Plan and prepare for Microsoft Copilot Studio in 2025 release wave 2

Overview

Copilot Studio is a SaaS agent platform that helps organizations build agents efficiently. It offers features for creating agents, adding knowledge and instructions, connecting to various tools, creating autonomous workflows and processes, and securely operating agents. You can monitor agent performance and understand its impact.

In the upcoming release, Copilot Studio makes it easier and more effective to create and operate agents. One key feature in this new phase is advanced integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, which includes autonomous agents that execute tasks independently or on behalf of users. With Copilot Tuning, you can fine-tune and train models using specific data, so agents always have access to relevant information.

Updates to Microsoft Copilot Studio 2025 release wave 2

Investment areas

Copilot and AI innovation
Microsoft Copilot Studio leads the way in using AI to create clear and appropriate responses to your users' questions and issues. Copilot Studio combines the latest generative AI technologies with GPT models to build more conversational agents.

The generative answers capability in Microsoft Copilot Studio lets you specify existing internal and external sources that an agent can use to answer a user's questions. This capability uses AI to intelligently create fully conversational responses to your users' queries without requiring you to manually create individual topics for every possibility.

Generative actions dynamically create conversations by using AI to find and connect the right plugins in real time. Makers set up their agent with the right plugins. Then, with generative AI, the system automatically decides which plugins to use, what information it needs from the user, and how to guide the conversation and run the plugins until it completes the request.

Copilot configuration
When you configure an agent, set all the options and capabilities that let you define your target audience. Set these options to choose publishing channels, extend existing copilots, manage resource allocation across creators and environments, and set up system behaviors for analytics, logging, and data retention.

Core authoring
When you create an agent with Microsoft Copilot Studio, you use the low-code authoring canvas. You can choose how topics interact, how the conversation flows, and what the experience feels like.

You can test the agent without deploying it when you make a change. The solution includes lesson topics that guide you through topic authoring from simple to complex scenarios, along with default system topics. You can choose the language for your copilot. Use variables and entities to help your agent understand users better. Add rich content to make your agent more relatable and easier to use.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Copilot Studio below:

For application administrators

User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.

Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.

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