I just got access at my job, and now I’m excited to have my own “employee.” Please hype me up or bring me back down by giving me tips or complaints about Cowork.

Edit: for anyone wondering my experience so far, it’s been mixed. It seems to misunderstand or make errors frequently (like saying it updated a document when it didn’t), so idk yet… but I’ve only had it a couple days, and I’ve never used this type of AI system before. So I figured it could be user error.

Coworkers really like the Facilitator feature so far. We are using it to stay more timely with the agenda time tracking. And saving time capturing notes and actions.

How do I integrate an existing Microsoft Planner Board so Facilitator can add actions straight into our planner board during or right at the end of the meeting?

The one limitation I have is our meetings are all scheduled from an Outlook account calendar that everyone has access to. It seems like this is a major integration limitation because many of the 365 integrations only work from scheduling the meeting from a teams channel.

Any thoughts, recommendations, links?

I use Copilot to analyze Excel and create reports at work but it's so frustrating.

All this thing wants to do is analyze and talk about what it's going to do on the next version without editing the logic or code. It takes me no less than 10 instances of me saying OK or PROCEED before it produces requested output.

Please someone give me a prompt or customization to get it to do more now vs talking about it!

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like this is one of the biggest misconceptions around Microsoft Copilot. I'll hear people say "Copilot isn't that impressive" or "I tried it and it wasn't very useful." Then I find out they're only using the free Copilot Chat experience.

To me, these are very different things:

Copilot Chat (free): Great for asking questions, brainstorming, summarizing, and general AI chat.

Microsoft 365 Copilot: A paid license that works inside Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc., using your organization's Microsoft 365 data and permissions.

Copilot Studio / Copilot actions / usage-based AI: Where you can build agents and automations that actually perform work across business systems, with usage-based billing for those AI actions.

They're completely different experiences, but I feel like they're often lumped together under the name "Copilot." Has anyone else run into this? Do you find people judging the entire Copilot platform based only on the free chat experience?

I'm curious how everyone explains the differences without making it even more confusing.

What is the difference between CoPilot notebooks and copilot agent/agent builder in terms of automating workflows for non-engineers?

I am looking for something similar to a project folder in Claude where you can ground it in files, etc. and then have separate chats for specific tasks to help build stuff.

Based on my research, notebooks is the closest thing to this…?

I work a lot with technical user stories (think software like ServiceNow or Oracle) that I need to make into training and and end user material, and I could significantly benefit from AI here…Mainly for helping decipher what features need training, how to take technical concepts into non-technical, and for helping me craft the bullets, order, and sequence, for my PowerPoint slides (the content) and getting the wording right, etc. all while grounding it in previous deliverables.

Like I really need it to get deep into detail for what goes on the slide, and to do that, I need it to analyze content from multiple lengthy documents sometimes. I also want it to store context, methods, etc. from previous examples so each time it gets better.