Microsoft AI Weekly #14: Copilot, GitHub, Azure AI & more

👋 Hi folks!

This week felt like another step towards Microsoft’s vision for AI at work. While there wasn’t a single headline-grabbing launch, there were plenty of signals pointing to where things are heading next: more capable AI agents, deeper developer tooling, and a growing focus on organisational knowledge and context.

Developers had a particularly busy week, with new GitHub Copilot capabilities, deeper integrations with Microsoft Teams, and the rollout of Copilot Code in Frontier. Meanwhile, a recurring theme across several announcements was AI that understands the context of your work, your data, and your business, hinting at where Microsoft’s next wave of innovation is heading.

Let’s dive in.

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⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Publish rich and interactive content with HTML pages in SharePoint • Nicole Woon

• OneDrive Just Got a Major Upgrade: New Copilot Capabilities, Simpler Sharing, and Smarter Photos • Arwa Tyebkhan

• Building a fully autonomous meeting invite capability for Autopilot • Omar Shahine

• 8 New Features in Microsoft Copilot You Should Know About (October 2026) • Mike Tholfsen

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity • Julien Dubois

• How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code • Kayla Cinnamon

• Turn GitHub notifications into code with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams • Arnav Gupta

• Code with Cosmos: AI-Assisted Development with Azure Cosmos DB • Microsoft Developer, Marko Hotti and Patty Chow

• Ship an AI Agent without leaving VS Code • Julia Muiruri

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

• Global default for Copilot features generally available

• Industry comparisons in the Copilot impact dashboard

• Copilot model policy API for enterprise, orgs, and teams

• GitHub Copilot models deprecated on October 19, 2026

• Usage metrics API adds usage from tools like OpenCode

• Turn notifications into code with GitHub Copilot in Teams

• Custom skills, agents, and MCP servers in usage metrics API

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Frontier Pre-training at Microsoft AI • MAI Superintelligence Team

• Scaling AI responsibly at Microsoft: Lessons from our Customer Zero journey • David Hirning

• Turning network configuration management into a conversation at Microsoft with Autonet AI Agent • Alex Fleck

• Work IQ: the new retrieve tool • Paolo Pialorsi

• AI that understands your business: Dataverse and Work IQ at PPCC 2026 • James Oleinik

• Code with Cosmos: Building AI Applications with Azure Cosmos DB • Microsoft Developer, Marko Hotti and Patty Chow

• Code with Cosmos: Building Stateful and Multi-Agent Systems • Microsoft Developer, Marko Hotti and Madeline Egan

• Code with Cosmos: Operating AI Agents in Production • Microsoft Developer, Marko Hotti and Madeline Egan

• When prompting is not enough for your agent • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

• Why AI agents Cost So Much • Microsoft Developer

Copilot Studio

• Introducing the customer conversation harness in Microsoft Copilot Studio • Omar Aftab

• Cowork, Code, and Copilot Studio on one managed runtime | Copilot Studio Updates • Microsoft Power Platform

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🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• How to Build an App with Azure SQL Using AI Coding Agents • Microsoft Developer, Anna Hoffman and Iqra Shaikh

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• AI Weekly: Copilot Code Enters Public Frontier • Josh Cook

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• You found Microsoft Purview. Congratulations. Now make it work. • Humpeklumpen Hash and Aasne Holtklimpen

📢 Message Center

Microsoft 365 Message Center posts, via mc.merill.net.

• MC1266912 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Intelligent Summaries in Copilot Dashboard

• MC1454973 - Manage Copilot connectors (Global setting) from Agent 365

• MC1470417 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Review PDFs using the Copilot context menu on OneDrive iOS

• MC1482800 - Teams Phone Agent is rolling out to general availability on Sept 30, 2026

• MC1515927 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Critique and Council preview experiences will retire

• MC1515930 - Cowork browser use setting renamed to Browser use in Microsoft Copilot

• MC1515940 - Microsoft OneDrive: Copilot actions in the File Explorer context menu are being retired

• MC1518034 - Clipchamp/ Copilot ‘Create a video’ experience is going to have an admin control available

• MC1518036 - Microsoft Copilot - Admin controls to manage Business Applications in Work IQ

• MC1518085 - Microsoft Copilot Studio

• MC1518233 - Copilot Studio

• MC1519122 - Microsoft Copilot: UBB models in Chat and Word, Excel, and PowerPoint via the model selector

• MC1519841 - Microsoft OneNote: CSV and TSV references in Copilot Notebooks

• MC1519861 - Outlook: Copilot Prioritize feature will be retired

• MC1519871 - Copilot Code is rolling out in Frontier

• MC1521606 - Create project kickoff presentations with Copilot in PowerPoint

• MC1521609 - Create sales pitches with Copilot in PowerPoint

• MC1521616 - Microsoft Graph APIs for Copilot cost management

• MC1523085 - Viva Insights: GitHub Copilot metrics will be on by default, and the public preview opt-in setting is being retired

• MC1523087 - Microsoft Teams Mobile: Ask Copilot from Search

• RM503570 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Support permission sync missed in incremental crawl

• RM555891 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an email with Work IQ when using Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint to create a presentation

• RM555894 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference files saved in SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

• RM555895 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference files saved in SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

• RM562351 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Get actionable suggestions from Copilot in your Copilot Page

• RM567315 - Planner: Capabilities in Microsoft Cowork

• RM568368 - Outlook: Copilot Chat pop-out for Outlook for Mac and iPad

• RM568790 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Review PDFs using the Copilot context menu on OneDrive iOS

• RM569210 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): CSV and TSV references in Copilot Notebooks

• RM569211 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): JPG and PNG references in Copilot Notebooks

• RM570651 - Work IQ: Real Time Transcripts

• RM570652 - Work IQ: Agent Policy Governance

• RM570672 - Work IQ: Human in the loop

• RM571305 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Support for sensitive documents protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MPIP)

• RM573294 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enable semantic model in Sales agent

• RM573700 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Sales Development Agent is now available

• RM575289 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Sales Development Agent

• RM576272 - Copilot Studio: Computer Use for web browsing on GitHub Copilot Harness

• RM576709 - Microsoft Viva: Enhanced Microsoft Copilot in Viva Engage

• RM577173 - Microsoft 365: [Education] Provide a Copilot starter prompt in Teams and LMS Assignments

• RM577399 - Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Copilot and AI controls for meetings

• RM577405 - Dynamics 365 Commerce: Author Commerce receipt formats with Copilot Cowork

• RM577813 - Power Pages: Power Pages Copilot

• RM577815 - Microsoft Dataverse: Enable AI powered business workflows in Work IQ with Dataverse - Build Dataverse solutions with coding agents using Dataverse skills

• RM577817 - Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management: Copilot and AI innovation - Analyze demand using generative insights for better planning

• RM577819 - Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Copilot and AI innovation - View next best actions with Customer Intent Agent

• RM577900 - Power Pages: Plugin support for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code to create and edit traditional sites

• RM578064 - Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Copilot and AI innovation

• RM578065 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Run multiple Sales Order Agents per company with smarter item matching, relevance filtering, and streamlined setup

• RM578068 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Envision and design AI agents in Business Central

💭 Joanne’s Corner

I spent some time this week testing the new Copilot experiences in OneDrive.

My takeaway? The interesting part isn’t the AI itself. It’s that Microsoft is bringing the AI closer to where the work already happens.

That might sound obvious, but reducing clicks, context-switching, and tab-hopping is what drives adoption. The less people have to think about using AI, the more likely they are to actually use it.

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