This week, Microsoft kept pushing AI beyond chat and deeper into actual work.

We saw Copilot start building team knowledge bases, Excel Copilot take on more tasks instead of just analysis, and a growing stream of announcements focused on agents, tools, memory, and business context. Even the Message Center is packed with signals that Microsoft is investing heavily in a future where agents can remember, reason, and get things done across your apps and data.

One post that stuck with me came from Jared Spataro, who argues that organisations will soon need to think about AI capacity the same way they think about people, budgets, and priorities. That’s a fascinating shift.

Plenty to unpack this week, so grab a coffee and let’s get into it.

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Introducing a team knowledge base, curated by Copilot and agents • Kripal Kavi

• Beyond Analysis: Copilot Gets to Work in Excel • Brian Jones

• 6 New Microsoft OneNote Features + Copilot Notebooks for ALL! (Fall 2026) • Mike Tholfsen

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• What will new developers do when AI writes the code? • Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich

• Build AI-powered apps without creating a vector database • Steve Pucelik

• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase • Christopher Harrison

• Build an agent with the GitHub Copilot Harness | EP04 • April Dunnam

• PRAISE: Preceptorship for AI-accelerated Software Engineering • Microsoft Developer and Scott Hanselman

• Ship an AI agent without leaving your terminal • Microsoft Developer and Julia Muiruri

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Multi-repo support and other improvements for GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams

• Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in mid-November

• Agentic autofix for code scanning alerts general availability

• Gemini 4 Argon in GitHub Copilot

• Enterprise managed settings enforcement updates

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Our first streaming transcription model debuts at no. 1 on Artificial Analysis • MAI Superintelligence Team

• AI-ready data: Building the foundation for enterprise AI at Microsoft • David Hirning

• From extraction to action: Using grounding and confidence to build reliable document workflows • Joe Filcik and Colin Murphy

• Evolving the cloud-native foundation for the next generation of AI • Mike Hulme

• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry • Nick Brady

• Automating engineering operations at Microsoft with a Smart DRI Agent • Alyse Maguire

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough • Arun Malik

Copilot Studio

• Adding skills to your agent | EP06 • Elaiza Benitez

• Adding tools to your agent | EP05 • Elaiza Benitez

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• AI Weekly: Agent Accounts, Legal Skills, and Copilot’s App Reset • Josh Cook

📢 Message Center

Microsoft 365 Message Center posts, via mc.merill.net.

• MC1239927 - Microsoft 365 Copilot for Teams: Bilingual consecutive interpretation mode with Interpreter agent

• MC1302906 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Schedule prompts in Agent Builder

• MC1404326 - Microsoft 365 admin center: New usage report for Copilot connectors

• MC1411727 - Copilot Notebooks: Suggested artifacts for faster content creation

• MC1469329 - Build apps in Microsoft Copilot Studio and Copilot Cowork

• MC1505609 - Microsoft 365 Copilot and Power Apps: Retirement of App Builder agent and vibe.powerapps.com

• MC1506318 - Copilot Studio - Information regarding the end of support for selected AI models

• MC1506735 - Microsoft Planner: AI-generated status reports in Planner Agent

• MC1509799 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Legal plugins in Word and Cowork

• MC1509805 - Microsoft Copilot: Additional content safety protections for students under 18

• MC1511052 - Upcoming changes to Agents in SharePoint and OneDrive

• MC1511056 - Microsoft Copilot Studio

• RM485731 - Microsoft 365: Use Copilot in your search tab in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app

• RM498640 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Capture voice notes in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app

• RM501292 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): User can use Hubspot Connector in Researcher

• RM519571 - Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports

• RM561485 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms

• RM568072 - Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard

• RM570673 - Work IQ: Retrieve

• RM570850 - Work IQ: Upload

• RM570851 - Work IQ: A2A and MCP long running tasks

• RM570852 - Work IQ: A2A and MCP elicitation

• RM570868: Work IQ: REST endpoint tools

• RM570870 - Work IQ: Microsoft IQ

• RM571888 - Power Apps: Model-driven applications in Business Apps in Work IQ

• RM573168 - Planner: Planner Agent in Copilot V2 Improvements

• RM573696 - SharePoint: Copilot Search in SharePoint and OneDrive

• RM573698 - Outlook: Copilot Chat available in shared and delegate mailboxes

• RM574105 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Integrate the Sales Development agent with Salesforce

• RM574111 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot response personalization

• RM575287 - Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention-Admin Units Support for Copilot & Cowork DLP

• RM575292 - Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Agent 365 reporting availability for Microsoft platform agents

• RM575298 - SharePoint: Agent chat web part

• RM576636 - Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Copilot and AI innovation - Use agentic simulations to evaluate contact center setup

• RM576754 - Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management: Copilot and AI innovation

• RM576755 - Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations cross-app: Boost productivity with Copilot - Boost agent performance with optimal tool execution paths in Dynamics 365 ERP MCP

• RM576775 - Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Copilot and AI innovation - Classify emails by category and subcategory with Case Management Agent

• RM576777 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Speed up processing with Known Senders in Payables Agent

• RM576788 - Microsoft Dataverse: Improved enterprise experiences in Power Platform - Enhance Dataverse record descriptions for Copilot /mention

• RM576789 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Unlock more Business Central data with MCP server enhancements

• RM576818 - Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Copilot and AI innovation - Improve customer outcomes with Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot

• RM576842 - Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Supervisor experiences - Provide real-time coaching with Quality Assurance Agent

• RM576843 - Microsoft Dataverse: Activate Enterprise Data in Copilot - Create Dataverse agent users with Microsoft Entra agent identity

• RM576850 - Dynamics 365 Sales: Copilot and AI innovation - Use Dynamics 365 Sales skills in Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork

• RM576851 - Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Copilot and AI innovation - Use Copilot Cowork to orchestrate insights and actions for representatives

💭 Joanne’s Corner

I’ve been spending more time with Copilot Notebooks lately, and I think it might be one of the most underrated features in Microsoft Copilot.

Most people still think of Copilot as a place to ask a question and get an answer. Notebooks feel different. They give you a dedicated space to collect documents, links, notes, and prompts around a topic, then keep building on that work over time.

It’s a subtle shift, but I’ve found it changes the way I use Copilot. Instead of starting from scratch every time, I can continue working with context that’s already there.

With Microsoft continuing to invest in Notebooks, including the new suggested artifacts feature, I’m curious whether Notebooks will become the default starting point for knowledge work in Copilot.

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🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

MSAI.ms is written between Melbourne and Dubai. Part of this work is created on Wurundjeri land, and we acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

If last week was big, this one was busy. It was all about agents "growing up” in the Microsoft AI world.

Microsoft dropped new Agent Experience playbooks, new Copilot super app features, local model tooling, and Microsoft‑Decision‑1, a fast decision‑making model built for agent workflows.

Everywhere you look, the stack is getting more agentic, smarter context, better tools, and more ways to actually ship real AI workflows.

Buckle up, there’s a lot to skim this week, and don’t miss Joanne’s Corner at the end!

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Building trust in AI-powered support at Microsoft: Our Employee Self-Service agent story • David Hirning

• Our Customer Zero guide: Enabling agent creation across Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Foundry • Alex Fleck

• Boosting product manager productivity at Microsoft with AI • Alyse Maguire

• 6 New Microsoft Copilot Features You’ll Want to Try • Mike Tholfsen

• The NEW Microsoft Copilot Super App • Mike Tholfsen

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Introducing the Agent Experience (AX) Practitioner Playbook • Waldek Mastykarz

• Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot • Patrick Nikoletich and Stuart Schaefer

• From Spec-First to Enterprise-Ready: Extending GitHub Spec Kit • Apoorv Gupta

• What is Agent Experience (AX)? • Waldek Mastykarz

• ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review • Michelle Zhou and Alejandro Carderera de Diego

• VS Code Learn: Spring Boot with Copilot: Build, Debug, MCP & Playwright • Rory Preddy

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Claude Haiku 5.5 in GitHub Copilot

• Purpose-built model for leaked secret detection

• Local sandboxing for GitHub Copilot now generally available

• Discover local models in GitHub Copilot CLI

• Update your IDE to restore agent activity in Copilot usage metrics

• GitHub Copilot weekly releases

• New controls and chat improvements in Copilot for JetBrains

• GitHub Copilot weekly releases

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• AI transformation across the infrastructure lifecycle: From supply chain to fleet operations • Rani Borkar

• Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms • Michael MacKenzie

• Microsoft-Decision-1: Our model for fast decision-making • Achint Srivastava

• Beyond violation rates: Are your AI evals measuring the right things? • Xiawei Wang, Riccardo Fogliato, Abhinav Palia, Chang Liu, Yeming Tang, Heba Elfardy and Sandeep Atluri

• Building an agentic system and learning loop around customer IP • Milena Marinova, Kanio Dimitrov, Don Hejna and Yousef Al-Kofahi

• How to Use the NEW Agent Builder in Microsoft Copilot - Build an AI Agent in Minutes (2026) • Mike Tholfsen

🧩 Business Apps & Low Code

• Build Azure canvases with the Canvas authoring plugin • Alex Weininger

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Agent ID Effective Access: From Inventory to Permission Intelligence • David Alonso Dominguez

• Correlation Isn’t the only Proof: Building a Provenance Graph for AI-Agent Investigations • David Alonso Dominguez

Copilot Studio

• Are bigger agents better? How to design agents that scale • Gary Pretty

• Copilot Studio Fundamentals | EP02 • April Dunnam

• Creating a solution for your agent | EP03 • Microsoft Power Platform

• Introduction to Agents | EP01 • April Dunnam

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Turn Meeting Transcripts into Project Plans with GitHub Copilot Agents • Microsoft Developer, Justin Garrett and Mahmoud ATALLAH

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• When my agent is slow or wrong, where do I even look? • Microsoft Developer and April Gittens

• Your Agent Is Only as Smart as Its Context • Microsoft Developer and Ayça Baş

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• AI Weekly: Named Copilot Models, GPT-6.1, and Advanced Reasoning • Josh Cook

• A first test drive with Microsoft-Decision-1: Reviewing alert severity • Nicola Suter

Copilot Studio

• Copilot Studio Hooks: Build Five Practical Customer Ops Automations • Josh Cook

Upcoming Events

• .NET AI Community Standup: Build agentic experiences with the Blazor AI Components • dotnet

📢 Message Center

Microsoft 365 Message Center posts, via mc.merill.net.

• MC1259828 - Microsoft Purview: Credential scanning in Data Security Posture Agent

• MC1388706 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Legal agent available in Frontier worldwide

• MC1449182 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot Pages and Notebooks Creation in OneDrive

• MC1477999 - Microsoft Teams: Removing Copilot from the chat list

• MC1479277 - Microsoft Copilot: New ways to work across Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365

• MC1479519

• MC1483417 - Power Platform admin center – Support Agent is now generally available; Legacy support experience retired

• MC1483430 - Power Platform admin center – Update to the Copilot Studio Authors feature name

• MC1484008 - Microsoft Copilot: Introducing the Microsoft plugin registry for Microsoft Copilot experiences

• MC1486291 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: new guided Copilot onboarding experience

• MC1488488 - Microsoft Dataverse - Bulk generate prompt column values for existing records (backfill)

• MC1488843 - Microsoft Word for Android: Agent Mode

• MC1490903 - ‘Record A Skill’ Capability in PowerPoint Copilot

• MC1492154 - Enhanced M365 Copilot Memory - Copilot is now personalized with work data

• MC1492159 - Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint: ‘Clarify my thinking’ skill for Mac

• MC1492160 - Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint: ‘Clarify my thinking’ skill for web

• MC1492161 - Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint: ‘Clarify my thinking’ skill for desktop

• MC1493223 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Skills in Copilot Chat

• RM486696 - Outlook: Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot available in Copilot Chat in Outlook for Mac

• RM489825 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Overview of recent comments and changes in Word

• RM499898 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Viva Engage

• RM502541 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Improved discovery of Copilot connector sources in Microsoft 365 Copilot (optionally add chat) with Content Source filter(s)

• RM503771 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users in GCC-H will be able to use custom engine agents

• RM508524 - Outlook: User-initiated Copilot insights in classic Outlook

• RM515145 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Workforce Insights Agent

• RM537284 - Microsoft Edge: Adding contextual nudges to the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat icon

• RM552592 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Simplifying Content in the Input Box

• RM555852 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Branded footer in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app

• RM555886 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an email with Work IQ when using Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint to create a presentation

• RM560338 - Excel: Plan Mode for Copilot in Excel

• RM560539 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Dataverse data connected to Microsoft 365 Copilot

• RM566318 - Microsoft 365 app: New Copilot Notebooks design in the Microsoft 365 Copilot App (iOS)

• RM567886 - Planner: AI-generated Status Reports in Planner Agent

• RM569930 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Conversational configuration of connectors in Copilot Studio

• RM570669 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Discover and use shared plugins in Copilot Studio

• RM570966 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Audio Overview updates in Copilot Notebooks

• RM573220 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduling with Copilot

• RM573446 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in OneNote can create, edit, and refine content

• RM573704 - Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management: Procurement Agent - Customize the Procurement Agent supplier follow-up criteria

• RM574106 - SharePoint: AI input widget and content preview in Copilot

💭 Joanne’s Corner

I love that Microsoft‑Decision‑1 isn’t trying to be the smartest model in the room — it’s trying to be the most decisive. And honestly, that’s refreshing. We’ve spent years obsessing over bigger models, longer context windows, and more parameters. Meanwhile, the thing that breaks most agent workflows is embarrassingly simple: the agent can’t decide what to do next.

Decision‑1 is basically Microsoft saying: “Fine, we’ll build a model that just makes good choices.” And that’s exactly what agent systems need. It’s fast, it’s structured, and it’s built for the boring‑but‑critical moments where an agent has to commit to an action. I think this model is going to unlock a whole wave of reliability improvements, the kind you only notice when things quietly stop breaking.

More thoughts next week, the agent era is just getting started.

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🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

MSAI.ms is written between Melbourne and Dubai. Part of this work is created on Wurundjeri land, and we acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

Another banger week from Microsoft.

GitHub Copilot can now drive desktop apps with computer use. So you can automate apps that don’t have an API. How crazy is that? I’ve been using computer use in ChatGPT for months, and the GitHub Copilot app’s take on it is really neat.

HydraFusion also landed in VS Code and the Copilot app. And GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are rolling out in Copilot.

Building real-time voice to text into your app? MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming just topped the Final Transcript Accuracy leaderboard. Worth a serious look.

As always, there’s plenty more below. All in one email.

Enjoy!

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Inside Track - Choosing the right AI experience for employee productivity and support • Laura Oxford

• Help your customers get answers and support with Teams Phone Agent • Johnny McCormick

• What’s new in Copilot in SharePoint: October 2026 • Julie Seto

• Voices from the Skies: Real world lessons to help drive Copilot adoption and ROI • Microsoft Developer and Stephen Rose

• KEYNOTE: From Copilot to Flight Captain • Microsoft Developer and Dona Sarkar

• Powering the Cockpit: Boost Your M365 Flight Crew | Boost Microsoft 365 with Cowork, Scout & More • Microsoft Developer and Ishaan Mirchandani

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Bring your plugin to Microsoft Copilot with Work IQ Developer Tools • Sébastien Levert, Rachit Malik and Seth T. Bacon

• Build with Azure Canvases: a shared workspace for agents • Matt Hernandez

• Enabling Consistent AI-Assisted Engineering with GitHub Copilot Plugins • Fernando De Oliveira, Fernanda Lasmar and Denise Mignoli

• Get started with the GitHub Copilot app: a free, hands-on course • Dan Wahlin

• Voices from the Skies: Build Your Own Personal Assistant with GitHub Copilot App • Microsoft Developer and Henk Boelman

• Keep Your AI Accurate with Microsoft Learn MCP Server • Microsoft Developer

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Copilot code review: API support and new default effort level

• Selected models in GitHub Copilot deprecated

• GitHub Copilot can now interact with desktop apps with computer use

• GitHub Copilot in VS Code, September 2026 releases

• Dynamic workflows in Copilot CLI and the Copilot app

• HydraFusion in VS Code and the GitHub Copilot app

• GPT-6.1 Sol in GitHub Copilot

• Claude Sonnet 5.5 in GitHub Copilot

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the data foundation for Microsoft Copilot and agents • Arun Ulag

• Rebuilding our Microsoft Foundry Labs site with a three-people build team and AI • Mark Armstrong

• Azure Content Understanding: Building on a decade of Document Intelligence • Cha Zhang

• Why content extraction still matters in the GenAI era • Cha Zhang and Chu Lahlou

• Tools your agent can actually trust • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• AI Agents Monitoring Workbook V2: From Agent Inventory to Runtime Evidence • David Alonso Dominguez and David Alonso Dominguez

Copilot Studio

• Skill up on Copilot Studio with April Dunnam and Jack Rowbotham!

Upcoming Events

• Get ready for the big #Microsoft makers meet-up in Las Vegas! • Microsoft Power Platform

• Skill up on Copilot Studio Oct 8th! • Microsoft Developer

Message Center

• MC1166852 - Microsoft Viva Copilot Analytics launches new agent dashboard

• MC1288531 - Microsoft Viva - Copilot Analytics: Export agent data from the Agent Dashboard

• MC1307979 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot chat pane and Summary feature in OneNote Mobile (iPhone)

• MC1309746 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot chat pane and Summary feature in OneNote Mobile (Android)

• MC1405506 - Microsoft OneNote: Multimodal recording in Copilot Notebooks on Windows

• MC1441784 - Microsoft Copilot for Outlook: New Copilot entry point in Classic Outlook

• MC1480873 - Connected Platforms - Agent 365 extends observability to third-party agents

• MC1481313 - Microsoft Purview | DLM: Legacy Teams retention policies that cover Copilot will be treated as Teams-only

• MC1481315 - Microsoft Purview: Retirement of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) classic and DSPM for AI classic experiences

• MC1483844 - Microsoft Copilot: GPT 6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 beginning to roll out today

• MC1484007 - Updated Copilot in Microsoft Edge Experience

• MC1485411 - Microsoft Excel: Excel canvas

• MC1486284 - Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Administrative Units support for DLP policies for Microsoft Copilot

• MC1486295 - Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint: Generate smart tables of contents for PDFs on the web with Copilot

• RM502858 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Live subtitles on voice chat in Copilot when using the quick composer

• RM543422 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel Agent

• RM560538 - Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics

• RM561040 - Microsoft Edge: Commercial Journeys - AI-powered task completion for Microsoft 365 Copilot users

• RM567000 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Engage prospects faster with Sales Agent-enriched leads

• RM567002 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add custom insights to record summaries in Sales agent

• RM567003 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enrich Sales agent meeting prep with more data sources

• RM567007 - Outlook: New Copilot entry point in Classic Outlook

• RM567121 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 admin center - Usage reports - Copilot Chat for GCC, GCC High and DoD

• RM568762 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Agent Readiness in Microsoft Copilot Studio

• RM568933 - Microsoft Teams: Use Copilot Chat after a call in Queues app

• RM569425 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft M365): Delegated prompt publishing for organization prompts

• RM570430 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Persistent identity for Copilot Studio Agents

• RM570432 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Self-learning for Copilot Studio Agents

• RM570853 - Work IQ: Custom agents + 3P calls

• RM570854 - Work IQ: ExpandedContextIQ

• RM570963 - Microsoft Clipchamp: Copilot video creation updates

• RM571308 - OneDrive: Prompt gallery for Copilot

• RM571394 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Dataverse Business Skills in Sales Agent

• RM571400 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Chat: Access to UBB models via the model selector

• RM571678 - Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Service tools, skills and plugins are now available for Cowork, Code and Scout

• RM571880 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Discover & Add Skills from the skill catalog

• RM571884 - Word: Legal plugins in Copilot

• RM573254 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Expense Agent - Add date ranges and vehicle types in your mileage calculation

• RM573255 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Expense Agent

• RM573258 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Expense Agent

• RM573262 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Expense Agent - Calculate and report VAT based on expense reports

• RM573280 - Outlook: Draft, edit and format emails conversationally with Copilot in Outlook

• RM573304 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Expense Agent - Calculate withholding tax automatically in expense reports

• RM573312 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents

• RM573338 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Development - Use AL language intelligence from AI agents and other editors

• RM573346 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Development - Let agents allocate free AL object IDs

• RM573361 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Development - Debug recorded Business Central failures with an AI agent

• RM573362 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents

• RM573363 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Manage tasks from all agents in dedicated task pane

• RM573364 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Show avatars for record creators and modifiers in list

• RM573366 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Review content generated by agents directly on pages

• RM573369 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: User experiences

• RM573370 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents

• RM573372 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents

• RM573373 - Dynamics 365 Sales: Sales tools, skills and plugin are now available in Copilot Cowork

• RM573380 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Improve purchase order matching in Payables Agent

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Cleared for Takeoff: Build Your First Agent | Build Your First Agent and Skills in Agent Builder • Microsoft Developer

• The Home Airport for Copilot and Agents | Why your Agents and Copilot love SharePoint • Microsoft Developer, Julia Espinosa and Rk Mennon

• Welcome Aboard: Meet Your New Work Copilot | Microsoft 365 Copilot like you’ve never seen! • Microsoft Developer and Kelli Davis

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Humanist AI in practice: A public consultation on our Code of Conduct for MAI Models • MAI Superintelligence Team

• Flight Intelligence: The Power of Work IQ | Discover how Work IQ is your business’s secret sauce • Microsoft Developer, Tolga Kilicli, Ayça Baş and Anthony Shaw

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Air Traffic Control for Agents • Microsoft Developer and Chris Huntingford

Copilot Studio

• AI Weekly: Copilot Studio Hooks, Lovable, and Desktop Automation • Josh Cook

• Captain’s Training: Master Copilot Studio | Use the New Harness, MCPs and More • Microsoft Developer and April Dunnam

• Expanding Your Airspace | Extend your Copilot with Plugins, Work IQ Dev Tools and more! • Microsoft Developer and Rachit Malik

Upcoming Events

• Blazor Community Standup: Build agentic experiences with the Blazor AI Components • dotnet

• Want to get featured on the weekly MSAI.ms? → Submit your content 😎

🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

MSAI.ms is written between Melbourne and Dubai. Part of this work is created on Wurundjeri land, and we acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

This one’s big.

The headline is the new Copilot app. It’s a huge deal. Satya’s post lays out the vision: one Copilot for work, across every model and every device. Go read it if you haven’t.

GitHub Copilot had a massive week too. Claude Opus 5.5 landed. So did OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. And Grok 4.7. That’s new models from three different labs in your model picker in the same week.

The one I’m most excited about is local sandboxing in the GitHub Copilot app. Agents working in an isolated sandbox on your machine is exactly the guardrail you want before you let them loose on real code. It’s off by default, so you’ll need to turn it on yourself. You’re reading this newsletter, which makes you a pioneer by definition. Go flip the switch and try it out.

Add Microsoft Autopilot going into preview and a Message Center that just wouldn’t stop, and there’s a lot to get through.

Let’s go.

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• SharePoint AI innovations hit GA, powering new Copilot app and agents • Jeff Teper

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases • Kayla Cinnamon

• When chat is the wrong UI • Burke Holland

• Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app • Alberto Gimeno

• Knowledge cutoff is a poor proxy for model capability • Waldek Mastykarz

• VS Code Learn: Extending Agents • Liam Hampton

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Enterprise managed settings in-product validator

• Agentic autofix now uses Copilot Memory

• GitHub Copilot weekly releases

• Updates to GitHub Copilot for Slack and Microsoft Teams

• Default Enablement of Copilot features for Copilot Business and Enterprise

• More ways to request and configure Copilot code reviews

• Local sandboxing in the GitHub Copilot app

• OpenTelemetry in the GitHub Copilot app

• New features and improvements in Copilot for JetBrains

• Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot

• OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna now available

• Grok 4.7 is now available in GitHub Copilot

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Ship agents faster with expanded model choice, voice agents, and continuous optimization • Tina Schuchman

• Prioritizing AI transformation opportunities in Microsoft Finance • Mark Armstrong

• From Chatbots to Automated Agents: Routines in Microsoft Foundry Are Now Generally Available • Linda Li

• Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work • Mike Hulme

• GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry • Naomi Moneypenny

• Agentic RAG and chat completion in the Microsoft SQL engine • Microsoft Developer, Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward

• One model deployment to route them all • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

• Stop guessing which model your agent needs • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Control where your hosted agent connects with network egress in Foundry Agent Service • Muzz Imam

• From the field: How agentic AI is reshaping adoption at Microsoft • Poly Palaiogeorgou

• Governance is becoming agentic, too: How enterprises can operate AI at scale • niravshah

• How to prevent agent data leak with advanced connector policy | EP04 • Microsoft Power Platform

🎨 Copilot Studio

• Driving seller adoption of Sales Agent through role-based change management at Microsoft • David Hirning

• Want to get started with #CopilotStudio, but not sure where to begin? • Microsoft Power Platform

🗣️ Message Center

• MC1187682 - Microsoft Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot will support summarization and contextual grounding

• MC1429018 - Microsoft Teams: AI meeting archive file generation

• MC1454113 - Microsoft Copilot Word: Document summarization experience moving

• MC1462915 - Allow connections to copilot.cloud.microsoft before the Copilot URL redirect

• MC1475801 - Dynamics 365 Contact Center

• MC1476319 - Microsoft SharePoint: Changes to the FAQ web part authoring experience

• MC1477182 - Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft Cowork

• MC1477184 - Microsoft 365 admin center: Agent Registry consolidates duplicate agent entries and adds version history

• MC1478465 - Security Copilot is now included as part of your Microsoft 365 E5/E7 plan

• MC1478958 - Microsoft SharePoint Online: Select page canvas elements for Copilot-assisted editing

• MC1478965 - Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management

• MC1478975 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Use Microsoft Agent 365 agents as connected agents in declarative agents

• RM499423 - Microsoft Edge: Ground Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge for Business in your open OneDrive and SharePoint documents

• RM501451 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in SharePoint

• RM503553 - Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Authoritative content management for Microsoft 365 Copilot Search

• RM503772 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users in DoD will be able to use custom engine agents

• RM516577 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Planner capabilities in Copilot chat (M365 Copilot)

• RM554934 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Outlook expands to reason over inbox, calendar, and enterprise data

• RM555881 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Attach and reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.

• RM555890 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Attach and reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.

• RM555897 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference files saved in SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

• RM558933 - Microsoft Teams: AI-generated meeting archive for knowledge retention

• RM559017 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Work IQ APIs: Pay‑As‑You‑Go usage

• RM560076 - SharePoint: Create charts on pages with AI

• RM562017 - Microsoft Viva: Fresh Copilot Metrics in Custom Person Queries & Reports- Viva Advanced Analysis

• RM570436 - PowerPoint: Async Notifications for Copilot in PowerPoint

• RM570964 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Federated Copilot Connectors will support write, update and delete actions

• RM571663 - Dynamics 365 Field Service: Microsoft Copilot in Field Service Mobile app

• RM571886 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Local inferencing

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

• Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work • Amar Badal

• AI Weekly: Copilot’s Super App, Work IQ, and New Models • Josh Cook

• New Course Coming Soon: Integrating AI Agents in Enterprise Systems • Jamie Maguire

Upcoming Events

• .NET + Foundry, better together • dotnet

• .NET AI Community Standup: Interview Coach Evolves: MAF + GitHub Copilot SDK • dotnet

• Discover the Experts Bringing Microsoft 365, AI, and Copilot to Life at ESPC 2026 • HeatherCook

• Join the Copilot Dev Camp Summit Fall Edition on September 30 • Paolo Pialorsi

• Skill up on Copilot Studio Oct 8th! • Microsoft Developer

• Want to get featured on the weekly MSAI.ms? → Submit your content 😎

🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

MSAI.ms is written between Melbourne and Dubai. Part of this work is created on Wurundjeri land, and we acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

Here’s what caught our attention this week.

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Introducing Foundry Dev Pack: One Command to Start Building • Sharon Xu

• Build an interview coach app with the GitHub Copilot SDK • Justin Yoo

• Your AI coding agent evaluation is only as good as its sandbox • Waldek Mastykarz

• Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot • Stephen Toub

• VS Code Learn: Agent-First Development • Visual Studio Code and Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Copilot impact dashboard now shows feature engagement

• Enforce GitHub Advanced Security configurations

• Configure cost and quality in Copilot auto model selection

• Code scanning AI Scan no longer requires CodeQL default setup

• Agentic CLI customizations now in the usage metrics API

• Copilot budget increase requests are generally available

• Copilot code review: An improved review experience

• GitHub Copilot weekly releases

• Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in mid-October

• GitHub Copilot suggests custom properties definitions

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Pushing the quality-cost frontier with MAI-Image-2.6 • MAI Superintelligence Team

• What if an agent could refactor your agent? • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

• What if you could customize your agent from a Chat Window? • Microsoft Developer and Carlotta Castelluccio

🧩 Copilot Studio

• Managing apps built in Copilot Studio • Justin Tung

• How organizations are using AI agents featuring mobilezone • Microsoft Power Platform

🗣️ Message Center

• MC1173208 - Microsoft Copilot Analytics: Data export public preview for Copilot metrics in the Copilot dashboard

• MC1238432 - Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Branded footer customization

• MC1314949 - Microsoft Viva Copilot Analytics: Daily Copilot usage snapshot with fresh data

• MC1458472: Simplified Copilot experience in Microsoft Teams

• MC1472032 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Insights Copilot Analytics cowork adoption impact

• MC1473165 - Brand Skill support now available in PPT Copilot [Web]

• MC1473166 - Brand Skill support now available in PPT Copilot [Desktop]

• MC1474455 - In-app browsing in Copilot app

• MC1474458 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Power BI reports as references in Copilot Notebooks

• RM480725 - SharePoint: AI citations analytics for documents and pages

• RM496596 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Content Sources in Copilot Chat

• RM500638 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat

• RM500872 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Export Copilot metrics in the Copilot Dashboard

• RM502533 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility]​​[Search UX] Rich entity representation for connectors in Search results

• RM510099 - Microsoft 365 app: Add references to your Copilot Notebooks from the Quick Access section in Search on the M365 Copilot app

• RM516044 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Metadata understanding support for queries scoped to SharePoint document libraries or folders

• RM523223 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Deep citations in Copilot

• RM529864 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Semantic Goodbye word for voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot

• RM530577 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot – Chat & Search Browser Extension for Chrome

• RM560705 - Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics

• RM561209 - Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Insights and policy recommendations on Microsoft Copilot and AI Apps interactions for better Data Security and Compliance posture

• RM561322 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in PowerPoint for Government clouds

• RM561325 - Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics: Copilot usage snapshot PBI at day level with fresh data

• RM566701 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit your document with Copilot in PowerPoint in Government Clouds

• RM566702 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit your document with Copilot in PowerPoint in Government Clouds

• RM566703 - Microsoft Edge: Upgraded Copilot new tab page

• RM566864 - Microsoft Edge: Ask Copilot about an image

• RM569928 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Power BI reports as references in Copilot Notebooks

• RM570437 - PowerPoint: Async Notifications for PowerPoint Agent (Windows Desktop)

• RM570438 - PowerPoint: Async Notifications for PowerPoint Agent (Web)

• RM571157 - Microsoft Purview: DSPM-Copilot Readiness and Data Explorer

• RM571194 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Cost visibility in Preview Chat and History

• RM571195 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Cost visibility in Agent Evaluations

• RM571196 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Cost visibility in Monitor tab

• RM571299 - Microsoft Teams: Ask Copilot from Search on Mobile

• RM571306 - Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Legacy Teams retention policies covering Copilot will be treated as Teams-only

• RM571637 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Cowork for Government Clouds

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Scaffold a Grounded Declarative Agent from a Business Brief • Sébastien Levert

• Round-Tripping an Agent Plugin with WIQD • Sébastien Levert

📆 Upcoming Events

• 📺 .NET AI Community Standup: Interview Coach Evolves: MAF + GitHub Copilot SDK • dotnet

• Save the Date: Join us October 20 for the OneDrive + Copilot Digital Event • Arwa_Tyebkhan

• Get ready for PPCC26 with Sean Astrakhan! • Sophie Ke and Sean Astrakhan

• Want to get featured on the weekly MSAI.ms? → Submit your content 😎

🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

MSAI.ms is written between Melbourne and Dubai. Part of this work is created on Wurundjeri land, and we acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

This week MCP is firmly in the spotlight. From connecting agents to tools and building interactive MCP apps, to enterprise-ready Foundry Toolboxes, MCP security, and the latest developments across the ecosystem, the protocol is quickly becoming a key piece of the agentic AI stack.

Add smarter Copilot experiences, AI-native development, and new ways to build, evaluate, and secure agents, and there’s a lot to catch up on this week.

Enjoy!

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• SharePoint AI page authoring: Select, describe, and refine • Sara Cummings

• What’s New in Copilot in SharePoint: September 2026 • Julie Seto

• Enterprise app development inside Copilot Cowork • Microsoft Power Platform

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and browser • Kayla Cinnamon

• Marketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to follow-up on GitHub • Tomoko Tanaka

• Your work might not need the smartest model • Waldek Mastykarz

• Bring Your Own AI Models to GitHub Copilot in VS Code • Visual Studio Code

• How does Aspire make Copilot more efficient when I’m building an app? • Microsoft Developer and Maddy Montaquila

• The Future of Visual Studio: Interactive Expert Panel • Mads Kristensen, Anson Horton and Andy Sterland

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Add VS Code Agents to Copilot usage metrics

• Auto-resolution and analysis updates in Copilot code review

• GitHub Copilot weekly releases

• MAI-Code-1-Flash deprecated

• Enterprise managed permissions for GitHub Copilot agent operations

• Remediate Code Quality findings with agentic autofix

• AI Scan for pull request APIs in public preview

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Announcing Azure AI Speech LLM 2607: Better Multilingual Accuracy, Easier Customization • Rena Liu

• Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery • Aseem Datar

• From alerts to action: How AI agents are reshaping network operations at Microsoft • Alex Fleck

• The Economics of Agent Optimization: How AI agent governance controls cost and proves ROI • Steve Sweetman

• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry • Nick Brady

• A unified MCP layer with Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry • Microsoft Developer and Viswajeet Balaji

• Building MCP servers with VS Code • Microsoft Developer and Harald Kirschner

• Event-driven agents, powered by MCP • Microsoft Developer and Clare Liguori

• MCP Live! - The whole event • Visual Studio Code

• MCP: Server, Client & Protocol at GitHub • Microsoft Developer and Sam Morrow

• MCP: The Standard Every AI Tool Speaks • Microsoft Visual Studio

• State of MCP • Microsoft Developer and Caitie McCaffrey

• When chatbots grow buttons: Building MCP apps with FastMCP • Microsoft Developer and Jeremiah Lowin

• You don’t need code to build your first AI agent • Microsoft Developer and Amy Boyd

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Evolution of MCP auth • Microsoft Developer and Den Delimarsky

🎨 Copilot Studio

• Copilot Studio | Product Weeks • Microsoft Power Platform

📆 Upcoming Events

• Fly with Copilot Is Landing in Redmond • Microsoft Developer

• Get ready for PPCC26 with Sheila Shahpari! • Microsoft Power Platform

👥 Message Center

• RM472031 - Data Loss Prevention- DLP Policy Change Insights with Security Copilot

• RM487852 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Realtime voice interactions in Word and PowerPoint

• RM499153 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enhanced personalization with memory in Copilot

• RM522616 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ask Copilot about highlighted response content

• RM542181 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit with Copilot in Excel (Web, Win32, Mac)

• RM547749 - Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Export metrics in the Copilot Dashboard at Day Level

• RM550513 - Microsoft Clipchamp: Upgraded music selection for Copilot AI Videos

• RM553224 - Microsoft Viva: Copilot Enhanced Topic Assignment

• RM557560 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): AI Generated video drafts include text animations and new layout options

• RM560396 - Microsoft Purview: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Expand protection to Copilot + PC devices for Recall snapshots through custom policies

• RM562353 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Session and Response Sharing in M365 Copilot

• RM564605 - Outlook: Co-Authoring Highlight and Rewrite

• RM566870 - OneNote: Suggested Artifact Creation in Copilot Notebooks

• RM567005 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Insights: Copilot Analytics - Cowork adoption and impact

• RM567008 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New Rich Answer Cards

• RM567671 - Planner: Planner Agent chat in Basic Plans

• RM567895 - OneNote: Multimodal capture in Copilot Notebooks (Android)

• RM570277 - Word: Copilot edit mode is available to users in Office 365 GCC

• RM570469 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft M365): Copilot Chat can now better match search results from text that appears inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file

• RM570845 - Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft Cowork

• RM570847 - Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Agent value insights in Agent 365 Dashboard

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Adding Validation and Eval Gates to CI with WIQD • Sébastien Levert

• Build Smarter Declarative Agents with Skills and WIQD • Sébastien Levert

• Generating Evals with WIQD: Setting a Quality Bar That Holds • Sébastien Levert

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• PyRIT: Democratizing AI red teaming through open-source tooling • Richard Lundeen and Roman Lutz

• From CopilotActivity to Actionable Alerts: Detecting Microsoft 365 Copilot Threats with Microsoft Sentinel • David Alonso Dominguez

• Want to get featured on the weekly MSAI.ms? → Submit your content 😎

🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

MSAI.ms is written between Melbourne and Dubai. Part of this work is created on Wurundjeri land, and we acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• What’s New in Microsoft Copilot • Daniel Vargas

• Inside Track - Taming the Copilot odyssey: Five ways to effectively prompt AI without going overboard • Eva Etchells

• What’s New in Copilot in SharePoint: September 2026 • julieseto

• Available today: Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 in Microsoft Copilot • Bas Brekelmans

• Copilot in Excel: Bringing clarity to collaborative workbooks • msexcel

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration • GitHub Staff

• Engineering the Frontier Firm: Sharing our AI-native approach to software development • David Hirning and Neil Orint

• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once • Kayla Cinnamon

• How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality • Erik Kristensen and Napalys Kilicius

• Build Once, Run Everywhere: Agent Plugins Guide • Visual Studio Code

• Build Your Personal Brand with GitHub Copilot • Microsoft Developer

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• GitHub Copilot weekly releases

• GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot

• Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models

• Gemini 3.8 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot

• Reopening Copilot Business and Enterprise signups

• Enterprise-managed settings support any default model

• Content exclusions generally available in Copilot app and CLI

• Copilot code review can now approve pull requests

• Claude Fable 5.1 is generally available in GitHub Copilot

• GitHub Copilot in VS Code, August 2026 releases

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• MAI-Transcribe-2 is the fastest, most accurate and cheapest speech recognition model in the world • MAI Superintelligence Team

• MAI-Code-1.1-Flash: Better, faster, at a quarter of the cost • MAI Superintelligence Team

• Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment • Jeremy Winter

• GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now generally available in Microsoft Foundry • Steve Sweetman and Naomi Moneypenny

• OpenAI GPT-6 Astra in Microsoft Copilot • Bas Brekelmans

• Behind SPFx Dev Skills: testing what agents know and fixing what they miss • Waldek Mastykarz, Vesa Juvonen and Garry Trinder

• AI agent optimization: How context engineering lowers AI costs • Jeff Hollan

• Designing product simplicity for the agentic AI era • Jenny Lanier Wolski

• Inside Microsoft’s marketing team: Scaling expertise with AI • Jessica Hawk

• Bring Your Own Model in VS, Foundry Models, .NET Conf Sets Date • Microsoft Developer

• Build an AI agent without leaving VS Code • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

• From Code to Agents: Build Production MCP Servers on Azure Functions • Microsoft Developer and Jonah Andersson

• Now that everything is agentic, what should I be learning? • Microsoft Developer and Filisha Shah

• What’s new in AI? • Microsoft Developer and John Maeda

• Your first AI agent is only a few lines of Python away • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

🧩 Business Apps & Low Code

• Turbocharge your canvas development with the canvas authoring agent plugin - now generally available! • Tasha Scott

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• How IT can secure agents across the full lifecycle | EP03 • Microsoft Power Platform

Copilot Studio

• White paper: Choosing between the GitHub Copilot and Standard harnesses in Copilot Studio • Lucia Mosner

Upcoming Events

• PPCC 2026: Bringing AI and your business processes together • Ryan Cunningham

• Join us for MCP Live on September 9! #vscode #mcp • Visual Studio Code

Message Center

• Copilot Chat can now better match search results from Scanned PDFs

• Create Videos in the Clipchamp Start Page

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Federated Copilot Connectors

• Microsoft Copilot Studio: Deliver rich interactive app experiences in Copilot Studio agents

• Microsoft Copilot Studio: Introducing an App- and Intent-First Agent Creation Experience

• Microsoft Copilot: Meeting Prepare from Up Next

• Microsoft Purview: Purview in Microsoft Admin Center

• Microsoft Teams: Copilot Chat for chats, channels, calls, and meetings in GCC, GCC High, and DoD

• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Agent Dashboard.

• OneNote: Summary and Q&A in OneNote Mobile with Copilot (Android)

• OneNote: Summary and Q&A in OneNote Mobile with Copilot (Iphone)

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Let’s Learn GitHub Copilot SDK • dotnet

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Localize a Declarative Agent with WIQD Without Behavioral Drift • Sébastien Levert

Upcoming Events

• Production Ready: Observability, Governance and Deployment • dotnet and Bruno Capuano

• Scaling the Claw: Skills, Shell, CodeAct and Background Agents • dotnet and Bruno Capuano

• Want to get featured on the weekly MSAI.ms? → Submit your content 😎

🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

MSAI.ms is written between Melbourne and Dubai. Part of this work is created on Wurundjeri land, and we acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Turn conversations into code with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams • Arnav Gupta

• SharePoint Showcase: 5 Ways Organizations Improve Business Processes with Copilot in SharePoint • Sophia Peng

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage • Christopher Harrison

• 📺 Beyond the Basics: What GitHub Can Do Today • Microsoft Developer and Scott Sauber

• 📺 Build Modern and AI-Ready Apps with SQL and GitHub Copilot in VS Code • Visual Studio Code and Yo-Lei Chen

• 📺 Connect Playwright MCP to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code and use Copilot to test a Spring Boot application through a real browser • Visual Studio Code and Rory Preddy

• 📺 Debugger Agentic Workflow Gets a Test-Driven Upgrade • Microsoft Visual Studio and Sireesha Pisipati

• 📺 MSFT ONEDEV 0426 Q9 16x9 v1 • Microsoft Developer and Amanda Silver

• 📺 Show, Hide, & Pin Any Model • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Stop Writing Prompts. Start Writing Specs. • Microsoft Developer and Roelant Dieben

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Upcoming changes to GitHub Copilot policies and billing

• GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio - August Update

• Global model policy generally available

• GitHub Copilot app Customize tab is generally available

• Enterprise-managed settings now support autoUpdate for plugin marketplaces

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Moving beyond release waves with the AI at Work roadmap • Richard Riley

• Try Azure SRE Agent with no always-on charges • Nir Mashkowski

• SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update • Vesa Juvonen

• Start light, scale intentionally: Choosing the right Microsoft agent architecture • David Hirning

• 📺 Agent Optimizer, Agent Plugins 1.0 & Sonnet 4.6 Sunset • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 Build Intelligent Agents with Work IQ, Foundry IQ, and Fabric IQ • Microsoft Developer and Prashant G Bhoyar

• 📺 Building an End-to-End Enterprise AI Platform on Azure • Microsoft Developer and Ehsan Eskandari

• 📺 Building your own MCP server • Microsoft Developer and Stuart van der Lee

• 📺 Closing the Loop: Feedback based Learning for Agentic RAG on Azure • Microsoft Developer and PRIYANKA SHAH

• 📺 What does it really take to ship an AI agent? • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

📊 Data, Analytics & Knowledge

• 📺 Build AI apps with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale • Microsoft Developer, Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward

• 📺 Meet Azure SQL Hyperscale • Microsoft Developer, Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane • Igor Sakhnov

• Agent Hooks: An open, framework-neutral AI governance contract • Mohammad Abuomar, Sarah Bird and Caitie McCaffrey

• Securing AI agents in the enterprise: • Mark Armstrong

• Secure AI Agents in Azure: AI Gateway, Tools, and Trust • Microsoft Developer and David Okeyode

• Practical scenarios, capability mappings, and guidance to secure AI end to end across your estate

Copilot Studio

• 📺 From Idea to Agent in Minutes: Copilot Studio + Claude Code • Microsoft Developer and Renato Romao de Souza

Upcoming Events

• 📺 Get ready for PPCC26 with Mary Myers! • Mary Myers

• 📺 Join us for MCP Live! Sept 9th! • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 PowerPlatform and Copilot Studio: PPCC26 Product Weeks are here! • Microsoft Power Platform

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Context Is Everything: Building Agents That Know Your Work Context • Sébastien Levert

• Import Agent Builder Agents into WIQD Projects Safely • Sébastien Levert

• Promote a Copilot Agent Across Environments with WIQD • Sébastien Levert

• Validating an Inherited Declarative Agent with WIQD • Sébastien Levert

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Evaluating, controlling, and optimizing AI agents with ASSERT and ACS • Chang Liu

• Want to get featured on the weekly MSAI.ms? → Submit your content 😎

🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

MSAI.ms is written between Melbourne and Dubai. Part of this work is created on Wurundjeri land, and we acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

The good news is that I have a new co-author for this newsletter. I’m super excited to announce that Joanne Hayek (who an ex-Microsoft colleagues) will be co-authoring this newsletter. She is an extremely detail oriented person and we both come from the cybersecurity side of the AI house.

Look forward to our return to regular weekly posts from today onwards.

Enjoy

Joanne & Merill

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Copilot Notebooks now works with Markdown, plain-text, and rich-text files • Abhishek Kaushik

• Co-create slides with Copilot in PowerPoint for iPad • Aparna Jethani

• From AI curiosity to Copilot adoption in 30 days • Jill Armour

• From AI ambition to enterprise execution: Our Customer Zero journey • Ashley Wright

• Built for business: How Microsoft 365 Copilot keeps you in the flow of legal work • Caroline Stanford

• Turn meetings into momentum with Microsoft 365 Copilot • Meera Ajam

• Update: Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot • Suhel Parekh

• Microsoft is named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service • Johnny McCormick

• Bring your organization’s data into Excel with new Copilot synced connectors • Jonathan Kahati

• How Microsoft Digital Asia used AI to create human connection across continents • Ashley Wright

• What’s New in Copilot in SharePoint: August 2026 • Julie Seto

• From AI assistant to capable teammate: How Copilot Cowork is changing the way we work at Microsoft • Alex Fleck

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work • Christopher Harrison

• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Write your first prompt • Kayla Cinnamon

• 🌿 Agent Terrarium: Bringing AI agents to life • Alexander Sklar

• Announcing the preview of the Work IQ Developer Tools • Sébastien Levert

• Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools • Mike Hulme

• Hill-climbing MAI models for GitHub Copilot and Excel • MAI Superintelligence Team

• If you want a secure AI agent, start restricting its environment. • Sanchit Mehta and Vishesh Agrawal

• How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient • Ayan Gupta

• How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps • Sam Zhang

• TokenOps: Real-time, run-scoped cost control for AI agents • Tisha Chawla and Susheem Koul

• 📺 Build Reusable Copilot Workflows with Skills and Agents • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 .NET AI Community Standup: Routing & Failover for Microsoft.Extensions.AI • dotnet

• 📺 .NET Developer Productivity with AI • dotnet

• 📺 Build a Portfolio Website from Your Resume with GitHub Copilot • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 Build your personal brand with Copilot • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 Building Intelligent .NET Applications: From AI Features to Agentic System • dotnet

• 📺 Building with Kimi K3 in VS Code • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Configure GitHub Copilot: Settings, Sessions, and Modes • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 Control GitHub Copilot Remotely from Your Phone • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 End-to-End Testing for Spring Boot apps with Playwright in VS Code • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Expose your Spring Boot API endpoints via MCP and GitHub Copilot • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Extend GitHub Copilot with Tools and MCP Servers • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 Fast Focus: Using Copilot to Build Migration Tools • dotnet

• 📺 Get Started with GitHub Copilot and the Student Developer Pack • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 How the Visual Studio Team Uses AI Internally • Microsoft Visual Studio

• 📺 .NET MAUI in 2026 - How AI has Transformed App Development Forever • dotnet

• 📺 Modern WinForms Development: How AI is Reshaping Your Approach • dotnet

• 📺 🔴 VS Code Live: Latest News, Vercel Plugin + New Feature Demos from VS Code Engineers • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK) • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 Modernize Your Portfolio with Bootstrap and GitHub Copilot • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 Optimizing GitHub Copilot: Better Results, Fewer Tokens • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 QDK Tutorial: Learn Quantum Computing with GitHub Copilot in VS Code • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 The New Brain Behind Copilot in Visual Studio • Microsoft Visual Studio

• 📺 The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & Visual Studio • Microsoft Visual Studio

• 📺 Turn Every Idea into an AI App with the GitHub Copilot SDK • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 VS Gets AI Agents + MCP C# SDK 2.0 and More • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 You and AI -- Building The Future Together • Microsoft Visual Studio

• 📺 ZoomIt for Mac: How AI Ported a 20+ Year-Old Windows Tool • Microsoft Developer

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack

• Shared agentic work with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• From Sync APIs to support for the GPT-5 model series and agentic workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding - August 2026 • Peyton Fraser, Krishnakumar Muthukrishnan and Joe Filcik

• From single call to agents: five new Claude capabilities now available in Microsoft Foundry • Haoran Cheng

• Building Agents for Teams: Managing the noise of collaboration • Lili Du

• Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms • Naga Surendran

• MAI-Image-2.6 launches at No. 2 on Arena ahead of Google, Meta and xAI • MAI Superintelligence Team

• Introducing MAI-Thinking-1 • MAI Superintelligence Team

• MAI-Image-2.5 launches at No. 2 for image editing on Arena • MAI Superintelligence Team

• Optimizing the frontier performance curve • Mustafa Suleyman

• Resolving repetitive support tickets at Microsoft with AI automation • Diana Mivelli

• The Economics of Agent Optimization: From pilots to measurable returns • Tina Schuchman

• Enhancing Microsoft network reliability with AIOps and Network Infrastructure Copilot • David Hirning

• 📺 Bring Your Own Model Within the GitHub Copilot App • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 MCP Live! | A half-day livestream about the latest in MCP • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 Technical deep dive on modern agents and workflows in Copilot Studio • Microsoft Power Platform

🧩 Business Apps & Low Code

• What’s New in Microsoft Teams • Kerry Perez Heffernan

• What’s new in Power Platform: July/August 2026 feature update • Tiffany Treacy

• Register now for PPCC 2026: Come for the learning, stay for the community • Bryony Wolf

• 📺 Action Apps transforms athlete performance with Microsoft technology | Who’s Using Copilot? • Microsoft Power Platform

• 📺 Are you ready for the 2026 Power Platform Community Conference? • Microsoft Power Platform

• 📺 Building autonomous multi‑agent workflows • Microsoft Power Platform

• 📺 Building highly effective business‑process agents • Microsoft Power Platform

• 📺 How NASA built mission‑critical apps with Power Platform | EP17 • Microsoft Power Platform

• 📺 How Western States Equipment moved from ten systems to ONE app! | EP16 • Microsoft Power Platform

• 📺 Jollof rice and building the future with Derah Onuorah | EP05 • Microsoft Power Platform

📊 Data, Analytics & Knowledge

• Azure Content Understanding GPT-5 Series Guide: Model Selection, Grounding Improvements, and Confidence Enhancements • Joe Filcik and Krishnakumar Muthukrishnan

• Building a trusted IT asset inventory with Fabric and AI at Microsoft • Ashley Wright

• Optimizing Azure resources at Microsoft with AI and Managed Cloud Labs • Diana Mivelli

• 📺 Fast Focus: What’s New Across Microsoft SQL and Developer Tooling in 2026 • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 SQL and AI for Developers in Action • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 SQL MCP Server: Bringing AI Agents to Your SQL Data • Microsoft Developer

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Your Company Is Racing to Deploy AI. Is Your Data Ready? • Tommy Graham

• Implementing Agent 365: How we’re governing and managing AI agents at Microsoft • Alex Fleck

• Secured and Governed your AI Agents: Microsoft Entra Agent ID for Dataverse • Paul Liew

🧑‍🎨 Consumer & Creator

• An AI companion for everyone • Mustafa Suleyman

• Introducing Copilot Health

• Take back-to-school tasks off your plate with Microsoft Copilot • Alyse Maguire

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Copilot Cowork First Month: How Admins Should Check July Consumption • Josh Cook

• Copilot Cowork Model Benchmark: Five Models, One Prompt, One Winner • Josh Cook

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• RAG in .NET: The Complete Series • Jamie Maguire

• 📺 .NET AI Community Standup: MCP C# SDK 2.0: Building the Next Generation of .NET AI Agents • dotnet

• 📺 .NET MAUI Community Standup: Inspect, Record, Create: .NET MAUI Meets GitHub Copilot Canvas 🤝 • dotnet

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• The Declarative Agent Lifecycle, End to End with WIQD • Sébastien Levert

• Building Reusable Plugins with WIQD: Skills and Connectors • Sébastien Levert

• Microsoft Agent Framework: The Complete Series • Jamie Maguire

• Introducing MAI-Image-2 • MAI Superintelligence Team

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🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

MSAI.ms is written between Melbourne and Dubai. Part of this work is created on Wurundjeri land, and we acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

Wow, what a week it was at Microsoft Build. Microsoft was firing on all cylinders with seven new Microsoft AI models, a redesigned Copilot experience, major updates across Foundry and Copilot Studio, and a huge wave of agentic developer tooling across GitHub and VS Code. It feels like we’ve moved into the next phase of AI.

I’ve pulled together the key announcements, videos, product updates, and community posts below so you can catch up on the important bits without having to trawl through everything yourself.

Enjoy!

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• 📺 Introducing Microsoft Scout • Microsoft 365

• Learning Agent now generally available • Dan Zarzar

• Work IQ: Production‑ready intelligence for every agent • Tolga Kilicli

• AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will. • Jay Parikh

• SharePoint Showcase: From Chaos to AI-Ready with the SharePoint Admin Agent • Sophia Peng and Sesha Mani

• Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent • Omar Shahine

• Introducing a new design for Microsoft 365 Copilot • Jon Friedman

• 📺 5 Copilot in Excel Tips to Try Today • Microsoft 365

• 📺 Connecting customer-built AI to Microsoft 365 Copilot: The proxy agent pattern • Microsoft CAT AI

• 📺 Copilot Studio Component Collections – Testing and Scalability Options • David Warner

• 📺 Copilot Studio single response evaluations • Microsoft Power Platform

• 📺 Copilot, Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community call - 4th of June 2026 • Microsoft Community Learning

• 📺 Advanced manifest capabilities for Copilot Chat declarative agent • Sébastien Levert

• 📺 Connecting agents in Copilot Chat - Composing an agent ecosystem • Sébastien Levert

• 📺 Introduction to custom AI Skills in SharePoint • Zach Rosenfield

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Dataverse Plugin for Coding Agents: Three Enterprise Scenarios from Microsoft Build 2026 • Kent Weare

• Securing CI/CD in an agentic world: Claude Code Github action case • Microsoft Defender Security Research Team

• MAI-Code-1-Flash • MAI Superintelligence Team

• CI/CD for AI Agents on Microsoft Foundry • Lee Stott

• GitHub - microsoft/AI-Engineering-Coach: better agentic engineering • Aymen Furter

• Azure Functions at Build 2026 Update • nzthiago

• 📺 .NET 11 in depth: Runtime, libraries, and SDK for the AI era • Richard Lander and Chet Husk

• 📺 How Microsoft AI builds coding models optimized for GitHub Copilot | LIVE158 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Is DOOM a Tensor? | LIVE165 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 VS Code Agents window: Orchestrate agents across every project • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 /remote in VS Code • Kayla Cinnamon

• 📺 Agent Plugins in VS Code • Liam Hampton

• 📺 Building for the agentic web with .NET 11 • Daniel Roth

• 📺 Chronicle: Turn your chat history into insights • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Claude & Codex Agents in VS Code • Liam Hampton

• 📺 Claude Is in Copilot. Here’s What That Actually Means | LIVE168 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Designing VS Code’s UX for the Agentic Era | LIVE156 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Multi-agent patterns in VS Code you won’t learn from docs | BRK201 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Rubber duck debugging in VS Code & GitHub Copilot CLI • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Take Multi-agent workflows on the go with vscode.dev/agents • James Montemagno

• 📺 Taking your AI to the edge with .NET MAUI • Gerald Versluis

• 📺 The New Agents Window in VS Code | LIVE169 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 What we learned shipping VS Code weekly (without breaking everything) | BRK204 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Your Browser Lives in VS Code Now | LIVE154 • Visual Studio Code

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Copilot Chat brings richer context to pull requests

• GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex deprecated

• Enterprise-managed plugins in VS Code in public preview

• Fix with Copilot for failing Actions now in Pro, Pro+, and Max

• Agent tasks REST API now available for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max

• Larger context windows and configurable reasoning levels for GitHub Copilot

• GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

• GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, May releases

• GPT-4.1 deprecated

• Expanded technical preview availability for the GitHub Copilot app

• Copilot SDK is now generally available

• Copilot CLI: Improved UI, rubber duck, prompt scheduling, and voice input

• Cloud and local sandboxes for GitHub Copilot now in public preview

• GitHub Copilot code review for Azure Repos is now in technical preview

• Shape Copilot code review around your team

• Extend GitHub with agent apps

• Introducing Copilot CLI and agentic capabilities enhancements in JetBrains IDEs

• Gemini models in Copilot CLI, cloud agent, and the Copilot app

• GitHub Copilot in Eclipse: BYOK, skills, and chat updates

• Gain insights across your agent sessions with /chronicle

• Updates to GitHub Copilot billing and plans

• Evaluation models in auto for individual plans

• Copilot usage metrics API adds cohorts for AI adoption

• Claude Opus 4.8 is generally available for GitHub Copilot

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Frontier Tuning: Teaching AI to work the way you do • Ranveer Chandra

• Build collaborative agents where work happens • Sujeet Mehta

• Today we’re announcing 3 new world class MAI models, available in Foundry • MAI Superintelligence Team and Mustafa Suleyman

• Introducing MAI-Voice-2 • MAI Superintelligence Team

• Introducing MAI-Transcribe-1.5 • MAI Superintelligence Team

• Introducing MAI-Code-1-Flash • MAI Superintelligence Team

• New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, fully optimized for modern agentic AI workloads • Arun Kishan

• Accelerate Edge AI Development with Foundry Local • Sam Kemp

• Build 2026: From observability to ROI for AI agents on any framework • Sebastian Kohlmeier

• Expanding the Reach of Document Translation - New Capabilities Announced at Microsoft Build • Swetha Machanavajhala

• Announcing Foundry Managed Compute: Run open models in Microsoft Foundry • Manoj Bableshwar

• Introducing Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service • Luis Quintanilla

• Making agent memory more reliable, transparent, and production-ready • Lewis Liu

• Discovery to Execution: Scaling Agents with Toolboxes and Routines in Microsoft Foundry • Linda Li

• From Building Agents to Working with Them: Enterprise Agent Distribution in Microsoft Foundry • Amanda Foster

• Build smarter document workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding at Build 2026 • Peyton Fraser

• Azure Translator API Version 2026‑06‑06 (GA): Supporting Multilingual Applications with Flexible Translation Options • Mohamed Elghazali

• A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry • Naomi Moneypenny

• Build and run agents at scale with Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026 • Tina Schuchman

• Build agents you can trust across any framework with open evals and a control standard • Sarah Bird

• Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval • Pablo Castro

• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | Build Edition • Nick Brady

• What’s New in Hosted Agents in Foundry Agent Service • Tina Manghnani

• 📺 Real-world agent case studies - how organizations are using AI Agents • Microsoft CAT AI

• 📺 Azure AI Search with Autonomous Copilot Studio Agents • Rafsan Huseynov

• 📺 Extending Agents with MCP Servers • Visual Studio Code

🧩 Business Apps & Low Code

• Microsoft Build 2026: Empowering our developers to adopt agentic AI at Microsoft • Lukas Velush

• Announcing the new Work IQ APIs • Charles Lamanna

• What’s new in Copilot Studio: May 2026 updates and features • Nitasha Chopra

• Advanced Connector Policies are generally available • Lane Swenka

• Build Power Pages Sites with AI through Agentic Coding tools, now Generally Available • Neeraj Nandwana

• Quality Evaluation Framework for Customer Emails in Dynamics 36 • Harish Tyagi and Shruti Phanse

• Modernize IVR with AI Voice in Dynamics 365 Contact Center • Joe Weeden

• 📺 AI for Change Managers: Automating Change Impact Insights with Copilot Studio • Delia Zuniga

• 📺 Making SPFx upgrades smooth and easy with Claude Code • Nello D’Andrea

📊 Data, Analytics & Knowledge

• Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases • Arun Ulag

• Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview • Aseem Datar

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Microsoft CISO advice: Securing AI with full stack red teaming • Rani Lofstrom

• Microsoft Build 2026: Securing code, agents, and models across the development lifecycle • Ales Holecek

• Updating the taxonomy of failure modes in agentic AI systems: What a year of red teaming taught us • Microsoft AI Red Team

• Build AI agents for production with secure identities from day one • Arturo Lucatero

• 📺 Agent 365 | Security Operations in Defender • Microsoft Mechanics

• 📺 Start Secure: Connect GitHub to Your Live Environment • Microsoft Security

• 📺 Stay Secure: AI-powered Faster fixes • Microsoft Security

• 📺 Stay Secure: Prioritize Real Risks • Microsoft Security

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Copilot Cowork • Jack Rowbotham

• Project Opal: Computer-Using Agents on Windows 365 • Niklas Tinner

• Copilot Cowork • Jack Rowbotham

• 📺 Microsoft Scout AI: My Huge Aha Moment for Workflow Automation • WorkModern

• 📺 Understanding and Using AI Skills • John Savill’s Technical Training

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Building a RAG Administration Tool with .NET, Elasticsearch and OpenAI • Jamie Maguire

• The 8192-Token Cliff: Why Your .NET RAG Pipeline Throws Random 500s • Jamie Maguire

• GitHub Copilot Has a Model Governance Gap Hiding in Plain Sight • Chris Pietschmann

• GitHub Copilot Multi-Repo Instructions: Sharing Skills, Agents, and Conventions Across Repos • Chris Bradshaw

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Microsoft Agent Framework: Agents on Azure Functions with Durable Task Scheduler • Jaliya Udagedara

• Microsoft Agent Framework: Deterministic Multi-Agent Orchestrations with .NET Durable Functions • Jaliya Udagedara

• How to Use Build5Nines.SharpVector with Microsoft Agent Framework for Local RAG in C# • Chris Pietschmann

• 🛠️ GitHub - Azure-Samples/claude: Deploy Anthropic Claude on Microsoft Foundry with azd up (Bicep or Terraform) and call it with the official Claude SDKs over Entra ID. • Arun Sekhar

• Shipping Declarative Agents Across Environments and Versions • Sébastien Levert

🧩 Business Apps & Low Code

• CI/CD Pipelines for Declarative Agents with Agents Toolkit • Sébastien Levert

📊 Data, Analytics & Knowledge

• Data API Builder and SQL MCP with Jerry Nixon • Jerry Nixon and Richard Campbell

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Blocking Generative AI with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint • Raymond Roethof

• Shadow AI Governance: Why You Must Control AI Data Risk In Microsoft 365 • Nikki Chapple

• What 35 Years In Tech Taught Me About Data Security And AI Governance • Nikki Chapple

• 📺 Mastering AI Governance in Modern Organizations • Cloudy with a Chance of Insights, The MSFT Podcast and Richard Hogan

• 📺 Where Do Copilot Prompts Appear in Purview [4 Ways] • Ru Campbell

• Want to get featured on the weekly MSAI.ms? → Submit your content 😎

🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

MSAI.ms is created on Wurundjeri land and acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

🧩 Business Apps & Low Code

• Shaping Copilot across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for the flow of work • Katie Kivett

• How to better protect your growing business in an AI-powered world • Alym Rayani

• 📺 How to prevent agents sprawl with environment strategies | EP01 | Agents Under Control • Thomas Zou and Joe Unwin

• 📺 Selecting agent integration patterns in Copilot Studio • Adi Leibowitz

• 📺 Time and cost savings for agents | Power Platform Shorts

• 📺 When Copilot Studio meets Dataverse: Supercharged AI Knowledge • Bobby Chang and Karima Kanji-Tajdin

• 📺 Work IQ MCP Servers | Power Platform Shorts • Microsoft Power Platform

💼 Productivity & Work

• What’s New in Notebooks | May 2026 • Ezra Park

• Scaling the reach of finance: what’s next with Finance Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot • April Olson

• Finance Agent Benchmark: evaluating and improving AI for Finance • Sigita Cepaitiene

• Launched: Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption Hub Redesign • Karuana Gatimu

• 📺 Introduction to Copilot in SharePoint • Vesa Juvonen

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• The AX stack: what’s fixed, where you can win • Waldek Mastykarz

• GitHub - microsoft/waza: CLI / Framework for Agent Skills - create, test, measure and improve skill quality and effectiveness • Shayne Boyer

• Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere • Candy Ho and Ellie Bennett

• GitHub recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents for the third year in a row • Mario Rodriguez

• Introducing RAMPART and Clarity: Open source tools to bring safety into Agent development workflow • Ram Shankar Siva Kumar

• 📺 Agent-First Development Workflows in VS Code with Brigit Murtaugh • Brigit Murtaugh and James Montemagno

• 📺 Don’t just settle for the subscription based models! • Liam Hampton

• 📺 Getting More from Every Copilot Interaction • Andrea Griffiths, Marco Olivo and Francesco Lana

• 📺 Microsoft Build CLI: Conference Sessions, Speakers & Code from the command line • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 Modernizing a Legacy .NET App with GitHub Copilot • Krystal Folkes and Priyanka Vergadia

• 📺 STATE-Bench - Memory-agnostic Benchmark • Jorge Arteiro, Lewis Liu, Pablo Castro and Nishant Yadav

• 📺 Tracing Agent Sessions with OpenTelemetry & Aspire • Maddy Montaquila

• 📺 Trying out the GitHub Copilot App • Scott Hanselman

• 📺 Use VS Code Agents, GitHub Copilot, and the MSSQL extension to build AI apps | Data Exposed • Carlos Robles and Anna Hoffman

• 📺 Using Tools with Agents in VS Code • Liam Hampton

• 📺 Write Cleaner WinForms Code with Copilot and the WinForms Expert Agent • Robert Green and Klaus Laughlin

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Semantic issue search in Copilot Chat

• Audit repository Copilot cloud agent configuration via the REST API

• Remote control for Copilot CLI sessions now generally available on mobile, web, and VS Code

• Ask questions in context with Copilot on web

• Copilot cloud agent: Fast, cost-efficient models for simple tasks

• One-click fixes for failing Actions with Copilot cloud agent

• Gemini 3.5 Flash is generally available for GitHub Copilot

• Easily apply Copilot code review feedback with Copilot cloud agent

• Copilot Spaces API now generally available

• Auto model selection now routes based on your task in VS Code

• Copilot usage metrics reports now use GitHub-owned download URLs

• GitHub Copilot for Eclipse is open source

• Target Copilot models to organizations with model rules

• Copilot Memory has more controls for deletion, scope, and the Copilot CLI

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Building AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry: A Progressive Lab from Hello World to Self-Hosted • Lee Stott

• MAI-Image-2.5 launches at No. 3 on Arena • MAI Superintelligence Team

• How to run evals for the model router • Sanjeev Jagtap, Lee Stott and Marie-Louise Onga Nana

• 📺 Automate evaluations - Microsoft Foundry • Mohammad Abuomar

• 📺 Extending AI Agents with WebAssembly • Jorge Arteiro and Yoshua Wuyts

📊 Data, Analytics & Knowledge

• MagenticLite: An agentic experience optimized for small models • Microsoft Research AI Frontiers

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Governing AI agents at scale: Lessons from our journey at Microsoft • Alex Fleck

• Re-thinking zero-knowledge proofs for everyday identity • Srinath Setty

• 📺 Accelerate AI adoption with Microsoft Agent 365 • Sophie Ke and Samer Baroudi

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

🧩 Business Apps & Low Code

• 📺 Copilot’s New Edit Mode Does the Work For You in Word, Excel & PowerPoint • Lisa Crosbie

• 📺 How to use Copilot Studio with Microsoft SharePoint | Ask a Community Pro • Romain GERARD

• 📺 Transform Copilot With CUSTOM UI Widgets From Power Apps • Matthew Devaney

💼 Productivity & Work

• Copilot Cowork Prompt of the Day: Real Microsoft 365 Workflows That Actually Save Time • Josh Cook

• What can you do with Copilot Cowork? • Alexander Holmeset

• 📺 7 Copilot Tips That Fix 95% Of Your Excel Problems • David Fortin

• 📺 8 Microsoft 365 Copilot Mistakes and How to Fix Them! • Scott Brant

• 📺 Full Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Training for Enterprise Users • M365 Copilot Connection

• 📺 How to use Microsoft Copilot Cowork for Beginners • Amy McLeod

• 📺 Introducing new MarkDown support in SharePoint and OneDrive • Lesha Bhansali

• 📺 Microsoft 365 Copilot Licensing Explained | Updated June 2026 • David Fortin

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• How to Organise GitHub Copilot Customisations at Scale • AJ Bajada

• Stop Burning Premium Requests: How to Choose the Right GitHub Copilot Model for the Job • Chris Pietschmann

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Orchestrating the Future of Agentic Healthcare on Azure • Konstantinos Passadis

• The RAG Workbench I Actually Needed • Jamie Maguire

• Copilot Cowork Dataverse Plugin Setup • Josh Cook

• 343 - Essential MCP servers for working with Azure | Ctrl+Alt+Azure • Jussi Roine and Tobias Zimmergren

• The Azure Resource Manager MCP 😍 • Brian Veldman

• Microsoft Agent Framework: Agents on Azure Functions with .NET • Jaliya Udagedara

• Exam SC-500 Study Guide: Cloud And AI Security Engineer Associate - CHARBEL NEMNOM - MVP | MCT | CCSP • Charbel Nemnom

• 📺 Bringing Agent 365 MCP servers in Declarative Agents • Microsoft Community Learning and Lee Ford

• 📺 Copilot Studio NEW Workflows 🚀 Full Tutorial | AI Automation Reimagined • Reza Dorrani

• 📺 Declarative Agents with MCP Servers and Rich UI — Consulting Scenario (Trey Research) • Microsoft Community Learning and Rabia Williams

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Natural Language Queries Against Entra ID • Klaus Bierschenk

• How to Block Access for High-Risk AI Agents • Ali Tajran

• Securing AI systems without overconfidence or fear – Part 2: Attack surfaces and the checkpoint flow • Hussein Bahmad

• 📺 Security Copilot chat experience in Microsoft Defender • Heike Ritter and Yuval Derman

• Want to get featured on the weekly MSAI.ms? → Submit your content 😎

🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

MSAI.ms is created on Wurundjeri land and acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

It’s been yet another busy week in the world AI at Microsoft. Without further ado, here’s all the MS AI news you might have missed.

Enjoy!

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Fly With Copilot

• A simplified system - Microsoft Design • Jon Friedman

• 📺 Copilot App Deep Dive: Intelligence, Context & Agents • Dan Holme

• 📺 Copilot Cowork: Let AI Run Your Workflows End‑to‑End • Derah Onuorah

• 📺 Copilot Studio Plugin for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot

• 📺 Dataverse in Microsoft 365 Copilot

• 📺 Extending your Copilot Chat declarative agent with actions - API plugins and MCP • Sébastien Levert

• 📺 Meeting Agent & Channel Agent: Turning Meetings into Action • Miceile Barrett

• 📺 SharePoint + AI: From Content Management to Intelligent Teammate • Miceile Barrett

• 📺 What is Copilot Cowork? | Meet the Builders • Christopher Whitten, Steve Gustavson and Bas Brekelmans

• 📺 Work IQ | Data, Context, Skills & Tools for Copilot and Your Agents • Jeremy Chapman

• RM490154 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot

• RM508524 - Outlook: User-initiated Copilot insights in classic Outlook

• RM561037 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Vision in Microsoft 365 Copilot can analyze content shared on-screen

• RM561322 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in PowerPoint for Government clouds

• RM561920 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): SharePoint list support in Agent Builder

• RM562018 - SharePoint: AI overview for SharePoint News posts in the SharePoint app for Teams

• RM562351 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Get actionable suggestions from Copilot in your Copilot Page

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• GitHub Copilot app is now available in technical preview

• Copilot code review: Comment experience improvements

• April reports are now available to prepare for usage-based billing

• Bringing Transparency to Copilot Edits in Excel • Gabi Augustin

• Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI • Lee Reilly

• Start Copilot cloud agent tasks via the REST API

• Copilot cloud agent supports auto model selection

• Introducing Copilot CLI agent and unified sessions view in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs

• Team-level Copilot usage metrics now available via API

• Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process • Eric Bailey

• Grok Code Fast 1 deprecated

• Copilot Memory supports user preferences for Pro, Pro+ users

• GPT-5.3-Codex is now the base model for Copilot Business and Enterprise

• Introducing WinUI agent plugin for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code • Nikola Metulev

• GA - Automate web and desktop apps with computer use • JoeFernandezMS

• The Coding Harness Behind GitHub Copilot in VS Code

• GitHub Copilot CLI now has a statusline feature! Here’s how to set it up with Oh My Posh • Kayla Cinnamon

• AI Made Us Faster. That Was the Problem • David Fowler

• 📺 Dataverse plugin for coding agents

• 📺 Introducing the VS Code Agents Window (Preview) • Brigit Murtaugh

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | April 2026 • Nick Brady

• 4 ways to build a curated Agent Store and scale agent adoption • AnnaCao

• Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API • Sam Kemp

• GridSFM: Small foundation model boosts power grid optimization • Weiwei Yang

• Build AI apps with Azure Cosmos DB: Key trends from Cosmos Conf 2026 • Shireesh Thota

• Advancing enterprise AI: New SAP on Azure announcements from SAP Sapphire 2026 • Wael El Kabbany

• AI Architecture Design • davihern

• GitHub - microsoft/azure-skills: Official agent plugin providing skills and MCP server configurations for Azure scenarios.

• Computer-using agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio are now generally available • Mustapha Lazrek

• 📺 Build and Run Your First Custom Engine Agent with Agent Framework • Ayça Baş

• 📺 Configuring your Copilot Chat declarative agent capabilities • Sébastien Levert

• 📺 Stop Burning RUs: Live AI App Code Review with the Cosmos DB Agent Kit • Andrew Liu

🧩 Business Apps & Low Code

• How Workday and Microsoft are redefining the agentic workplace • Srini Raghavan

• Email Sentiment in Dynamics 365 Customer Service • Ramnath Srinivasan, Megha Gupta and Harish Tyagi

• Agentic Administration: Dataverse Admin Skills now available in Public Preview • Anirudha Bakore

• Closed-loop learning on the Power Apps MCP server • Srihari Srinivasa

• What’s new in Copilot Studio: April 2026 updates and features • Nitasha Chopra

• What’s new in Power Platform: May 2026 feature update • Tiffany Treacy

• Dynamics 365 AI Credit Estimation: Transform Workforce Planning • Gopal Yuvaraj

• 📺 Building Apps with AI: Agents + Power Platform in Action • Clay Wesener

• 📺 Dataverse Governance for AI-Powered Organizations

• RM481518 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins will be able to define rules to automate agent lifecycle management.

• RM561855 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Dynamic Tool Discovery for Declarative Agents and Federated Copilot Connectors

• RM562220 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Supercharge your workflows with computer use

• RM562221 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Use MCP-compliant tools in agent workflows

• RM562222 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Invoke agents as workflow steps with the agent node

📊 Data, Analytics & Knowledge

• MatterSim expands materials discovery with faster simulation and a new multi-task model • Andrew Fowler

• SocialReasoning Bench shows the limits of today’s AI agents • Tyler Payne

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• NEW UPDATES: Administering and Governing Agents whitepaper v3.2 • Joe Unwin

• Defense at AI speed: Microsoft’s new multi-model agentic security system tops leading industry benchmark • Taesoo Kim

• Accelerating detection engineering using AI-assisted synthetic attack logs generation • Microsoft Defender Security Research Team

• When configuration becomes a vulnerability: Exploitable misconfigurations in AI apps • Microsoft Defender Security Research Team

• Defense in depth for autonomous AI agents • Alyssa Ofstein and Elliot H Omiya

• Defense at AI speed: Microsoft’s new multi-model agentic security system finds 16 new vulnerabilities • Taesoo Kim

• 📺 Agent 365: Governing AI Agents at Enterprise Scale • Shilpi Sinha

• 📺 AI Security & Admin Innovation in Microsoft 365 • Sesha Mani

• 📺 AI-Powered Threat Investigation with Security Copilot & Microsoft Defender • Joey Cruz

• 📺 Built-in Guardrails for Copilot: Data Security in Action • Shilpa Ranganathan

• 📺 Protecting AI Agents with Microsoft Purview • Shilpa Ranganathan

• 📺 Secure Identity at Scale with Security Copilot + Microsoft Entra • Mamta Kumar

• 📺 Using AI to Secure Data: Security Copilot + Microsoft Purview • Vinod Gridhar

• RM502519 - Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Expand protection to Copilot + PC devices for Recall snapshots through custom policies

• RM516569 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot voice support in Word & PowerPoint.

• RM561035 - Microsoft Edge: Allow M365 authentication popups in work profiles

• RM561552 - Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention to restrict processing external emails in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat

• RM561892 - Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft 365 Copilot to safeguard prompts for government clouds

🧑‍🎨 Consumer & Creator

• Study and Learn: AI built for your student • Microsoft Education Team

• Bing MAI Image Creator update

• 📺 Copilot in OneDrive: Get summaries and answers without opening your files • Ivan Figueroa

• 📺 Copilot webinar: How to find files and photos with Copilot in OneDrive (Ep. 8) • Ivan Figueroa

• 📺 Use Copilot in OneDrive to search and restyle your photos • Ivan Figueroa

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

💼 Productivity & Work

• A more discoverable Copilot experience in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Clint Covington

• Cursor in Microsoft Teams

• 📺 8 NEW Copilot Features in Word, Excel and PowerPoint! • Scott Brant

• 📺 Copilot Cowork Makes Scheduling Meetings Effortless • Joe Unwin

• 📺 Copilot Cowork: Building Skills and Plugins • Nick Harris

• 📺 Copilot Cowork: Tutorial for Beginners • Lisa Crosbie

• 📺 Microsoft 365 Copilot May 2026 Updates: EVERYTHING You Need to Know • Nick Harris

• 📺 Microsoft Copilot Chat for Students 13+: Setup Guide for IT Admins • Mike Tholfsen

• 📺 My 5 Favorite Microsoft Copilot Tips to Get More Done • Mike Tholfsen

• 📺 My 5 Favorite Microsoft Copilot Tips to Get More Done • Mike Tholfsen

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• 6 Multi-Agent Orchestration Design Patterns Every Developer Should Know • Chris Pietschmann

• 📺 Copilot CLI Tutorial #2 - Commands • Net Ninja

• 📺 Copilot Studio Plugin for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot • Giorgio Ughini and Eric Scherlinger

• 📺 I Tested GitHub’s New Copilot App So You Don’t Have To • Petter Arnesen

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• This is why you should start using Azure SRE Agents! 😍 • Brian Veldman

• Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework: An Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI • Jamie Maguire

• 📺 AI-901 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Study Cram • John Savill

• 📺 Building AI-Powered SPFx Apps with Copilot Chat API • Siddharth Vaghasia

• 📺 I automated my Prompt of the Week slide with one skill — Cowork is wild • Rabia Williams

• 📺 Microsoft Foundry, Explained: Tour the Portal & Build a Real Agent • Frankie Riviera

• 📺 NEW Workflows Feature In Copilot Studio (20-Min Full Demo) • Matthew Devaney

• 📺 NEW Workflows Feature In Copilot Studio (20-Min Full Demo) • Matthew Devaney

• RM561326 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot People Connectors introduces people data ingestions with differentiated access control

📊 Data, Analytics & Knowledge

• RM508527 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Search Matches on People’s Department

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Are AI Agents Changing the SOC? • Mike Palitto

• Fix Copilot Oversharing Fast With Sensitivity Labels • Nikki Chapple

• Deploy Microsoft Purview DLP For Copilot Security • Nikki Chapple

• 📺 AI Prompt Injection Attacks Are Easy [How To Stop This] • Ru Campbell

• 📺 How I Helped My Customers Understand their AI Usage • Bram de Jager

• 📺 How to Remove Copilot Apps from Windows 11 • Steve Weiner

• 📺 Using Purview to Prevent Oversharing with AI Services • Viktor Hedberg

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🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

This weekly newsletter is created on Wurundjeri land and acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

A quick walkthrough of the newsletter. We break down the news into two main sections. The first is all the official news from Microsoft, and the second is from the Microsoft community including MVPs, consultants and the folks deploying and sharing what they do.

Under the main category we’ve then broken it down by the core domains that Satya recently outlined.

If you have any ideas or suggestions on improving this newsletter, let us know!

Enjoy!

⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | April 2026 • Seth Patton

• Copilot Cowork: From conversation to action across skills, integrations, and devices • Charles Lamanna

• Introducing Markdown support in SharePoint and OneDrive • Arwa Tyebkhan

• Microsoft 365 Copilot, human agency, and the opportunity for every organization • Matt Firestone

• How we’re tackling Microsoft 365 Copilot governance internally at Microsoft • Alex Fleck

• Copilot in OneNote now understands more of your notes • Daniel Beade

• Word: Legal Agent in Frontier • Sumit Chauhan

• (Co)work in Progress • Ilya Grebnov

• Federated Copilot connectors - bringing real-time enterprise data within Microsoft 365 Copilot • Rohit Bhatia

• Available today: GPT-5.5 Instant in Microsoft 365 Copilot • Nitin Agrawal

• 📺 Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Agentic Capabilities Now Generally Available

• 📺 Keynote - Building for the Future: Microsoft 365, Agents, & AI • Jeff Teper

• RM552595 - Outlook: Draft, edit and format emails conversationally with Copilot in Outlook

• RM557561 - Microsoft Edge: Auto-open Copilot side pane for Outlook links

• How Frontier Firms are rebuilding the operating model for the age of AI • Jared Spataro

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Interactive v. non-interactive mode • Kayla Cinnamon

• Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here’s how to review them. • Andrea Griffiths

• Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows • Landon Cox and Mara Kiefer

• GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, April releases • Change log

• Enterprise-managed plugins in GitHub Copilot CLI are now in public preview • Change log

• Rubber Duck in GitHub Copilot CLI now supports more models • Change log

• More flexible secrets and variables for Copilot cloud agent • Change log

• Copilot code review comment types now in usage metrics API • Change log

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Validating agentic behavior when “correct” isn’t deterministic • Gaurav Mittal

• SharePoint Showcase: AI-Forward Content Creation & Curation for the Modern Intranet • Sophia Peng

• Scaling cloud and AI: Microsoft Azure’s commitment to Europe’s digital future • Jessica Hawk

• Transforming IT support across Microsoft with the Employee Self-Service Agent • Alex Fleck

• Automate agent evaluation with the Evaluation APIs • Efrat Gilboa

• Work IQ API Public Preview: Build Copilot Powered Agents with A2A • Tolga Kilicli

• Read-only analytics access and custom metrics now available in Microsoft Copilot Studio • Eran Manor

• Introducing the Azure Resource Manager MCP Server! • Steven Bucher

• New Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate Certification • Liberty Munson

• RM531911 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts for Web tab

• RM559020 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Work IQ APIs

• RM559019 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Work IQ APIs - Endpoints: Declarative Agent Access

• Announcing the public preview of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Evaluations tool • Barry Gervin

🧩 Business Apps & Low Code

• New Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Sales AI Consultant Associate Certification • Liberty Munson

• How Frontier Firms scale agents with confidence • Michelle Lancaster

• Introducing business skills: Teach agents how your organization works • Prithvi Khosla

• Dataverse Is Your Agent Data Platform: Here’s What’s New • Julie Koesmarno

• Case Enrichment Simulation in Dynamics 365 Customer Service • Soham Ghosh and Saurabh Gupta

• Introducing Service Operations Agent in Dynamics 365 Contact Center • Lily Shelke

• Consent-Based Recording for Voice AI in D365 Contact Center • Tarun Shroff

• RM561325 - Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics: Copilot usage snapshot PBI at day level with fresh data

• 📺 Keynote - Business Apps and Agents - Microsoft 365 Community Conference • Ryan Cunningham

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Microsoft Agent 365, now generally available, expands capabilities and integrations • Jason Roszak, Nirav Shah and Rob Lefferts

• Sponsor group type requirements for agent identities • Microsoft Entra Agent ID team

• Red-teaming a network of agents: Understanding what breaks when AI agents interact at scale • Gagan Bansal

• Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365 are now generally available • Caroline Stanford

• Microsoft CISO advice: Apply engineering fundamentals to securing AI • Rani Lofstrom

• ​​Microsoft named an overall leader in KuppingerCole Analyst’s 2026 Emerging AI Security Operations Center (SOC) report ​​ • Rob Lefferts

• RM559021 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Work IQ APIs – Unified REST Endpoint for Agents and Workflows

• RM502875 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Graph APIs for App & Agent Inventory and Details.

• 📺 Keynote - Securing AI: Building Trust in the Era of AI - M365 Community Conference • Vasu Jakkal

🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Microsoft 365 Copilot tasks you can try in Outlook • Imran Rashid

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Automated Code Reviews in Azure DevOps using OpenAI models powered by Microsoft Foundry • John Lokerse

• GitHub Copilot Learning Path on Microsoft Learn • Mahesh Joshi

• Run Gemma 4 Locally With GitHub Copilot And VS Code • Chris Pietschmann

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Running Azure SRE Agent for AKS and Drasi Operations • Luke Murray

• Integrating Microsoft Foundry AI with PowerShell for Microsoft 365 • Sean McAvinue

• AI-assisted AWS to Azure migration with GitHub Copilot agents • Danidu Weerasinghe

• Automating Azure Cost Calculations with GitHub Copilot CLI Custom agents ❤️ • Brian Veldman

• 📺 How to change model behavior! Context engineering, fine-tuning and more • John Savill

• 📺 Consuming an MCP server with OAuth 2.0 in Copilot Studio • Paolo Pialorsi

• 🎙️ 341 - Foundry Toolkit goes GA: Building agents with code | Ctrl+Alt+Azure • Jussi Roine and Tobias Zimmergren

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• AI Governance & Data Protection - Claude + Microsoft 365 - InfraBytes • Jonathan Blaue

• Shadow AI in Microsoft 365 Detect and Block It • Mark Oldham

• Microsoft Agent 365 vs M365 Agents • Jannik Reinhard

• AI governance overview: stop panicking and fix the basics • Ewelina Paczkowska

• Primer: bulk actions with the Agent 365 API • Vasil Michev

• 📺 DSPM Solves your Biggest E7 AI Security Problem! • Peter Rising

• 📺 Securing data in the age of AI • Julio Cesar Goncalves Vasconcelos

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🪃 Acknowledgement of Country

This weekly newsletter is created on Wurundjeri land and acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, recognising their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders both past and present.

Microsoft AI is moving fast, and the first edition of Merill’s weekly Microsoft AI roundup will be going out later this week.

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The goal is simple: help you stay on top of what’s changing without having to follow every blog, changelog, Message Center post, GitHub update, video, podcast, and LinkedIn thread yourself.

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