Microsoft 365 Copilot: People Skills is generally available

Microsoft 365 Copilot: People Skills is now generally available, enhancing user experience with AI-generated skill profiles, a customizable skills library, and skills-driven features across Microsoft 365 apps. The rollout requires no admin action and will be completed by mid-June 2025. Organizations can notify users and update documentation accordingly. This message is associated with MC1060846 (Highlight) New Service Plan: People Skills – Advanced (published April 23, 2025).  People Skills is an intelligent data layer that infers skills from user activity mapped to a customizable built-in skill taxonomy, enhancing Copilot Chat, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Viva experiences with contextualized information about the people in your organization. Read more: Announcing People Skills general availability and new Skills agent | Microsoft Community Hub Customers with Microsoft 365 Copilot and the “Microsoft 365 Copilot in Productivity Apps service plan,” excluding faculty and student SKUs, will see People Skills available to set up in Microsoft 365 admin center by mid-June 2025. This message applies to Microsoft 365 Copilot for Windows desktop and for the web as well as the other Windows desktop and web platforms where People Skills appears in profile cards, People Companion, and other Microsoft 365 apps. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 485726. When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide): Available now. How this will affect your organization: After this rollout, the People Skills experience will include these capabilities: An AI-generated, personalized skill profile for Microsoft 365 Copilot users to help make it easy to share skills in the organization and keep skill data fresh A built-in skills library, ready to use out-of-the-box or customize as needed Skills-driven experiences in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 profile card and profile editor, Org Explorer, and People Companion. Skills-based learning experience in Viva Learning Starting mid-June 2025, People Skills will also include these capabilities: Skills landscape reports for leaders and analysts, accessible from the advanced insights app in Viva Insights. Skills agent for employees and leaders: The Skills agent enables employees to easily find the right colleague for a given need, understand colleagues’ skillsets, and make informed decisions about skill development. Leaders can use […]

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