Welcome to the 66th edition of Age of Copilots newsletter! This edition covers the announcements and sessions at Ignite 2025.
This newsletter has a recent list of articles and videos to update developers with latest and upcoming developments in Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilots and Microsoft AI delivered weekly to your inbox.
Microsoft Ignite 2025 Book of News
Microsoft Copilot Studio: Powering agentic business transformation | Microsoft Copilot Blog
Microsoft Agent 365: The control plane for AI agents | Microsoft 365 Blog
Agent 365 is the control plane for AI agents. Whether your agents are created with Microsoft platforms, open-source frameworks, or third-party platforms, Agent 365 helps you deploy, organize, and govern them securely.
Inside the new Power Apps: The future of app development - Microsoft Power Platform Blog
Explore the new developer experience at vibe.powerapps.com that combines the speed and simplicity of vibe coding together with the enterprise scalability of Microsoft Power Platform can now collaborate with a team of agents that work together to define requirements, create a data model, and now code a full-stack application in minutes.
Introducing Agent ID, the identity foundation of Agent 365
Microsoft has introduced Entra Agent ID as an important part of Agent 365, Microsoft’s end-to-end platform for governing and securing AI agents across the enterprise.
Agent ID gives every AI agent a first-class identity in Microsoft Entra, enabling them to authenticate, request tokens, access resources, and operate securely — just like applications and users, but designed specifically for the dynamic nature of agent workloads.
Integrating Outlook Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server with Copilot Studio Agents
This article from Holger Imbery explores how to integrate the Outlook Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with Microsoft Copilot Studio agents to create intelligent, email-driven automation workflows
Ignite 2025 Sessions
What’s new in Copilot Studio and roadmap
This session by Omar Aftab covers the latest innovations and what’s coming soon in Copilot Studio
Advanced Agent Development with Copilot Studio.
This session by Scott Durow designed for makers and developers ready to move beyond the basics and orchestrate intelligent, autonomous agents at scal
Building agents with Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry | BRK314
Learn to build and deploy enterprise-grade agents with Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and the Microsoft Agent Framework. Explore live demos on integrating connected agents, custom models, and knowledge, deploying to Microsoft 365 Copilot, and enabling observability with unified tracing.
From flows to agents: Modernizing with Copilot Studio + Power Automate
In this session Jonathan K. and Mustapha Lazrek show how Copilot Studio and Power Automate work together to modernize automation. Explore agent flows and desktop flows (RPA) for scalable, secure solutions.
Automation in Copilot Studio: Agent flows and computer use
In this session Joe Fernandez shows how to build solutions using agent flows and computer use agents (CUA) for end-to-end automation across apps, sites, and desktops.
Power Apps: Reimagine the human-agent collaboration
The session introduced how Power Apps and AI agents are revolutionizing human-agent collaboration by enhancing productivity and enabling oversight through intuitive app interfaces.
Secure your AI Agents with Microsoft Defender
AI agents are reshaping modern workflows, unlocking new efficiencies while introducing new challenges for security and governance. In this deep dive, experience live demos of purpose-built security capabilities from Microsoft Security solutions. Leave equipped with best practices to confidently secure and govern AI agents in your organization.
Democratizing agent building in Microsoft 365 Copilot
In this session learn how employees can create personalized, work-grounded agents using Copilot Studio in Microsoft 365 Copilot. With just words, they can turn ideas into fully functional agents—complete with structured logic and clear instructions. These agents can access the Microsoft work graph, connect to external systems, generate Office files, and scale to the full Copilot Studio experience. We’ll also show how IT can enable secure, governed agent creation while empowering users with intuitive tools.
Power agents to scale your frontier workforce with Agent 365
As agents become increasingly prolific and capable, joining every type of workflow, organizations must embrace a frontier firm mindset, where teams supported by agents operate with intelligence on tap. This session explores how Agent 365 extends your existing infrastructure and apps to agents, so users can find, leverage, and optimize secure, productive agents to power your business transformation.
Deep dive into AI tools in Copilot Studio | BRK315
In this session learn how to leverage the most advanced industry and function-led AI tools in Copilot Studio, to create agents that deliver powerful solutions across the Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem and beyond.
Other Videos
Ignite Edition - What is new with Copilot? Episode #3
This video from Shane Young is a rundown of the news we thought was most interesting from Ignite. Agent 365, Vibe Coding in Power Apps and Microsoft 365, Agents in Excel, no news in SharePoint, and Copilot in the Graph API..
Copilot Studio: Use New Agent365 MCP Tools with your custom Copilot studio Agent
In this video Parag Desai shows how you can connect your custom copilot studio agent with Agent 365 MCP tools announced at Ignite
Trigger - Plan Complete - Copilot Studio
This video from Girish Uppal demonstrates how to use the trigger - Plan complete in Copilot Studio while building an agent.
In this video Shane Young shows how Power FX in Copilot Studio is one of the keys to consistency with your agents.
In this video Dewain Robinson show you how to leverage better indexing of data in SharePoint to help answer questions better over SharePoint data. This allows for indexing of larger files and embedded image indexing as wel
What Is Microsoft Agent 365? (IGNITE 2025 ANNOUNCEMENT)
In this video, Griffin Lickfeldts dives deep into Microsoft Agent 365, the newly announced platform poised to revolutionize governance in AI.
Copilot Studio Architecture Bootcamp by Power CAT
📅 Upcoming Session: London, UK / EMEA
Dec 2-4, 2025; 9 AM–4 PM GMT
Coming up next: 🔹 Agent Governance in Copilot Studio – Live Q&A – Dec 10 | 9 AM PT with Chris Garty and Rahul Kannathusseril
🔹 Ignite Recap: Top Copilot Innovations – Dec 3 | 9 AM PT with Dewain Robinson
Missed Ignite? We’ve got you covered with key takeaways and demos. https://lnkd.in/gjCa3TPz
Bring your governance questions—we’ll answer them live! https://lnkd.in/gvFg2q-D
Workshop: Measure Twice, Build Once: Designing Robust AI Agents with Copilot Studio
📍 Where: Oslo | Radisson Blue Scandinavia
📅 When: December 05, 2025
🎟️ Registration: https://lnkd.in/dJMik3Q3
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.
Mastering Copilot: Practical AI for Business Productivity
In This podcast Mark Smith has a chat with Daniel Brown where they discuss practical insights on adopting Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI tools for real business impact. Learn how to identify quick wins, improve productivity, and master prompt engineering for better results.
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
The Custom Engine - the technical blog of the Microsoft Copilot Studio Customer Advisory Team (CAT). It is focussed on deep-dive guidance, examples, and patterns for Copilot Studio.
Microsoft Copilot Studio Official Documentation
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.
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
To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to create custom agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio.
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!
Create your AI strategy - Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Learn
A successful AI strategy requires structured planning in four core areas. Identify AI use cases that deliver measurable business value, select Microsoft AI technologies that align to your team’s skills, establish scalable data governance, and implement responsible AI practices that preserve trust and meet regulatory requirements
Select the appropriate AI service model. Microsoft offers three service models with varying levels of customization and shared responsibility: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Use the Microsoft AI decision tree to guide your selection process.
Copilot Studio Governance guide designed by Power CAT team for Copilot Studio projects.
Governing Agents in a Low Code World ebook
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
MCS + Azure AI Workshop | Microsoft Copilot Studio Labs
Comprehensive hands-on workshop combining Microsoft Copilot Studio with Azure AI services for building intelligent, enterprise-grade AI solutions.
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.
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
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.
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
Dynamics 365 Talk – D365 "Taylored" to you! By Dian Taylor
CAT’s technical blog focused on deep-dive guidance, examples, and patterns for Copilot Studio.
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.
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 - 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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