Copilot Notebooks has changed a lot since last year's episode. Anand explains what a notebook is, what's new, including Markdown and text files and Notebooks for Copilot Chat users, and which features are available now, in early access, or coming soon, based on Microsoft's October 2026 Notebooks post. He ends with one simple way to start a notebook today, in Copilot or OneNote.Microsoft's October 2026 Notebooks post: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-copilot-blog/whats-new-in-notebooks--october-2026/4559105Chapters0:00 How many places does one project live?0:24 What a notebook is0:49 Sharing, with private chats1:00 What's changed since last time1:27 What's in it for you: notebook only vs work and web1:58 Three everyday examples2:49 There's more coming: early access and coming soon3:22 The limits3:39 Try it todayFeature status (available now / early access / coming soon) as described in Microsoft's post. Screens in this video are illustrations.Tech Ease is independent and not affiliated with Microsoft. Microsoft, Microsoft 365, Copilot, OneNote, Word, Excel and PowerPoint are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QqtV77qo21c

Five Microsoft 365 updates worth your time. SharePoint and OneDrive agents move from .agent files to Copilot Agent Builder from mid-November, and .agent files stop working in April 2027 (MC1511052, with the Agent chat web part in RM575298). OneDrive's Copilot actions leave the File Explorer right-click menu (MC1515940), Copilot Studio Evaluations now explain why a test succeeded or failed (MC1518085), Copilot Studio agents get support for sensitivity-labeled files (RM571305), and Copilot Chat in Frontier can take on long-running, multistep work (MC1479277, with the Tasks view in Teams and Outlook in MC1458472 and MC1458470).

Links

• SharePoint and OneDrive agents move to Copilot Agent Builder (MC1511052): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1511052
• SharePoint Agent chat web part (RM575298): https://mc.merill.net/message/RM575298
• OneDrive Copilot actions leave the File Explorer context menu (MC1515940): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1515940
• Copilot Studio Evaluations improvements (MC1518085): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1518085
• Copilot Studio support for sensitivity-labeled files (RM571305): https://mc.merill.net/message/RM571305
• Long-running, multistep work in Copilot Chat (Microsoft Support): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/use-copilot-chat-for-long-running-multi-step-work
• Long-running work and the Tasks view in Copilot Chat (MC1479277): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1479277
• Tasks view in full-screen Copilot in Teams (MC1458472): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1458472
• Tasks view in full-screen Copilot in Outlook (MC1458470): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1458470

Deep dive: Who's Going to Upgrade Your SharePoint Agent?

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Someone on your team gets asked for a learning page. They know the content, but not the time to design tabs, quizzes and flashcards in SharePoint. Anand walks through the Learning Designer, his skill for Copilot in SharePoint: fill in a form, get a Word Learning Request Brief, press one button, and Copilot builds one self-contained HTML learning page with up to three stages, flip-card flashcards, a practice exercise and knowledge checks. You'll see the demo, what is inside the package (SKILL.md, the mapping file and the reference HTML), what the maintainers' review fixed, and lessons for anyone contributing a skill to the PnP repository.

Links

• Learning Designer skill (PnP sharepoint-skills): https://github.com/pnp/sharepoint-skills/tree/main/Skills/learning-designer
• Team Newsletter Publisher skill (PnP sharepoint-skills): https://github.com/pnp/sharepoint-skills/tree/main/Skills/team-newsletter-publisher
• YouTube version: https://youtu.be/aP2TDM1YVP8

Demo brief written for this video; the reference page is the sample bundled with the skill.

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