Welcome to "Mastering Microsoft 365 Copilot: A Beginner's Guide," your comprehensive pathway to harnessing the full potential of AI across Microsoft's suite of business applications.
Welcome to "Mastering Microsoft 365 Copilot: A Beginner's Guide," your comprehensive pathway to harnessing the full potential of AI across Microsoft's suite of business applications.
Is your business ready for AI? Is Copilot for Microsoft 365 worth the cost? Is your data at risk when using Copilot?
Check out this new course that acts as your comprehensive pathway to harnessing the full potential of AI across Microsoft’s suite of business applications. Understand if this product meets all of the hype and if it is the right fit for your business. As an MSP, understand the importance of talking to your customers about AI readiness.
This course is taught by a Microsoft MVP and a content creator for all things Microsoft 365 @ Tminus365 on YouTube.
Why Choose This Course?
Cut through the marketing fluff from Microsoft and understand the potential of adopting AI in your business. By enrolling in this course, you will:
Explore the Fundamentals: Gain a solid foundation of Generative AI, Large Language Models, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, understanding its capabilities, how it works, licensing models, setup, and integration across different applications.
Consumable Demos: Through a wealth of demo content, witness firsthand how Copilot interacts with familiar business tools such as Excel, Word, Teams, and PowerPoint, providing you with practical knowledge to apply immediately.
Learn how to begin to prepare your organization for AI: Regardless of what AI tool or technology you adopt, having an AI strategy is paramount to protecting your data. Learn the security and compliance concerns with Copilot and mitigate them with an AI Readiness assessment.
Understand how to Administer Copilot for your Organization: Learn the basic administration of Copilot such as licensing users and considerations for rolling out Copilot in a phased approach. Learn about optimizing adoption and ROI through prompt engineering.
Who Should Enroll?
This course is perfect for business decision makers and MSPs who are looking to jump start their knowledge of Microsoft 365 Copilot. This course will provide you the foundation to understanding if Copilot is right for your business and what you can begin to do now to prepare for AI. For MSPs, this course will provide you a better talk track with your customers around Copilot for Microsoft 365 unlock the truth behind the hype of this product.
In this video, I showcase some of my background and experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot as well as an introduction to the course. I am a Microsoft MVP and have been creating content on all things Microsoft 365 for over 5-years now on my YouTube Channel, T-Minus365. Join me in this lesson to understand more about what this course will cover.
§ In this lesson, I cover the background of Generative AI, Large Language Models, and Model types so that you have a better end-to-end understanding of Copilot.
In this video, I cover the top use cases for generative AI, trends we are seeing in the market today, and predications from Gartner.
In this lesson, I cover some of the top risks with Generative AI and some of the concerns you should have leveraging this technology.
In this lesson, I demystify a the confusing top of Copilots and Microsoft’s confusing naming convention for their product line.
What is all the hype about? In this lesson, I cover, at a high-level, the core purpose and functionality of Microsoft 365 Copilot so that you can have a better understanding of its powerful benefits.
In this video, I walk through the major chat differences using the paid versions of Microsoft 365 Copilot and ChatGPT. I showcase demos of the tools side-by-side answering question and demo the additional features you get with Copilot.
In this video, I showcase the different licensing options available for individuals and organizations. I talk about the free vs paid offerings you can purchase and walk through a feature matrix that describes what you get with each plan.
In this video, I show you how you can purchase Copilot Pro as an individual and Microsoft 365 Copilot as an organization. I showcase the pricing and billing terms for each purchasing model that you need to be aware of as well.
In this video, I discuss the security and data privacy concerns you should have leveraging Microsoft 365 Copilot in your organization. Learn how user can get inadvertent or unauthorized access to sensitive data within the company. Prepare yourself with an AI readiness assessment.
In this lesson, I discuss the importance of talking to your customers about an AI Readiness Assessment. I showcase an assessment Microsoft provides that you can walk your customers through.
In this video, I show some statistics and surveys conducts by Microsoft and other 3rd parties as it relates to AI and users perception on Copilot for Microsoft 365. I discuss how to leverage a phased approach to maximize adoption of Copilot within an organization to maximize ROI.
If you are an admin for Microsoft 365 for your organization, I show you how to roll out Copilot to the business, including licensing users and activating Copilot within your tenant. I highlight the importance of performing an AI readiness assessment for security and data privacy which we cover in more depth later in the course.
In this lesson, I walk through the art and science of prompt engineering including some ingredients you can use to create a great prompt for Copilot.
In this lesson, I show you some examples of crafting better prompts in Word and Teams
In this lesson, I show you some best practices when prompting Copilot to help you maximize the value you get from the tool.
In this video, I demo some examples of Microsoft 365 Copilot in Outlook and its summarization capabilities. We take a look at Copilot summarizing your inbox, long email threads, and individual email messages.
In this video, I show you how to leverage Copilot in outlook to draft new emails and replies that can shorten the time it takes you to manage your inbox or create content from scratch.
In this video, I go over the “Coaching by Copilot” feature in outlook which allows you to analyze an email and have Copilot provide recommendations on aspects of the email such as tone, clarity, and sentiment.
In this video, I show you a popular feature in Outlook leveraging Copilot to follow a meeting on your calendar. By taking this action, you can get a recap of the meeting automatically from Copilot after the meeting has ended and even chat with the transcript to get caught up on what you missed.
In this video, I show you how you can leverage Copilot to in a live meeting to ask questions about the meeting such as what has been discussed so far, uncover unresolved topics, and even get suggestions on questions you could or should be asking to other participants.
In this video, I show how Copilot summarizes a meeting after it has concluded to capture key meeting notes, action items, and follow up tasks.
In this video, I show you how you can interact with Copilot on a live call, leveraging Teams voice. This can create an amazing customer experience of being able to capture unresolved questions as part of a call transfer process.
In this video, I show you how you can create brand new word documents leveraging other documentation content in your Microsoft environment such as other word docs, PowerPoint slides, OneNote sheets, and more.
In this video, I show you how you interact with word documents in a way that seems like you were conversing with a human. Leveraging Copilot, you can summarize the document, pull out key insights, ask about specific topics, and even have Copilot rewrite sections you choose.
If you are an individual consumer of Microsoft 365, I show you how to leverage an integration with Microsoft Designer to create impressive graphics in your word documents such as banner images. AI capabilities extend into Designer where you can create and modify images or graphics to create amazing content.
In this video, I cover some of the key insights Copilot can pull from your data in excel. No matter if you are a power user of excel or a novice, Copilot allows you to seamless interact with your data and you will see that in this video where I demo basic interactions with an existing table.
Creating formulas in excel is not always straightforward and is often a heavy learning curve for the average user. In this lesson, I show you how Copilot can interpret your data and create the formulas you need to generate new business insights.
In this video, I show you how to create an entire presentation from a word doc. Imagine being able to take notes from word documents or from a well written paper and generate a powerful presentation including all of the graphics, organization, and formatting you need. This is the power of Copilot in PowerPoint.
In this video, I show you how Copilot can create a PowerPoint presentation from a textual description as well as some common interactions you might have for updating existing presentations.
In this video, I showcase the Copilot interactions with your favorite note taking apps. With Microsoft Loop, I showcase how to leverage Copilot to create a table that you can share as a Loop component across business apps such as Outlook.
In this video, I show you how to have human-like conversation in Microsoft 365 Chat to interact with all of your business data. This allows you to surface information across your inbox, Teams chats, meetings, shared document repositories, and more.
In this video, I show you how to leverage Copilot in Microsoft 365 chat to create new content such as email drafts, blogs, and more from existing documents and a basic dialogue.
In this lesson, I outline how Copilot interacts with your business data and why it is important to put policies in place to protect your data.
In this lesson, I showcase a security feature matrix I built that outlines the data security features you get in your base plans of Microsoft.
In this lesson, I show you where you can view and configure your tenant-wide sharing settings along with the privacy settings you can set for document libraries in SharePoint
In this lesson, I show you how you can automatically find and classify sensitive data store across your Microsoft environment.
In this lesson, I show you how you can begin to apply data taxonomy to the documents in your organization to protect sensitive information
In this lesson, I show you how to set up data loss prevention policies to prevent data leakage either internally or externally to your organization
In this lesson, I show you how you can apply retention polices to Copilot chats
In this lesson, I show you how you can discover Copilot interactions throughout your organization based on a specific topic or keyword.
In this lesson, I show you how you can leverage eDiscovery for Copilot interactions.
In this lesson, I show you how to leverage the audit logs to discover Copilot interactions across your organization
In this lesson, I show you basic group management and dynamic group management to help you automate access controls to sensitive information
In this lesson, I show you how to perform automated access reviews for things like group membership to streamline the lifecycle of access controls in your organization.
In this lesson, I show you how to reduce your security exposure with Copilot by ensuring that privileged roles are set up under PIM to provide just in time access to these roles.
In this lesson, I show you how to automate common workflows like user onboarding and offboarding using lifecycle workflows so that you can streamline access control management.
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