Extract action items from Teams and schedule meetings
An early Scout user had it summarize Teams threads across tenants, find a buried meeting request, check calendars, schedule it and send confirmation.
Done withMicrosoft Scout
- What they did
- Robbert gave Scout, Microsoft's desktop personal agent, one instruction. It was to summarize Teams conversations across multiple tenants, list pending action items, and deal with a meeting request buried in a thread. Scout read the messages and checked both parties' calendar availability. It then scheduled the appointment and sent a Teams confirmation.
- How it went
- The source says no manual steps were needed after the initial instruction. It gives no timings or counts for this case.
- Worth knowing
- Scout asks for confirmation before significant actions by default. The desktop app is version 0.22, and automations pause when the machine sleeps.
Try it yourself with Microsoft Scout
Go through my Teams threads in [channels or tenants] from the last [time period] and list the action items assigned to me, with who asked and when. Find any buried request for a meeting with [person or topic], check both our calendars for a good slot, and show me the proposed invite. Wait for my OK before sending the invite or confirmation.
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