CoPilot Archives

SharePoint Embedded: Full Featured SharePoint Inside a Custom Application

March 28, 2024 by Kyle Thorburn

Custom applications that require a lot of document management have always been a challenge to build. Historically, we would build an ASP.NET application and then pass content back and forth to Azure blog storage or make the document available for immediate download (but not store the document in the application after the download is complete). Microsoft has released SharePoint Embedded, a new way to store and manage content in custom applications. SharePoint Embedded offers a headless, API-only pattern to build content apps that integrate management capabilities like collaboration, security, and compliance into any app by storing content inside an enterprise’s existing Microsoft 365 tenant. Enterprises can use SharePoint Embedded to … Read more

CoPilot For Microsoft Teams: A Smart Assistant

March 19, 2024 by Kyle Thorburn

How CoPilot can help you make the most of your online meetings I’ve been using CoPilot within my Teams meetings for a few months and am really enjoying it. This might be the one-use case for CoPilot that on its own justifies the monthly cost of CoPilot for M365 (approx. $30). Let’s review the basics of CoPilot for Teams Meetings for those that are not using it yet. What is CoPilot? CoPilot is a smart assistant that integrates with Microsoft Teams and helps you manage your online meetings more effectively. CoPilot can: What are the features of CoPilot? CoPilot offers a range of features to enhance your online meeting experience. … Read more

Imaginet’s Experience with GitHub CoPilot

March 13, 2024 by Kyle Thorburn

GitHub CoPilot is a new tool that uses artificial intelligence to help developers write code faster and better. It is powered by OpenAI Codex, a large-scale neural network that has been trained on billions of lines of public code. GitHub CoPilot can generate code snippets, tests, functions, and entire classes based on natural language descriptions or comments. I have been curious about GitHub CoPilot ever since it was announced in 2021, but I was also skeptical about how well it could handle the complex and dynamic nature of software development. We started testing it around the middle of 2023 and had a mix of developer skill level (jr, int, expert) … Read more

Microsoft Copilot for Power BI

June 9, 2023May 17, 2023 by Kyle Thorburn

CoPilot is the ultimate Power BI companion. It helps you quickly and easily create stunning visuals, analyze data, and share insights with your team. With CoPilot, you can take your Power BI experience to the next level.