Collaboration Simplified

Bring All Your Work Together. Connect Copilot to your Apps

8.4K views · 1w ago · 9:06

Connect Copilot to Google Drive, Google Calendar, Box, GitHub, and hundreds of other apps in minutes. This walkthrough shows the setup in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Cowork, plus the admin setting that blocks connectors for a lot of people.

Topics: M365 Copilot App Connections (Co-work) · Installing & Connecting Google Drive · Using Copilot with Connected Apps · Custom Mission Control Dashboard Overview · Live Read & Write: Google Drive & Box · Live Sync: Google Calendar & Outlook

How I Automated My Workday With a $5 App

36K views · 2w ago · 17:07

I built a Microsoft Copilot Cowork app for under $5 that automates my workday: it pulls from Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and To Do, and lets me act on what matters while I stay in control. I'll show you how to build it yourself, step by step.

Topics: Mission Control · Demo of Mission Control · This is a lot Cheaper · How Much Does it Cost to Build? · Sharing Mission Control · It Uses Your Connections

The EASY Way to Make Copilot Write Like YOU

26K views · 4w ago · 10:08

New to Copilot Ready to build your own agents Want more advanced AI content SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL Podcasts Content is provided for educational and informational purposes only. Demonstrations shown reflect one way of configuring or building something in a specific environment. They are not instructions guaranteed to work in your tenant, and are not a substitute for your own testing, security review, or professional advice specific to your organization.

This Copilot Trick Unlocks PowerPoint’s True Potential

26K views · 1mo ago · 18:11

Discover how to use powerful NEW features like Brand Kit, Skills, and Designer for Copilot in PowerPoint. Join Shervin Shaffie, Copilot Principal Engineer as he covers these major updates in an easy to follow, step by step tutorial.

NEW Microsoft Workflows Will Automate Your Work | Masterclass By a Microsoft Engineer

275K views · 2mo ago · 31:54

New to Copilot Ready to build your own agents Want more advanced AI content SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL Podcasts Content is provided for educational and informational purposes only. Demonstrations shown reflect one way of configuring or building something in a specific environment. They are not instructions guaranteed to work in your tenant, and are not a substitute for your own testing, security review, or professional advice specific to your organization.

Microsoft Engineer Decodes Copilot Agent Costs (and how to save)

9.2K views · 2mo ago · 15:36

In this video, I reveal how I cut my AI costs by over 50% in Copilot Cowork, Copilot Studio & GitHub Copilot, while still using the most powerful models like Opus 5 and GPT 5.6. I’ll show you the Credit Meter dashboard I built to track my usage and pinpoint exactly where the money goes across my different AI automations.

Topics: How I Cut My AI Spend By 50% · Understanding How You’re Billed & Strategies To Save Money · 6 Tips to Save on AI Costs · How Copilot Cowork Costs Work · Optimizing My AI Spending Using The Credit Meter

My Favorite NEW Copilot Features in 2026 | Tips By a Microsoft Engineer

54K views · 3mo ago · 14:07

In this video, I break down the Microsoft 365 Copilot features that actually move the needle as of July 2026, including updates to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, Copilot in Excel, Copilot in Outlook, and Copilot with PowerPoint. I'm Shervin Shaffie, a Principal Engineer at Microsoft, and I'll walk you through the biggest new Copilot features with practical, step by step demonstrations and real world examples you can use at work right away.

Topics: What's New in Microsoft 365 Copilot · Microsoft 365 Copilot and Powerpoint · Microsoft 365 Copilot and Outlook · Microsoft 365 Copilot and Excel

Microsoft Scout Dream Team Part 2 (With Installation Instructions)

12K views · 3mo ago · 9:29

First there was Microsoft 365 Copilot, then Copilot Cowork, and now Microsoft Scout. So how good is Microsoft's AI now? To answer that, I built an AI team of agents to do my work for me, using Microsoft Scout. Scout isn't widely available yet, so this is a look at what's coming. I'm sharing the full app on GitHub so if you do have Scout, you can install it and try it yourself.

The Most POWERFUL Way to Build a Team of AI Employees (Microsoft Scout Autopilot Tutorial)

24K views · 4mo ago · 8:06

In this video, Shervin Shaffie, Copilot Principal Engineer at Microsoft, shows how to build an AI-powered Dream Team using Microsoft's first Autopilot agent, Scout. The team consists of seven specialized AI agents managed by an AI chief of staff named Major, who coordinates the work across the entire organization.

From Copilot to Autopilot: The Shift Has Begun

26K views · 4mo ago · 11:47

Microsoft introduced a brand-new category of AI agents at Build called Autopilots — and the first one, Microsoft Scout, is already available to Frontier users. In this video, Shervin Shaffie, Copilot and AI Principal Engineer at Microsoft, breaks down what Autopilots actually are, how Scout compares to Copilot Chat and Copilot Cowork, and what's available right now versus what's still in private preview.

Topics: Satya Nadella explains Autopilots · What are Autopilot agents? (Blog breakdown) · Microsoft Scout Frontier vs. private preview — what's the difference? · OpenClaw vs. GitHub Copilot SDK — which powers Scout Desktop? · What I've experienced using Scout internally · What makes Scout more powerful than Copilot Chat

I Built an AI Command Center for My Entire Work Day

41K views · 5mo ago · 5:01

I’m Shervin Shaffie, Copilot Principal Engineer at Microsoft, and in this step-by-step tutorial you’ll learn how to build a personalized productivity dashboard. I’m also sharing the exact prompts and recipe so you can customize it for your own workflow.

Unlock The Other 90% of Copilot Chat - Tips By a Microsoft Engineer

36K views · 5mo ago · 8:20

Guest: Anthropic Claude Opus

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Topics: Multiple Ways to Access Copilot (Outlook, Teams, & Web) · Master Your Outlook Inbox with AI Summaries · Automating Meeting Invites & Calendar Management · Integrating Teams Messages & Collaboration Tips · Switching AI Models: Using Anthropic’s Claude Opus · Creating Branded PowerPoints & Excel from Templates

Copilot Now Combines Claude and ChatGPT | Tips By a Microsoft Engineer

11K views · 6mo ago · 5:27

Full tutorial on how Microsoft 365 Copilot combines responses from Anthropic Claude & OpenAI ChatGPT in Researcher’s Critique & Model Council. Bonus material on how to enable Frontier features (if you don’t have access today).

Copilot Cowork Automates Your Meetings with THIS Custom Skill

21K views · 6mo ago · 17:24

Guest: THIS Custom Skill

In this tutorial, you’ll build a custom Copilot Cowork Skill that uses Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Outlook to automatically turn meeting follow-ups into customer ready deliverables. Join Shervin Shaffie, Copilot Principal Engineer at Microsoft as he walks you through this setup, in a simple step by step manner.

Topics: Exploring Copilot Co-work Documentation · Setting up the Custom Skills Folder · Creating the Markdown Skill File · Programming the Custom Skill Logic · Verifying Your Custom Skill in Co-work · Managing Multiple Custom Skills

NEW Copilot Cowork Automates 90% of Your Daily Tasks

213K views · 7mo ago · 12:27

Full tutorial on how Microsoft Copilot Cowork creates agentic workflows for Microsoft 365 — automates tasks across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. Whether you're looking to automate your job or just clear out the "busywork", these new agentic capabilities change everything. We’ll walk through exactly what Copilot Cowork is, best practice tips, and a step-by-step demo of setting up your first autonomous agentic workflow.