Outlook mail and calendar, Teams chats and channels, OneDrive and SharePoint
Your assistant across Microsoft 365
made. Cowork works in the Microsoft 365 your team already uses. Each person connects their own work account, so the assistant opens only what they already can, and anything that would reach other people waits for them to confirm it.
What it does in each part
Outlook mail
Searches your mailbox the way Outlook does, reads whole messages and summarises long threads, with the sender, date and a link to each message it used.
Saves draft replies and new messages in your Drafts folder at once. Sending a message or a reply waits for your Confirm.
Outlook calendar
Reads your calendar for up to two months at a time, in your own time zone, and finds free time.
Booking a meeting, inviting people or adding a Teams meeting link waits for your Confirm.
Microsoft Teams
Reads and searches your chats and the channels of the teams you belong to, so you can ask what was agreed or what you missed.
Posting in a chat, starting a channel post or replying to one waits for your Confirm. It posts as you, and only where you could post yourself.
OneDrive and SharePoint
Finds the files you can open, wherever they're saved, and reads the text of PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and Excel files and plain text files.
Files are only read: the assistant doesn't alter them.
Setting it up
- Your Microsoft 365 administrator approves made. Cowork once for the organisation. They can withdraw that approval at any time from your Microsoft 365 admin settings.
- Each person connects their own account from the Connections page. Anyone who connected before Teams was added connects again once to switch Teams on.
- Your made. Cowork administrators set the limits: the most the assistant may do with mail, calendar, files, Teams. Mail can be read-only, drafts only, or sending after confirmation; the calendar can be read-only, your own calendar only, or invitations after confirmation; Teams can be read-only or posting after confirmation.
Your information stays in Microsoft 365
Mail, calendar entries, chats and files stay where they are. made. Cowork reads them when someone asks and doesn't keep copies; its answers in a conversation may quote or summarise what it read. Every email, meeting and Teams post it prepares is kept on your approvals record, and confirmed changes are in your activity log.
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Microsoft 365 questions
How long does made. Cowork take to set up?
made. Cowork takes a few minutes to set up and needs nothing installed: your Microsoft 365 administrator approves it once for the organisation, then each person connects their own work account.
From then on, people sign in from their web browser and ask.
What does made. Cowork connect to?
made. Cowork connects to Microsoft 365: Outlook mail and calendar, Teams chats and channels, OneDrive and SharePoint.
Each person connects their own account, so the assistant sees exactly what they can see. Your administrator approves the connection once for the organisation.
Can made. Cowork read Microsoft Teams chats and channels?
Yes. made. Cowork reads and searches each person's Teams chats and the channels of the teams they belong to, so you can ask what was agreed in a chat or what a channel discussed this week.
Posting a message in Teams always waits for the person to press Confirm. Anyone who connected before Teams was added connects again once to switch it on.
Can made. Cowork read Teams meeting transcripts?
Yes. made. Cowork reads the transcripts of the Teams meetings a person can open, so they can ask what was decided, who agreed to do what, or what they missed.
The meeting needs to have been transcribed in Teams. Anyone who connected before transcripts were added connects again once to switch them on.
Which files can made. Cowork read?
made. Cowork finds the files each person can open in OneDrive and SharePoint, and reads the text of PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and Excel files and plain text files, including files attached to email.
It reads the words and figures, not the layout, so check anything that depends on how a document is formatted against the original.
Does made. Cowork see everything in our Microsoft 365?
No. made. Cowork works with each person's own permissions, so it can open only what that person could already open: their own mail and calendar, their chats and teams, and the files shared with them.
Your Microsoft 365 administrator decides whether the app may be used at all, and can withdraw that approval at any time.
Is there a made. Cowork app for Microsoft Teams?
Yes. made. Cowork can open inside Microsoft Teams, in the sidebar like any other Teams app: an administrator adds it for everyone in one step from Settings, and people sign in with the Microsoft 365 account they already use in Teams.
It's the same assistant, with the same confirmations and limits. It isn't a chat bot, so you open the made. Cowork tab rather than messaging it in a chat. You can also reach it from Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot or OpenAI Codex.