Architecture Bootcamp - Latest
Architecture Bootcamp - Latest
Three-day architecture bootcamp with 17 modules and 11 labs covering the Copilot, Standard, and Customer Conversation harnesses, Cowork, managed apps, instructions, skills, knowledge, tools and hooks, workflows, and agent integration. Close with ALM, analytics, coding agents, AI FinOps, agent identity, and the Copilot Agent Kit.
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- 11Labs
- ~15.0hContent
- 100–200–300 Levels
Agenda
- Day 1 — Framing, On-ramp, Harnesses & Deep Dives
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09:00Welcome
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09:15Introduction to Hands-On Labs
Lab environment, tenant setup, and how the hands-on flow works across the three days.
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09:30
Opening frame for the bootcamp: what an agent actually is in 2026, the five kinds of agent, the three harnesses that sit on top of Copilot Studio, and the key concepts — knowledge, tools, skills, instructions, descriptions, plugins — that every later module builds on.
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10:15Coffee break / Q&A
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10:30
Microsoft 365 Copilot as an agent surface — public-web grounding, Work IQ, response modes, multi-model support, frontier agents, and where it sits against the other surfaces.
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11:00
Use Microsoft 365 Copilot chat, Work IQ, response modes, and multiple AI models to turn public and organizational information into decisi...
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11:15
Cowork at bootcamp altitude — what it is, where it fits against the other agent surfaces, and how skills and plugins extend it.
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11:45
Prepare a Zava Sales pipeline review, create slides and Outlook drafts, update CRM, and turn the workflow into a reusable, scheduled skill.
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12:15Lunch break
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13:15
Build a multi-day Bootcamp Lab Tracker through four Copilot Code prompts: create the app, apply a dark theme, add emojis, and introduce a...
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13:45
Dedicated pass over the Copilot harness: Agent Builder, pro-code declarative agents, and declarative agents authored in Copilot Studio.
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14:15
Draft: reuse a hotel-briefing skill in a shared Copilot agent, with a starter package and an optional code-based exercise.
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14:45Coffee break / Q&A
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15:00
Dedicated pass over the Standard harness and the component model it exposes in Copilot Studio.
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15:30
Assemble an agent in the Standard harness from its component parts — topics, knowledge, tools and variables — one piece at a time.
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16:00General Q&A
- Day 2 — Knowledge & Tools and the Dedicated Harnesses
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09:00Re-Welcome / Re-cap
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09:15
Copilot Studio harnesses, orchestration, and component models, introducing the deep dives on instructions, skills, knowledge, tools, and hooks.
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10:15Coffee break / Q&A
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10:45
Placeholder for the Instructions & Skills deep dive in Architecture Bootcamp Latest. Instructor content is coming soon.
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11:30
Build and test an RFP Response agent with an existing Skill, inspect its package, and chart source data in the sandbox. Optionally create...
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12:00Lunch break
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13:00
Merged deep dive on grounding and action: knowledge sources and retrieval, connectors, agent flows, custom prompts, MCP servers, and hooks.
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13:45
Build a Travel Policy Agent and use hooks to load the traveler's profile at session start, redact personal data with a classifier and an ...
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14:15Coffee break / Q&A
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14:30
Placeholder for the Customer Conversation Harness module in Architecture Bootcamp Latest. Instructor content is coming soon.
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15:00
Build the Zava Coffee Subscription Assistant as a Customer Assist Agent: a voice-first primary agent with a skill and voice instructions,...
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15:30
Placeholder for the Managed Apps module in Architecture Bootcamp Latest. Instructor content is coming soon.
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16:00
Build an app from the live bootcamp lab schedule in Copilot Studio Apps, then save and restore completion using a CSV file in your own On...
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16:30Social / Networking
- Day 3 — Workflows & Operations
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09:00Re-Welcome / Re-cap / Quiz
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09:30
Workflows are the next generation of autonomous agents in Copilot Studio, combining agent connections with scheduled and event-driven triggers. This is the Architecture Bootcamp Latest module; other workshops retain the shared Workflows module.
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10:15Coffee break / Q&A
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10:30
Build an autonomous agent using Workflows — the next generation of autonomous agents in Copilot Studio — with an event-driven trigger and...
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11:00
Placeholder for the Agent Integration module in Architecture Bootcamp Latest. Instructor content is coming soon.
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11:30
Build a Zava operations agent team with a connected Copilot Studio specialist, an external A2A dispatch advisor, and Skills containing sy...
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12:00Lunch break
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13:00
One operations module: traditional ALM and component collections, folded together with reporting, analytics, and agent evaluations.
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13:30
Coding agents against Copilot Studio: the plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code, migrating existing agents, and creating new ones from the terminal.
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14:00Coffee break / Q&A
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14:15
Token optimization for creation and execution. Copilot credit management and capacity planning.
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14:45
Placeholder for the Agent Identity module in Architecture Bootcamp Latest. Instructor content is coming soon.
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15:00
Develop, govern, and test custom agents with the Copilot Agent Kit: validate AI-generated content, optimize prompts, and track aggregated key performance indicators.
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15:30General Q&A