Announcement

Microsoft Teams Facilitator Brings AI Notes to Teams Chats

Microsoft has enabled AI Notes for users as part of its Teams public preview option. AI Notes serves to generate real-time summaries of meetings and conversations as they are being had, automatically updating to reflect key decisions and action items as they become...

New Penn State Powerpoint Templates

Penn State users should be able to locate new Penn State themed Powerpoint templates by navigating to office365.psu.edu >> Powerpoint >> Office Templates >> The Pennsylvania State University >> Office Templates or by following this link....

Improvements to Tackle Spam In Outlook

Microsoft has rolled out several changes to improve Outlook's capabilities to tackle spam and spoofed email aliases. For Penn State users, you may notice some differences when accessing your email, especially from external senders. Chief among those differences...

Microsoft Unveils New Copilot+ PC

At the end of June, Microsoft announced the Copilot+ PC, a new line of laptops integrated with their Copilot AI. While several features are currently still in development, this is likely the first step in an ongoing process to further integrate AI into all of...

Power BI Best Practices

Please visit the Power BI Best Practices page for guidance and recommended best practices for using Power BI.

ChatGPT to become “more direct”

On April 11 OpenAI announced changes to ChatGPT's GPT4-Turbo, including improvements in math, writing, logical reasoning, coding, and a more up-to-date database. Additionally, writing with GPT4-Turbo promises to be "more direct, less verbose, and use more...

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot, formerly Bing Chat, has been deployed site-wide as a generative AI accessible by all Penn State faculty, staff and students. With new advancements in AI happening faster than ever before, the Penn State community will strive to remain on the...

Viva Engage (Yammer) – Native Mode

Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) will be transitioning to "Native mode" in the coming weeks. Native mode will provide both users and administrators with a more consistent and streamlined Viva Engage experience. This process fully integrates Viva Engage with Microsoft...