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Microsoft announcements and articles
Announcing Anthropic Models in Microsoft Copilot Studio
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1 are now available in Copilot Studio in Early Release environments, joining OpenAI in our multi-model lineup 🎉
🤖 With support for orchestration, chat, and deep reasoning, you can choose the best model for your agent’s task, whether it’s Claude or OpenAI.
🛠️ Select models for:
◾ Orchestration: Build agents with advanced reasoning, automation, and tool use.
◾ Prompt Builder: Select the right model for a specific task using prompts.
🛣️ Availability:
◾ Anthropic models are available to customers in early release cycle environments → https://lnkd.in/gP8ViKDW
◾Rolling out to preview in all environments within 2 weeks, and ready for production by year-end.
Anthropic joins the multi-model lineup in Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Copilot Blog
Vibe working: Introducing Agent Mode and Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft 365 Blog
Microsoft is bringing vibe working to Microsoft 365 Copilot with Agent Mode in Office apps and Office Agent in Copilot chat. In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development, the latest reasoning models in Copilot unlock agentic productivity for Office artifacts.
Agent Mode in Excel and Word delivers best-in-class, AI-generated spreadsheets and documents right in the apps with PowerPoint coming soon.
Office Agent creates polished PowerPoint presentations and ready-to-use Word documents from chat in Copilot, and coming soon to Excel.
The Microsoft Agent Framework, now in public preview, is the open-source SDK and runtime that simplifies the orchestration of multi-agent systems. It converges AutoGen, a former Microsoft Research project, and the enterprise-ready foundations of Semantic Kernel into a unified, commercial-grade framework—bringing cutting-edge research to developers.
To empower customers in becoming Frontier, Microsoft is excited to announce the launch of the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace, your trusted source for cloud solutions, AI apps and agents. The new Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, buy and deploy cloud solutions, AI apps and agents. Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource are now unified to simplify cloud and AI management. Available today in the US and coming soon to customers worldwide.
Empower your workforce with agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot | The Microsoft Cloud Blog
We announced the launch of the Microsoft Marketplace, a single web destination for customers to find, try, and buy our full catalog of cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents.You can choose the solutions that meet your business needs either from the Microsoft Marketplace, or directly within Microsoft products, such as the Agent Store in Copilot. In the Agent Store, employees can get started with ready-to-use agents tailored to their needs.
Articles
Triggering the Backend - Integrating Azure AI Foundry with Microsoft Copilot Studio
This article by Holger Imbery explores the integration of Azure AI Foundry models into Microsoft Copilot Studio, providing practical implementation strategies for enhancing custom agents with advanced AI capabilities. It covers two main integration approaches—using Azure Functions with Agent Flows for complex scenarios and direct model integration for simpler use cases
Understanding Agent Flows in Copilot Studio
This post by Surabhi Mishra explores how Agent Flows empower Custom Copilot to move beyond conversations and perform structured, repeatable actions.
Supercharge your Copilot Agents with Tools in Copilot Studio!
In this article Kamal S goes over how to use tools to supercharge your copilot studio agents
Multi-Agent Reference Architecture - Multi-agent Reference Architecture
This is a conceptual guide from Microsoft, complemented by practical resources, for architecting robust multi-agent systems
The recommendations are grounded in production-scale, real-world solutions built in collaboration with Microsoft customers. As such, the approaches offered in this reference are both opinionated (benefiting from field experience) and agnostic (applicable across enterprises, technology stacks, and frameworks).
A developer’s guide to the Microsoft Agent Framework
This hands-on guide by Arafat Tehsin helps you get started with Microsoft Agent Framework.
Rose B shares a guidebook on AI Agents.
Videos
Check out the final episode of ‘Demystifying #CopilotStudio‘ Season Four with host Charles Drayton and guests Ben Appleby and Shane Young!
In this video Dewain Robinson shows you how to use the Anthropic Claude models in Copilot Studio. He goes over how to enable them and also how to leverage them as the default and even use them in custom prompt building.
In this tutorial, Reza Dorrani walks you through how RFI forms bring human-in-the-loop oversight into automated workflows.
In this video Parag Dessai shows you how you can create a human in loop feedback so that your agent can get required approvals from team members before sending the final outcome to end customers or employees.
In this video Daniel Christian walks you through how to use Anthropic models in Copilot Studio.
In this video Matthew Dewaney shows you how to make a Copilot Studio agent that creates an Excel file and outputs it to the chat window. It uses just a prompt and a new feature called code interpreter.
This video from Girish Uppal shows you how to ask for a file from user and upload into Microsoft One Drive.
Girish Uppal walks you through the process of configuring threshold based on the credits consumed by the agent and on basis of that turn off the agents.
Check out video 70 in our Power Platform “What’s New With” short series, as we take a look at how you can track cost savings with Copilot Studio analytics.
In this video Paul Bullock shows how to combine Microsoft 365 Copilot, custom plugins, and a secure .NET API using PnP Core SDK and SharePoint
Agent Framework: Building Blocks for the Next Generation of AI Agents
In this session, we’ll introduce our newly announced Agent Framework, a new open source project from Microsoft that converges Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single pro-code SDK for building multi-agent systems.
Events
Copilot Studio Architecture Bootcamp by Power CAT
📅 Upcoming Session: October 1–3, 2025 | 9 AM–4 PM EDT at the Microsoft office in New-York City!
Agent Build-A-Thons
Dimpi Gandhi shares starting September 2025, Power CAT team will be hosting monthly virtual Agent Build-A-Thons. This is a hands-on, team-based experience designed to provide ongoing technical advisory support to teams learning & building agents with Copilot Studio!
Read more here https://lnkd.in/g4yxABhH
Gather your team, your proposed use-cases, pick a month and sign up today by visiting https://lnkd.in/gzY5RpRN
Microsoft Power CAT AI Webinars
Microsoft Power CAT AI Webinars are a series of interactive virtual sessions designed to help your organization adopt Microsoft Copilot Studio and agents.
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.
Copilot Resources
Discover the Copilot Learning Hub – your one-stop source for all things Microsoft Copilot!
Microsoft Copilot Studio Resources
Resources to help you on your Copilot Studio journey, curated by Power CAT and updated regularly
Microsoft Copilot Studio Official Documentation
Microsoft Learn Learning Paths
Create agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio - Training | Microsoft Learn
In this learning path, you'll learn how to create custom agents in Copilot Studio and practice your skills with a guided project.
Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot in Copilot Studio - Training | Microsoft Learn
Build agents that extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with additional knowledge and capabilities. Use Copilot Studio to build declarative agents, add knowledge, add tools, and publish agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Build a foundation to build AI agents and extend Microsoft 365 Copilot - Training | Microsoft Learn
Prepare to build AI agents and extend Microsoft 365 Copilot using Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit, and more.
Build Agents with Copilot Studio in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Learn
This MS Learn article walks through how to build agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio Lite(formerly Agent Builder)
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Pathway.
In this learning pathway Paul Griffith outlines the learning content for exploring Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Hands-on Training
This hands-on training is your entry point into the world of agents: from grounded prompts to Adaptive Cards and agent flows, you'll learn how to build, scale, and deploy intelligent agents using real-world tools and use cases.
Create agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio - Online Workshop - Training | Microsoft Learn
In this learning path you complete hands on activities using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Automate.
AI Agents for Beginners - A Course | ai-agents-for-beginners
This course has lessons covering the fundamentals of building AI Agents. Each lesson in this course includes code examples.
Copilot Developer Camp is a self-paced learning resource, designed to help you build agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot. It provides practical guidance and real-world examples to support your development journey.
Microsoft Copilot Studio ❤️ MCP | Power Platform Developer Blog
This lab gives you a hands-on understanding of MCP and how it works with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Applied Skills
To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to create custom agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Adoption
Microsoft Copilot Studio – Microsoft Adoption
Your one-stop hub for Copilot Studio adoption
AI Agents Hub – Microsoft Adoption
Your one-stop hub for getting started and scaling agents!
Here’s what you’ll find:
✅ Step-by-step setup and deployment guidance
✅ Role-based training for different users
✅ Best practices and support documentation
✅ Tools to help you build and scale agents
Whether you’re a business user, developer, or admin, this resource is designed to help you succeed from day one.
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!
Governance
Copilot Studio Governance Guide
Copilot Studio Governance guide designed by Power CAT team for Copilot Studio projects.
Governing Agents in a Low Code World ebook
Jack Rowbotham shares the five lessons for governing agents in the ebook.
🔗 Read the blog: https://lnkd.in/gQ4Yk9wY
🔗 Download the ebook: https://lnkd.in/gwSkmZ98
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.
Security and governance - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn
Guidance and Best Practices
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 PowerCAT team that works with our enterprise customers.
Copilot Studio Architecture
Copilot Studio reference architectures and solution ideas - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn
Key concepts: Learn about key architecture concepts that help you build robust, efficient, and maintainable solutions with Copilot Studio.
Solution ideas: Discover a range of solution ideas that demonstrate the versatility and power of Copilot Studio.
Copilot Studio implementation guide (PDF)
The Copilot Studio implementation guide offers in-depth guidance, best practices, and reference architectures and patterns. It is designed to help customers, partners, and Microsoft teams plan, design, and review copilot projects and architectures for a successful implementation journey.
Power CAT Tools
Copilot Studio Kit, published by the Microsoft Power CAT team, is a comprehensive set of capabilities designed to augment Microsoft Copilot Studio. The kit helps makers test custom agents, use a large language model to validate AI-generated content, and track aggregated key performance indicators.
Samples
Copilot Studio Samples (GitHub)
This repository contains samples and artifacts for Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Galleries | Microsoft Power Platform Community
The Copilot Cookbook Gallery is a curated gallery that shows you how to use Copilot Studio.
Agent Use cases
Ashish Patel shares the 500 AI Agents Projects which is a curated collection of AI agent use cases across various industries. It showcases practical applications and provides links to open-source projects for implementation, illustrating how AI agents are transforming sectors such as healthcare, finance, education, retail, and more.
Youtube Channels
Microsoft Copilot Studio - YouTube
Official Microsoft Youtube channel for Copilot Studio
Dewain Robinson - The Copilot Studio Dude - YouTube
Samuel Boulanger | Mastering Productivity With AI - YouTube
Power Tech Speck (Girish Uppal) - YouTube
Youtube Series
Copilot Studio for Power Platform Makers - YouTube
Join Shane Young, Power Platform MVP, as he sets the stage with demos, step-by-step builds, and deep dives into product-specific features that will have you building your own agents in no time. Microsoft worked with Shane to build out Copilot Studio content for Power Platform makers as part of a paid collaboration. #PaidCollaboration
AI in Action: Building with Copilot Studio - YouTube
Copilot Studio training series from Microsoft featuring April Dunnam, Scott Durow, Daniel Laskewitz, Eliaza Benitez and others.
Demystifying Copilot Studio - YouTube
What’s new with Copilot Studio Shorts
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi9EhCY4z99U_8aQBhgnmgVWauEzz-fPL
Understanding Microsoft Agents | EP02 - YouTube
Catch up with the full recap of "Understanding Microsoft Agents" community call.
Newsletters
Kickstart your path in Copilot Studio with this weekly Newsletter by Bulent Altinsoy.
The Copilot Studio | The Copilot Studio - Microsoft 365 Copilot
The Copilot Lab is a weekly newsletter by Daniel Anderson designed to help enable you to be more creative, innovative and ultimately more fulfilled at work by using Microsoft Copilot.
Copilot Studio Learning Hub Weekly newsletter by Kunal Patil
Blogs
Dynamics 365 Talk – D365 "Taylored" to you! By Dian Taylor
Copilot Studio Forums
Copilot Studio Community Forum
Official Microsoft Copilot Studio Forums
Copilot Studio community forum on Reddit.
The Agent Creators community recognizes a dynamic, global group of agent technology experts whose passion for sharing knowledge makes a significant impact within the community.
Customer Stories
Copilot Studio Customer Stories Listing
AI & Microsoft Copilot Customer Stories Listing
City of Montréal supports citizens with a virtual agent built using Microsoft Copilot Studio
Having transformed interactions with students through the deployment of Microsoft Dynamics 365, the University of Leicester is now taking innovation a step further with Microsoft Copilot Studio.
The university has developed a digital coach and AI-powered agent which provides instant access to key university information. It reduces staff workload and ensures students get the support they need, whenever they need it.
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.
Copilot Studio Licensing
Copilot Studio licensing - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn
This article covers Copilot Studio licensing details.
Microsoft Copilot Studio Licensing Guide(PDF)
Copilot Studio agent usage estimator (preview)
Estimator to forecast your agent's message volume
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