Age of Copilots #46
Welcome to the 46th 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, Copilot Studio and Microsoft AI delivered weekly to your inbox.
Microsoft announcements and articles
Build announcements
Solution Workspace in Power Apps
Jack Rowbotham shares Solution workspace is now generally available.Developers can collaborate with agentic AI to define business requirements for their low code solutions including:
✅ Generating data models
✅ Visualizing Process maps (in preview)
✅ Designing solution architecture
🛣️ Solution Workspace will also expand beyond Power Apps and Power Automate to include Microsoft Copilot Studio agents (generally available May 30th), pages and dashboards.
🛠️ Makers will be able to easily reuse existing assets like apps, tables, and flows, and build plans from existing solutions.
🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gFDRWvVv
Charles Lamanna shares a wave of updates Microsoft has been working on to help you build smarter, collaborative agents with your own data and processes – from Copilot Tuning to multi-agent orchestration in Copilot Studio and so much more.
GitHub Copilot: Meet the new coding agent - The GitHub Blog
Jack Rowbotham shares the announcement GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
🌐 The coding agent excels in tasks like adding features, fixing bugs, refactoring code, extending tests, and improving documentation.
🛠️ The agent spins up a secure and customizable environment powered by GitHub Actions.
📑 As the agent works, it pushes commits to a draft pull request, and you can track it every step of the way through the agent session logs.
🛡️ Enhanced Security: Maintains existing policies like branch protections and requires human approval for pull requests before CI/CD workflows run.
💻 You can now activate agent mode in more IDEs, including Xcode, Eclipse, Jetbrains, and Visual Studio.
🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gmCHFufb
Microsoft announced a significant expansion of its Copilot Studio platform at Build 2025 today, introducing multi-agent systems that allow different AI agents to collaborate on complex business tasks.
Copilot Studio support for Federated Identity Credentials (FIC)
We are excited to announce the launch of Copilot Studio support for Federated Identity Credentials (FIC) for the following scenarios:
✅ New agent's Azure app registration now supports federated identity by default.
✅ Makers can secure agent manual authentication (used for B2C scenarios) using federated identity.
Articles
Integrating Copilot Studio with MCP Server
In this article/, Graham Hosking walks through how successfully built and set up my own MCP server to establish connections with both external and internal systems. By integrating it as a service to Microsoft Copilot Studio using the MCP, the system dynamically adapts to the backend functions, ensuring seamless operations. Watch my video example of this setup is Perplexity AI in Copilot Studio.
In this article, Amit Ghosh shares how Agentic AI will soon become the mainstream middleware and protocols such as MCP and AG-UI will unlock new paradigms of interoperability. The Tech product stack will start to look different with system boundaries emerging based on functionality and areas of specializations.
Azure AI Evaluation SDK
Nitya Narasimhan shares observability is a critical part of the GenAIOps lifecycle. The Azure AI Evaluation SDK provides a number of tools and capabilities that streamline your developer experience in building quality and safety assessments into your workflow!
CIO's Generative AI Playbook for Microsoft 365 Copilo
Jack Rowbotham shares CIO's Generative AI Playbook for Microsoft 365 Copilot ✨
This playbook is more than just a resource; it's a roadmap for CIOs aiming to lead with confidence and drive measurable business outcomes in the AI era.
🔗 Download a copy of the playbook here: https://lnkd.in/gNYWxggs
Martin Panton shares agent which is designed to streamline routine checks—whether daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly. It captures data for future audit checks and automatically triggers email support tickets when a check fails.
GPT-4.1 Prompting Guide | OpenAI Cookbook
OpenAI published their official GPT 4.1 prompting guide. It provides a detailed look on how to steer GPT-4.1 with precision, including examples, tips, and advanced techniques.
Videos
Check out the third segment of the Copilot Studio training series, as Microsoft MVP Shane Young, takes you on a step-by-step journey into how to build an autonomous Microsoft Agent.
In this video Daniel Christian will deep-dive on how you can use A.I. Builder Models with Copilot Studio Agents. We start by using a template of a prompt and then customizing it to suite our need. Then we use that prompt in a custom agent.
In this video, Dani Kahil will walk you through the AI Features available today in Microsoft Model Driven Power Apps.
Understanding Microsoft Agents | Community Call
Catch up with the full recap of our recent "Understanding Microsoft Agents" on Wednesday May 7, 2025, with Thomas Abel and Kendra Springer which covers how Microsoft Agents are designed and operate.
In the “Application Lifecycle Management with Copilot Studio” session of the Power CAT AI Webinars series, we covered the fundamentals and significance of ALM, with best practices ranging from basic to advanced configurations. The session introduced tools like Power Platform pipelines, source control with Git integration and Copilot Studio Kit for automated testing. Our speakers demonstrated how to create solutions, manage environments, and deploy agents across stages, while also providing insights into environment strategies and governance.
Jeremy Chapman shares controls that exist for AI Agents and are coming to manage them in Microsoft 365 and Purview. We announced a lot of updates rolling out for Microsoft 365 admins. See them in action here.
Events
Build Sessions
Build agent-first with Power Platform and Copilot Studio
Join us on a journey to transform manual business processes to agent-led, human-supervised tasks using Copilot Studio and Power Apps: https://msft.it/6047Sb6RV
Building Effective Agents with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Learn about the enterprise opportunity using the Agent Platform for Microsoft 365 Copilot. See the latest features you can use to build Agents using Agent Builder. Observe the success stories of customers and Microsoft's internal usage of Agents. Get a sneak peak of what's coming.
Siffat Hingorani, will be presenting a session on the Agent Store — a major step forward in how we think about building a marketplace for Agents in Copilot and Microsoft Teams. If you're curious about the future of AI-powered productivity, this is a session you won’t want to miss.
🗓️ Thursday, May 22 | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
📍 https://lnkd.in/gQrXXdnm
Best Agent Instructions Contest @ Microsoft Build 2025
Rabia Williams shares to celebrate one year of the Copilot prompt repo, we’re launching a fun challenge at Build 2025!
🧠 2025 is the year of agents and great agents need great instructions. Submit your most creative, well-structured agent prompt including:
🔍 Purpose
🧭 Guidelines (tone, boundaries, behavior)
If you need tips on writing agent instructions do check out the beginners lab we added to the Copilot Developer Camp - https://lnkd.in/gA5v9zQx
Contest Details:
🗓️ May 19–21 PST
⏰ Deadline: May 21, 12:00 PM PST
Find all details @ https://lnkd.in/g7J4PjnZ
Copilot Studio Architecture Bootcamp
Henry Jammes shares that the Copilot Studio Architecture Bootcamp is no longer reserved for partners but is now open to architects on the customer side as well!
📍 May 28–30 – Hyderabad, India
📍 June 25–27 – Lyngby, Denmark
🆕 You can now choose to join on-site or remotely!
Register today! https://lnkd.in/e3-egD6p
Copilot Studio Enterprise Agent Challenge
Copilot Studio Enterprise Agent Challenge is here! From May 28 – June 13, we're inviting enterprise teams to build custom AI agents tailored to real business needs using Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Sign up now 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTAe_Aei
Learn Live: Master the Skills to Create AI Agents | Microsoft Reactor
This series is designed to help you complete the official Microsoft Plan on Learn for mastering the latest agentic AI technologies.
Customer Stories
Transform customer experience with AI agents!
See how the latest Customer Experience apps help Intralox grow its pipeline cost-effectively, enhancing quality, productivity, and relationships, and allow Apollo Travel to proactively address customer needs by automating tasks and offering insights.
Create your own autonomous agents with Copilot Studio
See how Eneco uses the new capabilities of Copilot Studio to create agents that automate large portions of their customer service operations, with no coding needed.
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
This whitepaper delves into the role of Microsoft 365 agents, Agent Builder agents, and Copilot Studio agents, explaining how each type can be utilized to enhance operational efficiency while maintaining stringent security protocols.
Microsoft Copilot Studio ❤️ MCP | Power Platform Developer Blog
Microsoft Copilot Studio MCP Lab announcement
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