Microsoft 365 Copilot Resources

What is Microsoft 365 Copilot?

• What is Microsoft 365 Copilot? — overview and core capabilities
• Microsoft 365 Copilot product page — features, plans, and pricing
• Microsoft Copilot Adoption Hub — resources for every stage of your Copilot journey
• Microsoft 365 Copilot documentation — complete documentation hub on Microsoft Learn

Quickstarts

• Set up Microsoft 365 Copilot — step-by-step setup guide for IT admins
• User enablement resources — getting started resources and training materials for everyday users
• Copilot help & support — how-to articles and troubleshooting

Overview

• Agents in Microsoft 365 — full catalog of Microsoft-built agents with availability status, documentation, and demos

Generally available

• Researcher — tackles complex, multi-step research tasks and delivers comprehensive, cited reports in hours instead of days | FAQ
• Analyst — turns raw data into insights and visualizations; works with spreadsheets and data files without requiring any coding knowledge
• Facilitator — keeps everyone aligned during Teams meetings with shared live notes, captured decisions, and action items
• Interpreter — lets meeting participants speak and hear in their own language, breaking down language barriers across global teams
• Employee Self-Service — helps employees instantly answer HR and IT questions, resolve issues, and complete common requests on their own

Public preview

• Project Manager — automates project planning in Planner, from creating plans and assigning tasks to generating status reports
• Agents in Channels — Teams channel experts grounded in your team's conversations and meetings, helping everyone stay on top of tasks
• Agents in Communities — accelerates knowledge sharing in Viva Engage communities by making expertise readily available across your organization

Frontier

• People — helps you prepare for upcoming meetings, draws on past interactions, and finds colleagues with specific skills
• Workforce Insights — helps leaders understand how their organization is managed, structured, and staffed to inform workforce decisions
• Learning — offers personalized Copilot tips based on your current work and surfaces curated learning paths to build new skills

Get started

• Agent Builder in Microsoft 365 Copilot — create agents without code directly in the Copilot experience
• Build agents with Agent Builder — step-by-step guide to creating, configuring, and publishing an agent from a template or from scratch
• Agent Builder overview — capabilities, licensing, data processing, admin controls, and limitations
• Build your own agent with Microsoft 365 Copilot — Microsoft Support walkthrough with visual guides for end users
• Choose between Agent Builder and Copilot Studio — when to use Agent Builder vs. Copilot Studio for your scenario
• Get started with Copilot Studio — build and publish agents with full low-code tooling

Templates & examples

• Agent Builder templates overview — start from a pre-built template to accelerate agent creation; templates apply design guidelines and industry best practices
• Agent templates and examples — browse the full template gallery including Customer Insights Assistant, Interview Question Assistant, Quiz Tutor, Scrum Assistant, RFP Proposal Generator, and more
• Awesome Copilot Studio Agents — community-curated gallery of agent templates and prompt libraries

Share, manage & govern

• Share and manage agents built with Agent Builder — sharing limits, publishing workflows, and lifecycle management
• Manage agents in the Microsoft 365 admin center — view, block, assign, and remove agents across your tenant
• Agents admin guide for Microsoft 365 — Copilot Control System, access policies, and sharing configuration
• Microsoft 365 Agents Checklist — deployment checklist covering objectives, costs, RAI, permissions, and rollout phases
• Agent Governance Whitepaper — comprehensive guidance on agent lifecycle, compliance, data security, and responsible AI
• New Agent Management Experience in M365 Admin Center — Tech Community post on the dedicated Agents & Connectors admin hub

Videos & tutorials

• Microsoft 365 Copilot | Copilot Studio Agent Builder — official Microsoft walkthrough of building an agent with natural language
• Build and Use Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Complete Tutorial — Lisa Crosbie — beginner-friendly end-to-end walkthrough
• How to Build Your First Copilot Agent in Microsoft 365 — step-by-step guide from configuration to deployment and workflow automation
• Copilot Studio Agent Academy — modular, self-paced training with rank progression for agent building skills

Blog posts & articles

• Copilot Agents: Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, or Foundry? — comparison guide for choosing the right agent-building approach
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Pricing — AI Agents — licensing details for Agent Builder (included with Copilot) vs. Copilot Studio for external publishing

• Microsoft 365 Copilot blog — official announcements on Microsoft Tech Community
• Microsoft 365 Blog — product news and updates
• Microsoft 365 Copilot roadmap — upcoming features and recent releases
• Ignite 2025 Book of News — all announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025
• Copilot and agents built to power the Frontier Firm — Ignite 2025 announcement blog (Nov 2025)

Ignite 2025 sessions

• KEY01 Opening Keynote
• BRK306 Introducing Microsoft Agent 365: The Control Plane for AI Agents

Adoption resources

• Microsoft Copilot Adoption Hub — the primary destination for your Copilot rollout
• Copilot Scenario Library — real-world use cases across roles and industries
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Success Kit — templates, guides, and resources for a successful rollout

Change management

• Copilot adoption and onboarding guide — end-to-end IT admin guide for enabling Copilot in your organization
• Prepare your organization for Copilot — phased adoption learning path from pilot to scale
• User enablement resources — training materials and communication templates for end users

Deployment

• Requirements and prerequisites — licenses, tenant configuration, and connectivity requirements
• Set up Microsoft 365 Copilot — step-by-step deployment guide for IT admins

Ignite 2025 sessions

• BRK311 Drive agent adoption with Microsoft 365 Copilot and the Agent Store

Microsoft Learn

• Get started with Microsoft 365 Copilot — learning path for new users
• Prepare your organization for Microsoft 365 Copilot — IT admin learning path
• Browse all Microsoft 365 Copilot training modules — full catalog on Microsoft Learn

Copilot Academy

• Microsoft Copilot Academy — self-paced training for users and champions

Certifications

• MS-900: Microsoft 365 Fundamentals — foundational certification covering M365 including Copilot
• MS-4006: Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals — certification for IT admins deploying and managing Copilot
• MS-102: Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert — advanced admin certification for M365 environments

Videos

• Microsoft 365 Copilot: Complete Tutorial for Beginners (2026) — Lisa Crosbie
• Microsoft 365 YouTube channel — Copilot how-to videos and demos

Setup and management

• Set up Microsoft 365 Copilot — step-by-step guide for admins
• Manage Microsoft 365 Copilot in the Admin Center — configure Copilot features, user access, and data controls
• Licensing guidance — license requirements and assignment

Governance and privacy

• Privacy and data security in Microsoft 365 Copilot — how Copilot handles your organization's data
• Data protection architecture — sensitivity labels, oversharing controls, and auditing architecture
• Microsoft 365 Copilot agents admin guide — manage agents deployed in your organization

Copilot Dashboard and usage reports

• Microsoft Copilot Dashboard — measure Copilot adoption and impact with Viva Insights
• Microsoft 365 Copilot usage reports — track usage across apps in the Admin Center

Ignite 2025 sessions

• BRK294 IT Excellence in the AI era: Copilot and agents, impact and control
• BRK293 From oversharing to oversight: Managing risks in the AI era

Get started extending Copilot

• Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot — overview of all extensibility options
• Declarative agents overview — build focused, role-specific agents grounded in your data
• Plugins overview — extend Copilot with custom actions and API integrations
• Build and Use Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Complete Tutorial (2026) — Lisa Crosbie (YouTube)

Connectors

• Microsoft Graph connectors for Copilot — bring external content into Microsoft 365 for Copilot to reason over
• Build your own Graph connector — index external data sources with the Microsoft Graph API
• API plugins — connect Copilot to live data and actions via REST APIs

SDK and Toolkit

• Microsoft 365 Agents SDK — documentation | GitHub
• Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit — overview | GitHub

Ignite 2025 sessions

• BRK313 What's new in Copilot Studio and roadmap
• BRK312 How to build and publish your agent to the Agent Store
• BRK314 Building agents with Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry

• OfficeDev/Copilot-for-M365-Samples — official Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility samples on GitHub
• Sample Solution Gallery — community and Microsoft samples for Copilot scenarios
• pnp/copilot-prompts — community-curated prompt library for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Data protection

• Privacy and data security in Microsoft 365 Copilot — how Copilot processes and protects your data
• Microsoft Trust Center — privacy, compliance, and security commitments

Microsoft Purview

• Microsoft Purview for AI and Copilot — data security posture management, auditing, DLP, and eDiscovery for Copilot
• Sensitivity labels and information protection — ensure Copilot respects your data classification
• Audit logs for Copilot interactions — track and investigate Copilot activity in your tenant

Zero Trust

• Apply Zero Trust principles to Microsoft 365 Copilot — identity, access, and data protection guidance
• Zero Trust guidance hub — comprehensive Zero Trust framework and deployment guidance

Responsible AI

• Microsoft Responsible AI — principles, practices, and tools for responsible AI development

Ignite 2025 sessions

• BRK251 Data security and governance in the age of AI with Microsoft Purview
• BRK265 Secure access for AI agents with Microsoft Entra

• Microsoft 365 Copilot Tech Community Blog — announcements and deep dives from the product team
• Microsoft 365 Copilot community forum — ask questions and share knowledge with the community
• Microsoft Copilot Adoption community — champions network, events, and adoption resources
• Microsoft 365 Insider Program — try new Copilot features before they release broadly
• r/MicrosoftCopilot on Reddit — community discussions and tips