Age of Copilots #38
Welcome to the 38th 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
What’s new in Copilot Studio: February 2025 | Microsoft Copilot Blog
Microsoft announced a new program—Microsoft AI Accelerator for Sales—to help more customers rapidly transform their sales organization with Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents, as well as two new agents—Sales Agent and Sales Chat—to help scale the team’s ability to nurture and close deals.
Building Copilot Agents with Code
Dive into the general concepts and architecture for code-first Microsoft 365 Copilot agents, connectors, and more.
Microsoft Power CAT AI Webinars
Phil Topness shares about Microsoft Power CAT AI Webinars are a series of 60-to-90-minute interactive virtual sessions designed to help your organization adopt Microsoft Copilot Studio and agents.
Copilot Studio Analytics in GCC Cloud
Henry Jammes shares GCC customers now have awesome analytics baked directly into Copilot Studio so you can see exactly how your Copilot Studio Agents are being used and how you can optimize them for your desired outcomes too!
Articles
Copilot Studio Component Collection – Real Life Example | LinkedIn
In this article, Mikko Koskinen documented his real-life experience creating and using the Component Collection for a use. He touches upon on the how-to, maintenance, and governance points of view that one must consider when using this upcoming feature.
Key Components of an autonomous agent
In this article, Nathan Rose talks about key components of an autonomous agent.
Copilot Studio with Azure AI Search
In this article, Sean Astrakhan discusses while Copilot Studio can return inconsistent results, but with Azure AI Search it's the real deal.
Deep Reasoning in Copilot Studio
In this article, Jens Kofod shares that it’s now time to play around with "deep reasoning" in Copilot Studio.
Building an autonomous agent with Copilot Studio for Customer Support
In this article, Paul Covert shares about building an autonomous agent with Copilot Studio for Customer Support.
Supercharging REST APIs with Copilot Studio and AI Builder
In this article Colt Coan discuss using Copilot Studio, AI Builder, Power Automate, Dataverse, Azure Key Vault, and a third-party REST API. For this example, we'll be talking about how to simplify querying and summarizing results from Jira.
Build an IVR with Copilot Studio
In the second post of his IVR blog series Peter Ruiter will show you have you can build an IVR withCopilot Studio that is smarter, understands you better and can even speak in different languages and different intonations.
Autonomous Agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio - an overview
In this blog post Holger Imbery delves into the benefits of utilizing Copilot Studio to create autonomous agents.
In this article, Abram Jackson wraps up his series on role-focused agents with actionable advice on designing effective AI agents, focusing on real-world problems, clear roles, and scoped capabilities.
API-based M365 CoPilot Declarative Agent
In this article, Shadab Beg from Microsoft shares a whitepaper on Building API-based Declarative agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot
How to make Copilot Agents work together
In this video, Daniel Anderson talks to Abram Jackson about how to make Copilot agents work together
HowTo: Evaluating Your Generative AI Solution Responses using Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation
In this article, Jamie Maguire shares about how to implement code level evaluations of the quality of responses generated by models using Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation library.
Agentic AI with Semantic Kernel
Arafat Tehsin shares a a comprehensive guide to Agentic AI with Semantic Kernel.
Power Talks: Copilot is UI for AI
In this episode of Power Talks, Griffin Lickfeld break down what "Copilot is the UI for AI" really means, why AI isn't just about chat, and how businesses, developers, and individuals should be thinking about AI’s future capabilities.
Videos
In this video April Dunnam dives into how to create custom SharePoint agents to help streamline information sharing.
In this video, Daniel Christian walks through the administration settings one must configure for A.I. Builder
In his latest video Deenuji Loganathan, I break down how to create dynamic adaptive cards in Copilot Studio that transform raw data into sleek, actionable interfaces!
In this video Samuel Boulanger breaks down Microsoft’s newly released free version of Copilot Chat designed for Microsoft 365 commercial and educational users.
Microsoft Learn and other Learning Resources
Unlock the Power of AI Agents with Our Comprehensive 10-Part Course
AI Agents for Beginners(https://aka.ms/ai-agents-beginners) is designed to teach you everything you need to know to start building AI Agents. This comprehensive course consists of 10 lessons, each focusing on a specific topic, enabling you to jump in wherever you feel most comfortable.
Introduction to custom engine agents - Training | Microsoft Learn
New Microsoft Learn module to start building agents for Microsoft 365
Publish and Manage Copilot Studio Agent Builder Agents | Microsoft Learn
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 – 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