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Business Value

You can create an agent with a trigger and actions that you share with multiple users. Each user provides their own credentials to trigger the agent, so the process is secure, easy to manage, and simple to use.

Feature Details

You can configure custom agents to perform actions or call topics in response to events by using triggers. Unlike topic triggers, which require user input, event triggers let your agent act autonomously when a defined event occurs.

With this feature, you can create triggers for autonomous agents that run with end users' credentials. You can create an agent that operates entirely in the background, triggered by external events, and share it with end users so they can configure the agent to run on their behalf.

As a maker, you can:

  1. Create an agent and add a trigger.
  2. Configure the trigger to run with end-user credentials.
  3. Publish and share the agent.
  4. Notify the end user that you shared an agent with them and prompt them to configure and enable the agent.
  5. Once configured and enabled, the agent begins to operate on behalf of the end user.

By using event triggers and end-user credentials, this feature offers a seamless way to automate tasks and improve efficiency. With this feature, agents act independently and multiple users can easily share and configure them.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
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    General availability date moved to Aug 2025 5/27/2025 12:00:00 AM
    Timelines:
    Early Access: ---
    Public preview: ---
    General availability: Sep 2025
    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

    Included in:
    2025 release wave 1

    Enabled for:
    Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

    Business Value

    Intelligent approvals transform how organizations manage routine approvals by reducing turnaround times from days or even weeks to just minutes. This acceleration helps businesses stay on schedule, reduce delays, capture early payment discounts, and avoid costly late fees. By automating repetitive decisions, teams reclaim valuable time to focus on strategic, high-impact work. The feature also enhances accuracy in approvals, minimizing costly errors and financial risk, while delivering clear, audit-ready rationales that streamline compliance and regulatory reviews.

    Feature Details

    Intelligent approvals is an AI-powered stage in advanced approvals action flows. With this capability, makers don't need to route every approval to a human. Instead, they configure an AI stage where a large language model evaluates the request using natural language prompts and contextual variables, such as text, documents, and images. The AI uses the defined logic to decide whether to approve or reject the request. Makers keep full control and decide if approvals are automatic or if humans can veto them.

    Enabled for:

    Users, automatically
    This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.
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      Change history
      Timelines:
      Early Access: ---
      Public preview: Jul 2025
      General availability: Oct 2025
      Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

      Included in:
      2025 release wave 2
      2025 release wave 1

      Enabled for:
      Users, automatically

      Business Value

      When you replace the default language model with a custom or fine-tuned model for summarization in Copilot Studio, your organization delivers more accurate, compliant, and domain-specific agent responses. This capability drives higher customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and competitive differentiation.

      Feature Details

      When you bring your own model (BYOM) to response generation, you add your custom model deployed in AI Foundry. This approach gives you more tailored answers that fit specific domains.

      First, go to the agent settings. Use the response models list to add a new model. Enter the AI Foundry deployment connection details for your model.

      Next, define the model prompt with instructions and global variables. With full control over the prompt, you give the model rich, contextual input to generate accurate responses.

      You can also choose whether to include citations.

      When you connect the custom model and set up the prompt, you get full control over agent response generation.

      Enabled for:

      Users, automatically
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        Public preview date moved to Jul 2025 6/30/2025 12:00:00 AM
        Timelines:
        Early Access: ---
        Public preview: Jul 2025
        General availability: ---
        Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

        Included in:
        2025 release wave 1

        Enabled for:
        Users, automatically

        Business Value

        The Lead Manager and Customer Brief agent templates help you speed up customer adoption of autonomous agents by providing ready-made agents that connect to your existing line-of-business apps.

        Feature Details

        Two new autonomous agent templates show how to build an agent with a trigger that handles tasks on its own.

        The new agent templates, the Lead Manager and Customer Brief, help customers start using autonomous agents faster.

        The Lead Manager template focuses on sales development by managing incoming leads. It offers features like duplicate handling and automated email responses. It connects to Salesforce and Outlook. You can customize it by setting employee count thresholds for meeting scheduling.

        The Customer Brief template makes meeting preparation easier by creating executive summaries from Salesforce data and automating email workflows.

        You install both agents through Copilot Studio Managed Agents. You can edit the templates before publishing them and customize the templates to fit your business processes.

        Enabled for:

        Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
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          Change history
          Timelines:
          Early Access: ---
          Public preview: Jun 2025
          General availability: Aug 2025
          Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

          Included in:
          2025 release wave 1

          Enabled for:
          Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

          Business Value

          Get insights into the quality of your knowledge sources and how well the agent responds to different types of questions. With this information, you can better serve your agent users.

          Feature Details

          Quality of response analyzes a sample set of successfully answered generative AI questions to provide insights about the quality of generative AI responses.

          The feature uses AI to check the relevance, completeness, and grounding of each response in the sample set. It assigns a quality score for each response. The feature uses the quality score to classify each response as having good or poor quality.

          Makers see a visual indicator that shows the breakdown of answered generative AI questions between good and poor quality. Makers can view the reasons for poor quality responses. They can see if the response isn't fully relevant, if the response is incomplete, or if the response isn't fully grounded.

          Enabled for:

          Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

            Change history
            Timelines:
            Early Access: ---
            Public preview: Jun 17, 2025
            General availability: Sep 2025
            Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

            Included in:
            2025 release wave 1

            Enabled for:
            Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

            Business Value

            Improve the effectiveness of your copilot by using enhanced insights to understand how your copilot helps your users. Get AI-based insights that guide you on improvements so you can maximize your business goals.

            Feature Details

            Copilot admins and makers can get actionable insights directly on the agent's Analytics page:

            • See insights for unanswered Generative AI questions.
            • Get insights that focus on specific themes of questions.
            • Receive guidance on how to fix the issue and boost performance.
            • View the list of related conversations with unanswered questions so you can easily investigate the issue.

            Insights are generated daily by checking all Gen AI unanswered questions from the past seven days.
            This feature doesn't support SharePoint and Graph Connector knowledge sources.

            Enabled for:

            Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

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              Public preview date moved to May 2025 3/19/2025 12:00:00 AM
              Timelines:
              Early Access: ---
              Public preview: Jun 17, 2025
              General availability: ---
              Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

              Included in:
              2025 release wave 1

              Enabled for:
              Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

              Business Value

              Agent users can react to agent responses with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down feedback control. The agent analytics page in Copilot Studio aggregates and presents this information.

              Makers can use this feedback to understand user satisfaction and identify potential areas for improvement.

              Feature Details

              Makers can get user feedback on agent responses and use that feedback to improve an agent's performance. By default, the user feedback feature is on for all new and existing Copilot Studio custom agents. Makers can turn off this feature in the agent settings.

              Users can give feedback in these channels:

              • Test chat
              • Demo website
              • Custom website
              • Webchat SDK
              • Teams
              • Microsoft 365 Copilot

              Agent users can add comments when they send their feedback. You can see the comments in the conversation transcript table in your Dataverse store.

              Analytics collects user feedback and shows the total number of reactions. It also shows how many reactions are thumbs-up and how many are thumbs-down.

              Enabled for:

              Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                Change history
                Timelines:
                Early Access: ---
                Public preview: ---
                General availability: Jun 9, 2025
                Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                Included in:
                2025 release wave 1

                Enabled for:
                Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                Business Value

                When business executives use this report in Viva Insights, they see aggregated, cross-tenant visibility to the business impact and value from using conversational agents across their company. The report makes it easier for executives to identify the return on investment and align agent usage with their business goals.

                Feature Details

                You can now analyze the business impact of your Microsoft Copilot Studio agents directly in Viva Insights. This feature gives you a consolidated report that shows usage and business impact trends across all your published Copilot Studio agents. You see key stats like hours saved, usage analysis, and resolution rate at the tenant level. You can drill down to view stats for each agent. The report uses regular usage data that Copilot Studio sends to Microsoft 365.

                By default, this feature is enabled if you meet the following criteria:

                • You have at least 50 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses (standalone or bundled with Viva Insights).
                • You publish at least one Copilot Studio agent in a production environment.

                You control the feature in the Power Platform admin center. The feature is automatically enabled for all public customers in a commercial cloud when the criteria are met.

                Users with the Insights Analyst role in Microsoft 365 can view the Copilot Studio agent report in Viva Insights.

                Environment admins can turn off the report from the Power Platform admin center.

                If your Copilot Studio data is in a different geographic location or region from your Microsoft 365 tenant, an environment admin must turn on data sharing across geographic boundaries.

                Enabled for:

                Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
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                  Public preview date moved to Jun 2025 General availability date moved to Sep 2025 5/26/2025 12:00:00 AM
                  Timelines:
                  Early Access: ---
                  Public preview: Jun 2, 2025
                  General availability: Sep 2025
                  Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                  Included in:
                  2025 release wave 1

                  Enabled for:
                  Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                  Business Value

                  When end users don't see the value of the copilot extension, conversational AI solutions fall short. Suggested prompts help users quickly see the value of the Copilot Studio.

                  Feature Details

                  When you create a copilot extension, you can add suggested prompts that the copilot supports.

                  For Microsoft 365 Chat experiences, the suggested prompts appear in the center of the page. Each prompt includes a title and description. The prompts rotate and appear prominently at the start of each session.

                  For other channels, users see this functionality in a way that fits the experiences for that channel.

                  Enabled for:

                  Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                    Change history
                    Timelines:
                    Early Access: ---
                    Public preview: ---
                    General availability: May 2025
                    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                    Included in:
                    2025 release wave 1

                    Enabled for:
                    Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                    Business Value

                    When you enable this feature, agents can quickly automate repetitive tasks in websites and desktop applications. This capability reduces manual effort, minimizes errors, and saves valuable time and resources.

                    Feature Details

                    Computer use is a feature in Copilot Studio that enables your agent to interact with any system with a graphical user interface (GUI), such as websites or desktop applications. It performs actions like pressing buttons, selecting menu options, and typing into fields—just like a human user. You simply describe the task in natural language, and the agent executes it on a configured computer with a virtual mouse and keyboard.

                    With this feature, agents complete tasks even when no API is available. It's useful for automated data entry, invoice processing, and data extraction.

                    Computer use runs on Computer-Using Agents (CUA), an AI model that combines computer vision and reasoning to navigate and interact with GUIs. It adapts to interface changes, so it continues working even if buttons or layouts shift. Best of all, it requires no coding—just plain language instructions.

                    Enabled for:

                    Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                      Change history
                      Timelines:
                      Early Access: ---
                      Public preview: May 27, 2025
                      General availability: Oct 2025
                      Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                      Included in:
                      2025 release wave 2
                      2025 release wave 1

                      Enabled for:
                      Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                      Business Value

                      With the SAP HANA integration and Copilot Studio, makers can connect to SAP HANA without writing any code. You don't need to copy or ingest tabular data. Although your data stays external in SAP HANA, Copilot uses real-time reasoning to handle natural language queries.

                      This integration keeps all interactions on live data, so your data stays fresh with no latency. Copilot offers contextual accuracy, helping businesses make faster, more informed decisions without moving or duplicating data.

                      Feature Details

                      With this feature, makers connect to SAP through a low-code or no-code interface. They don't need to copy or ingest tabular data manually.

                      Data stays external in SAP, but Copilot uses real-time reasoning to answer natural language queries.

                      Makers pick specific Databricks tables to use as knowledge sources. Agents answer grounded questions about the data with accuracy and context. You don't need manual integration or scripting to bring the data.

                      Makers add the knowledge source in Copilot Studio when they create a new agent or configure an existing agent.

                      Makers don't need to create SQL queries. Copilot Studio uses natural language instructions to query, join, and filter the right tables.

                      The agent returns data and reasons over it. Then, the agent parses the data conversationally within the chat for the agent user.

                      The portal automatically enables this feature for you. Find it in the Agent Add Knowledge section. Use it by selecting SAP as a knowledge source.

                      Enabled for:

                      Users by admins, makers, or analysts
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                        Change history
                        Timelines:
                        Early Access: ---
                        Public preview: May 20, 2025
                        General availability: ---
                        Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                        Included in:
                        2025 release wave 1

                        Enabled for:
                        Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                        Business Value

                        Save time and increase productivity by using natural language queries in agents to access spaces and pages data that previously required navigating to Confluence client sources. Now you can integrate all knowledge data in an agent with other data sources to provide a single experience for information across multiple sources.

                        Feature Details

                        With this capability, makers can use Confluence Spaces and Pages content in unstructured storage as a knowledge source for their agents in Copilot Studio.

                        This capability enables agents to provide high-quality answers based on operational data within your Confluence configuration.

                        Administrators can manage access to this data by configuring the Confluence connector in the Administration Portal.

                        Makers can connect to Confluence as a knowledge source and select unstructured Spaces and Pages content that the agent uses when generating results or answering queries. You configure connections to knowledge sources within Copilot Studio when you create a new agent or configure or update an existing agent.

                        Dataverse processes and indexes content so it can give accurate, detailed results to natural language queries from agent users. Users get answers only from data they can access. The system checks user access tokens against Confluence content before it returns a response. Users can access the original articles through citation references.

                        Scheduled sync keeps the knowledge base data up to date, within a 4-6 hour window.

                        Enabled for:

                        Users by admins, makers, or analysts
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                          Change history
                          Timelines:
                          Early Access: ---
                          Public preview: May 19, 2025
                          General availability: ---
                          Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                          Included in:
                          2025 release wave 1

                          Enabled for:
                          Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                          Business Value

                          Save time and increase productivity when makers add content from specific OneDrive files to Microsoft Copilot Studio agents. Users can access these files and folders along with any other knowledge sources they add to an agent. This capability removes the need to search through multiple files and folders outside of their existing agent-based operations.

                          Feature Details

                          With this capability, makers can use OneDrive file and folder content as a knowledge source for their agents in Copilot Studio.

                          This capability enables agents to provide high-quality answers based on operational data stored in files on OneDrive.

                          Administrators can manage access to this data by configuring the OneDrive connector in the Administration Portal.

                          Makers can connect to OneDrive as a knowledge source and select specific files or folders of files that the agent uses when generating results or answering queries. You configure connections to knowledge sources in Copilot Studio when you create a new agent or when you configure or update an existing agent.

                          Dataverse processes and indexes content so it can provide accurate, detailed results to natural language queries from agent users. Users see only answers based on data they can access. Dataverse validates user access tokens against OneDrive content before it returns a response. Users can access the original articles through citation references.

                          Scheduled sync keeps the knowledge base data up to date within a four- to six-hour window.

                          Administrators manage availability of this data by managing the OneDrive connector in the Administration Portal.

                          Enabled for:

                          Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                            Change history
                            Timelines:
                            Early Access: ---
                            Public preview: May 19, 2025
                            General availability: ---
                            Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                            Included in:
                            2025 release wave 1

                            Enabled for:
                            Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                            Business Value

                            Connect seamlessly to Oracle with Copilot Studio. Makers can integrate Oracle without writing any code, so they get real-time reasoning and natural language queries. Because the data stays external, it stays fresh and there's no latency. This feature helps businesses make faster, informed decisions without duplicating or moving data.

                            This integration makes sure all interactions happen on live data, so data freshness stays intact and latency disappears. With contextual accuracy in the copilot, this capability helps businesses make faster, more informed decisions without the burden of data movement or duplication.

                            Feature Details

                            With this feature, you can connect to Oracle through a low-code or no-code interface. You don't need to manually copy or ingest tabular data.

                            Key Capabilities

                            • Real-time reasoning over external data: Copilot performs real-time reasoning and responds to natural language queries while data stays external in Oracle.
                            • Natural language querying: Use natural language instructions—no SQL needed—to query, join, and filter Oracle tables.
                            • Conversational responses: The agent reasons over data and presents it conversationally in the Copilot chat interface.
                            • Grounded answers with context: Select specific Oracle tables as knowledge sources. Agents answer grounded questions with accuracy and context without manual integration or scripting.
                            • Seamless integration in Copilot Studio: Add Oracle as a knowledge source when you create a new agent or update an existing one.
                            • Automatic availability: The feature automatically enables and appears in the Agent > Add knowledge section.

                            Enabled for:

                            Users by admins, makers, or analysts
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                              Change history
                              Timelines:
                              Early Access: ---
                              Public preview: May 19, 2025
                              General availability: ---
                              Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                              Included in:
                              2025 release wave 1

                              Enabled for:
                              Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                              Business Value

                              Save time and increase productivity when makers use Salesforce knowledge base articles from unstructured storage in their agents. Agent users access these articles with any other knowledge sources they add to an agent. They don't need to go to Salesforce client sources outside of their existing agent-based operations.

                              Feature Details

                              With this capability, makers can use Salesforce Knowledge Base content in unstructured storage as a knowledge source for their agents in Copilot Studio.

                              This capability enables agents to provide high-quality answers based on operational data within your Salesforce configuration.

                              Administrators manage access to this data by configuring the Salesforce connector in the Administration Portal.

                              Makers connect to Salesforce as a knowledge source and select Knowledge Base unstructured sources for the agent to use when generating results or answering queries. You configure connections to knowledge sources in Copilot Studio when you create a new agent or configure or update an existing agent.

                              Dataverse processes and indexes Knowledge Base content. This process gives agent users accurate, detailed results for natural language queries. Users see only answers based on data they can access. The system checks user access tokens against Salesforce content before it returns a response. Users can access the original articles through citation references.

                              Scheduled sync keeps the Knowledge Base data up to date. Sync happens within a 4 to 6-hour window.

                              Enabled for:

                              Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                Change history
                                Timelines:
                                Early Access: ---
                                Public preview: May 19, 2025
                                General availability: ---
                                Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                Included in:
                                2025 release wave 1

                                Enabled for:
                                Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                Business Value

                                Save time and increase productivity when makers include unstructured ServiceNow knowledge base data in Microsoft Copilot Studio agents. Users access these knowledge base articles with any other knowledge sources they add to an agent. They don't need to go to ServiceNow client options to review business knowledge base data.

                                Feature Details

                                With this capability, makers can use ServiceNow knowledge base content in unstructured storage as a knowledge source for their agents in Copilot Studio.

                                This capability enables agents to provide high-quality answers based on operational data within your ServiceNow configuration.

                                Administrators can manage access to this data by configuring the ServiceNow connector in the Administration Portal.

                                Makers can connect to ServiceNow as a knowledge source and select knowledge base unstructured sources for the agent to use when generating results or answering queries. You configure connections to knowledge sources in Copilot Studio when you create a new agent or when you configure or update an existing agent.

                                Dataverse processes and indexes knowledge base content. This process gives agent users accurate, detailed results for natural language queries. Users get answers only from data they can access. The system checks user access tokens against Service Now content before it sends the response. Users can access the original articles through citation references.

                                Scheduled sync keeps the knowledge base data up-to-date. Sync happens within a 4 to 6-hour window.

                                Enabled for:

                                Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                  Change history
                                  Timelines:
                                  Early Access: ---
                                  Public preview: May 19, 2025
                                  General availability: ---
                                  Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                  Included in:
                                  2025 release wave 1

                                  Enabled for:
                                  Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                  Business Value

                                  Copilot gives you immediate access to your Snowflake data, so your responses always come from the latest information. Your business can make faster, more informed decisions while keeping data secure and removing the complexity of data synchronization.

                                  Feature Details

                                  Connect Copilot Studio directly to your Snowflake data with a no-code interface. Your data stays secure in Snowflake while Copilot provides real-time responses to natural language queries.

                                  Makers select specific Snowflake tables to use as knowledge sources. Agents answer grounded questions over the data with accuracy and context, without manual integration or scripting to surface the data. Makers add the knowledge source within Copilot Studio when creating a new agent or when configuring or updating an existing agent. Makers don't need to create SQL queries, as Copilot Studio parses natural language instructions to query, join, and filter the appropriate tables. The agent returns data and reasons over it before parsing it conversationally within the chat to the agent user.

                                  Enabled for:

                                  Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                    Change history
                                    Timelines:
                                    Early Access: ---
                                    Public preview: May 19, 2025
                                    General availability: ---
                                    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                    Included in:
                                    2025 release wave 1

                                    Enabled for:
                                    Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                    Business Value

                                    Save time and increase productivity when makers add unstructured ZenDesk knowledge base content to Microsoft Copilot Studio agents. Users access these knowledge base articles along with any other knowledge sources they add to an agent. They don't need to go to other ZenDesk clients to find answers.

                                    Feature Details

                                    With this capability, makers can use ZenDesk knowledge base content in unstructured storage as a knowledge source for their agents in Copilot Studio.

                                    This capability enables agents to provide high-quality answers based on operational data within your ZenDesk configuration.

                                    Administrators can manage access to this data by configuring the ZenDesk connector in the Power Platform admin center.

                                    Makers can connect to ZenDesk as a knowledge source and select knowledge base unstructured sources for the agent to use when it generates results or answers queries. You configure connections to knowledge sources in Copilot Studio when you create a new agent or when you configure or update an existing agent.

                                    Dataverse processes and indexes knowledge base content. This process gives agent users accurate, detailed results for natural language queries. Users see only answers based on data they can access. The system checks user access tokens against ZenDesk content before it sends a response. Users can access the original articles through citation references.

                                    Scheduled sync keeps the knowledge base data up to date. Sync happens within a 4- to 6-hour window.

                                    Enabled for:

                                    Users by admins, makers, or analysts
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                                      Change history
                                      Timelines:
                                      Early Access: ---
                                      Public preview: May 19, 2025
                                      General availability: ---
                                      Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                      Included in:
                                      2025 release wave 1

                                      Enabled for:
                                      Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                      Business Value

                                      With the new consumption report, makers can analyze how their agent performs, see the top contributors for consumption, track changes over time, and get insights on how to optimize the agent's efficiency.

                                      Feature Details

                                      Understanding the efficiency of your agents and their associated costs is crucial for creating cost-effective agents. With this feature, agent creators can see how efficient their agent is and track its cost over time.

                                      Admins can:

                                      • Get detailed billing consumption analysis that fits their needs and business—by billed sessions or by message consumption.
                                      • See consumption analysis over time to spot changes in consumption patterns.
                                      • Understand the specific events that contribute to message consumption, so they can see how efficient their business's agents are and find ways to optimize them.

                                      Enabled for:

                                      Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
                                        Note:
                                        • [!Note] New consumption information can take a few hours to appear in Analytics.

                                        Change history
                                        Timelines:
                                        Early Access: ---
                                        Public preview: ---
                                        General availability: May 6, 2025
                                        Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                        Included in:
                                        2025 release wave 1

                                        Enabled for:
                                        Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                        Business Value

                                        Improve the effectiveness of your autonomous agent with detailed analytics on usage and performance of your autonomous agent runs. Get visibility into how the agent performs and insights on how to improve it.

                                        Feature Details

                                        Analytics for autonomous agents gives you a comprehensive view of how autonomous runs perform. It includes:

                                        • Total number of agent runs.
                                        • Breakdown of runs by triggers.
                                        • Overall success rate for agent runs.
                                        • Success rate for autonomous agent runs over time.
                                        • Tools analysis so you can see tools usage and success rate.
                                        • Details on how long autonomous agent runs take, with a breakdown of successful and failed runs.
                                        • Billing consumption analysis for autonomous agents.

                                        Enabled for:

                                        Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                          Change history
                                          Timelines:
                                          Early Access: ---
                                          Public preview: ---
                                          General availability: Apr 30, 2025
                                          Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                          Included in:
                                          2025 release wave 1

                                          Enabled for:
                                          Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                          Business Value

                                          To help makers during agent creation and once the agent is in production, both for agents that automate tasks or for conversational agents that interact with end users, makers get more details on the agent's activity at runtime to help troubleshoot issues and guide behavior.

                                          Feature Details

                                          In the Activity tab on your agent, you can review your agent's sessions. You can see transcripts of your user's interactions with your conversational agents when users choose to share them. This information helps you understand how the agent behaves in real-world scenarios so you can effectively debug and improve the agent. Agents that use generative orchestration have this functionality by default.

                                          In the Activity list, you can see more information, including step count and last action, to help you identify the session you want.

                                          When you view a specific agent run, you see what triggered the run, which actions the agent took, and the inputs and outputs for each action. You also see details about which knowledge sources the agent used and a detailed thought process to help with troubleshooting and understanding agent behavior.

                                          Enabled for:

                                          Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                            Change history
                                            Timelines:
                                            Early Access: ---
                                            Public preview: Apr 30, 2025
                                            General availability: Apr 30, 2025
                                            Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                            Included in:
                                            2025 release wave 1

                                            Enabled for:
                                            Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                            Business Value

                                            Makers can now use extra data sources, including SharePoint, when they build autonomous agents. This enhancement supports more use cases by giving agents access to a wider range of valuable information. With this information, agents give more accurate and contextually relevant responses. This improvement makes efficiency and effectiveness better.

                                            Feature Details

                                            In Copilot Studio, knowledge sources work with generative answers to enhance your agents' capabilities. When you integrate knowledge sources, your agents can use enterprise data from Power Platform, Dynamics 365, websites, and external systems to give your customers relevant information and insights.

                                            This release introduces support for adding SharePoint as a knowledge source for makers building autonomous agents. Only authenticated users can access SharePoint, so information sharing is secure and reliable. With this release, makers can access SharePoint knowledge using their credentials. Soon, you'll be able to access SharePoint knowledge with end-user credentials.

                                            To add SharePoint as a knowledge source, use the following steps:

                                            1. Open the agent.
                                            2. Go to the Overview or Knowledge pages, and select Add Knowledge.
                                            3. Select SharePoint from the list of options.
                                            4. Enter the SharePoint URL.
                                            5. Confirm your selection.
                                            6. Select Add to finish adding SharePoint as a knowledge source.

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                                            Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

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                                              Timelines:
                                              Early Access: ---
                                              Public preview: ---
                                              General availability: Mar 24, 2025
                                              Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                              Included in:
                                              2024 release wave 2

                                              Enabled for:
                                              Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                              Business Value

                                              Generative orchestration lets your makers focus on managing plugins and maintaining artifacts. Businesses save time because makers don't need to build agents manually. Users get better responses because agents can more easily answer unexpected questions.

                                              Feature Details

                                              With generative orchestration, your agent chooses the best actions, knowledge, and topics to answer user queries or respond to event triggers. In contrast, classic orchestration uses only one topic to respond to a user, based on manually authored trigger phrases.

                                              When you activate generative orchestration, it mainly relies on the descriptions of actions and topics to determine which elements to use in response to the last user input or event. When enabled, generative orchestration orchestrates the conversations users have with your agent. This orchestration helps provide users with a more natural and fluid conversation.

                                              The following table compares agent behavior between classic orchestration and generative orchestration.

                                              Behavior Classic orchestration Generative orchestration
                                              Topics The system selects topics by matching a user query with trigger phrases. The system selects topics based on the description of their purpose.
                                              Actions You can call actions only when you explicitly call them from within a topic. The agent chooses to call actions based on their name and description.
                                              Knowledge Use knowledge as a fallback when no topics match a user's query, or when you explicitly call it from within a topic. The agent proactively searches knowledge to answer a user's query.
                                              Use of multiple topics, actions, knowledge sources The agent tries to select a single topic to respond to the user. It falls back to knowledge if you configure it. The agent uses a combination of topics, actions, and knowledge.
                                              Asking users for input To ask users for input, use question nodes in topics to create messages that prompt users for any required information. The agent can automatically create questions to prompt users for any missing information it needs to fill inputs for topics and actions.
                                              Responding to a user To respond to a user, use message nodes in topics to create messages that respond to the user (or call an action from a topic). The agent automatically creates a response using available information from topics, actions, and knowledge it uses.

                                              To turn on generative orchestration for your agent, follow these steps:

                                              1. Go to the Overview page for your agent.
                                              2. In the Details section, under Orchestration, turn on Use generative AI to determine how best to respond to users and events.

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                                                General availability date moved to Mar 2025 12/2/2024 12:00:00 AM
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                                                Public preview: ---
                                                General availability: Mar 17, 2025
                                                Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                Business Value

                                                Makers can switch to new and preview versions of models to experiment and evaluate what benefits this new model can have for their customers.

                                                Feature Details

                                                After an agent is created in Copilot Studio, makers will see a new section Generative response model with a list of available models.

                                                The Default model is automatically selected if the user doesn't make any change.

                                                With this feature, the maker can now chose to switch to the Preview GPT 4.5 model. After they switch, the agent's answer generation workflow will use GPT 4.5 model instead of the existing default (GPT 4o). The maker can experiment and explore the quality and character of the responses in the test chat or with agent users.

                                                They can switch back and forth between the Default and Preview models at any time.

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                                                  Public preview: Mar 12, 2025
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                                                  Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                  Business Value

                                                  With managed agents, you can quickly set up an agent so you can spend more time customizing your agent's logic and functionality. This streamlined approach not only speeds up the development process but also helps organizations quickly adapt to changing business requirements and improve overall operational efficiency.

                                                  Feature Details

                                                  Microsoft provides a catalog of managed agents that you can browse and install from within Copilot Studio. These agents are complete solutions. They're prebuilt with everything you need to immediately connect to related services and provide autonomous capabilities to your users.

                                                  Customize these agents with add-ons to help them specialize in a specific domain. Add-ons are packages of connections and capabilities that each managed agent solution uniquely provides.

                                                  On the Create page, under Managed agents, you can see which managed agents are available for your current environment. Select an agent to learn more about its capabilities and requirements.

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                                                    Public preview: Mar 3, 2025
                                                    General availability: Aug 2025
                                                    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                    2024 release wave 2

                                                    Enabled for:
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                                                    Business Value

                                                    By customizing Microsoft 365 Copilot with custom engine copilots, you can add value to the solution. Create rich, organization-specific solutions that you can easily access and interact with from Microsoft Copilot. If you already have custom agents built with Copilot Studio, you can use that functionality in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft 365 Copilot is always available across the Microsoft 365 product suite, including office.microsoft.com, Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

                                                    Feature Details

                                                    You can extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with a custom agent by turning on the Microsoft 365 Copilot channel. Submit your custom agent to Teams or Microsoft 365. You can submit it to an admin for publishing in the line of business catalog, or you can deploy it just for yourself or to a small team by using a security group.

                                                    Microsoft 365 Copilot supports most common custom agent chat features. These features include messages, quick replies, adaptive cards with Action.Submit, multiturm interactions, and multimessage responses to a user interaction. Because it's a custom agent, it also benefits from Copilot Studio's rich usage analytics and governance provided by Power Platform Admin Center. Use your existing custom agent from Copilot Studio without any changes. Just add it to the Microsoft 365 channel.

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                                                      Public preview: Feb 27, 2025
                                                      General availability: May 23, 2025
                                                      Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                      2024 release wave 2

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                                                      Business Value

                                                      With graph connectors, your organization can connect enterprise data and expand the range of content sources available in Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and the broader Microsoft ecosystem. As a maker, you get access to more relevant data sources for the agents you create, without needing custom or complex solutions.

                                                      Feature Details

                                                      Graph connectors help organizations connect their enterprise data. They expand the range of content sources available in Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and the broader Microsoft ecosystem.

                                                      With this feature, makers can access more data sources that fit their organization and the agents they want to create. They don't need to build custom or complex solutions. The feature also boosts the quality of agents with graph connectors in Copilot Studio by supporting semantic search for the best results.

                                                      These new preconfigured graph connectors include Stack Overflow, Salesforce Knowledge, and GitHub.

                                                      Makers can use these connectors as knowledge sources when they create new agents. Administrators can set up new connections in the Admin Center, manage data crawling, and set permissions.

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                                                        Public preview: Jan 1, 2025
                                                        General availability: Mar 5, 2025
                                                        Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                        With triggers, you can create fully autonomous agents that react to events such as a table update, a new document, or a newly received email instead of relying on end-user input. This activity feature enables you to track the agent's behavior, including which actions the agent calls and why. With this feature, you can create agents that work in the background to automate business processes for themselves or their team.

                                                        Feature Details

                                                        Currently, user input triggers agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio. When an end user asks a question or sends a message, the copilot reviews a series of maker-defined topics and actions. It uses this information to respond appropriately to the end user.

                                                        When you add automated triggers to Copilot Studio, you enable an agent to run without any end-user input. The agent responds to events like an email arriving, a document being created, or a table row being updated. It follows the instructions you define for it.

                                                        We add an activity tab to the agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio. Use the activity tab to track each historical interaction with your agent. The activity tab records each time the agent triggers a topic or action as a conversation. You can drill into the interaction and review each action that the agent calls and why it calls the action. For this version of activity, the agent records only interactions with you.

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                                                          Public preview: Nov 18, 2024
                                                          General availability: Mar 24, 2025
                                                          Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                          Included in:
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                                                          Enabled for:
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                                                          Business Value

                                                          Analytics gives makers visibility and insights into their customers' needs and satisfaction. With this information, you can optimize the performance of your copilots.

                                                          Feature Details

                                                          Use analytics in Copilot Studio to:

                                                          • Monitor the performance of your copilots.
                                                          • Understand the top themes in questions that users ask.
                                                          • Get detailed insights on user satisfaction, including a breakdown of user behaviors that drive satisfaction status.
                                                          • Monitor result statuses, along with the top themes of queries without search results.
                                                          • Get visibility into how Microsoft moderates and blocks toxic queries to ensure the compliance of your copilots.

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                                                            Public preview: Nov 12, 2024
                                                            General availability: ---
                                                            Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                            Business Value

                                                            Image analysis expands the use cases for your custom copilots and delivers more informed responses. With image analysis, users get richer interactions and more empowering experiences.

                                                            Feature Details

                                                            They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. With image analysis, Copilot users can convey complex scenarios, objects, or ideas without typing lengthy descriptions. Copilot gets context from visual cues, which broadens its conversational range and yields more informed responses.

                                                            For example, when a user uploads an image of a car and asks, "What model is this car?", Copilot analyzes the image and responds with the car model. Later in the conversation, if a user asks, "What is the range of this car?", Copilot uses the previous image as context to answer the question.

                                                            Whether it's explaining a recipe from a food photo, getting advice on troubleshooting a broken printer, or identifying a rare bird species, Copilot provides detailed insights through image analysis.

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                                                              Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                              Business Value

                                                              Makers can build copilots that use prebuilt Azure AI Search indexes as knowledge sources for more relevant and accurate grounded responses.

                                                              Feature Details

                                                              Makers can use prebuilt indexes (indexes that pro developers built) with minimal friction and low cost. Use these indexes as grounding data for your copilots that you create with Microsoft Copilot Studio. With these copilots, users can ask questions in natural language about their enterprise systems that they use within their Power Platform tenants. Microsoft builds on the natural language-to-query approach that it released with Microsoft Dataverse knowledge and extends the same approach to copilots that use Azure AI Search index as knowledge.

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                                                                General availability date moved to Mar 2025 11/25/2024 12:00:00 AM
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                                                                Public preview: Nov 11, 2024
                                                                General availability: May 15, 2025
                                                                Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                Included in:
                                                                2025 release wave 1
                                                                2024 release wave 2

                                                                Enabled for:
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                                                                Business Value

                                                                Unlike other products where customers rely on application lifecycle management (ALM) tools outside the product and from the market, solution management in Copilot Studio ensures ALM capability to create, edit, extend, and deploy copilots with ease of use, better results, and cost-effectiveness.

                                                                Feature Details

                                                                Solution management in Copilot Studio brings Power Platform application lifecycle management (ALM) directly into the Copilot Studio app.

                                                                When you create an agent in Copilot Studio, you add it to a Power Platform solution. With Power Platform ALM, you can create custom solutions to manage your agents across multiple environments. You can also use pipeline deployments and other ALM scenarios in the Power Platform admin center.

                                                                By adding solution management directly into the Copilot Studio app, you can view, export, and import solutions. You can set your preferred or default environment, configure pipelines, and customize and manage your solutions without leaving your agent-building environment.

                                                                The solution manager in Copilot Studio enables you to:

                                                                • Create agents with solutions.
                                                                • Set the preferred solution in Copilot Studio.
                                                                • Create agents and components with a preferred solution.
                                                                • Edit and extend agents and components with a preferred solution.
                                                                • Deploy agents and components by using pipelines in Power Platform with a single click.
                                                                • Share agents and components with a user or team.

                                                                For more information about the solution manager, including how to use it and how it connects to your broader organizational ALM scenarios, see Create and manage solutions in Copilot Studio.

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                                                                  Early Access: ---
                                                                  Public preview: Oct 11, 2024
                                                                  General availability: Dec 16, 2024
                                                                  Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                  Included in:
                                                                  2024 release wave 2

                                                                  Enabled for:
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                                                                  Business Value

                                                                  Organizations often struggle with the "many bots" problem. They can't find the right solution that balances discovery, routing, permissions, and capability for the unique scenarios that modern workers need. Copilot extensions solve this problem. They make it fast and easy for anyone in your organization to create useful, tailored Microsoft Copilot experiences that generate answers, take action, and provide information specific to your business, data, and employees.

                                                                  Feature Details

                                                                  Copilot extensions in Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 are created by employees in your organization to retrieve information or perform actions through Copilot.

                                                                  With this feature, you can create and share these extensions in a simple canvas that all Microsoft Copilot users can access. Employees in your organization can quickly and easily create work-specific extensions in a familiar experience. They don't need to learn a new app or service. The extensions are instantly available in Microsoft Teams or at https://microsoft365.com/chat.

                                                                  Microsoft 365 Copilot is a seat-licensed product that includes the Microsoft Copilot Studio license, so anyone can be a maker. These new makers can use Copilot Extensions in Microsoft 365 Copilot. They can also browse the Microsoft 365 Copilot Extension store to install an extension. Makers see the create a copilot extension call to action and go to the studio.

                                                                  For example, an employee might want to create an extension for Copilot to handle internal queries and requests for creating, managing, and approving tasks within an expense reporting system.

                                                                  When the maker creates their copilot extension, they can expand its knowledge with data sources from SharePoint and Microsoft Graph. This expansion enables richer, more informed answers that are contextually scoped. Makers can also create actions. These actions connect the extension to enterprise and internet systems to perform tasks, like getting the weather or resolving a ticket in a customer management portal.

                                                                  When you define the knowledge and actions for a copilot extension, publish the extension to Microsoft Copilot. End users can then get information from the knowledge sources and interact with the capabilities the actions offer, all within Microsoft Copilot.

                                                                  Admins can trust these copilot extensions. All extensions use the same Microsoft large language model. Power Platform admins govern which Power Platform tools are available in a copilot action. Microsoft 365 admins control who can use the copilot extension.

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                                                                  Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

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                                                                    Timelines:
                                                                    Early Access: ---
                                                                    Public preview: ---
                                                                    General availability: Sep 16, 2024
                                                                    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                    Included in:
                                                                    2024 release wave 1

                                                                    Enabled for:
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                                                                    Business Value

                                                                    Use Copilot Studio to create a custom copilot that works as an autonomous assistant to help you be more productive at work.

                                                                    Feature Details

                                                                    When you invite a copilot to your meeting in Teams, you can interact with it through text, speech, and video. The copilot uses generative AI and considers the entire audio conversation, chat transcript, and everything shared on screen to help you get more from your meetings.

                                                                    You can give the copilot meeting commands, such as "Stop recording." You can ask about content, like "What was the highest value account in the shared spreadsheet?" You can also request contextually relevant analysis that draws on world knowledge, such as "Review this code and suggest improvements" or "What does this chart imply about the trend of this stock?".

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                                                                    Users by admins, makers, or analysts

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                                                                      Public preview: Aug 2024
                                                                      General availability: ---
                                                                      Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                      Included in:
                                                                      2024 release wave 1

                                                                      Enabled for:
                                                                      Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                                                      Business Value

                                                                      When building a plugin to Microsoft Copilot, a key value is to be able to specifically access the data specific to a user or scenario. Parameters and Entra ID authentication make it possible to narrow the request to exactly what the user is looking for.

                                                                      Feature Details

                                                                      With Copilot Studio plugin extensibility for Microsoft 365, you use the user's authentication token to invoke the plugin. This approach makes capabilities such as generative answers more useful because the plugin uses corporate resources on the user's behalf, including Microsoft SharePoint.

                                                                      By using parameters, plugin creators define the parameters Microsoft Copilot collects before it calls the plugin. These parameters are available within the plugin to call external functions, apply business logic, or use in any way the creator chooses.

                                                                      Copilot Studio simplifies the process of defining parameters and adding descriptions for Microsoft Copilot. With this information, Copilot knows how to prompt the user to provide the necessary details.

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                                                                        Public preview date updated to Jul 2024 6/5/2024 12:00:00 AM
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                                                                        Early Access: ---
                                                                        Public preview: Jul 22, 2024
                                                                        General availability: ---
                                                                        Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                        Included in:
                                                                        2024 release wave 1

                                                                        Enabled for:
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                                                                        Business Value

                                                                        Reduce the time it takes to create a custom copilot or build extensions for Microsoft Copilot by accessing features in a navigational hierarchy that feels natural and familiar.

                                                                        Feature Details

                                                                        This new user experience organizes the features and capabilities available to makers in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

                                                                        A refreshed navigation menu and tab-based structure makes it easier to understand your place in the navigational hierarchy and what you can access:

                                                                        • The Home screen has a Describe with Copilot section that simplifies creating a custom copilot. It also offers custom copilot templates to help you get started.
                                                                        • The Library page shows your most recent copilots and extensions, so you can pick up where you left off. It also displays all your environment-level components.
                                                                        • The Configure page gives you an at-a-glance view of what a selected copilot can do.
                                                                        • The top menu bar provides access to knowledge, topics, actions, analytics, and channels, so you can see detailed views for each component.
                                                                        • Test your copilot anytime with the refreshed test pane.

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                                                                          Timelines:
                                                                          Early Access: ---
                                                                          Public preview: ---
                                                                          General availability: May 21, 2024
                                                                          Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                          Included in:
                                                                          2024 release wave 1

                                                                          Enabled for:
                                                                          Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                          Business Value

                                                                          Improvements in authentication, default permissions, governance settings, and auditing logs give makers more visibility and control with less risk when they create and deploy custom copilots.

                                                                          Feature Details

                                                                          The solution applies safer defaults and gives opinionated in-product communication when makers change those defaults. For example, the solution changes two significant security defaults. All bots require authenticated access, and makers don't have access to transcripts by default.

                                                                          The solution also introduces these improvements:

                                                                          • Granular governance levers that give admins more control over the copilots in their tenants without affecting maker adoption.

                                                                            • Customers commonly request this feature. The solution invests in granular controls for many Copilot Studio features, including generative AI, knowledge sources, app insights, and authentication.
                                                                          • Audit log and inventory capabilities for admins.

                                                                            • Admins can see comprehensive audit logs, including viewing tenant-wide usage, inventory (including API support), and tenant hygiene (DLP violations and inactive copilots) reports to monitor business impact.
                                                                          • Show sensitive labels to the copilot creators and users when the response includes generative answers from SharePoint files.

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                                                                          Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

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                                                                            Timelines:
                                                                            Early Access: ---
                                                                            Public preview: ---
                                                                            General availability: May 21, 2024
                                                                            Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                            Included in:
                                                                            2024 release wave 1

                                                                            Enabled for:
                                                                            Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                            Business Value

                                                                            When makers integrate enterprise data into custom copilots, users can efficiently access relevant business insights. This integration enhances decision-making and productivity within the organization.

                                                                            Feature Details

                                                                            This feature enables makers to enrich their custom copilots with knowledge sources.

                                                                            To get enterprise value from AI, customers need to integrate enterprise knowledge with foundational models. This integration includes enterprise data, data in application silos, and the Microsoft 365 Graph. Custom copilots that have knowledge make it easy to ground LLM responses in enterprise data. They give users relevant business insights in a secure and compliant way.

                                                                            Supported types are public websites, SharePoint and OneDrive, file uploads, Dataverse (including Dynamics 365 and Power Apps data), and other external data sources indexed in Microsoft Graph.

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                                                                            Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

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                                                                              Early Access: ---
                                                                              Public preview: ---
                                                                              General availability: May 21, 2024
                                                                              Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                              Included in:
                                                                              2024 release wave 1

                                                                              Enabled for:
                                                                              Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                              Business Value

                                                                              With just a few natural language instructions, you can quickly and easily create a copilot. When you provide a simple description of what your copilot does, along with optional information about the goals and desired behavior, the copilot can respond to user prompts with AI-generated natural language responses.

                                                                              Feature Details

                                                                              Create a custom copilot with an initial description.

                                                                              The conversational creation experience asks for additional information to refine the scope and behavior of the copilot.

                                                                              Add knowledge sources, such as website URLs, to the copilot so it can respond to information on those sites.

                                                                              Switch to the Configure tab to refine the copilot, see the conversation starter prompts, or add extra details.

                                                                              In the right pane, view the summary of instructions that the AI model uses to create the copilot.

                                                                              When the conversation completes, the creation process autogenerates a name that matches the copilot's function. You can preview or test the copilot and go to Copilot Studio to add more features to the copilot.

                                                                              Enabled for:

                                                                              Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                Change history
                                                                                Timelines:
                                                                                Early Access: ---
                                                                                Public preview: May 21, 2024
                                                                                General availability: ---
                                                                                Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                Included in:
                                                                                2024 release wave 1

                                                                                Enabled for:
                                                                                Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                Business Value

                                                                                You can build agents that use Microsoft 365 substrate data as knowledge for more relevant and accurate grounded responses.

                                                                                Feature Details

                                                                                You can add these knowledge sources to your agents without any coding. Within the Microsoft 365 environment, the supported knowledge sources are SharePoint and Microsoft Graph connectors.

                                                                                Start from the configure page for your agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio. When you add knowledge sources, the next screen shows all the supported knowledge sources. Choose the knowledge source you want to add. For example, you can choose a SharePoint document library or an existing Microsoft Graph connection, such as the ServiceNow knowledge base or Confluence.

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                                                                                  Early Access: ---
                                                                                  Public preview: May 21, 2024
                                                                                  General availability: Nov 18, 2024
                                                                                  Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                  Included in:
                                                                                  2024 release wave 2
                                                                                  2024 release wave 1

                                                                                  Enabled for:
                                                                                  Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                  Business Value

                                                                                  With support for more languages and generative answers for non-US markets, copilot makers worldwide can serve their customers in their own languages.

                                                                                  Feature Details

                                                                                  In conjunction with multilingual bot support, topics and bots that use generative answers adapt to the current conversation's language to answer questions.

                                                                                  Customers can create their own logic with Power Fx to choose which sources to use for a request. The logic can use global variables. When generative answers connects to a data source in the user's language, the copilot takes the request from the copilot user in their language and returns the response in the same language.

                                                                                  Generative answers supports all languages that Copilot Studio supports, except Chinese (Traditional). For a list of supported languages and their levels of support, see Supported languages.

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                                                                                  Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                    Change history
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                                                                                    Early Access: ---
                                                                                    Public preview: Feb 3, 2024
                                                                                    General availability: Apr 30, 2024
                                                                                    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                    Included in:
                                                                                    2024 release wave 1
                                                                                    2023 release wave 2

                                                                                    Enabled for:
                                                                                    Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                    Business Value

                                                                                    By blocking the use of maker's credentials by AI agents, admins can increase the security and compliance of agents in their organizations: Prevent unauthorized access to sensitive systems or data that the maker's credentials might have access to. Help organizations comply with data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) by ensuring only authorized identities are used for data access. Enable IT and security teams to enforce organizational policies around identity and access management Increase trust among stakeholders and IT departments, making it easier to adopt AI agents at scale

                                                                                    Feature Details

                                                                                    This governance feature in Microsoft Copilot Studio allows administrators to restrict how agent tools are authenticated.

                                                                                    This feature lets an admin disable the use of maker-provided credentials for all tools in an agent, ensuring that only end-user credentials can be used for authentication. By applying this control, an agent author (maker) can no longer embed their own credentials into the agent’s tools. Instead, all connections must be established by the end user at runtime through a sign-in prompt (note: caching and SSO could be leveraged at runtime for a specific channel).

                                                                                    Under normal circumstances, a maker could add a tool (like a connector or Power Automate flow) to an agent using personal credentials, and then any end user who uses the agent would indirectly leverage the maker’s access. This could lead to oversharing of data or capabilities – for example, an end user might retrieve information or perform actions that only the maker’s account is permitted to do.

                                                                                    With maker authentication controls enforced, such scenarios are prevented because each-end user only has access to what their own account allows. The agent will prompt the user to sign in (to the relevant service or connector) when needed. No stored maker credentials are used at run time, aligning the agent’s behavior with the end-user’s actual permissions.

                                                                                    This feature is not enabled by default, and admins will need to enable it in the Power Platform admin center for specific environments or managed environment groups.

                                                                                    If admins do not enable these controls, makers retain the freedom to choose authentication methods (including their own credentials) for agent tools as usual.

                                                                                    Enabled for:

                                                                                    Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
                                                                                    Admins | Makers
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                                                                                      Timelines:
                                                                                      Early Access: ---
                                                                                      Public preview: Aug 2025
                                                                                      General availability: Sep 2025
                                                                                      Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                      Included in:
                                                                                      2025 release wave 1

                                                                                      Enabled for:
                                                                                      Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                      Business Value

                                                                                      Many enterprises have more than 200 documents they wish to include as part of the agent knowledge experience. This change allows up to 1000 documents to be added using the SharePoint document upload feature. Users will select the document folders they wish to include and the first 1000 files from the selected folder and subfolders will be included to provide access to more business-critical data.

                                                                                      Feature Details

                                                                                      Makers using the SharePoint document upload feature in their agent's knowledge will now be able to include up to 1000 files. Prior to this change a maximum of 200 files were available for this feature. The file selection and processing experience remains the same, the only difference is more files can be processed and indexed for use.

                                                                                      This means that instead of SharePoint limiting users to 200 total files (as stored in selected folders) users can use any combination of documents up to 1000, including:

                                                                                      1. Individual files
                                                                                      2. Folders and sub folders
                                                                                      3. Multiple knowledge sources for SharePoint document uploads

                                                                                      Enabled for:

                                                                                      Users, automatically
                                                                                      This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

                                                                                        Change history
                                                                                        Timelines:
                                                                                        Early Access: ---
                                                                                        Public preview: Aug 2025
                                                                                        General availability: Oct 2025
                                                                                        Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                        Included in:
                                                                                        2025 release wave 2
                                                                                        2025 release wave 1

                                                                                        Enabled for:
                                                                                        Users, automatically

                                                                                        Business Value

                                                                                        Administrators can avoid governance and installation issues with a new entry point in Microsoft Copilot Studio to discover and install agents that Microsoft built.

                                                                                        Feature Details

                                                                                        This feature brings the benefits of the Power Platform catalog to Microsoft Copilot Studio. With this feature, you can discover, install, and manage agents across Dataverse environments.

                                                                                        Before you install an agent, you can review and correct the configurations, connections, and environment variables for the agent.

                                                                                        You can track installation status, details, and results without interrupting the underlying work.

                                                                                        Enabled for:

                                                                                        Users by admins, makers, or analysts
                                                                                        https://docs.microsoft.com/power-platform/release-plan/2025wave1/microsoft-copilot-studio
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                                                                                          Public preview date moved to Jun 2025 General availability date moved to Jul 2025 5/3/2025 12:00:00 AM
                                                                                          Timelines:
                                                                                          Early Access: ---
                                                                                          Public preview: Jul 2025
                                                                                          General availability: Jul 2025
                                                                                          Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                          Included in:
                                                                                          2025 release wave 1

                                                                                          Enabled for:
                                                                                          Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                                                                          Business Value

                                                                                          When you publish your agents on the WhatsApp channel, you open new markets for conversational and generative experiences. Integrating the WhatsApp channel into the available channels for publishing in Copilot Studio makes your agent makers more efficient and reduces the time it takes to get your agent in front of customers. Agent makers can focus on creating agents instead of creating and configuring a new app or pipeline for deployment.

                                                                                          Feature Details

                                                                                          When you add the WhatsApp channel in Copilot Studio, your makers can deploy their agents to WhatsApp in just a few clicks.

                                                                                          The WhatsApp channel uses Azure Communication Services (ACS) to connect the agents you create in Copilot Studio with your WhatsApp endpoint. The endpoint is the chat or group where users interact with your agent.

                                                                                          When you publish an agent to WhatsApp (after you get and connect a WhatsApp for Business account to ACS), Copilot Studio gets your WhatsApp configuration from ACS. You can choose the number or endpoint where your agent appears.

                                                                                          Enabled for:

                                                                                          Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
                                                                                          https://docs.microsoft.com/power-platform/release-plan/2025wave1/microsoft-copilot-studio
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                                                                                            Public preview date moved to Sep 2024
                                                                                            Removed general availability date
                                                                                            Apr 03, 2024
                                                                                            Timelines:
                                                                                            Early Access: ---
                                                                                            Public preview: Jul 2025
                                                                                            General availability: Jul 2025
                                                                                            Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                            Included in:
                                                                                            2025 release wave 1

                                                                                            Enabled for:
                                                                                            Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                            Business Value

                                                                                            Save time when you extend your agent. Use the Tools page to create, view, and add tools to existing agents.

                                                                                            Feature Details

                                                                                            Previously, makers had to create and configure agent tools in a separate location, the Library page in Copilot Studio, from the agents where they wanted to use the tools.

                                                                                            With this update, the new Tools page streamlines how makers can view, create, and use tools.

                                                                                            You can add tools listed on the page directly to any agent within the environment where you created the tool. You can also create reusable and valuable tools across multiple agents in the same environment.

                                                                                            Available tools on the page include:

                                                                                            • prompts
                                                                                            • agent flows
                                                                                            • custom connectors
                                                                                            • REST APIs
                                                                                            • computer using actions (CUA)
                                                                                            • model context protocol

                                                                                            Create and view tools on the Tools home page. Select Add to agent to add selected tools directly to your agents.

                                                                                            Enabled for:

                                                                                            Users, automatically

                                                                                              Change history
                                                                                              Timelines:
                                                                                              Early Access: ---
                                                                                              Public preview: Jun 3, 2025
                                                                                              General availability: Aug 2025
                                                                                              Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                              Included in:
                                                                                              2025 release wave 1

                                                                                              Enabled for:
                                                                                              Users, automatically

                                                                                              Business Value

                                                                                              Instead of users of the SharePoint sites scanning through the SharePoint list to find relevant data, they can interact with a site-level agent through a conversation. This approach saves users time so they can focus on their work. An autonomous agent can also use the SharePoint list to act on the list data.

                                                                                              Feature Details

                                                                                              You can now include SharePoint Lists within a SharePoint site as a knowledge source for your agents.

                                                                                              SharePoint Lists provide extra grounding for agents in several scenarios. Generative answers can include relevant results from SharePoint Lists.

                                                                                              Makers add SharePoint as a knowledge source to use SharePoint Lists. Then, they select relevant lists from recent lists or my lists.

                                                                                              When you select a specific list, the agent can access all rows and columns. Access follows the ACL restrictions you set for the SharePoint List.

                                                                                              Enabled for:

                                                                                              Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
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                                                                                                Timelines:
                                                                                                Early Access: ---
                                                                                                Public preview: May 2025
                                                                                                General availability: ---
                                                                                                Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                Included in:
                                                                                                2025 release wave 1

                                                                                                Enabled for:
                                                                                                Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                                Business Value

                                                                                                When you add custom agents to your SharePoint sites, your team stays productive right where they collaborate. Agents answer questions, retrieve information, and take action in the context of shared documents, plans, or project spaces. This capability reduces time spent switching tools, accelerates task completion, and keeps everyone aligned. With custom agents in SharePoint, your team works faster, makes decisions more easily, and focuses on what matters most.

                                                                                                Feature Details

                                                                                                You can now deploy custom agents that you create in Copilot Studio directly to SharePoint sites. When your team interacts with the agent, they stay in the context of shared documents, plans, or collaboration pages without switching interfaces.

                                                                                                When you configure the SharePoint channel, users see a Copilot icon on the site. When users select the icon, they open the agent experience and engage with the agent directly within the SharePoint environment.

                                                                                                The SharePoint channel respects the Authenticate with Microsoft setting by default, so it provides secure, identity-aware responses. It also follows existing data loss prevention (DLP) policies. Admins use DLP rules in the Power Platform admin center to manage its availability.

                                                                                                Makers need write access to the SharePoint site to configure and deploy agents.

                                                                                                Enabled for:

                                                                                                Users by admins, makers, or analysts
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                                                                                                  Timelines:
                                                                                                  Early Access: ---
                                                                                                  Public preview: May 20, 2025
                                                                                                  General availability: May 20, 2025
                                                                                                  Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                  Included in:
                                                                                                  2025 release wave 1

                                                                                                  Enabled for:
                                                                                                  Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                                                                                  Business Value

                                                                                                  By controlling the publication of Copilot connectors, makers and admins can ensure your organization's policies are followed. This control helps in situations where a connector uses outdated content, deprecated connections or services, or needs an update before users can use it again.

                                                                                                  Feature Details

                                                                                                  With this feature, makers and admins can unpublish a previously published Copilot connector.

                                                                                                  Copilot connectors let makers connect actions and activities from other services to Microsoft 365 Copilot. However, you might need to disable connectors in certain scenarios. For example, the content or data you're connecting to is out of date, your business no longer uses a specific service, or you need to take the connector offline to update its configuration.

                                                                                                  A maker selects a connector to unpublish so it returns to its draft state. This action prevents the connector from appearing as ready and usable in Microsoft 365 Copilot. When you return a published connector to a draft state, you also update its associated solutions. You can edit and publish draft solutions or delete them.

                                                                                                  Admins in the environment can unpublish any connectors. Makers can only unpublish connectors they own.

                                                                                                  This behavior applies to all Microsoft 365 Copilot agents, such as Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales. It doesn't apply to custom agents you create in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

                                                                                                  Enabled for:

                                                                                                  Users, automatically
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                                                                                                    Public preview date moved to May 2025 General availability date moved to Apr 2025 1/21/2025 12:00:00 AM
                                                                                                    Timelines:
                                                                                                    Early Access: ---
                                                                                                    Public preview: May 9, 2025
                                                                                                    General availability: ---
                                                                                                    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                    Included in:
                                                                                                    2025 release wave 1

                                                                                                    Enabled for:
                                                                                                    Users, automatically

                                                                                                    Business Value

                                                                                                    When you can reuse connect actions, you don't need to recreate actions for every deployment. This capability saves time and effort so you can focus on creating solutions instead of manually reconfiguring or copying connectors.

                                                                                                    Feature Details

                                                                                                    Often, you need to use an action in multiple Copilot deployments. Currently, you need to recreate the same action in each deployment to provide the same experience.

                                                                                                    With this feature, you can select a previously published connector action and publish it to additional Copilot deployments in your organization. For example, you can use a previously published connector action from Copilot for Sales and publish it for Copilot for Customer Service or other Copilot for Sales distributions.

                                                                                                    You can reuse important functionality without reconfiguring the same action multiple times.

                                                                                                    The interface has a Publish button that shows a list of all available endpoints in the environment. Select the endpoints you want. Then, with a few simple clicks, submit the actions to more endpoints for administrator approval.

                                                                                                    This feature is on by default. You don't need to configure anything to turn it on.

                                                                                                    Enabled for:

                                                                                                    Users, automatically
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                                                                                                      Timelines:
                                                                                                      Early Access: ---
                                                                                                      Public preview: Mar 3, 2025
                                                                                                      General availability: Apr 21, 2025
                                                                                                      Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                      Included in:
                                                                                                      2025 release wave 1
                                                                                                      2024 release wave 2

                                                                                                      Enabled for:
                                                                                                      Users, automatically

                                                                                                      Business Value

                                                                                                      Admins and makers can easily start with out-of-the-box extensions that contain Power Platform connectors, topics, flows, and configuration files. These extensions contain business logic and configuration presets so agents can quickly access third-party data for domain-specific use cases such as prospect to cash, configure price quote, benefits and compensation, and IT helpdesk.

                                                                                                      Feature Details

                                                                                                      Admins and makers can connect to third-party data sources by using prebuilt extensions. Extensions combine connectors, topics, flows, and configuration files so agents can quickly access third-party data for domain-specific use cases. These use cases include prospect to cash, configure price quote, benefits and compensation, and IT helpdesk.

                                                                                                      Enabled for:

                                                                                                      Users by admins, makers, or analysts
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                                                                                                        Public preview date moved to Feb 2025 General availability date moved to Jul 2025 1/7/2025 12:00:00 AM
                                                                                                        Timelines:
                                                                                                        Early Access: ---
                                                                                                        Public preview: Feb 13, 2025
                                                                                                        General availability: Jul 2025
                                                                                                        Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                        Included in:
                                                                                                        2025 release wave 1
                                                                                                        2024 release wave 2

                                                                                                        Enabled for:
                                                                                                        Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                                                                                        Business Value

                                                                                                        Makers can now access data in source systems through REST APIs when they use custom agents. This capability removes the need to spend time and effort creating custom connectors for each data source they want to enable. You can create these actions natively in the custom agent creation experiences, and no code is required.

                                                                                                        Feature Details

                                                                                                        This feature uses Microsoft Copilot Studio to extend copilots with REST APIs. It provides a no-code way to access data sources when there's no connector. You don't need to do anything to turn on this feature. It appears automatically in the agent authoring experience in Microsoft Copilot Studio. Select Add action, and in the New action dropdown, select the REST API option.

                                                                                                        Makers need to upload an API specification, Swagger file, or manifest file. Copilot Studio uses the uploaded file to create the action. Currently, all created actions support only REST API 2.0. If you upload a 3.0 API, Copilot Studio tries to downgrade it to 2.0. Makers provide authentication details with no authentication or Auth 2.0. Providing authentication details might require multiple specific configuration and secret values. Makers select the actions to include and publish the action as part of the agent authoring experience. Makers can use all created actions within their tenant.

                                                                                                        We plan to support more authentication methods in the future.

                                                                                                        Enabled for:

                                                                                                        Users, automatically
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                                                                                                          Timelines:
                                                                                                          Early Access: ---
                                                                                                          Public preview: Oct 14, 2024
                                                                                                          General availability: Nov 15, 2024
                                                                                                          Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                          Included in:
                                                                                                          2024 release wave 2

                                                                                                          Enabled for:
                                                                                                          Users, automatically

                                                                                                          Business Value

                                                                                                          Supporting OpenAPI v3 for connectors introduces numerous enhancements over Swagger 2.0, significantly improving the authoring experience and ease of maintainability. This upgrade will streamline the development process, making it more efficient and user-friendly, ultimately leading to higher productivity and satisfaction for your agent makers and users.

                                                                                                          Feature Details

                                                                                                          With this release, makers can build custom connectors in Microsoft Power Platform using OpenAPI v3 specifications. This enhancement significantly streamlines the connector development process, enabling more modern, flexible, and powerful integrations with external services and applications.

                                                                                                          With this new capability, you can directly import your OpenAPI v3 specification to create a connector—eliminating the need to downgrade your specs to the older OpenAPI v2 format. Whether you’re working with RESTful APIs designed with the latest standards or maintaining compatibility with existing systems, this feature opens the door to faster and more scalable connector development.

                                                                                                          Once built, your v3-based connectors can be seamlessly integrated across the Power Platform ecosystem, including Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Apps, and Power Automate. There’s no configuration required to enable this feature—OpenAPI v3 support is now available by default across all environments. Just upload your v3 spec and start building connectors immediately.

                                                                                                          Enabled for:

                                                                                                          Users, automatically
                                                                                                          Users
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                                                                                                            Timelines:
                                                                                                            Early Access: ---
                                                                                                            Public preview: Nov 2025
                                                                                                            General availability: Feb 2026
                                                                                                            Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                            Included in:
                                                                                                            2025 release wave 2

                                                                                                            Enabled for:
                                                                                                            Users, automatically

                                                                                                            Business Value

                                                                                                            You can test and debug actions in your agents before you publish them. Testing helps you handle issues or unexpected behavior in how actions work.

                                                                                                            Feature Details

                                                                                                            This feature improves how you test and improve your actions when you build agents:

                                                                                                            Enhanced testing experience: By providing clear and actionable testing information, the feature helps you understand and implement the necessary steps without confusion. This experience ensures you maintain the context of your ongoing tasks in Copilot Studio or Microsoft 365, leading to a more seamless workflow.

                                                                                                            Debugging and recommendations: Plugin run history, in-line recommendations, and workflow visibility are invaluable features. These tools help you trace issues, understand exceptions, and make effective improvements to your actions. This comprehensive approach to debugging quickly identifies and resolves problems, enhancing the overall efficiency of the development process.

                                                                                                            Simulated test data: When you create a set of test data, you can verify the functionality of your actions in a controlled environment. This step is crucial for ensuring correctness and reliability before live deployment. By testing in a simulated environment, you can confidently deploy your solutions, knowing they're vetted for potential issues.

                                                                                                            Enabled for:

                                                                                                            Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
                                                                                                            This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
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                                                                                                              Timelines:
                                                                                                              Early Access: ---
                                                                                                              Public preview: ---
                                                                                                              General availability: Nov 2025
                                                                                                              Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                              Included in:
                                                                                                              2025 release wave 2

                                                                                                              Enabled for:
                                                                                                              Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                                              Business Value

                                                                                                              With single sign-on (SSO) for connectors, agent users can experience a frictionless connection to external sources without the need for multiple clicks. This streamlined process significantly enhances productivity, as employees can access critical data and services instantly, without being interrupted by authentication barriers. For businesses, this translates into faster workflows, reduced support requests related to login issues, and a more secure and seamless experience for agent users.

                                                                                                              Feature Details

                                                                                                              The integration of SSO for connectors in Copilot Studio ensures that users of your agents are authenticated for the connectors used in the agent instantly.

                                                                                                              By handling authentication for connectors through SSO, your agent users don't need to manually enter login credentials or navigate through multiple screens whenever the agent tries to retrieve information through a connector to a secured service.

                                                                                                              When a maker creates an agent, they can configure SSO authentication for their agent's connections on the Settings > Connection settings page. Then, when the user of your agent initiates the connection, all authentication and connection details are automatically handled in the background, using the pre-configured data set by the maker.

                                                                                                              Enabled for:

                                                                                                              Users by admins, makers, or analysts
                                                                                                              https://docs.microsoft.com/power-platform/release-plan/2025wave2/microsoft-copilot-studio
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                                                                                                                Timelines:
                                                                                                                Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                Public preview: Nov 2025
                                                                                                                General availability: Feb 2026
                                                                                                                Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                Included in:
                                                                                                                2025 release wave 2

                                                                                                                Enabled for:
                                                                                                                Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                                                                                                Business Value

                                                                                                                Save time and money by ensuring business continuity and enhancing security. Reassigning an agent owner with PowerShell lets you manage agents when the original owner leaves or changes roles. This capability improves governance and compliance by ensuring all agents have a responsible owner. It reduces the administrative burden on IT teams by streamlining the process of transferring responsibilities. It provides the flexibility needed to adapt to changes in team structures and responsibilities. This capability supports dynamic business environments.

                                                                                                                Feature Details

                                                                                                                When the original owner of an agent leaves the organization or changes roles, the agent becomes orphaned. Orphaned agents disrupt business processes and create security risks because no one manages the agent's settings and compliance requirements.

                                                                                                                With this feature, admins with the Tenant admin, Power Platform administrator, or Dynamics 365 Service Administrator roles can use PowerShell commands to assign new owners to agents.

                                                                                                                The new owner needs a Copilot Studio license and must be a member of the environment where the agent is.

                                                                                                                When an admin changes the owner of an agent, the new owner:

                                                                                                                1. Gets access to all the agent's components with standard owner permissions, including delete permissions.
                                                                                                                2. Gets the Environment Maker security role for the environment where the agent exists.

                                                                                                                The previous owner loses access to the agent. The change doesn't affect other co-owners.

                                                                                                                Enabled for:

                                                                                                                Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
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                                                                                                                  Timelines:
                                                                                                                  Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                  Public preview: ---
                                                                                                                  General availability: Oct 2025
                                                                                                                  Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                  Included in:
                                                                                                                  2025 release wave 2

                                                                                                                  Enabled for:
                                                                                                                  Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                                                  Business Value

                                                                                                                  By integrating human input seamlessly into automated processes via structured forms delivered through Outlook, organizations can accelerate resolution times, improve data quality, and maintain momentum in complex workflows that require human judgment.

                                                                                                                  Feature Details

                                                                                                                  The Request for Information action empowers businesses to build more resilient and intelligent automations by enabling agents to pause mid-flow and collect missing or critical data directly from users. This reduces flow failures caused by incomplete inputs, eliminates the need for manual restarts, and ensures that decisions are made with complete, accurate information.

                                                                                                                  The action is available in agent flows and is called Request for Information. The action introduces a human-in-the-loop step, allowing agents to pause execution and collect specific maker-defined input from people. The inputs can be in the form of text, numbers, email addresses, binary inputs and more.

                                                                                                                  Enabled for:

                                                                                                                  Users, automatically
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                                                                                                                    Timelines:
                                                                                                                    Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                    Public preview: Jul 2025
                                                                                                                    General availability: Oct 2025
                                                                                                                    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                    Included in:
                                                                                                                    2025 release wave 2
                                                                                                                    2025 release wave 1

                                                                                                                    Enabled for:
                                                                                                                    Users, automatically

                                                                                                                    Business Value

                                                                                                                    The universal search feature in Copilot Studio makes makers more efficient and productive. With streamlined universal search, you can quickly find and go to different elements in your agent. You don't need to spend time on manual searches or extra mouse clicks.

                                                                                                                    Feature Details

                                                                                                                    The new Search within your Agent feature helps you search and go to elements across your entire agent. You don't need to switch tabs or scan through content.

                                                                                                                    Use a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + J on PC, Command ⌘ + J on Mac) or select the top-level search icon to search across Knowledge, Topics, Tools, Skills, and Entities in your agent—all from one place.

                                                                                                                    Search is fast and intuitive. Filters help narrow results and show the most relevant content. With deep linking and keyboard navigation, you can jump straight to what you need in one click.

                                                                                                                    Streamline your workflow, stay in control, and build with confidence. Search is always available in the top navigation bar or via shortcut.

                                                                                                                    Enabled for:

                                                                                                                    Users, automatically
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                                                                                                                      Timelines:
                                                                                                                      Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                      Public preview: ---
                                                                                                                      General availability: Jul 15, 2025
                                                                                                                      Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                      Included in:
                                                                                                                      2025 release wave 1

                                                                                                                      Enabled for:
                                                                                                                      Users, automatically

                                                                                                                      Business Value

                                                                                                                      When you quarantine an agent, you save your organization time and money on security issues. This protection keeps your network secure and lets you investigate and resolve the issue without disrupting your organization's operations. When you quarantine an agent, you can limit the availability of agents that don't meet compliance requirements or that violate data loss prevention policies. This approach gives admins extra guardrails for low-code development.

                                                                                                                      Feature Details

                                                                                                                      This feature adds a critical layer of security by addressing quarantine as an important element of security enforcement and remediation.

                                                                                                                      When an agent is potentially compromised, such as when it violates data loss prevention policies, it poses a risk to your entire system. By quarantining the agent, admins isolate the threat and prevent it from spreading and causing further damage while they investigate and fix the issue.

                                                                                                                      Admins with the Tenant admin, Power Platform administrator, or Dynamics 365 Service Administrator roles can quarantine agents by using PowerShell to block and unblock an agent.

                                                                                                                      When an admin blocks an agent, makers see the agent's blocked status in Copilot Studio. Makers can edit the blocked agent but can't test it.

                                                                                                                      Agent users can't interact with the blocked agent. If they try, they see an error message.

                                                                                                                      Enabled for:

                                                                                                                      Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
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                                                                                                                        Timelines:
                                                                                                                        Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                        Public preview: ---
                                                                                                                        General availability: Jul 15, 2025
                                                                                                                        Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                        2025 release wave 1

                                                                                                                        Enabled for:
                                                                                                                        Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                                                        Business Value

                                                                                                                        With Single Sign-On (SSO) for connectors, agent users enjoy a frictionless connection to external sources without extra clicks. This streamlined process greatly boosts productivity. Employees can access critical data and services right away without any authentication interruptions. For businesses, this feature brings faster workflows, fewer support requests for sign-in issues, and a more secure and seamless experience for agent users.

                                                                                                                        Feature Details

                                                                                                                        When you integrate single sign-on (SSO) for connectors in Copilot Studio, users of your agents immediately authenticate for the connectors the agent uses.

                                                                                                                        With SSO handling authentication for connectors, agent users don't need to enter credentials or go through multiple screens when the agent retrieves information through a connector to a secured service.

                                                                                                                        When a maker creates an agent, they configure SSO authentication for the agent's connections. When the user starts the connection, the authentication and connection details happen automatically in the background by using the maker's preconfigured data.

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                                                                                                                          Public preview: Jun 2025
                                                                                                                          General availability: Jul 2025
                                                                                                                          Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                          A more efficient data source selection workflow helps you discover relevant knowledge sources faster and more effectively. You don't need to manually search through a list of data sources. Instead, you can search and select from a list to find the exact data source you need.

                                                                                                                          Feature Details

                                                                                                                          Connecting agents with the end user's work data through knowledge sources enhances the accuracy of the agent's responses by using domain knowledge. The main challenge in selecting knowledge sources is identifying relevant data and where it's located.

                                                                                                                          With this update, you get a new experience in Copilot Studio when you select the data sources to use in your agent.

                                                                                                                          Previously, you needed to know the exact name and location of the data source or spend time to find and select the source. Now, when you set up your agent's data sources, you get a search-first experience that answers your queries and shows applicable data sources.

                                                                                                                          The new selection experience works with existing knowledge sources and makes it easy to add new sources.

                                                                                                                          You see the new experience when you select data sources while configuring an agent. For more information, see selecting data sources.

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                                                                                                                            General availability: Jun 3, 2025
                                                                                                                            Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                            When you create agents that use Teams chat data, your makers can instantly deploy business-relevant agents. Agent users get more accurate answers about specific interactions that happen in Teams chats. This approach keeps institutional knowledge and information available.

                                                                                                                            Feature Details

                                                                                                                            Microsoft Teams is a comprehensive collaboration platform within the Microsoft 365 suite. It enhances workplace communication and productivity. The data in Teams, such as chat history, meeting recordings and transcripts, shared files, and channel communications, empowers an organization's effectiveness.

                                                                                                                            With this update, you can add Teams knowledge sources as a URL endpoint or through a data source selector. This update supports messages that you share or send in channels, meetings, and group chats.

                                                                                                                            When the agent user asks a question, the agent responds with information it gathers from message threads in Teams.

                                                                                                                            The availability of chats and information depends on the maker's and end user's access to the chats, channels, or meetings that you specify as the source.

                                                                                                                            Makers can't connect their agents to Teams chats if they don't have the meeting invite or aren't a member of the team or channel. Agent users receive responses only from chats they can access. If permissions don't match, the maker or agent user gets notified that they can't access the data source. The notification provides options to resolve the problem.

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                                                                                                                              General availability date moved to Jun 2025 5/19/2025 12:00:00 AM
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                                                                                                                              Public preview: ---
                                                                                                                              General availability: Jun 3, 2025
                                                                                                                              Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                              Business Value

                                                                                                                              Enhanced connectors unlock multiple capabilities for makers across the Power Platform ecosystem, driving more usage. In Copilot Studio, use these connectors to ground agents with knowledge.

                                                                                                                              Feature Details

                                                                                                                              Power Platform connectors play a critical role in allowing makers to build low-code apps, workflow automation, and AI agents. They provide seamless connectivity to various data sources.

                                                                                                                              With this feature, you can build enhanced Power Platform connectors on top of structured data. These connectors enable makers to use Power Fx when building apps and use knowledge sources in agents built in Copilot Studio.

                                                                                                                              The Power Platform Connector SDK for structured data enables developers to create a Web API that provides structured data. You can register the Web API as a connector in any Power Platform environment. When you register the Web API, you automatically enable the enhanced experience for makers.

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                                                                                                                                Public preview: May 19, 2025
                                                                                                                                General availability: Oct 2025
                                                                                                                                Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                                With advanced approvals, you can create approval workflows that match your organization's structure and business processes. You don't need to use complex manual workarounds to access new premium features – they're available automatically.

                                                                                                                                Feature Details

                                                                                                                                The main features of advanced approvals include:

                                                                                                                                • Multi-stage approvals: Users set up complex approval processes with multiple stages. Each stage has its own set of stakeholders who make approval decisions. You can configure each stage separately to meet the specific needs of those stakeholders. This feature mirrors the real-world approval workflows of organizations.

                                                                                                                                • Conditions/Conditional approvals: Users add conditions between stages to ensure flexible decision-making. Approvals are automatically approved, rejected, moved to another stage, or skipped based on whether specific conditions are met. This feature makes the approval process more adaptable and efficient.

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                                                                                                                                  Public preview: May 8, 2025
                                                                                                                                  General availability: Oct 2025
                                                                                                                                  Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                                  Included in:
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                                                                                                                                  This feature speeds up optimization by making it easier to understand usage patterns, identify areas for improvement, and optimize performance for the actions you configure for your organization's agents.

                                                                                                                                  Feature Details

                                                                                                                                  With enhanced visibility into how users utilize actions within an agent, you can use analytics to get actionable insights. This visibility helps you understand usage patterns, find areas for improvement, and optimize performance. By analyzing this data, you can make informed decisions, proactively resolve issues, and continuously refine your strategies to improve user experience and operational efficiency.

                                                                                                                                  The metrics include answer rate, action usage rate, and error rate. These metrics give you a complete view of how users interact with actions.

                                                                                                                                  You also get a detailed breakdown of errors so you can find and fix specific issues. You can see how many times users in your organization use the extension over a period of time. This information helps you as you update the extension. You get this experience for connector, prompt, and REST API extensions.

                                                                                                                                  By analyzing how often users take each action, which sources they use, and the error rates, you can improve the agent's effectiveness and reliability. This improvement leads to better user satisfaction and business outcomes.

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                                                                                                                                    Public preview: Mar 7, 2025
                                                                                                                                    General availability: Nov 2025
                                                                                                                                    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                                    Included in:
                                                                                                                                    2025 release wave 2
                                                                                                                                    2024 release wave 2

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                                                                                                                                    Makers can send feedback directly to the product team when they have a compliment, problem, or suggestion. They can capture their feedback at any stage of the authoring process, include a comment, and choose to send the product team extra metadata for troubleshooting. This feature benefits both makers and the product team. Makers can report issues (or things they like) without breaking their flow and with relevant surrounding context. The product team can quickly react to customer feedback without needing to go back and forth to get extra information for debugging and troubleshooting.

                                                                                                                                    Feature Details

                                                                                                                                    Today, end users of agents give feedback with the thumbs up or thumbs down gesture in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. We bring this ability to makers during authoring. Makers send feedback by using one of the following options:

                                                                                                                                    • Thumbs-up or thumbs-down control on AI-generated responses in the test pane
                                                                                                                                    • Send feedback button when they encounter a RAI validation failure
                                                                                                                                    • Send Feedback option in the menu at the upper right, anytime

                                                                                                                                    In each case, makers share a comment and can let us collect supporting metadata like AI prompt, AI response, and conversation ID when available. Makers can review this data before they send it. Some system metadata is collected automatically.

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                                                                                                                                      Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                                      Public preview: ---
                                                                                                                                      General availability: Feb 28, 2025
                                                                                                                                      Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                                      2024 release wave 2

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                                                                                                                                      Previously, restrictions existed on the SharePoint URL format. By enabling more SharePoint URL formats, this feature increases the usage of SharePoint data as knowledge sources in agents. The improved experience makes agent creation more efficient.

                                                                                                                                      Feature Details

                                                                                                                                      • Currently, the feature supports only SharePoint site URLs. Makers can copy and paste their SharePoint site URL in the Agent Builder's knowledge UI, but the feature restricts many URL formats.
                                                                                                                                      • This feature removes all of the restrictions without any UI change. For example, the previous version doesn't allow users to copy and paste SharePoint folder or item URLs. This version supports those URLs in Agent Builder.
                                                                                                                                      • With this feature, users can get the SharePoint file, folder, or site URL as they normally do, such as from the Share button in the SharePoint app or from the browser's address bar. Then, makers can paste the URL directly in the input bar in Agent Builder's knowledge card. The agent uses the SharePoint materials' content whenever it needs the content.

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                                                                                                                                        Public preview: ---
                                                                                                                                        General availability: Feb 25, 2025
                                                                                                                                        Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                                        2024 release wave 2

                                                                                                                                        Enabled for:
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                                                                                                                                        Users can now use the agent builder experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to create and use their own agents. By creating agents with specific instructions and grounding information, users save time and enjoy a consistent experience. They can use these agents in their Copilot Chat experience or share them with colleagues to boost organizational productivity.

                                                                                                                                        Feature Details

                                                                                                                                        Agent builder in Copilot Chat is a new offering that adds pay-as-you-go agents to the existing free chat experience for Microsoft 365 commercial customers.

                                                                                                                                        All Copilot Chat users automatically get this feature. Users select Create an agent in the right rail to open the embedded agent builder.

                                                                                                                                        • Users describe their agent's purpose in natural language, including instructions like the tone the agent uses.
                                                                                                                                        • Users set up the agent on the Configure page by entering values such as website grounding (if their admin enables it), SharePoint files, and connectors (if their license allows them).
                                                                                                                                        • Users test the agent in the test chat panel before publishing it.

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                                                                                                                                          General availability: Feb 24, 2025
                                                                                                                                          Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                                          2024 release wave 2

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                                                                                                                                          Instead of always searching the entire internet, agents grounded to specific public websites give users more relevant responses. This improvement makes agents easier to use and drives more usage of both the knowledge sources and the agent.

                                                                                                                                          Feature Details

                                                                                                                                          • Embedded Agent Builder enables this feature.
                                                                                                                                          • Previously, makers could enable web search only by toggling the web content option on or off. When this feature is available, makers can add website URLs through the conversational builder bot or the Configure UI panel to narrow the agent's search to specific websites.
                                                                                                                                          • When you add URLs and create the agent, the agent answers questions using content from the specified websites through Bing search.
                                                                                                                                          • You can add up to four URLs. The feature doesn't support URLs that contain query parameters or URLs that have more than two levels of depth.

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                                                                                                                                            General availability: Feb 18, 2025
                                                                                                                                            Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                                            With these new capabilities, organizations can partition work across different team members. The capabilities allow more reuse across different copilot projects and empower centers of excellence. In turn, ISVs can create and reuse assets to accelerate solution building for customers.

                                                                                                                                            Feature Details

                                                                                                                                            Microsoft Copilot Studio is a powerful authoring environment where makers create sophisticated conversational assistants using generative AI and traditionally authored topics. As organizations create and deploy more copilots, they need to reuse common building blocks, such as topics, across copilots. For system integrators (SIs) and independent software vendors (ISVs), reusing building blocks across instances is also important.

                                                                                                                                            Copilot Studio enables customers to export and import topics across copilots and environments. This capability helps customers reuse content and speeds up the multi-copilot authoring environment.

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                                                                                                                                              Public preview date moved to Sep 2024
                                                                                                                                              General availability date moved to Sep 2024
                                                                                                                                              Apr 03, 2024
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                                                                                                                                              Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                                              Public preview: Oct 11, 2024
                                                                                                                                              General availability: ---
                                                                                                                                              Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                                              Business Value

                                                                                                                                              Embedded authoring empowers information workers to create Copilot agents that boost their personal and group productivity—right from the surfaces they're already using every day, Business Chat for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Teams. By making it easy and quick to create Copilot agents that users can instantly use throughout their organization, workers boost their personal and team productivity without having to learn or access a new app.

                                                                                                                                              Feature Details

                                                                                                                                              Without writing any code, you can create Copilot agents directly from your conversations with Microsoft 365 Copilot, both on Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and in the Teams app. Employees in your organization can easily tailor Copilot agents to fulfill specific use cases and scenarios, based on your organization's objectives, guidelines, and branding.

                                                                                                                                              You can build Copilot agents within the familiar Microsoft 365 environment you know, without needing to learn Power Platform concepts or new apps.

                                                                                                                                              With just a few clicks, you can create, share, and customize your Copilot agents. For example, you can connect to other knowledge sources to pinpoint the information Copilot should use to generate responses and act.

                                                                                                                                              Users can share their Copilot agents with other employees. Admins can use security governance controls within Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and Microsoft 365 to ensure business data stays within their business.

                                                                                                                                              For more customization, creators can open their Copilot agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio and use the full set of advanced copilot authoring and publishing capabilities.

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                                                                                                                                                General availability: Oct 10, 2024
                                                                                                                                                Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                                                Business Value

                                                                                                                                                The new agent creation experience helps you create a custom agent through everyday natural language conversation. It saves you time and effort by using generative AI to generate the name, description, high-quality instructions, and starter prompts. With just a few inputs in everyday language, you can set up a fully functional agent and quickly get started.

                                                                                                                                                Feature Details

                                                                                                                                                With this feature, you can use the simplified interface in Copilot Studio to quickly and easily build custom agents by using simple, natural language or manual steps.

                                                                                                                                                You can author your custom agent in two ways:

                                                                                                                                                • Use the Describe tab with natural, conversational language.
                                                                                                                                                • Use the Configure tab to build your agent manually.

                                                                                                                                                Both tabs work seamlessly together to provide a rich authoring experience.

                                                                                                                                                Use the Describe tab to create an agent with everyday natural language. As you provide information conversationally, the agent's name, description, instructions, and starter prompts update to refine the agent's behavior.

                                                                                                                                                This experience offers a rich yet simple natural language way to create a customized agent. You build agents in plain language by answering questions in the Describe chat. The agent updates with each turn of the conversation, and the changes save automatically.

                                                                                                                                                You can update the agent at any point in the conversation. Changes to the agent's name, description, and instructions take effect right away.

                                                                                                                                                You can add common knowledge sources by connecting to a public website or uploading a file through drag and drop in the Describe tab.

                                                                                                                                                To configure the agent's behavior, use the Configure tab.

                                                                                                                                                With the Configure tab, you can view and edit information about the agent, giving you more control.

                                                                                                                                                The Describe and Configure tabs stay in sync. The fields in the Configure tab update with the latest changes from the Describe tab. You can switch between the tabs to use the experience you prefer to author the agent.

                                                                                                                                                Agent fields

                                                                                                                                                The following table describes the fields that make up the agent:

                                                                                                                                                Field Description
                                                                                                                                                Name The name of your agent. Use a name that's descriptive and unique. Character limit of 30 characters.
                                                                                                                                                Icon An image that represents your agent and gives it a unique personality. Upload the image manually. Supported file type: PNG. Color icon resolution limit: 192x192 pixels. File size limit: 1 MB.
                                                                                                                                                Description The description helps the large language model (LLM) identify and use your agent for a specific task or situation. Make it as short, precise, and simple as possible. Character limit of 1,000 characters.
                                                                                                                                                Instructions Specific instructions for the agent. Enter the behavior you want your agent to follow. These instructions direct the agent's behavior, including its tasks and how it completes them. Character limit of 8,000 characters.
                                                                                                                                                Knowledge Add public websites, documents, SharePoint URLs, Dataverse, and more as knowledge sources for your agent. For details, see the supported knowledge sources section.
                                                                                                                                                Starter Prompts Starter prompts help other users understand commonly supported scenarios by your agent. Each starter prompt has a name and description. There's no minimum number of starter prompts.

                                                                                                                                                Test your agent

                                                                                                                                                The agent in the right pane is a temporary instance of the agent. It appears as a side-by-side screen within the authoring experience. Use it to test the agent while you're creating it or making updates to it. You can test your agent in the test pane to experience it in a way that end users would. The test pane is available as soon as the agent has a name, description, and instructions. It behaves according to those instructions like a fully developed agent, including the ability to respond to complex queries within its specified knowledge. The agent updates during each turn of the conversation as you add new information in the Describe or Configure tab.

                                                                                                                                                Building agents is an iterative process that goes through an author-edit-test cycle. When you're satisfied with the initial setup of your agent, select Continue to finish the initial creation phase. After that step, you can explore the world of tools, triggers, and topics.

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                                                                                                                                                  Public preview: May 27, 2024
                                                                                                                                                  General availability: ---
                                                                                                                                                  Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                                                  Included in:
                                                                                                                                                  2024 release wave 1

                                                                                                                                                  Enabled for:
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                                                                                                                                                  Business Value

                                                                                                                                                  Build a sense of security and trust in Microsoft Copilot Studio as a top-tier, enterprise-grade product. Makers can see how and when Microsoft has protected their agents, assessed their agents' status, and determine if any action is needed.

                                                                                                                                                  Feature Details

                                                                                                                                                  The feature automatically turns on for every agent you create in Copilot Studio. This feature set includes the following capabilities:

                                                                                                                                                  • Protection shield across views: Views for makers that show their agent's security status throughout Copilot Studio. Makers see that their agents are covered and secure.
                                                                                                                                                  • Agent-specific insights: A detailed view of an agent's security status. Makers and coders can easily monitor and assess threats and configurations for that agent.
                                                                                                                                                  • Actionable suggestions: Clear explanations of security information for makers, with straightforward calls to action. This feature provides guidance on actions makers can take, such as requiring authentication, and other actions that affect the agent, like an admin policy.
                                                                                                                                                  • Session and activity drill-down: Detailed security events and actions that help makers investigate specific sessions, activities, or prompts in test mode. The drill-down includes the scope of prompt attacks prevented, content moderation issues, and governance enforcement.

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                                                                                                                                                    Public preview date moved to Jun 2025 General availability date moved to Jul 2025 4/9/2025 12:00:00 AM
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                                                                                                                                                    Public preview: Jun 12, 2025
                                                                                                                                                    General availability: Jul 31, 2025
                                                                                                                                                    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                                                    Business Value

                                                                                                                                                    With this feature, you get deeper status visibility and richer troubleshooting knowledge, so you can diagnose and resolve issues more effectively.

                                                                                                                                                    Key benefits:

                                                                                                                                                    • Improved self-diagnosis: Identify and resolve issues on your own.
                                                                                                                                                    • Faster issue resolution: Enhanced self-debugging opportunities lead to quicker problem-solving.
                                                                                                                                                    • Increased customer satisfaction: Smoother, more efficient experience boosts overall satisfaction and loyalty.

                                                                                                                                                    Feature Details

                                                                                                                                                    Previously, makers had limited visibility into why their files weren't loading or being used effectively in runtime. With this update, they can now proactively address ingestion issues, reducing dependency on engineering support and speeding up deployment cycles.

                                                                                                                                                    This feature enhances the knowledge experience in Copilot Studio by surfacing real-time status updates and error diagnostics for each knowledge source file added.

                                                                                                                                                    When a knowledge file fails to load or has issues during processing, makers now see detailed status indicators and contextual troubleshooting guidance directly within the experience.

                                                                                                                                                    How to use the feature:

                                                                                                                                                    1. Go to the Knowledge Management page in Copilot Studio.
                                                                                                                                                    2. Upload or view existing knowledge files.
                                                                                                                                                    3. Check the new Status column to verify success or detect issues.
                                                                                                                                                    4. Select any flagged status to view tailored troubleshooting instructions.

                                                                                                                                                    Enabled for:

                                                                                                                                                    Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
                                                                                                                                                    This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
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                                                                                                                                                      Public preview: May 22, 2025
                                                                                                                                                      General availability: ---
                                                                                                                                                      Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

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                                                                                                                                                      Business Value

                                                                                                                                                      Empower makers and decision-makers by connecting enterprise data from Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations directly to agents in Copilot Studio. This connection enables data-driven conversations, reduces the time to insights and helps organizations reason over their business data more effectively without custom integrations.

                                                                                                                                                      Feature Details

                                                                                                                                                      With this capability, makers can add structured business data from Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations directly into Copilot Studio.

                                                                                                                                                      With this data, agents give high-quality answers based on operational data, such as financials, inventory, or customer records.

                                                                                                                                                      Makers select specific Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations tables to use as knowledge sources. Agents answer grounded questions over enterprise data with accuracy and context, without manual integration or scripting to surface data.

                                                                                                                                                      Makers add the knowledge sources in Copilot Studio when they create a new agent or configure or update an existing agent.

                                                                                                                                                      Enabled for:

                                                                                                                                                      Users by admins, makers, or analysts
                                                                                                                                                      https://docs.microsoft.com/power-platform/release-plan/2025wave1/microsoft-copilot-studio
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                                                                                                                                                        Timelines:
                                                                                                                                                        Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                                                        Public preview: May 19, 2025
                                                                                                                                                        General availability: ---
                                                                                                                                                        Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                                                        Included in:
                                                                                                                                                        2025 release wave 1

                                                                                                                                                        Enabled for:
                                                                                                                                                        Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                                                                                                                                        Business Value

                                                                                                                                                        With CMK, security admins get stronger control over who can access your data and how they access it. When you protect your data, you give your business a strong security posture and keep control over your data. When you implement CMK in Copilot Studio, security admins know that agents your makers develop follow your business's security practices.

                                                                                                                                                        Feature Details

                                                                                                                                                        All customer data stored in Copilot Studio is encrypted at rest with strong Microsoft-managed encryption keys by default. Microsoft stores and manages the database encryption key for all your data, so you don't have to.

                                                                                                                                                        However, Power Platform provides an option to use customer-managed encryption key (CMK) for added data protection control. Admins can rotate or swap encryption keys on demand. They can revoke and manage their own keys to control access to your customer data at any time.

                                                                                                                                                        In this wave, we’re adding support for CMK in Copilot Studio. Your admins can control access to your data through Power Platform Managed Environments. Turn on CMK when you create the environment. It applies to all agents in that environment.

                                                                                                                                                        Admins can set up, configure, and manage CMK with Power Platform and Azure Key Vault. Power Platform only allows managed environments to enable CMK.

                                                                                                                                                        When you enable CMK in an environment, all Copilot Studio data is encrypted with customer keys. You can cycle, disable, and manage keys within your environment to control data access as your agents' and business needs change.

                                                                                                                                                        If you enable CMK in an environment before the public preview date, the environment doesn't use CMK.

                                                                                                                                                        Enabled for:

                                                                                                                                                        Users by admins, makers, or analysts
                                                                                                                                                        https://docs.microsoft.com/power-platform/release-plan/2025wave1/microsoft-copilot-studio
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                                                                                                                                                          Public preview date moved to Mar 2025
                                                                                                                                                          General availability date moved to Mar 2025
                                                                                                                                                          Oct 16, 2024
                                                                                                                                                          Timelines:
                                                                                                                                                          Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                                                          Public preview: Apr 7, 2025
                                                                                                                                                          General availability: May 20, 2025
                                                                                                                                                          Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                                                          Included in:
                                                                                                                                                          2025 release wave 1

                                                                                                                                                          Enabled for:
                                                                                                                                                          Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                                                                                                                                          Business Value

                                                                                                                                                          This feature gives admins a complete audit record of end-user activities when users interact with agents. With this record, security admins can reduce failures, enforce security constraints, meet compliance requirements, and respond to security threats.

                                                                                                                                                          Feature Details

                                                                                                                                                          Microsoft Purview now audits user interactions with agents you create in Copilot Studio.

                                                                                                                                                          Copilot Studio logs user interactions with generative AI and sends the logs to Purview. These logs give you context for analyzing and understanding the usability of conversations or agents. The logs show which knowledge sources users accessed and include the text transcript of the conversation.

                                                                                                                                                          At first, only activities from authenticated users are supported.

                                                                                                                                                          Enabled for:

                                                                                                                                                          Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
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                                                                                                                                                            General availability date moved to Jan 2025 1/14/2025 12:00:00 AM
                                                                                                                                                            Timelines:
                                                                                                                                                            Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                                                            Public preview: ---
                                                                                                                                                            General availability: Jan 10, 2025
                                                                                                                                                            Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                                                            Included in:
                                                                                                                                                            2024 release wave 2

                                                                                                                                                            Enabled for:
                                                                                                                                                            Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                                                                                            Business Value

                                                                                                                                                            System and bot admins can review billing and usage analytics in the Power Platform admin center. With this data, they can identify and report how teams within your organization use Microsoft Copilot Studio.

                                                                                                                                                            Feature Details

                                                                                                                                                            In 2023 release wave 2, the Power Platform admin center adds Microsoft Copilot Studio licensing and usage analytics. Your organization's admins can more easily report on and analyze the use of the organization's license. Admins can access this capability in the same experience where they monitor and analyze licensing and usage for other Power Platform products.

                                                                                                                                                            IT admins can also use PowerShell to get and work with usage and licensing data more efficiently.

                                                                                                                                                            Enabled for:

                                                                                                                                                            Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                                                                                              Change history


                                                                                                                                                              General availability date moved to Dec 2023 Oct 17, 2023
                                                                                                                                                              Timelines:
                                                                                                                                                              Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                                                              Public preview: ---
                                                                                                                                                              General availability: Jul 3, 2024
                                                                                                                                                              Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                                                              Included in:
                                                                                                                                                              2024 release wave 1

                                                                                                                                                              Enabled for:
                                                                                                                                                              Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                                                                                              Business Value

                                                                                                                                                              Voice agents should use selective hold periods when callers need time to retrieve information, similar to human agents. By playing music or promotional prompts during these pauses, the system prevents awkward silences that might suggest disconnection or audio problems caused by background noise. This involves gracefully pausing the conversation while playing music or promotional prompts. This approach ensures a smooth and professional caller experience, reduces escalations, and increases containment.

                                                                                                                                                              Feature Details

                                                                                                                                                              The Voice Hold and Resume feature introduces a dynamic interaction model within IVR systems, enabling bots to resume from a hold state upon detecting a predefined resume word—for example, the phrase “Got it.” This enhancement is designed to improve user experience by allowing seamless transitions from passive to active states without requiring DTMF input or full utterances.

                                                                                                                                                              The feature is available for all users who have the Optimize for Voice setting enabled for their agent. This setting unlocks voice capabilities like this one, which you will find under Hold and Resume in the question node properties.

                                                                                                                                                              For example, you could set up an agent to follow this interaction scenario:

                                                                                                                                                              1. Chose to either place the caller in an automatic hold following a prompt or allow the user to initiate a hold state by request. a. If the caller initiates the hold state, include the hold cue in the settings.
                                                                                                                                                              2. Include a cue message to inform the caller how to resume the call when ready
                                                                                                                                                              3. Create a list of resume cue words for the agent to listen to in order to resume the conversation.
                                                                                                                                                              4. Include an audio file that will play for the caller during the hold state.
                                                                                                                                                              5. Set the number of times you want the agent to prompt the caller if no resume cue words have been detected, as well as the amount of time to wait in between the prompts and the message you want the agent to use during each attempt.
                                                                                                                                                              6. Include a prompt message that will initiate when the call is being resumed

                                                                                                                                                              Enabled for:

                                                                                                                                                              Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
                                                                                                                                                              Admins | Makers
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                                                                                                                                                                Change history
                                                                                                                                                                Timelines:
                                                                                                                                                                Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                                                                Public preview: ---
                                                                                                                                                                General availability: Sep 2025
                                                                                                                                                                Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                                                                Included in:
                                                                                                                                                                2025 release wave 1

                                                                                                                                                                Enabled for:
                                                                                                                                                                Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

                                                                                                                                                                Business Value

                                                                                                                                                                By integrating a voice-enabled copilot through Dynamics 365 Customer Service, you drastically improve self-service capabilities and reduce the load on your agents by enabling generative answers optimized for voice interactions.

                                                                                                                                                                Feature Details

                                                                                                                                                                Enhance your voice-enabled copilots with generative answers optimized for voice-based conversations.

                                                                                                                                                                With this feature, your copilot can search different data sources and return concise responses formatted for text-to-speech (TTS) without needing to manually author any topics. The feature uses the same authoring configurations and runtime integration, including responsible AI checks, as the core generative answers technology in Copilot Studio. The only difference is the proprietary prompt instructions.

                                                                                                                                                                You can use this feature in the same geographical regions as the core generative answers functionality. It's available in all 26 voice-optimized locales in Copilot Studio.

                                                                                                                                                                Enabled for:

                                                                                                                                                                Users by admins, makers, or analysts
                                                                                                                                                                This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
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                                                                                                                                                                  Change history
                                                                                                                                                                  Timelines:
                                                                                                                                                                  Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                                                                  Public preview: ---
                                                                                                                                                                  General availability: Nov 1, 2024
                                                                                                                                                                  Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                                                                  Included in:
                                                                                                                                                                  2024 release wave 2

                                                                                                                                                                  Enabled for:
                                                                                                                                                                  Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                                                                                                                                                                  Business Value

                                                                                                                                                                  Native voice integration in Microsoft Copilot Studio dramatically improves the experience of building voice-enabled bots for customers who use the voice channel in Omnichannel for Customer Service. When your bot includes voice responses and analysis, you increase the ways your customers can interact with your business. Voice integration gives customers faster, more efficient resolutions to common questions. It improves your deflection rate and customer satisfaction scores.

                                                                                                                                                                  Feature Details

                                                                                                                                                                  Microsoft Copilot Studio includes native voice authoring capabilities when you use it with the Voice channel in Dynamics 365 Omnichannel for Customer Service integrations.

                                                                                                                                                                  These capabilities include:

                                                                                                                                                                  • Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) input, including single-digit and multidigit processing, so users can use their phone keypad to interact with the bot.
                                                                                                                                                                  • Silence detection for prompts, including retries and reprompts, and configurable actions when there's no response.
                                                                                                                                                                  • Barge-in control for determining whether the bot can be interrupted.
                                                                                                                                                                  • SSML support so you can configure how the bot sounds for each message. You can include playing audio files to the user instead of text-to-speech.
                                                                                                                                                                  • Long-running operation latency message.
                                                                                                                                                                  • Enhanced speech recognition based on bot content.

                                                                                                                                                                  Enabled for:

                                                                                                                                                                  Users, automatically

                                                                                                                                                                    Change history
                                                                                                                                                                    Timelines:
                                                                                                                                                                    Early Access: ---
                                                                                                                                                                    Public preview: ---
                                                                                                                                                                    General availability: Oct 31, 2024
                                                                                                                                                                    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                                                                                                                                                                    Included in:
                                                                                                                                                                    2024 release wave 2

                                                                                                                                                                    Enabled for:
                                                                                                                                                                    Users, automatically