Microsoft Copilot Studio: Top Announcements from Ignite!

Here is my take on the most important headline announcements about Copilot Studio from Microsoft Ignite 2024. In this video, I break down the headline announcements to help you understand what's important and why, and the direction of what we will be able to do with building agents. I cover

✅ The difference between Copilot and Agents, and where Copilot Studio fits in
✅ Autonomous and multimodal agents
✅ Improvements to the quality of generative answers, particularly for SharePoint
✅ The relationship between Copilot Studio and Azure AI and new features to bring your own model
✅ New analytics and billing options

Let me know in the comments what you'd like to learn more about!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Copilot Studio, Copilots and Agents
1:18 - Copilot Studio Headline announcements at Ignite
1:27 - Autonomous Agents
3:31 - Improved generative answers especially for SharePoint
5:33 - Knowledge curation
7:38 - Copilot Studio vs Azure AI
8:14 - Bring your own Azure AI knowledge
9:19 - Bring your own Azure AI models
10:34 - Multimodal agents
12:30 - Microsoft 365 Agents SDK
13:40 - Analytics
14:27 - Pay as you go billing
15:16 - Agent Builder

[RykNeethling]

Great stuff Lisa, appreciate your effort in doing these videos. 🎉🎉🎉

[djinator]

Another great summary from you Lisa about Ignite. This is much appreciated!

[brendanlore]

Thank you, Lisa for another great video / explanation!

[markshark]

Thank you Lisa. Great summary, saves so much time 😎

[BNSFFoamer]

The knowledge and details shared here are amazing with your focus and ability to clearly showcase these new features - you are better than the Microsoft team at this. One feedback - the audio is painful with the white noise or background noise when wearing headphones (maybe it's just me).

[ZePowerDiver]

Very well explained, thank you Lisa ;)

[imnotu]

I just started my RAG journey last week, and quickly discovered Copilot Studio and this amazing YouTube channel. Is it me, or did Microsoft just add the requirement that the maker of the Copilot agent must be the owner of the Public website in order to effectively include the public websites data as a Knowledge source. If that is true is significantly reduces the power of the Copilot agent. Can anyone provide more insight on the implications of including Public websites owned by others?

[crmdeveloper]

Thank you Lisa for this video :) When will the Knowledge related features (knowledge curation) be available?

[nikhilnarale]

Hi Lisa, thank you for summarising. I have a question. You mentioned that using 365 SDK we can embed copilot agent to an external website, then how is it different from embedding a chatbot using an embed code from the ‘Custom Website’ option?

[driesvdc]

Very exciting, thanks for sharing. At USD 200 per month for a subscription, Copilot Studio is extremely expensive though

[bush]

Nice video.. Still behind relevance ai and zapier for actions.. But more secure i guess..

Can you talk about complex actions? Right now its only the hype and no use case..

[philipmead]

i cant find these new features in the knowledge and knowledge curation

[jounistroja]

Maybe I'm getting a bit but I'll believe the hype when I see it... I'm to used to MS over promising and under delivering....