Announcements & Product Updates
- What’s New in Copilot in SharePoint: August 2026 Copilot in SharePoint’s August update can now turn SharePoint lists, Excel and CSV files into live, interactive dashboards that stay connected to the underlying data. It also adds one-click “page buttons” that launch contextual prompts, plus chat improvements for adding context. The theme is moving Copilot from simply answering questions to helping you create, analyse and act on your content.https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/spblog/whats-new-in-copilot-in-sharepoint-august-2026/4535421
- Copilot Just Changed Again — August 2026 (Updates From A Microsoft Engineer) AI – A Microsoft engineer walks through every August 2026 Microsoft 365 Copilot update across Chat, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, SharePoint and Notebooks. Highlights include new models, Word track-changes rewrites and Cowork event scheduling. A fast, practical rundown of what to switch on first this month.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwl_vyftmn8
Copilot Studio & Agents
- Building Highly Effective Business-Process Agents — Copilot Studio Updates, August 2026 – A walkthrough of how to design robust, business-process agents in Copilot Studio. It focuses on structuring agents for reliable, repeatable multi-step automation rather than one-off tasks. Useful for anyone looking to move from simple chatbots to production-grade workflow agents.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KoTjt6wIMc
- Inside the New Agent and Workflow Harness — Copilot Studio Updates, August 2026 AI – A closer look inside Copilot Studio’s new agent and workflow harness. It shows how the updated tooling lets you build, invoke and test agents as steps within larger workflows. A good companion to the business-process agents session above.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7IA56HJU2E
Guides & Resources
- Copilot Credits Guide (August 2026) AI – Microsoft-Copilot-Credits-Guide-August-2026.pdf — explaining how Microsoft Copilot credits and metered billing work. Handy background as pricing shifts from flat-rate to consumption-based models. Note: shared as a file attachment in the channel (no external URL).File posted in AI – News channel (PDF attachment)
After hours
The AI takeover: Who controls our future? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkPVjTl7o-Q
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