Age of Copilots #24
Welcome to the 24th 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
How real-world businesses are transforming with AI - The Official Microsoft Blog
In this blog, Microsoft shares more than 200 of favorite real-life examples of how organizations are embracing Microsoft’s proven AI capabilities to drive impact and shape today’s platform shift to AI.
Improving customer and employee experiences with Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Copilot Blog
In this blog post, Microsoft through how conversational AI can improve both customer and employee experiences.
Microsoft has updated their collection of learning materials on extending Microsoft 365 Copilot.
What’s new in Copilot Studio: November | Microsoft Copilot Blog
Articles
In this article, Rabia Williams shares the Copilot Prompt of the Week
Let your creative juices flow in Copilot Studio! | LinkedIn
In this article, Audrie Gordon shows to generate AI art using Copilot Studio
AI powered Invoice Anomaly Detection Copilot
In this article, Priyaranjan walks through AI powered Invoice Anomaly Detection Copilot.
Rethinking agents, more than apps, true SMEs and co-collaborators for the future of work | LinkedIn
In this article, Steven Abrahams explains the difference between apps and agents.
Make Microsoft 365 Copilot more secure with Conditional Access Policy
In this article, Mahmoud Hassan How to enable and create the Conditional Access policy for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Styling the Copilot Studio UI for external websites
In this article, Robin Rosengrun dives a little into the styling of the web UI for Copilot Studio.
In this article, Marcus Machon talks about Project Management Agent" designed to answer questions on PM methods, compliance, processes, trainings, project risks, lessons learned.
Copilot Studio Agents Governance
In this article, Mikko Koskinnen shares information regarding Copilot Studio and Agents Governance.
In this article, Jeremy Thake shares about Building agents to help him and his colleagues answer common questions in the business.
In this article, Riya Roy shows how to effortlessly send emails directly from the same chat maintaining context throughout.
Videos
In this video, Dian Taylor demonstrates how you can configure the Prompt Guide in Copilot in D365 Sales by adding a new prompt group with a custom prompt to create a new case.
Pass variables between Topics for your agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio
In latest episode of AIinAction: Building with Copilot Studio Elaiza Benitez shares how to reuse variables by passing the values between topics
In this video I introduce autonomous agents and outlines the high level steps for creating an autonomous agent using Copilot Studio. This video is part of my Copilot Studio Autonomous Agents for Beginners series, where you can learn fundamentals of creating autonomous agents in under 20 minutes.
In this video I walk you through a demo of detailed steps of building your own autonomous agent with Copilot Studio.
In this video,Gomolemo walks you through using various topic triggers like the activity, message, and inactivity triggers.
In this video, Lisa Crosbie breaks down everything you need to know to pick the right Copilot license for your need
In this demo from the weekly Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community call Samuel Betts walks through how to build a Copilot Feedback Bot for collecting user feedback.
In this session Brian Haydin and Ajay Ravi explore the cutting-edge advancements in AI technology, focusing on the capabilities and applications of Semantic Kernel and Copilot Studio
Events
✨ The spectrum of agents with Copilot Studio at Ignite 2024
🎤 Jack Rowbatham
📅 Friday, November 22 , 2024 – 3:00 PM (GMT)
The spectrum of agents with Copilot Studio
🔗 Ignite Spectrum of Agents with Copilot Studio
✨ Building a Chatbot? Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI Service, or Custom GPT?
🎤 AJ Ansari
📅 Saturday, November 16 , 2024 – 6:00 PM (CET)
🔗 https://lnkd.in/gxSKT2XV
✨ Creating intelligent GPT for your organization with AI Builder
🎤 Douglas Romão
📅 Saturday, November 30, 2024 – 6:00 PM (CET)
🔗 https://lnkd.in/gZiuiyTf
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