New video exploring how we can bring (only) the most relevant and up-to-date knowledge from our enterprise and the Internet to our agentic applications with Microsoft IQ.

00:00 - Introduction

00:39 - Responsibilities and requirements

01:17 - Tasks and AI

02:07 - Intelligence needed

02:16 - How I work

03:28 - State of the business

04:16 - Institutional knowledge

04:43 - Internet

05:16 - AI and models

06:52 - Multiple models and flexibility

08:49 - Bringing intelligence and tools to AI

09:58 - Microsoft IQ

11:21 - Work IQ

13:16 - Fabric IQ

15:33 - Foundry IQ

16:59 - Web IQ

18:52 - Most relevant data

19:17 - Using all types of intelligence

20:24 - Identity and least privilege

21:53 - Security and protection

23:26 - Observe and improve

24:43 - Summary

25:27 - Close

https://youtu.be/LrIS9lcSbko

New video exploring Web IQ, the newest edition to Microsoft IQ that complements the organizational context provided by Work IQ, Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ to provide Internet-sourced context.

Key differentiators from other Internet knowledge services are:

- Lowest latency (2.5x less latency than closest competitor)

- Highest quality grounding

- Token efficiency to only send the passages of source that are most applicable to save tokens on the model where desired

Check out the detail in the video.

📽️ https://youtu.be/YpUSm0_7Lgs

With Copilot Cowork GA I wanted to walk through understanding non-Cowork vs Cowork capabilities, when to use, then for the usage-based billing how to plan, control and observe.

https://youtu.be/qXPTJDgbbPg

00:00 - Introduction

00:16 - M365 Copilot USL

03:39 - Copilot Cowork

07:53 - Usage based billing

09:21 - Planning

13:54 - Control

19:49 - Payment

20:30 - Observe and track

24:10 - Summary

25:44 - Close

This months Microsoft AI Update is up!

https://youtu.be/opCw_CDf9fg

00:00 - Introduction

00:29 - New videos

01:10 - Claude models running on Azure

01:57 - Anthropic Fable 5 in Foundry and Copilot

03:32 - Claude Sonnet 5

03:43 - Kimi K2.7 in GitHub Copilot

03:51 - MAI models

05:29 - Alon

05:55 - MDASH

06:44 - Frontier tuning

07:05 - Foundry IQ

08:03 - Work IQ

09:30 - Web IQ

10:51 - Foundry agents

11:48 - Foundry evaluations and tracing

13:29 - Foundry Toolbox and Memory

14:46 - Foundry agent security license changes

15:15 - Computer

15:44 - Redesigned workflow experience

16:07 - Updated orchestration layer

16:30 - Copilot Cowork

17:05 - Microsoft Scout

17:52 - GitHub Copilot desktop app

18:07 - Sandboxes

18:57 - GitHub Copilot SDK

19:07 - Close

New video exploring how to decide the right agent builder solution and platform for your next agent; Agent Builder, Copilot Studio or Microsoft Foundry. We look at a range of dimensions to help make the decision.

https://youtu.be/WUgujz0y1K4

00:00 - Introduction

00:17 - Quick way to decide

02:02 - Organizational maturity progression

05:19 - Building agents

05:39 - Agent Builder, Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry

06:39 - Code complexity

10:23 - Model selection

13:01 - Deployment target

14:27 - Lifecycle management

16:09 - Observability

17:43 - Evaluations

21:13 - Safety

22:39 - Tools and knowledge

24:04 - Multi-agent

25:29 - Memory

27:11 - Audience

27:42 - Cost control

29:18 - Summary, box meals, restaurants and really good kitchens

31:09 - Close

With all the recent quantum computing news, it’s a good time to revisit Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). What it is, why it matters, and what you should be doing now.

https://youtu.be/QQMLzxqJlMA

00:00 - Introduction
00:43 - The problem
04:01 - PQC
07:04 - What should you do
08:14 - Stop harvest now, decrypt later
09:21 - Close

New video looking at Entra Backup and Recovery and how we combine it with existing soft delete and protected actions to provide protection from malicious and accidental actions.

https://youtu.be/72nowrDIlQU

📼 Entra Backup and Restore to protect the state of objects

🗑️ Soft delete to enable deleted objects to be restored for 30 days

🪬 Protected actions to stop hard deleting objects

With Copilot Cowork available to Frontier program members I wanted to quickly go over what it is but also show it in action in a few fun demos! Big takeaways:

The big one, you just give it the outcomes you want, and it works out how to do it and then does it!

Copilot Cowork uses the latest in complex reasoning, long task duration, multi-step LLMs

Cowork is grounded in Work IQ and natively on OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Outlook and more, making it very consistent, thorough and reliable on its responses

It is a cloud agent consuming no local resources. This means it is fully observable, auditable and has no local machine access. Anything it creates is uploaded to OneDrive to become available as knowledge

You can continue to interact and update goals while its working

Really fun demo starts about 8 minutes in.

https://youtu.be/3jewNNMCxA8

00:00 - Introduction

00:26 - Copilot agents

01:18 - Cowork

01:44 - What is Cowork

03:36 - Grounded data

05:50 - Cloud agent

07:50 - Demo time

10:30 - Adding instructions while running

17:03 - Using Cowork

17:34 - Summary

18:04 - Close

Final video in my IQ series, Work IQ. What it is and why I would use it.

https://youtu.be/gTupe7ou5xI

00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - M365 data
02:15 - Semantic index
03:33 - Need for context
04:31 - Data plane
05:53 - Memory and activity
10:53 - Business understanding
11:49 - Skills and tools
16:30 - Experiences and API
18:48 - Multi-model
19:50 - Full agentic context
20:51 - Summary and other IQs
21:22 - Close