Setting realistic expectations is an essential baseline for deploying AI effectively in any business, and more importantly, it's also essential to using it safely. But the way that tech companies like Microsoft tend to talk about these tools a lot of time would imply that they can do much more than they really can and that safety isn't a concern.

Microsoft's new language model (SLM), Phi 3, is so small you can run it locally on your device. So, in this video, let's learn how to do that, and why you might want a small language model running locally. We'll install Ollama, download the model Phi 3, run it through its paces, and talk about why you might want this option.

A new preview feature in Microsoft Loop, Table Rules, allows you create simple automations that are run in Power Automate. In this video we look at that feature, what creating rules actually builds over in a flow in Power Automate, and what possibilities exist in this new Loop to Power Automate connection to allow you to extend the reach of Loop.

One of the most important capabilities of Copilot for Microsoft 365 is extensibility, and at the heart of that extensibility toolkit is Copilot Studio. But this can be a somewhat confusing proposition right now, and it's not always entirely clear how the options you see in Copilot Studio relate to Copilot for Microsoft 365 or to the different extensibility tracks described by Microsoft.

3CX is a unified communications platform offering telephony and other services. With Microsoft 365 integration you can quickly bring 3CX's services to the users in your tenant, meeting the needs of a wide range of different telephony requirements.

Microsoft Loop has now made its way to Microsoft OneNote as an integration with the OneNote web app. While the Loop app is still the primary base for Loop, having the option of Loop components in OneNote adds some options to the workflows both of Loop users, OneNote users, and everyone somewhere along that curve. So, let's explore the good and the bad of this new set of features. Note that currently this is a preview.

Many of us attend too many meetings. But the process of organizing them is often harder than it needs to be because you are not fully using the tools available to you in Microsoft 365 to help with that task. In this video we review the four main tools that can help you schedule meetings in an easier and more productive way. First we look at Scheduling Assistant in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams. Then we look at Scheduling Poll in Microsoft Outlook. Then Personal Bookings Pages and Shared Bookings Pages in Microsoft Bookings. Last, we look at some of the future features that Copilot might bring to help us with this process too.

Microsoft Forms is one of those hidden Microsoft 365 apps that once you find it you constantly discover new ways to integrate it into your work to make you more productive.

In this video, we look at three new Forms (and Forms connected, as you will see) features that can help you enhance your data collecting experience. We can now sync our responses in Forms in Excel, we can use Copilot to create forms (if you are licensed for Copilot for Microsoft 365/Microsoft 365 Copilot), and Microsoft seems to have created its own competitor to Forms, a new experience in Microsoft Lists that allows you to create forms for data capture.