Age of Copilots #25
Welcome to the 25th 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
Copilot Studio at Microsoft Ignite
Today is Microsoft Ignite and above article from Jack Rowbotham shares all the Copilot Studio sessions you should watch at MS Ignite 2024
Autonomous agent Public Preview announcement
Microsoft announcement of Autonomous agent capabilities in Copilot Studio are now in public preview.
Microsoft has published a new learning path on building API plugins for Microsoft 365 Copilot If you want to learn how to connect declarative agents to your APIs, this is a great place to start.
Articles
In this article, Remi Dyan talks about the Dark mode in Copilot Studio
Passing variables between Topics
IN THIS article, Elaiza outlines one of the best practices for building agents in CopilotStudio is using variables and passing them between different topics to make the user journey more seamless.
Little Transition Helper Agent
In this article, Pauline Kolde walks through how to create an agent “Little Transition Helper,” designed to answer questions and guide teams as they move from outbound to real-time marketing in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights.
Find filter and sort data using Copilot in Model Driven app
In this article, Jeroen Scheper walks how to use Copilot to find, sort, and filter data in your views in your model driven app
Extending your Graph Connector to a Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent
In this article, Paul Bullock walks you through how to consume your Graph Connector Data using a Microsoft 365 Copilot agent based on example Ignite 2024 session catalogue data.
Multi-modality feature in AI Prompts
In this article Stevie Sims talks about new multi-modality feature in preview for AI prompts.
In this article, Jens Bocking talks bout Agentic RAG.
Allow Copilot agents (Preview) Feature
In this article, Mahmoud Hassan covers the Allow Copilot agents (Preview) governance Feature.
Semantic Kernel Agent Framework
In this article, Samuel Smith talks about Semantic Kernel Agent Framework
Videos
Watch Damien Bird build an IT Helpdesk Agent that can respond to emails autonomously (A Cloud Flow Trigger ) or answer questions as a traditional chatbot from Policy Documents and a Ticketing System using Generative Actions and Answers.
In this talk, Renato Romao shows how to use Copilot Studio, a low-code platform that lets you customize and build your own AI assistants or extend the ones for Microsoft 365.
Events
✨ The spectrum of agents with Copilot Studio at Ignite 2024
🎤 Jack Rowbotham
📅 Friday, November 22 , 2024 – 3:00 PM (GMT)
The spectrum of agents with Copilot Studio
🔗 Ignite Spectrum of Agents with Copilot Studio
✨ Copilot Studio agents: See it, Learn it, Do it Webinar
🎤 Jack Moran and Karthik Uthanumallian
📅 Friday, Dec 06 , 2024 – 08:00 - 09:00(GMT)
The 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