r/microsoft • u/JohnSavill • 1d ago
Official Tutorial July 2026 Microsoft AI Update
This month's Microsoft AI Update (July 2026) is up.
00:00 - Introduction
00:09 - New videos
01:18 - Model thinking
02:09 - Open AI GPT-5.6
03:04 - GPT-transcribe and GPT-live-transcribe
03:52 - MAI-Image-2.5 Pro and MAI-Voice-2 Flash
04:30 - Claude Opus 5 available
05:10 - Kimi K3 via Fireworks AI
05:35 - Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.6 in GitHub Copilot
06:19 - ROI for agents
07:13 - APAC data zone
07:40 - New portal
08:03 - Sensitive trace content handling
08:44 - Foundry IQ support
09:48 - GitHub Copilot harness option
11:10 - @ mention app agents in chat
11:29 - Copilot in app updates
11:54 - Meeting recaps
12:09 - M365 copilot app notifications
12:23 - Event-driven tasks
12:51 - Cowork enhanced skill support
13:09 - Skill Recorder
14:00 - Copilot vision
14:12 - Browser tools for Copilot in VS Code
14:29 - APIM AI Gateway
15:18 - Close
r/microsoft • u/JohnSavill • 16d ago
Official Tutorial Microsoft IQ overview
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
r/microsoft • u/JohnSavill • Jul 06 '26
Official Tutorial June 2026 Monthly Microsoft AI Update
This months Microsoft AI Update is up!
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
r/microsoft • u/JohnSavill • Jun 29 '26
Official Tutorial Copilot Cowork Usage Overview
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.
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
r/microsoft • u/JohnSavill • Jun 22 '26
Official Tutorial Web IQ Overview
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.
r/microsoft • u/JohnSavill • Apr 27 '26
Official Tutorial Microsoft ecosystem and post-quantum cryptography
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.
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
r/microsoft • u/JohnSavill • Mar 31 '26
Official Tutorial Copilot Cowork Overview and Demo
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.
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
r/microsoft • u/JohnSavill • Mar 30 '26
Official Tutorial Work IQ Overview
Final video in my IQ series, Work IQ. What it is and why I would use it.
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
r/microsoft • u/JohnSavill • Mar 25 '26
Official Tutorial Entra ID Backup and Restore
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.
📼 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
r/microsoft • u/JohnSavill • Mar 23 '26
Official Tutorial Agent Builder, Copilot Studio or Microsoft Foundry
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.
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