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Copilot and AI innovation

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.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Jan 2025

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history


General availability date moved to Jan 2025
Dec 02, 2024
Copilot and AI innovation

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : Feb 2025

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history
Copilot and AI innovation

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.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Feb 2025

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history
Copilot and AI innovation

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

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Dec 05, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 11, 2024
General Availability : Mar 2025

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history


General availability date moved to Mar 2025
Nov 25, 2024
Copilot and AI innovation

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Dec 05, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 18, 2024
General Availability : Mar 2025

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history
Copilot and AI innovation

Makers can add data from any system they can connect to with a Power Platform connector as knowledge in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Mar 2025
General Availability : ---

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Copilot and AI innovation

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Oct 28, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Mar 2025
General Availability : ---

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Jun 2024
Removed general availability date
May 29, 2024
Copilot configuration

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.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability : Mar 2025

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history
Copilot configuration

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.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability : Mar 2025

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history
Copilot configuration

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.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability : Mar 2025

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Jan 2025
Oct 16, 2024
Copilot configuration

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.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Feb 2025
General Availability : Apr 2025

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Copilot configuration

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Mar 2025
General Availability : ---

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Sep 2024
Removed general availability date
Apr 03, 2024
Core authoring

Makers can test and debug actions in their agents before publishing, so they can account for issues or surprises with how actions work.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability : May 2025

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history
Core authoring

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Mar 2025
General Availability : May 2025

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history
Core authoring

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Dec 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : May 2025

Included in:
Microsoft Copilot Studio
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

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.
Change history