Microsoft 365 Business Boost

Microsoft is shipping Copilot features faster than most organizations can absorb them, and retiring some along the way. Therman asks what happens when the feature that disappears is the one you were waiting for. Nick argues that most of what's going was never finished: preview features people built on before they were ready. They work through the SharePoint agent, App Builder and =COPILOT retirements, why Publisher and InfoPath went, the viral AI clones of Office and Adobe apps, and whether Microsoft should ship fewer, better-tested features. So what should a business do when the feature it relies on disappears?🎙️ FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR TOPIC OR GUESTMicrosoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026, Microsoft Support - https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/publisherInfoPath 2013 and InfoPath Forms Services retirement (MC616550) - https://admin.cloud.microsoft/?ref=MessageCenter/:/messages/MC616550Upcoming changes to agents in SharePoint and OneDrive (MC1511052) - https://admin.cloud.microsoft/?ref=MessageCenter/:/messages/MC1511052Retirement of App Builder agent and vibe.powerapps.com (MC1505609) - https://admin.cloud.microsoft/?ref=MessageCenter/:/messages/MC1505609OneDrive Copilot actions in File Explorer being retired (MC1515940) - https://admin.cloud.microsoft/?ref=MessageCenter/:/messages/MC1515940Learning Coach agent retirement (MC1454391) - https://admin.cloud.microsoft/?ref=MessageCenter/:/messages/MC1454391Satya Nadella on the =COPILOT() function, X - https://x.com/satyanadella/status/1957493248718680571Frontier =COPILOT function in Excel will no longer be available (MC1454373) - https://admin.cloud.microsoft/?ref=MessageCenter/:/messages/MC1454373Outlook: Copilot Prioritize feature will be retired (MC1519861) - https://admin.cloud.microsoft/?ref=MessageCenter/:/messages/MC1519861'Reverse-Engineer Anything' Is the New Wild West of AI, 404 Media - https://www.404media.co/reverse-engineer-anything-is-the-new-wild-west-of-ai/The Rise of AI Software Clones: Why REA and ArtCraft Are Going Viral, KDnuggets - https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-rise-of-ai-software-clones-why-rea-and-artcraft-are-going-viral📢 MICROSOFT 365 BUSINESS BOOSTBrought to you by Nick DeCourcy from Bright Ideas Agency and Therman Trotman from The SharePoint Helpdesk, Microsoft 365 Business Boost is a bi-weekly podcast focused on helping demystify Microsoft 365 and drive better business value from its adoption. 🔗 CONNECT WITH THERMANLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/therman-trotman-15790b33/The SharePoint Helpdesk page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-sharepoint-helpdesk/YouTube - https://youtube.com/@thesharepointhelpdeskTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thesphelpdesk🔗 CONNECT WITH NICKLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdc/Bright Ideas Agency - https://www.linkedin.com/company/brightideasagency/YouTube - https://youtube.com/@brightideasagency⚠️ DISCLAIMERSAI Disclaimer: We use AI tools to help research, outline, edit, and package our videos. The ideas, opinions, and testing are my own, and I review everything before it's published.Apart from publicly accessible information, all user data or other related information shared in this video is created for demonstration purposes only. User accounts, passwords, or other data used as part of any demonstrations shown in this video have been created specifically for that purpose and are not any individual or company's private information or data. The Microsoft 365 Business Boost podcast is produced by Bright Ideas Agency LLC. Bright Ideas Agency is an Ohio Limited Liability Company. The content of this video is for informational and entertainment purposes only. No guarantees are given in connection with the information shared and you should seek independent technical or business advice before implementing anything you see in this video. If you want to hire us for your project, visit https://www.brightideasagency.com and get in touch.

How much time should you spend getting your AI to do something perfectly? Therman has spent whole weekends refining AI output, and asks whether that time pays off when some jobs are easier to just do yourself. Nick argues that perfect is the wrong target: the update emails and reports AI is taking over were never perfect either, so the question is whether AI does the job better, not flawlessly. Along the way they get into workslop, tokenmaxxing, why Google Maps is a misleading comparison, and what a wedding planner can teach you about judging AI output.🎙️ FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR TOPIC OR GUESTAI-Generated "Workslop" Is Destroying Productivity, Harvard Business Review - https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivityNick's video on workslop - https://youtu.be/XwplMxt-Z1sThe tokenmaxxing hype didn't last long, LeadDev - https://leaddev.com/reporting/the-tokenmaxxing-hype-didnt-last-longGoogle Maps navigation gets a powerful boost with Gemini - https://blog.google/products/maps/gemini-navigation-features-landmark-lens/📢 MICROSOFT 365 BUSINESS BOOSTBrought to you by Nick DeCourcy from Bright Ideas Agency and Therman Trotman from The SharePoint Helpdesk, Microsoft 365 Business Boost is a bi-weekly podcast focused on helping demystify Microsoft 365 and drive better business value from its adoption. 🔗 CONNECT WITH THERMANLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/therman-trotman-15790b33/The SharePoint Helpdesk page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-sharepoint-helpdesk/YouTube - https://youtube.com/@thesharepointhelpdeskTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thesphelpdesk🔗 CONNECT WITH NICKLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdc/Bright Ideas Agency - https://www.linkedin.com/company/brightideasagency/YouTube - https://youtube.com/@brightideasagency⚠️ DISCLAIMERSApart from publicly accessible information, all user data or other related information shared in this video is created for demonstration purposes only. User accounts, passwords, or other data used as part of any demonstrations shown in this video have been created specifically for that purpose and are not any individual or company's private information or data. The Microsoft 365 Business Boost podcast is produced by Bright Ideas Agency LLC. Bright Ideas Agency is an Ohio Limited Liability Company. The content of this video is for informational and entertainment purposes only. No guarantees are given in connection with the information shared and you should seek independent technical or business advice before implementing anything you see in this video. If you want to hire us for your project, visit https://www.brightideasagency.com and get in touch.

Therman has been saying for years that Terminator 2 might come true. Then Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, warning that "there's a strong chance these AIs could take over," and his former colleague Evan Hubinger put the chance of AI killing all humans at more than 10% within the next decade. So should business owners be worried? Nick argues that the AI you're rolling out and the frontier research behind these warnings carry very different risks. The ones that will actually bite are much closer to home: what you've let an agent do on your machine, and what your team is pasting into AI tools you don't control.🎙️ FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR TOPIC OR GUESTJacob Coxon on Fox News Special Report - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mhq2vCxWjgJacob Coxon's resignation thread - https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843Evan Hubinger's post - https://x.com/EvanHub/status/2097497037956891126Dario Amodei, We Must Pace the Frontier - https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontierDario Amodei, The Urgency of Interpretability - https://www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretabilityWork Trend Index 2024: bring your own AI - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/ai-at-work-is-here-now-comes-the-hard-partMicrosoft Purview protections for generative AI apps - https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/ai-microsoft-purviewFable 5 removed from M365 Copilot. Does it matter? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPfRlfgStIMTherman's SharePoint for Operations cohort - https://www.thesphelpdesk.com/operators-hub-sales/📢 MICROSOFT 365 BUSINESS BOOSTBrought to you by Nick DeCourcy from Bright Ideas Agency and Therman Trotman from The SharePoint Helpdesk, Microsoft 365 Business Boost is a bi-weekly podcast focused on helping demystify Microsoft 365 and drive better business value from its adoption. 🔗 CONNECT WITH THERMANLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/therman-trotman-15790b33/The SharePoint Helpdesk page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-sharepoint-helpdesk/YouTube - https://youtube.com/@thesharepointhelpdeskTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thesphelpdesk🔗 CONNECT WITH NICKLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdc/Bright Ideas Agency - https://www.linkedin.com/company/brightideasagency/YouTube - https://youtube.com/@brightideasagency⚠️ DISCLAIMERSApart from publicly accessible information, all user data or other related information shared in this video is created for demonstration purposes only. User accounts, passwords, or other data used as part of any demonstrations shown in this video have been created specifically for that purpose and are not any individual or company's private information or data. The Microsoft 365 Business Boost podcast is produced by Bright Ideas Agency LLC. Bright Ideas Agency is an Ohio Limited Liability Company. The content of this video is for informational and entertainment purposes only. No guarantees are given in connection with the information shared and you should seek independent technical or business advice before implementing anything you see in this video. If you want to hire us for your project, visit https://www.brightideasagency.com and get in touch.

Nick got a new PC, and then trouble started with Claude. Lots of local projects, no instructions on how to move them to a new device. Two days in and some things still aren't working. So, this begs the question. Where else are the AI vendors locking us in without us even noticing? Microsoft 365 was a breeze to get up and running, but how exactly do you back up your Microsoft Copilot scheduled prompts or your Copilot Cowork tasks? 🎙️ FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR TOPIC OR GUESTMicrosoft Copilot overview - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/microsoft-365-copilot-overview📢 MICROSOFT 365 BUSINESS BOOSTBrought to you by Nick DeCourcy from Bright Ideas Agency and Therman Trotman from The SharePoint Helpdesk, Microsoft 365 Business Boost is a bi-weekly podcast focused on helping demystify Microsoft 365 and drive better business value from its adoption. 🔗 CONNECT WITH THERMANLinkedIn - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/therman-trotman-15790b33/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The SharePoint Helpdesk page - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-sharepoint-helpdesk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@thesharepointhelpdesk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@thesphelpdesk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🔗 CONNECT WITH NICKLinkedIn - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdc/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bright Ideas Agency - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/brightideasagency/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@brightideasagency⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⚠️ DISCLAIMERSApart from publicly accessible information, all user data or other related information shared in this video is created for demonstration purposes only. User accounts, passwords, or other data used as part of any demonstrations shown in this video have been created specifically for that purpose and are not any individual or company's private information or data. The Microsoft 365 Business Boost podcast is produced by Bright Ideas Agency LLC. Bright Ideas Agency is an Ohio Limited Liability Company. The content of this video is for informational and entertainment purposes only. No guarantees are given in connection with the information shared and you should seek independent technical or business advice before implementing anything you see in this video. If you want to hire us for your project, visit https://www.brightideasagency.com and get in touch.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is getting (another) rename. This is the fourth variation in three years, and yet again understanding what feature lives where has become more complicated. Now as Microsoft Copilot, the consumer and business and enterprise versions are coming together, but the Microsoft 365 Copilot name has vanished completely. 🎙️ FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR TOPIC OR GUESTMicrosoft Copilot overview - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/microsoft-365-copilot-overview📢 MICROSOFT 365 BUSINESS BOOSTBrought to you by Nick DeCourcy from Bright Ideas Agency and Therman Trotman from The SharePoint Helpdesk, Microsoft 365 Business Boost is a bi-weekly podcast focused on helping demystify Microsoft 365 and drive better business value from its adoption. 🔗 CONNECT WITH THERMANLinkedIn - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/therman-trotman-15790b33/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The SharePoint Helpdesk page - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-sharepoint-helpdesk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@thesharepointhelpdesk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@thesphelpdesk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🔗 CONNECT WITH NICKLinkedIn - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdc/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bright Ideas Agency - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/brightideasagency/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@brightideasagency⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⚠️ DISCLAIMERSApart from publicly accessible information, all user data or other related information shared in this video is created for demonstration purposes only. User accounts, passwords, or other data used as part of any demonstrations shown in this video have been created specifically for that purpose and are not any individual or company's private information or data. The Microsoft 365 Business Boost podcast is produced by Bright Ideas Agency LLC. Bright Ideas Agency is an Ohio Limited Liability Company. The content of this video is for informational and entertainment purposes only. No guarantees are given in connection with the information shared and you should seek independent technical or business advice before implementing anything you see in this video. If you want to hire us for your project, visit https://www.brightideasagency.com and get in touch.