Age of Copilots #34
Welcome to the 34th 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
Microsoft Copilot Studio Resources Hub
Copilot Studio Resources Hub is your go-to destination for resources to help you build, scale, and optimize AI-powered agents.
New Templates in Copilot Studio
Rishona Elijah shares the new templates that have been added to the Copilot Studio template library: Benefits, Citizen Services and Self Help.
DeepSeek R1 is now available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub | Microsoft Azure Blog
5 ways IT departments can get started with low-code and AI - Microsoft Power Platform Blog
Enhance Your AI Agents with Azure AI Foundry and Azure Logic Apps: No Coding Required
Articles
In this article, Renato shares how to integrate Deepseek with Copilot Studio.
Copilot Studio App Registration
Henry James shares that Copilot Studio app registration is now single-tenant by default (for newly created agents) in Microsoft Entra ID.
Read Data from Excel using Copilot Studio
In this article, Renato walks through how to read data from Excel using Copilot Studio.
How CopilotStudio and Agents boost Customer Service
Jens Bocking shares how to give your Customer service employees valuable time for customer issues that really matter and need deep human interaction.
Creating your own AI Record Summary in a model-driven app
Jeroen Scheper shares how to create your own AI Record Summary on the main form of a model-driven app.
Agent vs. Autonomous Agent in Copilot Studio
In this article, Renato Ramao walks through the differences between Agent and Autonomous agent.
Enable agents in Copilot Chat
In this article, Bence Orban walks through the steps for organizations to take in order to enable Agents in Copilot Chat.
Copilot Prompt of the Week by Rabia Williams
Bring all your agents to Copilot Chat
In this article Mahmoud Hassan, walks through how to bring all your agents to Copilot Chat today, and be introduced to the new “Declarative agent async actions” design pattern.
Agentic Voice Assistant in Pharma and other industries
Evgeny Minkevich shares a sample of Agentic Voice Assistant which can be used in an industrial setting like labs with heavy gloves where you can’t tap a screen or a keyboard.
Paul Bullock shares PnP an agent which uses PnP Script Samples as its data source. It can help folks out finding a suitable script.
Bence Orban shares numerous Admin Centers to use to govern the Copilot Agents
Applying AutoGen and multi-agent systems to an enterprise context
Luca Stamatescu shares that "Business-in-a-Box" multi-agent demo based on Autogen is now available as an official Microsoft Solution Accelerator. The Multi-Agent Custom Automation Engine Solution Accelerator is an AI-driven orchestration system that manages a group of AI agents to accomplish tasks based on user input. Powered by AutoGen, Azure OpenAI, Cosmos, and infrastructure services, it provides a ready to go application to use as a reference, allowing you to hit the ground running.
Videos
In this step-by-step beginner tutorial, April Dunnam walks you through how to build your first autonomous agent with Copilot Studio.
Parag Desai in his latest How-To video, walks through the different options available for enabling agent-to-agent communication.
In this video Shervin Shaffie, Copilot Principal Technical Specialist at Microsoft, provides a deep dive into creating a powerful Human Resources (HR) Copilot AI Agent.
Learn how to build custom engine copilots with Teams AI Library and Azure AI Studio. This demo video is from the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform weekly call on November 5, 2024.
In this video, Daniel Christian shares the options available and the best practices for both using SharePoint as the backend data source and publishing agents in it.
Microsoft Learn and other Learning Resources
Copilot Studio Implementation Guide Updates
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Agent Starter Kit | Microsoft Community Hub
The Great Microsoft 365 Copilot Journey: Empower Your Team with Copilot | Microsoft Community Hub
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
Copilot Studio Implementation Guide Updates
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