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

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🪃 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

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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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