Welcome to the 75th edition of Age of Copilots newsletter!
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 Foundry, Microsoft Copilots and Microsoft AI delivered weekly to your inbox.
New inline deployment experience Copilot Studio
Casey Burke shares a new inline deployment experience in Copilot Studio is now GA. It’s designed to bring healthy Power Platform ALM to more makers so they can easily follow your organization’s SDLC process. It’s right in-context of their workflow and easily discoverable so that anyone can deploy in a couple clicks.
Charles Lamanna shares three updates for Copilot Work:
- Mobile (iOS + Android): delegate work wherever you are and come back to finished results
- Skills: capture how work gets done so it can be reused and scaled across your team
- Plugins + integrations: bring your data, tools, and systems into Cowork – including Dynamics 365
Federated Copilot connectors are generally available
Joe Unwin shares the Federated Copilot Connectors are GA. Real-time enterprise data from third-party systems, live inside Microsoft 365 Copilot at query time using Federated Copilot Connectors
Hemant Gaur shares announcement that 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗨𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗽𝗽-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄:
🔧 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 - extend your app with business-specific actions powered by Dataverse and AI Prompts
🎯 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗨𝗜 𝗪𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 - immersive, Fluent UI–based visual experiences directly inside Copilot
🔗 𝗠𝗖𝗣 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝘀 and 𝗠𝟯𝟲𝟱 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 powered extensibility - add logic, chain tools, and build contextual workflows with immersive UX
💬 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁𝘀 → to collaborative, action-ready tailored experiences
Word: Legal Agent in Frontier | Microsoft Community Hub
Microsoft introduces the Legal Agent in Microsoft Word
The Legal Agent was built in close collaboration with legal engineers to reflect how contracts are reviewed and negotiated. Instead of relying on general AI models to interpret commands, the agent follows structured workflows shaped by real legal practice, managing clearly defined, repeatable tasks like reviewing contracts clause by clause against a playbook.
Dataverse Plugin Is Now on the Claude Marketplace | Power Platform Developer Blog
Three weeks ago we introduced the Dataverse plugin for coding agents. It’s an open-source plugin that lets AI coding agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot build and manage Microsoft Dataverse solutions through natural language. Since then, the Dataverse plugin has been officially listed on the Claude plugins marketplace!
Dataverse Is Your Agent Data Platform: Here’s What’s New - Microsoft Power Platform Blog
Build a reusable marketing agent
Jack Rowbtham shares how to Build a reusable marketing agent your whole team can use as part of AI in Marketing Challenge
Combining Agent Flows with Agents: Gotchas, Errors, and Patterns | The Custom Engine
This article from Petros Feloskouras is a practical field guide to the most common issues teams hit when combining agent flows + agents in Copilot Studio, plus patterns that help you get unstuck (and avoid redesigning later
Copilot Studio Feedback Viewer
Matteo Pagani shares one of the most common requests he gets from customers building Copilot Studio agents: “How can I see what feedback users are leaving?”
So he created a small tool to solve this: Copilot Studio Feedback Viewer. It connects directly to your Dataverse environment and gives you a clean, searchable dashboard with all the feedback from your agents — likes, dislikes, comments, and the full agent response that was rated.
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TableTalk Copilot Studio agent
Nico Sprotti shares TableTalk with Fabric — a Copilot Studio agent that chats with your Power BI / Fabric semantic models. Generates live DAX, charts the results, and deep-links back into filtered Power BI reports.
Copilot Studio Billing – A Short Answer to a Frequent Question
In this article, Holger Imbery walks through Copilot Studio Billing
Create a Copilot Studio agent using OpenCode
In this article, Karl John Spiik shares his experiences on creating a copilot studio agent using OpenCode
Cowork Skills, Tools, and Skill Management | pkbullock.com
Paul Bullock goes deeper into Cowork custom skills as an extensibility method to look at how to create, improve with the help of some powerful features with Skill Tools and a Quality Framework in use to assess your own skills to make effective skills that tailor capabilities to suit your personal ways of working.
The death of BizApps and the rise of the agentic Power Platform | The Nullpointer Blog
Andreas Adner shares his thoughts on where business applications are heading - a year of agent UI experiments, the explosion of agentic UI specs we’ve seen lately, what Microsoft has shipped in the last few months.
Work IQ API Public Preview: Build Copilot Powered Agents with A2A | Microsoft Community Hub
Rafsan shares Work IQ API is now in public preview.This is the intelligence behind Microsoft 365 Copilot, and developers can now build on top of it directly.
In this step-by-step video, Daniel Christian walks you through the process of deploying an agent from Copilot Studio to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
In this video Matthew Devaney shows you how to get full conversation transcripts for your agents in Copilot Studio, including the hidden stuff.
Dataverse MCP with Copilot Studio | Enabling, Using, Best Practices
Andrew Hess from CAT team walks through Dataverse MCP (Model Context Protocol) with Copilot Studio and what it actually means for building real AI-powered solutions.
In this video, Dewain Robinson shows you how to use the Copilot Studio plugin for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI. This allows makers to build and test their agents on Copilot Studio from CLI interfaces and opens up great opportunities for making incredible agents with very little effo
Business skills teach agents how your organization works
Business skills in Dataverse are now in public preview! You can capture your organization’s processes, policies, and domain expertise as natural-language instructions that AI agents discover and follow at runtime.
Four ways to populate a word document via a Copilot Studio Custom Engine Agent
Damien Bird goes over 4 options for creating a word document as output on a Custom Engine Agent in Copilot Studio
1. Populate a Word Document Template Action
2. Prompt Document
3. Create a Microsoft Word document with the given content
4. Word MCP
Keynote - Business Apps and Agents | Microsoft 365 Community Conference
Step into the future of work at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference as Ryan Cunningham (Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Power Platform) explores how AI, Copilot, and intelligent agents are transforming the way organizations operate.
How To Use Enhanced Task Completion
In this video Dewain Robinson go over the new Experimental Feature in Copilot Studio called Enhanced Task Completion. I demo just how powerful this is and how it transforms the capabilities of Copilot Studio at its core.
Microsoft Agent 365 in M365 Admin Center upgrades May 2026 Full Breakdown
In this video, Wario Wario walks through Microsoft Agent 365’s May 2026 update
Create Flows for Copilot Studio Agents in Power Automate
In This video Girish Uppal shows you how to create flows for Copilot Studio Agents using Microsoft Power Automate.
Copilot just got a major upgrade with Copilot Cowork
April Dunnam shares that Copilot Cowork is a brand new experience built on technology from Anthropic that lets you describe a task, walk away, and come back to a finished result.
🎓 Want hands-on labs? Check out the Cowork Collective at Agent Academy: 👉 https://aka.ms/agent-academy
Microsoft Dataverse Plugin - First Look (Part 1)
In this video Kent Weare explores the Microsoft Dataverse plugin that can be used with popular coding agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to build and manage Dataverse solutions.
The Big 3: Copilot Cowork, Copilot Counsel & Copilot Critique
This video from Sean Astrakhan explores Copilot Cowork, Copilot Counsel and Copilot Critique
Agent Academy Live
#AgentAcademy LIVE - a one-day virtual event on Tuesday 12th May between 8.30am - 2.30pm PT where you'll learn how to design, build, and deploy real world agents with the #MicrosoftCommunity.
Click the link to register today! https://lnkd.in/e8xER8uZ
CAT Kickstarter events
Three more immersive, hands-on events designed to help you unlock the full potential of AI and Copilot in your organization.
Over three action-packed days, you’ll:
✅ Learn how to measure agent value and drive adoption
✅ Get Copilot-ready by experiencing and envisioning AI agents
✅ Discover how to govern and secure AI responsibly
📍 Upcoming Events:
📅 Atlanta, GA | March 3–5
📅 Detroit, MI | March 10–12
📅 Bellevue, WA | March 24–26
Copilot Studio with Microsoft Purview
See how Copilot Studio and Power Platform integrate with Microsoft Purview to apply DLP, labeling, and auditing automatically—so governance scales with innovation.
Join Jeremy Chapman, a leading technical voice on Copilot and AI governance, for a free live Virtual Training Day webinar built for IT pros deploying Copilot responsibly.
Choose a Date and Register Now: https://lnkd.in/gzXEZG_N
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.
Copilot Studio Resources | The Custom Engine
Your guide to Microsoft Copilot Studio documentation, training, tools, and best practices from Microsoft CAT team.
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.
Copilot Cowork at Agent Academy
Copilot Cowork is a brand new experience built on technology from Anthropic that lets you describe a task, walk away, and come back to a finished result.
🎓 Want hands-on labs? Check out the Cowork Collective at Agent Academy: 👉 https://aka.ms/agent-academy
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
Guidance hubs to help you plan, build, and operate agents | Microsoft Copilot Blog
Manuela Pichler shares the launch of Guidance hubs, new agent architecture guidance hub and a refreshed Microsoft Copilot Studio guidance hub. These on-demand resources offer end‑to‑end documentation across the agent lifecycle—from design and planning through operations, governance, and advanced architectural patterns.
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
Who’s Using Copilot Studio? | Mercedes‑Benz Tech Innovation GmbH’s Agent Journey
Mars is expanding into Microsoft Copilot Studio, already building more than 1,000 agents and accelerating generative AI adoption across the business.
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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