This feature integrates the benefits of the power platform catalog to Microsoft Copilot Studio, enabling administrators to discover, install, and manage agents across power platform dataverse environments.

Before installing an agent, administrators can review and make corrections to the configurations, connections, and environment variables associated with the agent.

Installation status, details, and results can be tracked without deviating from the underlying work.

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

Often you will have a need to use an action in multiple Copilot deployments, however today you need to recreate the same action in each deployment to have the same experience.

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

This means you will be able to reuse important functionality without requiring them to reconfigure the same action multiple times.

The interface provides a Publish button that provides a list of all available endpoints within the environment that you can select from. You can then submit the actions to additional selected endpoints for administrator approval with a few simple clicks.

This feature is turned on by default and does not require any configuration to enable.

This feature allows makers and admins to unpublish a previously published Copilot connector.

Copilot connectors allow makers to connect actions and activities from other services to Microsoft 365 Copilot. However, connectors may need to be disabled in certain scenarios. For example, the content or data being connected to is out of date, your business is no longer using a specific service, or you need to take it offline to make updates to the connector's configuration.

A maker can select a connector and unpublish it to return it to its draft state and prevent it from being shown as ready and usable in Microsoft 365 Copilot. When a published connector is returned to a draft state, its associated solutions will also be updated. Draft solutions can either be edited and published or deleted.

Admins in the environment can unpublish any connectors present; makers can only unpublish the connectors they own.

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

With enhanced visibility into how actions are being utilized within an agent, you can leverage analytics to drive actionable insights. This visibility allows you to understand usage patterns, identify areas for improvement, and optimize performance. By analyzing this data, you can make informed decisions, proactively address issues, and continuously refine your strategies to enhance user experience and operational efficiency.

The metrics provided will include answer rate, action usage rate, and error rate, giving you a comprehensive view of how users are interacting with actions.

Additionally, there will be a detailed breakdown of errors, allowing you to pinpoint specific issues and address them effectively. You can view how many times the extension was used by users in their organization over a period of time, providing valuable visibility as they iterate on the extension built. This experience will be available for connector, prompt, and REST API extensions.

By analyzing how often each action is used, which sources are utilized, and the error rates, you can improve the agent's effectiveness and reliability, leading to better user satisfaction and business outcomes.

This feature brings analytics specific to knowledge curation in Copilot Studio.

When working with knowledge sources in Copilot Studio, you can see valuable insights into the performance of your individual knowledge sources. You can view detailed metrics for the following, directly from the knowledge page in Copilot Studio:

Knowledge source usage: This metric shows the frequency of use for each knowledge source, helping you understand which sources are most popular or effective. Answer rate: This metric indicates the percentage of queries that were successfully answered using the knowledge sources, providing insight into their accuracy and reliability. Error rate: This metric tracks the number of errors encountered, allowing you to identify and address any issues with the knowledge sources.

By analyzing these metrics, you can make informed decisions to improve the performance and effectiveness of their knowledge sources.

Connecting agents with the end user's work data with knowledge sources enhances the accuracy of the agent's responses through domain knowledge. The main challenge in knowledge source selection is identifying relevant data and its location.

With this update, we're rebuilding the experience in Copilot Studio when you select the data sources they want to use in their agent.

Previously, selecting data sources required either existing knowledge of the precise name and location of the data source, or dedicated time to locate and select the source. Now, when you configure your agent's data sources, you'll have a search-first experience that responds to queries and returns applicable data sources.

The new selection experience is backwards compatible with existing knowledge sources and allows for easily integrating new sources.

You will see the new experience when selecting data sources while configuring an agent.

This feature improves how you can test and improve you actions when building agents:

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

Debugging and recommendations: Features such as plugin run history, in-line recommendations, and workflow visibility are invaluable. These tools help you trace issues, understand exceptions, and make effective improvements to your actions. This comprehensive approach to debugging ensures that any problems are quickly identified and resolved, enhancing the overall efficiency of the development process.

Simulated test data: Creating a set of test data allows you to 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 have been thoroughly vetted for any potential issues.

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

With this update, makers can add Teams knowledge sources as a URL endpoint or through a data source selector. This includes messages shared or sent in channels, meetings, and group chats.

When asked a question by the agent user, the agent will respond with information gathered from message threads in Teams.

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

This means makers can't connect their agents to Teams chats if the maker doesn't have the meeting invite or isn't a member of the team or channel. Agent users will also only receive responses generated from chats they currently have access to. In the case of mismatching permissions, either the maker or the agent user will be notified that they don't have access to the data source and given options to resolve the problem.

The feature is automatically turned on for every agent created in Copilot Studio. This feature includes:

• Protection shield across views: Views for makers indicating their agent's security throughout Copilot Studio, giving makers confidence that their agents are covered and secure.
• Agent-specific insights: Provide a detailed view of an agent's security status, so that makers and coders can easily monitor and assess threats and configurations for that agent.
• Actionable suggestions: Explain security information to makers clearly, with straightforward calls to action. This includes guidance on actions makers can take (such as requiring authentication) and other actions that affect the agent (such as an admin policy).
• Session and activity drill-down: Help makers investigate specific sessions, activities, or prompts in test mode with detailed security events and actions. The drill-down also includes the scope of prompt attacks prevented, content moderation issues, and governance enforcement.

Microsoft Copilot Studio now allows you to use your own customer manager encryption keys (CMKs, hosted in Microsoft Azure Key Vault) to govern how Copilot Studio encrypts your copilot content.

By using customer managed encryption keys (CMKs), you can ensure that any data provided to your agent by your users, and the data you provide to Microsoft, is encrypted both with Microsoft-owned keys as well as your own keys. You maintain control of your keys, providing you with further protection over the security of your data and ensuring you have control over how your data is stored at rest.

Key capabilities include:

• Hosting with Azure Key Vault to manage your keys, lifetimes, and rotation periods.
• Encryption of all your content, including copilot topics, settings and configurations, and conversation transcript data.
• Rotation of CMKs.
• Revocation of access, if necessary.

The Public Preview for December will support allowing CMKs for environments that currently don't support CMKs.