Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot Advises Complex PowerShell Workflow Over Native SharePoint Feature
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Impact: After 2+ hours of it trying to teach me powershell, I went back and found a button for it.
From the original report
“In a moment of frustration, I asked CoPilot how to automatically populate a Sharepoint site from Excel. After 2+ hours of it trying to teach me powershell, I went back and found a button for it.”
Details & sources
- How received
- Imported from Bluesky
- Source published
- Oct 14, 2026
- Observed
- Unknown
- Added to CleanApp
- Oct 14, 2026
- Product connection
- Affected product or place
- Original issue status
- Unknown
- Resolution
- Unknown
- Verification
- Not independently reproduced
Source count unknown
Why this source type: The author personally describes using Microsoft Copilot to find a solution, which gave hours of overly complex instructions instead of identifying an existing button.
CleanApp AI summary
Microsoft Copilot Advises Complex PowerShell Workflow Over Native SharePoint Feature: Microsoft Copilot reportedly spent over two hours instructing a user to write PowerShell scripts to populate a SharePoint site from Excel, missing an existing native built-in button for the task.
Report counts are not affected-user counts. A closed original issue does not confirm a fix.
Public ID: rpt_CfxDpXsTIP13vlaRa2ccbw