Age of Copilots #31
Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to the 31st 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 chat extensibility for model-driven apps Public Preview
Hemant Gaur from Microsoft announced the public preview of Copilot chat extensibility for model-driven apps.
Robert Bruckner shares how to empower your AI agents from enterprise line of business apps like Zendesk, Salesforce and ServiceNow to deliver exceptional user and customer experiences.
Announcing the o1 model in Azure OpenAI Service
Articles
Extending Microsoft 365 Copilot with agents & Graph Connectors
In this article, Lewis Baybutt shows how to extend MS365 Copilot with agents and graph connectors.
Cheatsheet for Microsoft Copilot Agents
In this article, Femke shares the Team Copilot Cheat Sheet for Microsoft Copilot Agents.
Azure DevOps Scrum Master Copilot Agent
In this article Kyle Berwaldt shares his Journey building the Azure DevOps Scrum Master Copilot Agent.
Combining PowerCat Approval Kit with Copilot Studio Agents
In this article, Sharon Smith shares about session by Sumit Kumar of how the Microsoft PowerCat Approval Kit can work with Agents from Copilot Studio to do approvals across multiple systems.
Creating an AI Agent with Azure AI Agent SDK
In this article Ashif Laskar talks about about creating an AI Agent using the Azure AI Agent SDK.
AI Builder prebuilt model combined with Power FX cheatsheet.
This article from Philippe Larue shares AI Builder's prebuilt model combined with Power FX cheat sheet.
Ben Van Sprundel shares how he built a 20+ AI agent Team that automates (almost) any workflow across his entire tech stack.
In this article, Lewis Walker shares about opportunity of AI Agents in Marketing
John Plummer from Microsoft shares Riccardo Chiodaroli’s article about Vanilla Agents a library specifically designed to simplify the development of reliable and scalable agentic AI applications. This project is the result of a collaborative effort by the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗔 𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝘁𝘀 (𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗕𝗕𝘀), distilling the best practices and experience gained with delivering agentic solutions across several industries.
Videos
In this video from Tech Gyan In Five video series presented by Shruti Chaurasia from Microsoft talks about Autonomous agents for Dynamics 365.
Events
Microsoft AI Tour, Bengaluru | Live Keynote | LinkedIn
Felt really great to be seated in the front row during Satya Nadella’s keynote at the Microsoft AI Tour 2025.
Microsoft Learn and other Learning Resources
Use Copilot in Power Automate MS Learn course
Microsoft Copilot in Power Automate course to build flows simply by describing your automation scenario.
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