 --> 0:31:59.220
Tyrelle Barnes
I I haven't been a big whiteboard user, but maybe that'll change.

0:31:59.720 --> 0:32:0.210
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:32:0.220 --> 0:32:7.920
Michael Gannotti
So like couple of things like we've shown how we're you like for meetings, copilot in meetings, right rocking we also.

0:32:9.580 --> 0:32:18.50
Michael Gannotti
Publicly announced now that if you're getting Microsoft 365 copilot, you'll get meeting recap with all that information.

0:32:27.520 --> 0:32:27.720
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

0:32:29.560 --> 0:32:29.780
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

0:32:18.160 --> 0:32:34.620
Michael Gannotti
But now we're taking it one step further and I used to use whiteboard all the time as an architect in the technology Microsoft Technology Center because you use it for for holding large meetings and you know, diagramming and all that.

0:32:32.960 --> 0:32:34.930
Tyrelle Barnes
First used it in our MTC.

0:32:34.990 --> 0:32:35.640
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah, yeah.

0:32:36.340 --> 0:32:39.910
Michael Gannotti
Now you can use it to to take and visualize.

0:32:40.60 --> 0:32:42.370
Michael Gannotti
Using copilot will visualize.

0:32:42.380 --> 0:32:49.520
Michael Gannotti
Now you're meeting points and notes right within that, like we had to go and manually write at the end in there.

0:32:53.50 --> 0:32:53.420
Tyrelle Barnes
Right.

0:32:49.690 --> 0:32:59.390
Michael Gannotti
You know, because we would turn over the whiteboard to the customer at the end with all our drawings, but we would have to go in and manually do a lot of the points of what's been brought up.

0:33:0.400 --> 0:33:2.540
Michael Gannotti
Copilot do it for you.

0:33:2.160 --> 0:33:4.400
Tyrelle Barnes
So copilot creates the white board.

0:33:5.30 --> 0:33:6.100
Michael Gannotti
No way you create.

0:33:6.110 --> 0:33:7.500
Michael Gannotti
You have white board, right?

0:33:7.990 --> 0:33:8.150
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

0:33:7.590 --> 0:33:9.120
Michael Gannotti
And it's gonna be able to.

0:33:9.410 --> 0:33:14.420
Michael Gannotti
It's what they're talking about is visualized, spoken discussion points and organizing them.

0:33:14.490 --> 0:33:26.180
Michael Gannotti
So if you're recording them meeting like we're doing it has that it has access to the transcript, they can go in and do those summaries and visualize them for you. Right.

0:33:26.190 --> 0:33:26.760
Michael Gannotti
And whiteboard.

0:33:27.280 --> 0:33:28.830
Tyrelle Barnes
Now that's super cool.

0:33:29.160 --> 0:33:29.360
Michael Gannotti
That's.

0:33:29.120 --> 0:33:30.380
Tyrelle Barnes
I can't wait to see that.

0:33:31.140 --> 0:33:37.400
Michael Gannotti
That is very cool and we will have links to that here so people can see all that.

0:33:37.460 --> 0:33:48.310
Michael Gannotti
There's a whole lot other things there, you know, they they talked about copilot and outlook to make things easier around meeting preparation and meeting scheduling.

0:33:48.320 --> 0:33:49.510
Michael Gannotti
So that's coming.

0:33:49.620 --> 0:33:50.750
Michael Gannotti
You'll see more on that.

0:33:50.760 --> 0:33:53.710
Michael Gannotti
We already talked about the copilot in.

0:33:56.200 --> 0:33:56.990
Tyrelle Barnes
No, we didn't.

0:33:53.720 --> 0:34:0.490
Michael Gannotti
Oh, we didn't talk about copilot in loop, but copilot in loop, not just general availability.

0:34:1.990 --> 0:34:8.290
Michael Gannotti
When you go in to start a, typically people would go into insert.

0:34:8.340 --> 0:34:13.900
Michael Gannotti
They either do a forward slash or click where it says do a forward slash at the very top.

0:34:13.910 --> 0:34:16.830
Michael Gannotti
Now is copilot and you can do things like.

0:34:16.840 --> 0:34:19.500
Michael Gannotti
Hey I want to do a brainstorm.

0:34:19.570 --> 0:34:25.660
Michael Gannotti
Let's get a baseline brainstorm around how can I increase adoption in our org, where we're struggling with?

0:34:26.130 --> 0:34:27.140
Michael Gannotti
I don't know with.

0:34:28.810 --> 0:34:39.560
Michael Gannotti
With copilot or something and it'll it'll come out with a bulleted list that you can then go ahead and edit, change, add to with your team, right?

0:34:39.570 --> 0:34:48.900
Michael Gannotti
But it's it's speeds up that brainstorm process, and then when you're ready to present that back to management or somebody, you can and you need to talk track.

0:34:48.970 --> 0:34:50.430
Michael Gannotti
You can say make it a speech.

0:34:51.310 --> 0:34:57.250
Michael Gannotti
It'll transform that into a speech into a welcome to today's meetings.

0:34:57.260 --> 0:35:1.460
Michael Gannotti
How we can improve blah blah blah and it generates a whole talk track.

0:35:1.820 --> 0:35:2.560
Tyrelle Barnes
Wow.

0:35:1.520 --> 0:35:2.790
Michael Gannotti
You can drive that in as meat.

0:35:2.800 --> 0:35:4.820
Michael Gannotti
You know your slide notes or whatever.

0:35:5.870 --> 0:35:6.710
Michael Gannotti
Yeah, pretty cool.

0:35:7.280 --> 0:35:8.320
Tyrelle Barnes
That's awesome.

0:35:9.780 --> 0:35:17.610
Michael Gannotti
So that's those capabilities that I think was the next that we had.

0:35:17.620 --> 0:35:18.950
Michael Gannotti
We're almost through everything.

0:35:19.60 --> 0:35:19.330
Tyrelle Barnes
E yeah.

0:35:21.120 --> 0:35:22.640
Michael Gannotti
Copilot for.

0:35:25.230 --> 0:35:27.220
Michael Gannotti
Citations attribute.

0:35:27.230 --> 0:35:28.980
Michael Gannotti
Ohh for 365.

0:35:29.70 --> 0:35:30.510
Michael Gannotti
Ohh this is the extensibility.

0:35:31.280 --> 0:35:32.760
Tyrelle Barnes
Oh yeah, the graph connectors.

0:35:33.80 --> 0:35:33.210
Michael Gannotti
Yes.

0:35:34.970 --> 0:35:35.450
Tyrelle Barnes
Awesome.

0:35:35.460 --> 0:35:36.70
Tyrelle Barnes
Tell us about that.

0:35:36.570 --> 0:35:37.400
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:35:37.410 --> 0:35:47.310
Michael Gannotti
So I so as you're leveraging copilot out of the box, it leverages your data in Microsoft 365 via the graph.

0:35:49.430 --> 0:35:49.660
Tyrelle Barnes
Right.

0:35:47.490 --> 0:35:51.220
Michael Gannotti
The semantic index on top of the graph, but it's your data.

0:35:51.720 --> 0:35:52.0
Tyrelle Barnes
Right.

0:35:51.890 --> 0:35:57.20
Michael Gannotti
Lot of customers want to extend that and do things and there's two ways that you can do it.

0:35:57.890 --> 0:36:3.440
Michael Gannotti
First, you can use graph connectors to bring that data as a part of your graph.

0:36:3.710 --> 0:36:10.540
Michael Gannotti
So now it becomes this single source, but that does point in time, right?

0:36:10.550 --> 0:36:11.520
Michael Gannotti
Because you're not.

0:36:11.600 --> 0:36:12.420
Michael Gannotti
Continue.

0:36:12.490 --> 0:36:17.940
Michael Gannotti
You don't hammer third party systems and stuff with continually updating.

0:36:19.80 --> 0:36:19.320
Tyrelle Barnes
Right.

0:36:17.950 --> 0:36:22.120
Michael Gannotti
Continuing it does scheduled right iterative updates.

0:36:28.510 --> 0:36:28.840
Tyrelle Barnes
Umm.

0:36:22.390 --> 0:36:34.720
Michael Gannotti
If you want real time querying of the data, we have a plugin, framework and model and that's where we did the M365 when I showed you the first plugin is web content right?

0:36:34.760 --> 0:36:35.190
Tyrelle Barnes
Great.

0:36:34.830 --> 0:36:36.600
Michael Gannotti
But you could add it for service now.

0:36:36.610 --> 0:36:40.200
Michael Gannotti
You could have it for anything and so with those plugins.

0:36:40.210 --> 0:36:43.900
Michael Gannotti
What they'll do is interrogate in real time that system.

0:36:44.840 --> 0:36:55.760
Michael Gannotti
Think of it as you're conducting with the prompt a search, and then generative AI will take that result and information and build it into that generative AI response.

0:36:56.480 --> 0:37:5.290
Tyrelle Barnes
Nice and and for anybody who's listening and wants to know more about graph connectors and how the graph works, we did a whole episode on that.

0:37:6.490 --> 0:37:6.930
Michael Gannotti
Oh, we did.

0:37:6.200 --> 0:37:8.670
Tyrelle Barnes
Was it episode 44?

0:37:9.910 --> 0:37:10.70
Michael Gannotti
Yes.

0:37:8.800 --> 0:37:10.650
Tyrelle Barnes
Yes, wish antrel.

0:37:10.660 --> 0:37:15.390
Tyrelle Barnes
And so listen to that one and you'll understand a lot more about how we, how we do that.

0:37:16.210 --> 0:37:17.620
Michael Gannotti
Thank you for mentioning that.

0:37:17.630 --> 0:37:19.460
Michael Gannotti
So I can point back to that.

0:37:19.780 --> 0:37:20.350
Tyrelle Barnes
Absolutely.

0:37:19.670 --> 0:37:20.940
Michael Gannotti
That's that's great point.

0:37:21.310 --> 0:37:22.210
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah, it'll be in the notes.

0:37:23.320 --> 0:37:29.370
Michael Gannotti
Be in the notes and then lastly, oh this is this is your baby right here.

0:37:29.420 --> 0:37:37.980
Michael Gannotti
You kind of went through all that, but all the different areas we said, Viva Insights copilot, we said Viva goals.

0:37:35.630 --> 0:37:39.660
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah, Viva insights copilot, Viva goals.

0:37:39.670 --> 0:37:45.20
Tyrelle Barnes
Copilot that'll help generate and refine your goals leveraging conversational AI.

0:37:45.30 --> 0:37:52.940
Tyrelle Barnes
So you can prompt it, which is natural language and have it summarize your goals and then share progress across your teams.

0:37:53.810 --> 0:37:57.520
Tyrelle Barnes
Then we have we mentioned already, copilot and Viva engage.

0:37:57.670 --> 0:38:4.530
Tyrelle Barnes
There's copilot in Viva learning that's going to allow people to easily create structured learning collections.

0:38:4.540 --> 0:38:7.210
Tyrelle Barnes
Find the right learning resources.

0:38:7.430 --> 0:38:7.650
Michael Gannotti
Yep.

0:38:7.220 --> 0:38:17.910
Tyrelle Barnes
Summarize learning content, leveraging the AI and that's gonna be in private preview with our joint partner SAP SuccessFactors.

0:38:18.10 --> 0:38:18.160
Michael Gannotti
Yep.

0:38:18.180 --> 0:38:24.680
Tyrelle Barnes
By the end of this year, so lots of goodness there at Microsoft SAP SuccessFactors.

0:38:24.690 --> 0:38:34.170
Tyrelle Barnes
It's one of our main learning management systems that we use so we have lots of integration with Viva learning and across all the different LMS and people glint.

0:38:34.180 --> 0:38:37.70
Tyrelle Barnes
This is super exciting that this is fabulous.

0:38:37.270 --> 0:38:42.60
Tyrelle Barnes
Viva Glint is our employee engagement survey platform.

0:38:42.630 --> 0:38:58.200
Tyrelle Barnes
It's fully integrated into the employee experience products and it's available in teams and this like by leveraging copilot, it'll allows leaders to summarize and analyze thousands of employee comments from their engagement surveys.

0:39:11.420 --> 0:39:11.750
Michael Gannotti
Right.

0:39:20.850 --> 0:39:21.630
Michael Gannotti
Umm.

0:38:58.470 --> 0:39:22.280
Tyrelle Barnes
And then in like this is just like instantaneous so you get you do this engagement survey and the next day you're able to summarize and have these word clouds about from the comments which is I mean for for HR teams that have led these types of engagement surveys to try to summarize the thousands and thousands of comments that have come in has been really cumbersome.

0:39:22.290 --> 0:39:24.500
Tyrelle Barnes
And this is just allows you to do it with the AI.

0:39:25.130 --> 0:39:34.710
Tyrelle Barnes
That's gonna be available in private preview starting in January, so those are the exciting copilots and Viva that I wanted to share.

0:39:38.910 --> 0:39:39.730
Tyrelle Barnes
I think we have.

0:39:36.840 --> 0:39:44.600
Michael Gannotti
I think we shared a lot and what's funny, we didn't even scratch the surface as to the whole ignite, OK.

0:39:45.400 --> 0:39:55.370
Tyrelle Barnes
I know because yesterday, so that was that was basically what what came out on on Wednesday and that's just a little bit about what came out on Wednesday, right and modern work.

0:39:55.860 --> 0:39:55.950
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:39:55.460 --> 0:39:59.850
Tyrelle Barnes
But yesterday it was all the Azure and fabric and all.

0:40:2.960 --> 0:40:3.510
Michael Gannotti
So much.

0:39:59.860 --> 0:40:5.170
Tyrelle Barnes
I mean, it's just mind boggling the the way things are changing. Yeah.

0:40:5.780 --> 0:40:8.90
Michael Gannotti
Yeah, virtual meetings.

0:40:5.320 --> 0:40:10.460
Tyrelle Barnes
So it'll take us all the while to, well, I know.

0:40:10.740 --> 0:40:11.650
Michael Gannotti
Did you see those?

0:40:10.930 --> 0:40:13.110
Tyrelle Barnes
So I did.

0:40:13.190 --> 0:40:13.960
Tyrelle Barnes
I did.

0:40:22.280 --> 0:40:22.610
Michael Gannotti
Umm.

0:40:14.130 --> 0:40:32.450
Tyrelle Barnes
I know Accenture has been partnering heavily over the past few years, but yes, to see the the mesh and the the copilots come in and be able to have those kind of those virtual meetings any place and it's a brave new world.

0:40:33.10 --> 0:40:41.30
Michael Gannotti
They've is rapidly changing and it's gonna with with copilot, it's gonna rapidly change quicker.

0:40:41.110 --> 0:40:41.320
Michael Gannotti
Right.

0:40:42.310 --> 0:40:46.840
Tyrelle Barnes
So are we gonna be able to send our avatars to, like, do this podcast?

0:40:46.850 --> 0:40:48.250
Tyrelle Barnes
And they won't even need our help.

0:40:50.940 --> 0:40:52.570
Michael Gannotti
I did something.

0:40:52.680 --> 0:40:55.710
Michael Gannotti
I'll just share this so I tried something out.

0:40:56.140 --> 0:40:58.950
Michael Gannotti
This is a month and a half.

0:40:58.960 --> 0:41:6.750
Michael Gannotti
Two months ago, where I took created an avatar using a a, I'll just say an unnamed system.

0:41:7.140 --> 0:41:11.910
Michael Gannotti
That's a that's part of our baileywick created an avatar.

0:41:12.780 --> 0:41:13.300
Michael Gannotti
Umm.

0:41:14.70 --> 0:41:23.0
Michael Gannotti
And also it had a room, so it looked like it was in a room for presenting with computer bank him back.

0:41:23.210 --> 0:41:30.300
Michael Gannotti
And I gave it a I had copilot right up the the talk track for delivery.

0:41:30.750 --> 0:41:37.810
Michael Gannotti
And then I dropped that in for the avatar and it looked like I was giving a speech.

0:41:42.480 --> 0:41:42.960
Tyrelle Barnes
That is.

0:41:40.70 --> 0:41:43.440
Michael Gannotti
I mean, it was pretty eerie and I trained the boy Ohh.

0:41:45.170 --> 0:41:45.910
Tyrelle Barnes
You did.

0:41:43.450 --> 0:41:46.20
Michael Gannotti
I did voice training too, so I trained the voice.

0:41:46.590 --> 0:41:47.40
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:41:47.50 --> 0:41:52.500
Michael Gannotti
So it looked, it was pretty Dang every and yeah.

0:41:52.510 --> 0:41:54.300
Michael Gannotti
So there's a lot coming.

0:41:54.370 --> 0:41:56.240
Michael Gannotti
We barely scratched the surface.

0:41:56.350 --> 0:42:11.270
Michael Gannotti
If you look at our, I think one or two MTC's actually has like an avatar running right now on big screens in theirs where you can ask it questions and it goes against our Bank of information and keeps it back.

0:42:12.520 --> 0:42:13.600
Tyrelle Barnes
Wow.

0:42:17.80 --> 0:42:17.510
Tyrelle Barnes
So.

0:42:17.560 --> 0:42:22.310
Tyrelle Barnes
So the answer to my question is yes, we could have our someday.

0:42:20.580 --> 0:42:23.480
Michael Gannotti
Someday. Someday.

0:42:24.260 --> 0:42:24.750
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:42:24.800 --> 0:42:25.80
Michael Gannotti
So that.

0:42:24.660 --> 0:42:27.100
Tyrelle Barnes
Probably June of 2024.

0:42:27.520 --> 0:42:28.810
Michael Gannotti
It it it'll take a while.

0:42:28.820 --> 0:42:37.160
Michael Gannotti
I mean there's there's lag when responses and different things, right that are noticeably different than a person.

0:42:37.390 --> 0:42:47.190
Michael Gannotti
But you know the the eventually the promise is there around all this technology to be able to free us up, to do much more strategic things, right?

0:42:47.660 --> 0:42:47.840
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah.

0:43:1.910 --> 0:43:2.930
Tyrelle Barnes
Wow.

0:42:48.530 --> 0:43:3.390
Michael Gannotti
Yeah, like we could point the direction for a podcast and let it do its thing and do a great job of it while you and I are handling customers and and look like we're in two places at the same time someday.

0:43:3.550 --> 0:43:4.930
Tyrelle Barnes
Ohh someday.

0:43:5.610 --> 0:43:6.240
Michael Gannotti
Someday.

0:43:7.90 --> 0:43:8.300
Michael Gannotti
Well, that's all I've got.

0:43:8.310 --> 0:43:9.460
Michael Gannotti
You have anything else you wanna?

0:43:10.570 --> 0:43:11.140
Tyrelle Barnes
No.

0:43:13.340 --> 0:43:13.560
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:43:11.150 --> 0:43:20.190
Tyrelle Barnes
I hope everybody has a great weekend and joys and is getting ready for Thanksgiving and you know it's good to see you and.

0:43:20.380 --> 0:43:21.110
Michael Gannotti
You as well.

0:43:21.220 --> 0:43:21.790
Michael Gannotti
It's been a while.

0:43:22.350 --> 0:43:24.410
Tyrelle Barnes
Yeah. Thanks.

0:43:24.890 --> 0:43:25.540
Michael Gannotti
Yeah.

0:43:31.200 --> 0:43:31.960
Tyrelle Barnes
Tyrelle Barnes.

0:43:25.550 --> 0:43:33.400
Michael Gannotti
So from Microsoft Central this is Mike Gannotti and have a great one.

0:43:33.410 --> 0:43:36.140
Michael Gannotti
Everybody take care and as always, Ciao.

0:43:36.900 --> 0:43:37.130
Tyrelle Barnes
Bye.

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