Copilot Cowork & Skills: The 4 Steps Most Teams Skip

Most Copilot users still type prompts and wait. Cowork is where you describe an outcome, walk away, and come back to finished work.In this episode of 2 Surfdudes and AI, Vincent Claeys and Paul Keijzers unpack Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork and Skills, the part of Copilot most teams are still sleeping on.What we cover:• The evolution from Copilot Chat to Microsoft 365 Copilot to Cowork• The 4 steps to enable Cowork: Anthropic subprocessor, Frontier Mode, enabling the agent, and pinning it for users• What a skill really is, a Standard Operating Procedure your Copilot follows every time• Skill Factory, the fastest way to build and merge your own skills• Governance, where skills live in OneDrive, the risk of downloaded skills, and why a SharePoint list of approved skills is a smart starting point• Skills vs agents, when to choose which• A skill that scans your Outlook, Teams, and Cowork sessions every Monday and proposes new skills to buildAlso in this episode: Microsoft Build on June 2 and 3, the end of the Microsoft fiscal on July 1, and why pricing for Cowork is the conversation nobody is having out loud yet.If you are rolling out Copilot in your organisation and you have not touched Cowork yet, this episode will save you a few quarters of trial and error.Hosts:Paul Keijzers, Microsoft MVP and founder of KbWorksVincent Claeys, independent Copilot consultantFollow the show for new episodes every two weeks.