15 upcoming features included in release plans
Generative actions let your makers focus on managing plugins and maintaining artifacts. Businesses can save time as makers don't need to build agents manually, and users get better responses as agents can more easily answer unanticipated questions from the user.
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General availability date moved to Jan 2025 |
Dec 02, 2024 |
Customers can add to the value of Microsoft 365 Copilot by customizing it to their needs with custom engine copilots to create rich, organization-specific solutions that can be easily accessed and interacted with from Microsoft Copilot. In addition, customers who already have Copilot Studio-built custom agents can use that existing functionality in Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is ever-present across the Microsoft 365 product suite, including office.microsoft.com, Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Use the powerful capabilities and customization of AI models with Azure OpenAI on your data to upload and index content that can be used in your copilots, providing immediate value from the copilot without manual topic authoring.
Makers can build copilots that use pre-built Azure AI Search indexes as knowledge for more relevant and accurate grounded responses.
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General availability date moved to Mar 2025 |
Nov 25, 2024 |
Makers can build Copilots that use non-Microsoft data from external systems as knowledge for more relevant and accurate grounded responses on real-time data with no data movements.
Makers can add data from any system they can connect to with a Power Platform connector as knowledge in Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Improve the effectiveness of your copilot by leveraging enhanced insights to understand how your copilot helps your users and get AI-based suggestions that guide you on the improvements you can take so you can maximize your business goals.
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Public preview date moved to Jun 2024 Removed general availability date |
May 29, 2024 |
Avoid and mitigate governance and installation hassles for administrators with a new entry point in Microsoft Copilot Studio to discover Agents built by Microsoft and install with guided experience.
Admins and Makers can easily get started with out-of-the-box extensions containing Power Platform connectors, topics, flows, and configuration files. These provide business logic and configuration presets to quickly enable 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.
This feature lets you use your own encryption keys when encrypting data provided to an agent by your users, or when providing data to Microsoft. Using both your own organization's keys, as well as those provided by Microsoft, gives you greater control and assurance for ensuring your data is protected.
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Public preview date moved to Jan 2025 |
Oct 16, 2024 |
Reduce the number of decisions a maker needs to make for adding knowledge to their copilot by offering a copilot connector that has both Power Platform connectors and Graph connector functionality, making it easier for makers to adopt copilot for their existing ecosystems.
WhatsApp channel support in Microsoft Copilot Studio enables customers in many markets to access a large audience previously unavailable. Azure Communication Services for chat integration enables customers to engage with audiences in their custom solutions built with Communication Services chat. Communication Services SMS brings native SMS support to Microsoft Copilot Studio copilots.
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Public preview date moved to Sep 2024 Removed general availability date |
Apr 03, 2024 |
Makers can test and debug actions in their agents before publishing, so they can account for issues or surprises with how actions work.
This feature speeds up optimization by making it easier and simpler to understand usage patterns, identify areas for improvement, and optimize performance for the actions configured for your organization's agents.
This feature speeds up optimization by making it easier and simpler to understand how well a knowledge source is performing, and to contextually see usage and analytics for the knowledge source within the knowledge configuration process. This means you can iterate, refine, update, and provide agents to your users in a convenient place.