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In Part One I showed you a haunted front yard living on a SharePoint page. This free preview introduces Part Two — the build story.I explain why I try SharePoint’s host-supported Babylon.js loading first, and show scenes from my own SharePoint tests on 6 November 2026. Screenshots show appearance, not proof of every control’s behaviour on another device.The full build walkthrough is for Tech Ease members.Full members episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/03q2FEfyBCE8Vw4yTnaT3lYouTube free preview: https://youtu.be/Lb37TUvwX9EFree Part One tour: https://youtu.be/--oGsHe1k2kHalloween Haunt demo: https://anandragav.github.io/copilot-html-dashboards/halloween-haunt/Chapters00:00 Part Two: the build story00:28 Correction: try the host manifest first00:48 Two approaches01:26 Nov 6 test: winter wonderland01:42 Nov 6 test: Halloween Haunt01:55 Invitation to the members walkthroughFollow Tech Ease so you catch what’s next.

Your Copilot Notebooks are becoming Copilot Workspaces, and the standalone Word, Excel and PowerPoint agents are moving into Chat. This Tech Ease Day Brief also covers wider fair-use limits for commercial Copilot Chat without the paid licence, SharePoint tools in Work IQ in public preview, and Frontier expanding to eligible Teams, new Outlook, OneDrive and SharePoint previews.Four Microsoft 365 updates: Notebooks become Workspaces while standalone Office agents move into Chat (MC1535647, MC1536062, MC1530611); fair-use limits expand in unlicensed commercial Copilot Chat with no published numerical allowances (MC1536158, MC1536163); SharePoint tools in Work IQ enter public preview with delegated permissions and Copilot Credits; and Frontier enrollment expands to eligible Teams, new Outlook, OneDrive and SharePoint previews from November (MC1529472).Chapters:0:00 Four updates0:07 Workspaces0:30 Office agents0:55 Chat fair-use limits1:32 SharePoint tools in Work IQ2:10 Frontier expands2:39 Follow Tech EaseLinks:- Copilot Notebooks → Workspaces (Support): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/copilot-notebooks-to-copilot-workspaces- Home / Projects / Workspaces (MC1535647, unofficial mirror): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1535647- Standalone Word / Excel / PowerPoint agents (MC1536062, unofficial mirror): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1536062- Office in Copilot (MC1530611, unofficial mirror): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1530611- Copilot Chat fair-use limits (Support): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/standard-versus-priority-access-to-features-in-microsoft-365-copilot-chat- Limits notice MC1536158 (unofficial mirror): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1536158- Limits notice MC1536163 (unofficial mirror): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1536163- SharePoint tools in Work IQ (blog): https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/spblog/introducing-sharepoint-tools-in-work-iq/4569917- SharePoint tools Learn: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/extensibility/work-iq/sharepoint-iq- Work IQ API overview: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/extensibility/work-iq/api-overview- Frontier expands (blog): https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-copilot-blog/frontier-expands-to-more-microsoft-365-public-previews/4567243- Get started with Frontier: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/manage/get-started-frontier- Frontier MC1529472 (unofficial mirror): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1529472Caveat: Message Center links above are from the unofficial mc.merill.net mirror, not my tenant Message Center. Confirm in your admin center before acting on tenant-specific timing.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/oVIcWd_edicTech Ease on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@anandvijayaragavan18Follow Tech Ease on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Cd8NsDE7kdQmLnbXe8Xx1

Short answer: each Microsoft Copilot tool hands over a different amount of work. Here is one left-to-right map from Copilot Chat through Agent Builder, Copilot in SharePoint, Copilot Studio, Copilot Cowork and Autopilot, with one example and one honest trade-off at each stop, plus where skills fit across all six.

Copilot Chat, Agent Builder, Copilot in SharePoint, Copilot Studio, Copilot Cowork and Autopilot can feel like a blur of new names. In this episode, I walk through all six on one simple map, built around a single question: how much of the work are you handing over? It follows my earlier Tech Ease episodes on agents and skills, and on Copilot Cowork.

Chapters:
00:00 How much work are you handing over?
00:44 The left-to-right map
01:06 Copilot Chat
01:22 Agent Builder
01:49 Copilot in SharePoint
02:15 Copilot Studio
02:37 The stops overlap
02:53 Copilot Cowork
03:26 Autopilot
03:51 Skills under all six
04:27 Where I would start

Script and original map: Anand Vijayaragavan. Map structure adapted from the creator-supplied slide 3; original Notebooks-style coral/teal line-art illustrations and animation rebuilt for this episode. No third-party screenshots used. Narration generated with Anand's authorized cloned voice using ElevenLabs. TTS and Scribe are paid generation; production/rendering also uses Grok Bot usage.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2pkXDUv0dIQ
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Build one Copilot agent and give it many skills, then move up to Copilot Studio, Cowork or Autopilot only when the work actually demands it.
A skill is an instruction you keep retyping, saved once as a small folder with a SKILL.md file, and the same idea now shows up in Agent Builder, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Cowork.

In this episode I explain the difference between a Copilot agent and a skill, and how I decide which tool to reach for. I start with Agent Builder, show what a skill is under the hood, try skills in PowerPoint and Excel, and then go through when Copilot Studio still leads, what Cowork does with the work you delegate, and where Autopilot fits.

What I cover:
- Copilot vs an agent: help when you ask, versus a goal it keeps working on
- Agent Builder: describe it, start from a template, or configure it yourself, then test and create
- Why ten agents become ten things to maintain, and the one-front-door pattern
- What a skill is: a name, a description, instructions and optional files
- PowerPoint: call a skill with @ and its name; Excel: built-in skills like clean-data
- Agent Builder or Copilot Studio: up to eight skills per agent, model choice, Copy to Copilot Studio, and upgrading older SharePoint agents before March 2027
- Four questions that pick the tool for the job
- Cowork: approvals before sensitive actions, editing files, schedules and triggers
- Autopilot, previously called Scout: its own identity, working within the permissions you set
- Five checks before you build

Chapters:
00:00 The short answer
00:16 Copilot vs an agent
00:31 Agent Builder: the quickest way
01:03 One agent, many skills
01:42 What a skill is
02:38 Skills in PowerPoint and Excel
03:04 Agent Builder or Copilot Studio?
04:38 Which tool for which job
05:06 Cowork
05:41 Autopilot
06:19 Before you build
06:46 Wrap-up: a new agent, or a new skill?

Screenshots: Microsoft Learn, Microsoft Support and the Official Microsoft Blog (© Microsoft), credited on screen. Agent names in my own tenant are masked.

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Yes, a SharePoint page can run a live 3D scene. Here's a Halloween one built with Babylon.js in the new HTML pages, with a flat fallback when 3D is off.

Try it: https://anandragav.github.io/copilot-html-dashboards/halloween-haunt/

Halloween came to my SharePoint site. I built a haunted front yard in 3D with Babylon.js: a ghost, lightning, a cackling witch, a hand pushing up out of the dirt and a parade of ghost cars, all living on a single SharePoint page that anyone can play with. If 3D isn't available, the page shows a flat, animated version of the same scene instead of a blank box.

This free Part One is the tour. Part Two, my members-only technical deep dive, covers how I got it running entirely on its own inside SharePoint: what I kept, what I cut, and how it passed the security checks.

Try it yourself: https://anandragav.github.io/copilot-html-dashboards/halloween-haunt/

Chapters
00:00 The idea: Halloween on a SharePoint page
00:19 The spark: Babylon.js in the new HTML pages
00:35 The tour: ghost, lightning, witch, hand and the Cruise parade
01:01 Sound, and the flat fallback when 3D is off
01:24 The catch: a trimmed-down Babylon.js
01:48 Wrap-up and where to try it

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Short answer: use Agent Builder until you need workflows, model choice or full lifecycle control. Then move to Copilot Studio. Here are 3 questions to decide.

Agent Builder in Microsoft 365 Copilot picked up a lot this fall: skills that let one agent handle several jobs, skill packages that can run their own scripts, company systems your IT team can switch on as knowledge, and a new Plugins button in the Copilot app. Your Copilot license is quietly becoming a power user toolkit. In this episode of Tech Ease, I give you three simple questions for deciding when it's time to move to Copilot Studio, explain why the gap between the two tools is closing, and I'm honest about where Copilot Studio still leads, from workflows to model choice. I also cover the copy button and why SharePoint agents built in the older .agent file format need an upgrade before the end of March 2027.

Chapters
00:00 The demo that changed the question
00:28 The basics: what an agent is
00:49 What's new this fall
02:17 When to move to Copilot Studio
03:51 Inside the demo: skills and scripts
04:31 Is the gap closing?
06:21 Wrap-up: your first step

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/g74Re0iJb34

Some screenshots: Microsoft Learn

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A weekly one-question quiz is an easy way to bring people back to your SharePoint intranet. This free SPFx sample sets it up in 3 steps and also runs in Teams and Copilot Chat.

Could one weekly question give colleagues a reason to return to your intranet? I walk through the Weekly Pulse Quiz for SharePoint, including advance planning, department-specific questions, appearance options, and what anonymous answers really mean. The episode also explains its Microsoft Teams availability and how the quiz can be used in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/P7vP8gJeqR0
Code sample (GitHub): https://github.com/pnp/spfx-copilot-components/pull/75

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You can save a document from Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat straight into a SharePoint library, with its metadata, without leaving the chat. This free SPFx form does it, and it also works on a SharePoint page.

A finished presentation is only useful to your team if they can find it. Anand explains the Document Submission Form, a custom app that brings SharePoint document contributions into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, with a preconfigured Knowledge Base destination and the flexibility to choose another library. The same form also works on a SharePoint page for colleagues who prefer to start there.

What we cover in this episode:

• The 4-step interruption: Why finished presentations and documents get stuck between a Copilot conversation and your team's SharePoint library.
• One form, two places: How the same component sits on a SharePoint page for colleagues who start from the intranet, and opens inline inside Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat when you're already working in chat.
• Built-in Home Base: Pre-configuring your team's default SharePoint site URL and destination library (Knowledge Base) so you don't have to look up an address every time—while still letting you switch destinations when a file belongs in another team's library.
• Library fields & permissions: Bringing in required and optional fields (Document Title, Category, Status) from the destination library automatically, and uploading with your existing SharePoint permissions.
• Boundaries & IT deployment: Microsoft 365 Copilot license requirements for the in-chat experience vs. standard SharePoint access on a SharePoint page, IT administrator deployment via the SharePoint App Catalog, and keeping destinations scoped within your company's SharePoint tenant.

Chapters:

(00:00) Finishing a presentation in Copilot — and the 4-step sharing interruption

(00:26) Meet the Document Submission Form

(00:46) One form, two places: on a SharePoint Knowledge Hub page

(01:09) Submitting a document inline inside Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

(01:33) Configured Home Base: Site URL & Knowledge Base pre-filled

(01:55) Changing the destination library when needed

(02:19) The moment useful work becomes shared knowledge

(02:40) Destination library fields & your existing SharePoint permissions

(03:03) Boundaries: Microsoft 365 Copilot license vs. SharePoint access & IT deployment

(03:28) Under the hood: SharePoint Framework (SPFx) & tenant boundary

(03:51) How to start with your team & PnP Community contribution

Source and implementation:

Document Submission Form contribution, pull request #73: https://github.com/pnp/spfx-copilot-components/pull/73

Deployment uses SharePoint Framework version 1.24, the SharePoint App Catalog, and Sync to Teams. The in-chat experience requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license; the SharePoint page version requires appropriate SharePoint access.

From mid-November, Teams Loop and Facilitator meeting notes are stored in the meeting organizer's OneDrive. Also this week: Copilot Studio features for Copilot Chat agents, the Outlook Prioritize retirement, Purview for Copilot Memory, and new Copilot Notebooks file types.

Five Microsoft 365 updates worth your time (Season 4, Episode 23 — Monday, 26 October 2026). Non-channel Teams Loop and Facilitator meeting notes move to the meeting organizer's OneDrive from mid-November (MC1523076, RM576194), and Copilot Studio brings Topics, connected agents, Activity Map previews, and dev/test/prod lifecycle management to declarative Copilot Chat agents starting today (MC1518233). Meanwhile, Outlook begins retiring the Copilot Prioritize feature today through March 2027 (MC1519861), Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management adds retention and eDiscovery support for Copilot Memory (MC1478965, RM569612), and Copilot Notebooks in OneNote add JPG, PNG, CSV, and TSV files as direct grounding sources (MC1519842, RM569211, MC1519841, RM569210).

Chapters
(00:00) Five Microsoft 365 updates this week (Mon 26 Oct 2026)
(00:10) 1. Teams Loop & Facilitator notes in the organizer's OneDrive (MC1523076 / RM576194)
(00:48) 2. Copilot Studio enterprise maker features GA for Copilot Chat agents (MC1518233)
(01:36) 3. Outlook Copilot Prioritize feature retirement (MC1519861)
(02:15) 4. Microsoft Purview retention & eDiscovery for Copilot Memory (MC1478965 / RM569612)
(02:58) 5. OneNote Copilot Notebooks JPG, PNG, CSV & TSV grounding (MC1519842 / MC1519841)
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Links
- Teams Loop and Facilitator meeting notes stored in the organizer's OneDrive (MC1523076): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1523076
- Roadmap: Teams Loop meeting notes in the organizer's OneDrive (RM576194): https://mc.merill.net/message/RM576194
- Copilot Studio enhanced support for Copilot Chat agents (MC1518233): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1518233
- Outlook Copilot Prioritize feature retirement (MC1519861): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1519861
- Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management retention for Copilot Memory (MC1478965): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1478965
- Roadmap: Microsoft Purview retention for Copilot Memory (RM569612): https://mc.merill.net/message/RM569612
- Microsoft OneNote JPG and PNG references in Copilot Notebooks (MC1519842): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1519842
- Roadmap: JPG and PNG references in Copilot Notebooks (RM569211): https://mc.merill.net/message/RM569211
- Microsoft OneNote CSV and TSV references in Copilot Notebooks (MC1519841): https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1519841
- Roadmap: CSV and TSV references in Copilot Notebooks (RM569210): https://mc.merill.net/message/RM569210

Deep dive: Copilot Notebooks: One Place for One Project (S4E20)
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/64PSB1hN5QInxpfhv8ckS2
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/QqtV77qo21c
- Watch this Day Brief on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fuUiv_R4Tlo

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Show readers who owns each SharePoint page and when it was last checked, and let them flag outdated content. This free SPFx web part, Verified Page Banner, sets it up in one click per site.

Ever landed on an intranet page and wondered whether any of it is still right? In this episode, Anand walks through the Verified Page Banner, a SharePoint Framework web part he built that shows who owns a page, when it was last confirmed, and lets readers flag content that looks out of date. He covers the one-click setup for site owners, and the step IT needs to take first to make it available in your SharePoint app catalog.Chapters(00:00) The intranet doubt: closing the tab to ask a colleague(00:20) What Verified Page Banner is & the two questions it answers(00:56) Confirm still current, reader flags & add-only visitor access(01:52) One-click site setup & self-healing SharePoint columns(02:56) Browser cache & setup fingerprint optimization(03:31) What it means for intranet owners and page authors(03:50) SharePoint app catalog rollout & community gallery PR(04:33) One takeaway you can apply to your top page todayTech Ease is independent and not affiliated with Microsoft. Microsoft, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and GitHub are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.