Age of Copilots #35
Welcome to the 35th edition of Age of Copilots newsletter!
This newsletter has a curated list of articles and videos to update developers with latest and upcomingย developments in Microsoft Copilots and Microsoft AI delivered weekly to your inbox.
Microsoft announcements and articles
New Version of Copilot Studio Kit
Remi Dyon announces the new version of the Copilot Studio Kit from Power CAT, now available directly from AppSource! ๐https://lnkd.in/dpjS3vq3
Whatโs new in Copilot Studio: January 2025 | Microsoft Copilot Blog
Unlocking AI-Powered Automation with Azure AI Agent Service
GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens - The GitHub Blog
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In this article, Hemant Gaur shares announcement for Copilot APIs for PCF.
Leon Welicki ๐ฎ๐ป๐ป๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ถ๐น๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ during PowerfulDevs Conference keynote! This powerful capability enables pro developers to seamlessly create inline AI-driven experiences powered by Copilot Studio agents.
Smart PCFs can now collaborate with Copilot Studio agents to perform a diverse set of actions like creating child activities, utilizing 1,500+ connectors, leveraging AI Builder or Azure services to seamlessly light up complex scenarios right where the users are.
Articles
Make debugging flows in agents easier with Application Insights
In this post, Lewis Baybutt show you how to work with Power Automate's workflow() function, custom telemetry in Copilot Studio and hashtag#Azure Application Insights to make the 'improving the AI' job much easier!
Pass Power Pages parameters to your Copilot Studio agents
In this article, Angeliki Patsiavou walks through how to pass parameters to copilot Studio agent.
Damien Bird shares his dedicated Playlist for Copilot Studio https://lnkd.in/erzJ2B4Z
Copilot agents and their integration with Sharepoint Online
Tanja Wiehoff has been diving deep into the world of Copilot Agents and their integration with SharePoint Online (SPO), and shares some insights.
In this article, Mahmoud Hassan walks through how Copilot Connectors work.
Best Practices for prompts in Copilot Studio
In this article, Renato walks through best practices for Prompts in Generative AI Answers in Copilot Studio
In this post, Victor Dibia shares how to Build AutoGen Agents using AutoGen studio, which is a low code / no code tool for prototyping agents in AutoGen.
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Build your own Bid management agent
In this article, Graham Hosking shares how to build a Bid Management Agent
Copilot Agent Plugins and Semantic Kernel
Fabian Williams shares that Copilot Agent Plugins feature is now officially merged into the Semantic Kernel repo! This is a game-changer for Microsoft 365 developers looking to extend Copilot with custom plugins using OpenAPI and Graph-powered integrations.
Build your own Deep Research agent
Victor Dibia walks through how to build your own deep research agent using Autogen
Videos
In this video Daniel Christian shows how Copilot Studio communicates with your data sources and services. He does a deep-dive on the configuration settings that occur in the backend on Azure App Registration and Enterprise Application.
In his latest how-to video for Copilot Studio, Parag Dessai show you how to use your voice to interact with your voice using text-to-speech and speech-to-text capabilities!
In this video, Shane Young walks through how he built an Autonomous Agent with Copilot Studio to respond to his email
In this detailed video, Rafsan Huseynov explores. how Microsoft Loop and Microsoft 365 Copilot can help students.
In this video, Pallavi Lokesh walks through h๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ turns raw data into business-changing insights.
In this video Purnanda Behera guides you through the process of using the Agent SDK to interact with the Copilot Agent in your .NET applications.
Microsoft Learn and other Learning Resources
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.
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 โ 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.ย ย ย ย
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 ยท 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