Age of Copilots #26
Welcome to the 26th 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
Ignite Announcements and Sessions
Nitya Narasimhan, PhD has summarized key MSIgnite announcements and updates in this markmap If you've saved many LinkedIn posts to read later and don't know where to start, this visual will save you time and provide structure around key topics.
Real-World Success: How Customers Are Driving Transformation with the Power Platform
Build Intelligent Applications with AI and Power Apps | BRK172
Discover how you can build enterprise-grade, scalable, multi-channel agents with code using the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK.
Azure AI Agent Service: Revolutionizing AI Agent Development and Deployment
Microsoft announces managed capabilities to empower developers to build secure, stateful autonomous AI agents that automate every business process using Azure AI Agent Service. For orchestrating multi-agent systems, AutoGen and Semantic Kernel are here to transform your workflows. AutoGen offers a state-of-the-art research SDK, while Semantic Kernel provides a production-ready and stable SDK for orchestrating powerful AI solutions.
Josh Blalock interviews Josh Rowbotham
In this video, Josh Blalock talks to Josh Rowbotham at MS Ignite to help break down the idea of Agents and other Copilot news.
3 key takeaways for Copilot Studio at Ignite
Seth Bacon caught up with Kendra Springer from Microsoft and asked what the top 3 takeaways are the product team wants you to know about Copilot Studio.
Other Microsoft Articles
Microsoft 365 Copilot blueprint for oversharing | Microsoft Learn
Whitepaper by Microsoft on how to address oversharing in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
This story walks through how Dow is Harnessing AI for Supply Chain Excellence. At Dow, we are leveraging AI to enhance our supply chain operations. With the help of Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI agents, we are automating our shipping invoice analysis, that could lead to significant efficiencies and cost savings.
Articles
Copilot Agents for Microsoft Teams for all users
In this article, Veronique Lengelle walks through the step-by-step process for publishing Copilot Agents for Microsoft Teams for all users compared to sharing a link with your colleagues
Generate Images with Copilot Agents in Bizchat
Mikko Koskinen walks through a new feature called Capabilities is available for Copilot Agents that you create from BizChat. The first available capability is Image Creator.
Microsoft Azure AI Agent Service vs Copilot Studio
In this article, Chris Goodwill explores the differences between Azure AI Agent service and Copilot Studio
🎯Microsoft Copilot CY2025 Focus Areas – Post-Ignite 2024 Insights | LinkedIn
Ignite 2024 is now done, and after reviewing the various announcements last week and watching many sessions Mahmoud Hassan provides some insights of what should be the key focus areas for the upcoming year for us working on the Microsoft Copilot solutions topic.
Copilot agent call other agents
In this article, Fabian Moritz explores the question “Can autonomous Copilot Studio agents call other agents?”
Microsoft's Dynamics 365 Customer Service and OpenAI
Giorgio Ughini shows how OpenAI perfectly fits into Microsoft's Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Copilot Agent to be used together to create an enhanced customer experience.
Autonomous Agents in D365: Case Management Agent
In this article, Sharon Smith explores Case Management Autonomous Agent in D365.
In this article, Andrew Green walks through how to impose guardrails that control the LLM input and output to detect and prevent unwanted actions, such as prompt injection attempts, or the LLM producing responses that contain sensitive information.
Videos
In this video,Daniel Christian has a chat with Dewain Robinson from Microsoft as he does a breakdown of how to plan leveraging the features Copilot Studio has to offer.
In this video Lisa Crosbie takes you through how to use the Agent Builder, a tool included in your Microsoft 365 Copilot license for any user to build their own agent
In next episode of AI in Action Daniel Laskewitz walks you through building a multilingual agent with Microsoft Copilot Studio
This video from Cristian Dragos Fedotov walks through how to set up proactive messaging with Copilot Studio in Microsoft Teams.This demo is from the from the Power Platform monthly call on September 18, 2024
This video by Team Copilot walks you through how to build Your Own Copilot Agent.
Join Anshul Jethwani as he demos building a compliance checker in Copilot using Azure OpenAI.
This demo is from the from the weekly Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community call September 10, 2024
Podcasts
Events
✨ Build agents with Copilot Studio
🎤 Sriram Balaji
📅 Saturday,December 07, 10:00 AM to 10: 45 AM IST
🔗 M365 Saturday Bangalore
✨ 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
✨ 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