Rishona Elijah Agents in Copilot Chat, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Teams

Microsoft AI: What’s new and upcoming

Microsoft is continuing to expand Copilot and AI agents across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. I've recapped some of my top announcements from the last few months (September-November 2025), which were showcased at Power Platform Conference and Microsoft Ignite. These updates make automation, app building and collaboration more accessible than ever. Many of these features are … Continue reading Microsoft AI: What’s new and upcoming

Rishona Elijah Microsoft Teams, Power Apps

Get started with the Employee Ideas app in Microsoft Teams

Are you tired of collecting employee feedback through hundreds of paper forms or clunky processes that are difficult to manage? Building a Power App is one way that you can streamline this process. However, did you know that there's already an app available in Microsoft Teams that can help you with this? The Employee Ideas app is not only ready use, but it can also be customised to fit your unique needs. In this post, we'll explore how the Teams Employee Ideas app can make the feedback collection process a breeze, and how you can tailor it to best suit your requirements.

Rishona Elijah Microsoft Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents

Microsoft Ignite 2022: Power Platform & Microsoft Teams announcement highlights

At last week's Microsoft Ignite conference, there were some big announcements made for new features coming across Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Azure, AI and more. In this post I'll highlight some of the announcements across Power Platform and Microsoft Teams that were personal favourites of mine.

Rishona Elijah Microsoft Teams, Office 365

Use collaborative annotations in Microsoft Teams Meetings

With collaborative annotations, attendees in a Teams meeting can draw, add notes and more on the presenter's screen. Annotations are live, so as each person adds to it, the changes are visible to everyone. Screenshot of shared screen in a Teams meeting with annotations It uses the Whiteboard functionality, however the background will be a … Continue reading Use collaborative annotations in Microsoft Teams Meetings

Rishona Elijah Microsoft Teams, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents

Document generation with Power Virtual Agents: talk to the bot > fill a Word doc template > save the file in SharePoint

The Word Online (Business) connector for Power Automate allows you to generate documents. Beginning with a Microsoft Word template, you can use the connector in a flow to take inputs, populate them in a template, and save the document. Here, we'll take a look at how you can use a conversation with a bot to collect these inputs, create the document, then return a link to the file back to the user.