Age of Copilots #21
Welcome to the 21st 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
This week Microsoft made a major announcement regarding autonomous agent capabilities in Copilot Studio.
Unlocking autonomous agent capabilities with Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Copilot Blog
At AI Tour in London, Microsoft announced a new set of Copilot Studio capabilities that enable you to build autonomous agents, which will be in public preview at Microsoft Ignite 2024. These agents understand the nature of your work and act on your behalf—providing support across business roles, teams, and functions.
Transform work with autonomous agents across your business processes - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog
Microsoft is introducing 10 new autonomous agents in Microsoft Dynamics 365 to build capacity for sales, service, finance, and supply chain teams. These agents are designed to help you accelerate your time to value and are configured to scale operational efficiency and elevate customer experiences across roles and functions.
This article introduces Dynamics 365 Sales Qualification autonomous agent.
This article introduces Supplier Communications autonomous agent.
Autonomous Agents with Copilot Studio
In this article, Jack Rowbotham summarizes the autonomous agent announcements.
Articles
Copilot Studio Advanced Analytics
Copilot Studio logs a treasure trove of telemetry directly to your Dataverse instance. In this article, Tim Hanewich talks about how "Copilot Studio Advanced Analytics", a C# console app, to showcase just how powerful this data can be.
Copilot Studio in Field Service Tip time
In this version of Copilot in Field Service tip time, Sabrina Di Bartolomeo shares a video about Copilot in Field Service web app.
Announcements: Copilot + Agents
In this article, Lisa Crosbie summarizes the announcements for autonomous agents.
Power your AI transformation with Microsoft Copilot Studio
This white paper from Microsoft provides a comprehensive overview of the capabilities and benefits of Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Videos
In this video, Damien Bird shows you how to build a custom connector and adding it to a topic in your Agent in Copilot Studio
In this video, Dewain Robinson walks through how to package a Copilot Studio agent into a solution.
Build an action for Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent (youtube.com)
In this video, I walk through how to build an action for Microsoft 365 Copilot agent.
Events
Microsoft Business Applications Launch event
Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event | Microsoft
🎤 Charles Lamanna
📅 Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 9:00 AM–10:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7)
🎤 Sriram Balaji
📅 Thursday, October 24, 2024, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM(NZST)
Mentorship Program
ProPilots — Zero to Hero Academy (fromzerotoheroes.com)
Unlock the potential of AI with this comprehensive mentorship program designed to elevate your skills and integrate Microsoft Copilots into your daily workflow. Over 8 weeks, you'll learn how to improve work quality and efficiency using AI across Microsoft 365 and beyond.
Microsoft Learn and other Learning Resources
Microsoft Copilot Studio guidance documentation - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Copilot Studio guidance documentation provides best practices, implementation, and architecture guidance information from the team that works with enterprise customers.
Copilot Developer Camp (microsoft.github.io)
Microsoft is introducing a new virtual workshop called "Copilot Developer Camp" where you can find hands-on labs to build declarative agents with API plugins! Visit Copilot Developer Camp to get started building copilot agents today.
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