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As a consultant who works on modern work and digital transformation, I rely a lot on Microsoft Teams as the video conferencing tool to communicate and collaborate with my clients, colleagues, and community. That's why I was very interested in trying out the Logitech MX Brio 705 for Business, a 4K webcam that claims to … Continue reading Logitech MX Brio 705 for Business in review
Or should I say Team x AI x Copilot Studio. Just recently I presented this topic at CollabDays Poland @ Microsoft Warsaw. This is the same topic I have already given a few times, but this session is always different since Azure OpenAI Studio and Copilot Studio are evolving at a very rapid pace! When … Continue reading Supercharging Teams with AI
As technology continues to evolve, so does Copilot. This powerful tool is constantly being updated with new enhancements, including new languages and features, to boost productivity and possibilities where it can be used. I thought I would take a short view to explore what the near future holds for Copilot and how it will continue … Continue reading The New and the Next of Copilot
It has been busy for past weeks. First Teams Nation 2024 was there and after that AI has been taking over at work big time. A tidal wave of AI/Copilot flushed away all energy and time. With most of the remaining time allocated to family (and sleep) that didn’t leave much time to think or … Continue reading A quick view at Copilot in Forms
A heads-up at how the upcoming update will make your meetings more secure and productive It is time to look at something coming to Microsoft Teams soon. I and millions – hundreds of millions – others have been enjoying Teams meeting since it was introduced, and we saw the explosive growth of Teams during COVID-years. … Continue reading What You Need to Know About the Upcoming Change to Presenter Role Permissions in Microsoft Teams
Frontline workers are the backbone of many industries, such as manufacturing, heavy industrial, healthcare, retail and more. They operate and maintain complex equipment on the field and perform essential services to keep things operational and running. However, they often face challenges such as skill gaps, missing details or having difficulty finding or getting the right … Continue reading How Copilot in Dynamics 365 Guides helps frontline workers: Copilot x AI x Mixed Reality
Yes, Teams Nation Community Conference is back! And it is just a few weeks ahead, so let me tell you a bit about the event. It is happening Wednesday 21st February 2024, 09:00 – 20:00 CET (Central European Time) (UTC+1). In it you will find 60+ sessions that are delivered by Microsoft MVPs, Regional Directors, … Continue reading Teams Nation is back! Join us 21st Feb 2024!
Microsoft Mesh and Mesh in Teams (Immersive Spaces) are two innovative solutions that bring virtual connections to life and enable people to connect and collaborate in immersive and engaging ways – something that is required in the hybrid world. Microsoft Mesh is a virtual reality platform that allows users to have shared experiences no matter … Continue reading Microsoft Mesh is now Generally Available!
Let’s explore the Azure OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo with Vision model and how it can be used to describe image contents. The GPT-4 Turbo with Vision model is a large multimodal model (LMM) developed by OpenAI that can analyze images and provide textual responses to questions about them. It incorporates both natural language processing and visual … Continue reading How to use Azure OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo with Vision to describe images
Microsoft is constantly evolving and improving its AI services, and the Azure OpenAI is probably one of the fastest services to evolve. There is now support for GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALL-E3, enhanced content filtering and it keeps on improving. Azure OpenAI Functions is something that various AI apps are utilizing – and no wonder, … Continue reading Updates to Azure OpenAI Functions in the latest API
It was a delight to see that Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel appeared to Meta Quest during the Christmas break. Of course I needed to try it out a bit - here are my first impressions about Microsoft 365 Apps on Meta Quest Pro. These apps are available to 2 and 3 as well. You … Continue reading Microsoft Office Apps on Meta Quest devices
The year 2023 has been a remarkable, memorable, life-changing and transformative one for a lot of people around the world. The breakthrough of artificial intelligence, the expansion of digital platforms, the emergence of new forms of collaboration and creativity, and the advancement of social and environmental causes have shaped our lives, our work, and our … Continue reading Looking Back 2023, Looking Ahead 2024
As someone who works from home and spends a lot of time on Microsoft Teams calls, I need a reliable and comfortable headset that can deliver clear audio and noise cancellation. And I also love to test out new tech. As I got the opportunity (thank you Logitech!) to test these two months ago, I … Continue reading Logitech Zone Wireless 2 in review
Metaverse is not dead! I have been working recently with a lot with AI and Microsoft Mesh, but the metaverse much more: it is not just a virtual world. It is also a "platform" where physical and digital realities can converge. By using robotic avatars, we can bridge the gap between the real and the … Continue reading Robotic avatars at industrial metaverse
I am so happy to share with you two of the newest features that have been integrated to the Microsoft Loop: Ability to create Loop components in Microsoft Teams Channels and in Microsoft Whiteboard. If you are not familiar with Microsoft Whiteboard, it is a Microsoft app that lets you collaborate with others on an … Continue reading How to create Loops in Microsoft Teams channels and in Whiteboard
You might have faced a problem with the video quality when you share your screen or window in Microsoft Teams meeting. The share may seem to lag, stutter, or drop frames for the other attendees, making it hard to view. This can occur when you share content that needs a higher frame rate, such as … Continue reading Boosting Teams screen sharing performance
Have you ever wished to have a virtual assistant or a chatbot that can interact with your customers or audience in a more engaging and human-like way? Microsoft launched its Azure AI Speech text-to-speech avatar creator at the Microsoft Ignite 2023 last week. This capability, currently available for public preview, allows users to create photorealistic … Continue reading Photorealistic talking avatars with Azure AI Speech
Boom! Here it is: Microsoft Ignite 2023 news! As before I have collected to my blog post the most interesting new features Microsoft has released or announced. No, we did not get away from this Ignite either without a name/brand change. There are a few of them, as well as aggregating apps to a unified … Continue reading Microsoft Ignite 2023
Are you attending Microsoft Ignite, the annual event where Microsoft highlights the latest innovations in AI, Modern & Future Work, Cloud, and more? I am and I will be joining the event online, which is free and open to anyone who wants to learn and discover what is upcoming to Microsoft ecosystem. Microsoft Ignite 2023 … Continue reading Igniting the Tech Passion: My Must-See Sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2023
The metaverse is a new frontier of digital transformation that connects the physical and virtual worlds in immersive and interactive ways. Through the metaverse, people can access, create, and share digital content and experiences across various devices and platforms, blurring the boundaries between reality and simulation. There are many applications and benefits for various industries … Continue reading The Metaverse at Work
Copilot is a new AI-powered tool that works with Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Loop, Whiteboard, and more. It uses big language models (LLMs (Large Language Models)) and Microsoft Graph to create, understand, and recommend content based on what I want and need. In other words, Copilot boosts my productivity and … Continue reading Microsoft Copilot changed the way I work
Microsoft Mesh keeps on delivering new features that help with collaboration and interactions with others! Hand gestures can be performed when using Mesh with Quest VR. Controllers open up new ways to interact with others in a natural way. Using controller buttons, users can activate thumbs up, pointing with a finger, waving / making a … Continue reading Thumbs up, mate! And other Microsoft Mesh gestures you can use in VR
As someone who works from home, attends a lot of online meetings, and does webinars I need a device that can provide clear and reliable audio that minimizes the background noises to attendees. It doesn't happen often, but usually when I am holding a webinar or workshop there are loud machines outside such as leaf … Continue reading Review: Jabra Speak2 75
Ever since Microsoft Mesh was announced, two and half years ago, I have been fascinated by its potential to transform the way we work and collaborate. I have been Meshing around for half a year now. As a Principal Consultant of Metaverse and Future Work at Sulava, I have been experimenting with Microsoft Mesh and … Continue reading Thoughts from the Microsoft Mesh road
Mesh events are the primary way people, outside of Teams meetings, join Microsoft Mesh. Mesh Event is based on a Mesh environment and has a lifespan for a specified time. These events can be customized with content, and this feature allows the presenter to show and hide what attendees see and more. In this article … Continue reading How to customize Microsoft Mesh events
After a long wait, we finally can enjoy the Microsoft Mesh and Mesh for Teams as these new experiences hit the public preview! I have had a privilege to be part of the private preview for almost half-a-year. Now I can finally share my experiences and insights on Mesh. It has been very exciting to … Continue reading Microsoft Mesh is in Public Preview!
Microsoft announced that Microsoft Mesh is coming to preview in October. That is great news after quite a lot of waiting time 🤩. I am, of course, very excited to see Mesh hitting organizations and enabling people to meet immersively, which allows co-presence, sense of togetherness and rich possibilities for spatial interactions. For me it … Continue reading Microsoft Mesh is coming to public preview soon!
AI is everywhere already and it will be even more everywhere. You can find it in our phones, our laptops, our cars, our homes, and occupy our minds. AI is not just a technology, it is a revolution. A revolution that is changing the way we work, learn, communicate, and create. AI is not only … Continue reading Supercharging Microsoft Teams with AI
This is one those features, that is very visible to you when you are joining the meeting, but may just skip it easily without thinking what it is. Now, what is Spatial Audio? In Teams the i opens a short message saying "Voices will sound like they're coming from where each person is positioned on … Continue reading Have you tried spatial audio in Teams meetings?
Or in other words Learn Microsoft Mesh, Copilot and much more from world-class globally known speakers, at Metaverse One 2023! If these themes and topics make you want to know and learn more about Microsoft Mesh, Copilot, Artificial Intelligence, Mixed Reality, and other Metaverse-themes then you should join Metaverse One 2023, the online community conference … Continue reading Meshing Up with the Stars
This autumn end-of-summer has been - and will be even more - a wild ride. During past three weeks I have been videographed, organized and run a hybrid User Group (Teams Finland) meeting, did a next episode of my very popular Microsoft Teams webinar (Microsoft Teams Spotlight), had a proper sendoff towards the next half-century, … Continue reading Ready, Steady, Mesh!
If you are a Microsoft 365 customer, you can enjoy, already today, using a service from Microsoft that offers AI-powered chat for work with commercial data protection. It is called Bing Chat Enterprise, and it is designed to help make your work easier. You can interact with an AI assistant, Bing Chat, that can help … Continue reading Bing Chat Enterprise – your AI buddy in the Edge of the metaverse
If you are a developer, or a consultant who isn't afraid to open Visual Studio, who wants to create smarter bots for Microsoft Teams, you should be interested in the Teams AI Library, a new tool that simplifies the integration of generative AI and user intent engines into your apps. The Teams AI library is … Continue reading Teams AI Library – Boost your Teams bots with AI
We are living in an amazing time, where we witness the widespread adoption of AI, to be followed with everyday virtual & extended reality and metaverse. Thinking back in time – when I was young during 80s and 90s – this is something that was sci-fi and fantasy. 2020 was really far away in the … Continue reading Prepare for the Microsoft Mesh
I am back after a few weeks break I had. It was really good to be on vacation but it is always fantastic to get back to business. This time July was exceptionally good, because I received great news regarding Microsoft MVP. I did not only renew my M365 Apps & Services but I also … Continue reading Supercharging information work with AI
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