Mike Tholfsen

Group Product Manager on the #MicrosoftEDU team, building AI in EDU, Learning Accelerators, #MicrosoftTeams, Immersive Reader, #OneNote Class Notebooks

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

Great news 🚀

[Laura Rogers, Microsoft MVP @WonderLaura]

Copilot Notebooks just got a big upgrade—and more of your team can use them 👀
Now rolling out to Copilot Chat users, giving everyone a shared AI workspace to pull in files, ask questions, and build study guides & mind maps 🧠📊

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

https://t.co/pvuv5MDsYQ

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

Claude Fable from Anthropic is now available in Excel Copilot to customers in private preview

[Microsoft Tech Community @MSTCommunity]

Today, Copilot Notebooks is rolling out to more people across your team, making shared notebook collaboration broadly accessible in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app and OneNote. Learn more! https://t.co/7g9ghj4Hot

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

Here is a detailed demo: https://t.co/Y07456EAU7

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

BIG NEWS! Copilot Notebooks and the new Study Guide experience are now rolling out to ALL Microsoft 365 Education users who use Copilot Chat, with any Academic license (A1/A3/A5) This also means that Copilot Notebooks are available now for ALL OneNote EDU customers 💜

This has been the #1 request for educators, students and schools and we're excited to make Copilot Notebooks available broadly. These tools help turn collections of notes, files, and learning materials into an AI-powered workspace for deeper understanding and faster study.

In addition, the Study Guide in Copilot Notebooks is also starting to roll out to all customers and is at general availability!

A few highlights:
📝 Copilot Notebooks — Bring together notes, documents, and references into a focused AI-powered workspace.
🔍 Overview Page — Get an AI-generated summary of your notebook content and key insights.
📚 Study Guide — Automatically generates study materials, key concepts, and learning aids from your content.
🧠 Mind Maps — Visualize connections between ideas and explore topics more deeply.
🎓 Included for Education — Available to Microsoft 365 Education A1, A3, and A5 users ages 13+ at no additional cost.

Excited to see how educators use these tools to help students spend less time organizing information and more time learning from it.

Details in Blog: https://t.co/vQa9p1fwCo

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

Big Copilot Studio release today! New UI, orchestrator, RAG, skills, workflows and more lets you build and govern better agents across models faster and cheaper.

https://t.co/ndp9RFh1gk

[Microsoft 365 Insider @Msft365Insider]

📚 Great walkthrough of what’s new in Microsoft Teams Assignments.
✨ AI use guidelines, standards support, Learning Zone, and more practical updates.

#MicrosoftTeams #Microsoft365

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

A tutorial video showing 6 new Microsoft Teams Assignments features for Teachers. Updates include:

✨ Set expected AI use guidelines
🎯 Attach Standards in Assignments
🧩 Learning Zone integration
➕ Lots more

YouTube 📺 https://t.co/8hDB2bqxnI

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

A tutorial video on how to move your task bar around in Windows 11 - a long-requested update now available for Windows Insiders (Experimental branch)

YouTube 📺 https://t.co/BU0YawR6UT

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

This is super useful 👇

[Microsoft 365 Insider @Msft365Insider]

🛠️ Rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot? This Microsoft Learn guide covers recommended configuration settings to help IT admins optimize setup and support a smoother deployment.
Read more: https://t.co/sRvL9Nhn8U

#Microsoft365Copilot #ITAdmins #EnterpriseIT

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

Exactly, and the visual below is spot on 🎯

[Josh Cook | Microsoft MVP @FlowAltDelete]

Microsoft is killing it with the IQ layer.

Work IQ.
Fabric IQ.
Foundry IQ.
Web IQ.

This is how agents get real context:
people, business data, enterprise knowledge, apps, files, Dataverse, and the web.

The companies that understand context will win the agent era.

Microsoft gets it.

What IQ does your agents use ?

[jraphael10 @jraphael10]

The coolest thing about Scout isn’t necessarily the “how” it does stuff, it’s watching people go from the merely curious to the “holy sh*t - this thing is amazing” within about 10 minutes or less of initial use.

Usually that happens because for the first time ever, it just took work OFF their plate that they never liked doing anyway and suddenly they can dream of their job being a bit more fun than it was 10 minutes ago.

That’s Scout.

[Jason Warnke @jwarnke]

Totally agree. It makes me sad seeing enterprises that have run their businesses on M365 for years be tempted by the myriad of other “enterprise AI/search” solutions when they haven’t scratched the surface of M365 CoPilot and underlying Work IQ…

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

@MountainsGuy1 There are tons of Microsoft MVPs on here that do things like that, many have YouTube channels

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

Work IQ is where it’s at. Most people don’t yet realize just how powerful this is for companies that use the M365 ecosystem.

This is our AI “secret sauce” 👨‍🍳

[Microsoft 365 @Microsoft365]

Want to power your apps and agents with Work IQ? The Work IQ APIs are here.

Learn how: https://t.co/UMFQ8XUpqv

[Brian Jones @brijones]

Great partnership with the MAI team and we're excited to start rolling this out in Excel Copilot:
"our MAI tuned model for Excel matches GPT 5.4 while being up to 10× more efficient."

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

Excel wizards, this one is for you!

[Brian Jones @brijones]

New feature in Excel Copilot: Personalization

Customize Copilot to follow the patterns and practices you use. These preferences run with every prompt.

Excel MVPs, what would you add? Center Across Selection top of the list?

[Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen]

Check out the just-announced Microsoft Scout 🧭

[Microsoft 365 @Microsoft365]

Meet Microsoft Scout.

An always-on agent that keeps work moving, taking action without needing to be prompted each time.

As Microsoft’s first Autopilot agent, Microsoft Scout works across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and more—taking action within the controls your organization sets.

Learn more: https://t.co/n8xTWVZA5P

[Microsoft AI @MicrosoftAI]

Seven new models launching at Build: let’s go!
Reasoning. Code. Image. Transcribe. Voice.

Built from scratch on a clean data lineage, designed for efficiency, working seamlessly as a family of models

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#MSBuild