Age of Copilots #17
Welcome to the 17th edition of Age of Copilots newsletter!
This newsletter has a curated list of articles and videos to update developers with latest and upcoming developments in Microsoft Copilots and Microsoft AI delivered weekly to your inbox.
Microsoft announcements and articles
Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents | Microsoft 365 Blog
First, we’re announcing Copilot Pages—a dynamic, persistent canvas designed for multiplayer AI collaboration. It’s the first new digital artifact for the AI age.
Second, we’re rapidly improving Copilot in the Microsoft 365 apps. We’re introducing advanced data analysis in Microsoft Excel, dynamic storytelling in PowerPoint, managing your inbox in Outlook, and more.
Third, we’re introducing Copilot agents, making it easier and faster than ever to automate and execute business processes on your behalf—enabling you to scale your team like never before.
Supercharge your business with agents built with Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Copilot Blog
Microsoft announced two new capabilities for Copilot Studio:
First, Copilot agents built in Copilot Studio can now be published directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot, surfacing right in the user’s flow of work.
Second, we’re unveiling a new Copilot Studio experience that empowers users of any skill level to create Copilot agents from within SharePoint and Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat (BizChat).
Above is a demo by Dona Sarkar of PowerPoint with Copilot Narrator (Agentic functionality).
Articles
Copilot Prompt Engineering Tip
In this article, Elizabeth Pappalardo walks through a Copilot prompt engineering tip for Marketing/PR
In this article, Alex Clark walks through Prompt Pulse, a free open source solution, is designed to help increase Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption in the organization
Copilot prompt of the week by Rabia Williams.
Extending Microsoft 365 Copilot: Plugin Options & Future Possibilities
In this article, Mikko Koskinen presents some of his learnings and understanding of extending the Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Videos
In this video Dewain Robinson shows you how to customize the citations on Copilot Studio Knowledge answers when you upload files. This is amazing work done by Henry James!
In this video Daniel Lakewitz shows how to build a travel copilot that answers questions about a website. On top of that, he shows how to use AI Prompts to generate travel plans!
In Episode 3 of AI in Action: Building with Copilot Studio series Elaiza Benitez walks through how to build prompt actions and ground it with Dataverse data in Copilot Studio.
In this session Amreek Singh , covers how to extend out-of-the-box skills in Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales, focusing on enhancing Opportunity and Account summaries
Events
Unleash Productivity with Microsoft Dataverse and Copilot Connector
In this Power Platform Community Conference session, Nirav Shah will walk through how to use Microsoft Copilot as your enterprise AI assistant via no-code and low-code to reason & take action across your enterprise's productivity data , your business data and your analytics data (in Microsoft Fabric).
Power Platform Community Conference 2024 Copilot Sessions by Ashish Bhatia
Here are some sessions by Ashish Bhatia at Power Platform Community Conference 2024 :
♠️ Sept 18, 5:30-5:50 PM - Lightening Talk: Extend you Copilot with Prompt Actions
♦️ Sept 19, 8:00 - 9:00 AM - Master Prompt Building Across Copilots
♣️ Sept 19, 11:15 - 12:15 PM - Extend Copilot Studio with Intelligent Actions and Workflows
Microsoft Learn and other Learning Resources
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Pathway.
In this learning pathway Paul Griffith outlines the learning content for exploring Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Create Power Platform solutions with AI and Copilot - Training | Microsoft Learn
It introduces you to creating Power Platform solutions with Copilot to speed up development and add AI functionality to make your solutions more intelligent.
Create a chatbot with Microsoft Copilot Studio and Dataverse for Teams - Training | Microsoft Learn
This MS Learn module walks through creating a chatbot with Microsoft Copilot Studio and Dataverse for Teams
Extend Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 with Copilot Studio - Training | Microsoft Learn
This MS Learn module walks through how to extend Copilot for Microsoft 365 using Copilot Studio.
Create your first chatbot in Microsoft Copilot Studio - Online workshop - Training | Microsoft Learn
This walks through how to create your first chatbot in Microsoft Copilot Studio.
A collection of videos and demos created by passionate Power Platform advocates who love how Copilots are democratizing our abilities! This 25 day series will focus on value-adds within the Power Platform, and will highlight scenarios and solutions which you can customize further for your own purposes.
This video series walks through building your own copilots using Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Build AI Assistants with PowerApps, AI Builder and Copilot Studio Introduction - YouTube
This video series walks you through how to build your own GPT Assistants using PowerApps, AI Builder, Custom Prompts, GPT and Copilot Studio.
Copilot Resources from Microsoft
With so many Copilots announced from Microsoft, it is difficult to keep up with Copilot information. The first two links are living documents that will be updated regularly.
Discover the Copilot Learning Hub – your one-stop source for all things Microsoft Copilot!
Adopt, extend and build Copilot experiences across the Microsoft Cloud | Microsoft Learn
The above article highlights the differences between the adopt, extend, and build options showcasing the breadth of possibilities that Copilot offers.
Adopting Extending and Building Your Own Copilots | BRK401 (youtube.com)
In this Ignite session, you will learn no-code, low-code and pro-code ways that you can use the Microsoft Copilot stack. You will also be exploring the Power Platform Copilots, Dynamics Copilots, Windows Copilot, M365 Copilots and more!
Copilot Studio Cookbook - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)
The Copilot Cookbook Gallery is a curated gallery that shows you how to use Copilot Studio.
New Microsoft Copilot Studio implementation guide
Microsoft Copilot Studio implementation guide is designed to help customers, partners, and Microsoft teams review copilot projects and architectures for a smooth and effective implementation journey.
copilotstudioguidebook/README.md at main · sarahcritchley/copilotstudioguidebook (github.com)
Introducing the Copilot Studio Guidebook. This collection of information is designed to be a goal based starting point for professionals who want to learn how to use Microsoft Copilot Studio to build custom copilots.
Transform copilot development with Microsoft Copilot Studio | BRK212H (youtube.com)
This Ignite video shows you can extend Microsoft copilots or build your own, all in one end-to-end Copilot studio