Description
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI-powered tool that helps with your work tasks.
Users enter a prompt in Copilot and Copilot responds with AI-generated information. The responses are in real-time and can include internet-based content and work content that users have permission to access.
Users get content relevant to their work tasks, and in the context of the Microsoft 365 app they’re using.
Microsoft 365 Copilot:
- Pairs with the Microsoft 365 productivity apps that you use every day, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and others.
So, you can use Copilot in Word to help create a document, in Excel to get suggestions for formulas, in Outlook to summarize an email thread, and in Teams to summarize meetings.
- Uses content in Microsoft Graph to personalize the responses with a user’s work emails, chats, and documents. Copilot only shows the data that users have permission to access.
- Coordinates large language models (LLMs). LLMs are a type of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. These algorithms use deep learning techniques and data sets to understand, summarize, predict, and generate content.
The LLMs include pretrained models, like Generative Pre-Trained Transformers, like GPT-4, that are designed for these tasks. To learn more about Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPT), ask Copilot.
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Copilot works with Microsoft 365 apps and Microsoft Graph
Copilot has intelligent features, functionality, and prompting. These features are designed to help users in the context of their work within their Microsoft 365 apps.
Run your Business
Simplify how you run your business with a solution that helps you create, connect, and collaborate securely from anywhere.
Microsoft’s LLMs and other components work together. They help users securely access and use your organizational data with AI-powered capabilities. Specifically, Microsoft 365 Copilot uses the following components:
Safeguard your business data and devices with centralized identity, security, compliance, and privacy protection.
- Microsoft 365 apps
Apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and Loop work with Copilot to support users in the context of their work. For example, Copilot in Word helps users create, understand, and edit documents. - Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
With Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, you can draft content, review what you missed, and get answers to questions using open-ended prompts. This information is securely grounded in your work data.
Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Graph includes information on users, their activities, and the organization data they can access. The Microsoft Graph API brings a personalized context into the prompt, like information from a user’s emails, chats, documents, and meetings.
Semantic indexing for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot enhances search relevance and accuracy by using advanced lexical and semantic understanding of Microsoft Graph data, resulting in more contextually precise information retrieval. Copilot preserves security, compliance, and privacy, ensuring organizational boundaries are respected while offering seamless user experience.
Copilot features in Microsoft 365 apps
Microsoft 365 productivity apps (like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and Loop) work with Copilot to support users in the context of their work.
Microsoft 365 services that help support Copilot
In your Microsoft 365 license, there are services and features that can help you get your data and organization ready for Copilot.
- SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM)
Microsoft SharePoint Premium – SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) can help you reduce oversharing and cleanup inactive sites. These tasks help declutter Copilot’s data sources and improve the quality of the responses.
To learn more, see Get ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot with SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM). - Restricted SharePoint Search
Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) RSS gives you time to review and configure the correct permissions on your SharePoint sites. You add the reviewed & corrected sites to an allowed list that Copilot can access.
To learn more, see Restricted SharePoint Search. - Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview can classify and label your data based on the sensitivity of the content. It can also help prevent unauthorized sharing or leakage and review Copilot prompts and responses.
To learn more, see Microsoft Purview data security and compliance protections for generative AI apps. - Microsoft Agents
Agents are scoped or focused versions of Microsoft 365 Copilot that act as AI assistants and can automate business processes. For example, you can create an agent that creates help desk tickets, or a human resources agent that looks up employee info from your data source.
To learn more, see Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility overview.
More resources:
- Compare features in the Microsoft 365 licenses that affect Copilot
- Get your data ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot using the E3 license admin guide or E5 license admin guide.
Related content
- Get licensing info and set up Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- Learn about Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- Get sample prompts at the Copilot Prompt Gallery and training at the Microsoft 365 Copilot Skilling Center.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) lets you create, share, and collaborate all in one place with your favourite apps now including Copilot.*
Unlock productivity, creativity, and generative AI for your organization.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app empowers your employees to do their best work with Copilot in the apps they use daily.
Quick access to your AI assistant for work
Empower your organization with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat that supercharges productivity, sparks creativity, and keeps your data protected with enterprise data protection.
Create anywhere, anytime, with any app
Anyone in your organization can quickly create documents, presentations, and worksheets within a single, unified app experience.
Your content
Your Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 empowers your organization to organize, and safely store files in OneDrive with intuitive and easy organizational tools.
Work together, better
Keep your business connected from anywhere with chat and cloud collaboration tools.
Pick up where you left off
Microsoft 365 seamlessly tracks updates, tasks, and comments across all your files so you can pick up right where you left off.
More apps in one place
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app brings together your favorite apps and Copilot in one intuitive platform.
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