Microsoft AI Weekly #3: Copilot, GitHub, Azure AI & more
Learn about the GitHub Copilot App, new Copilot Cowork tips and more!
👋 Hi folks, here’s this week’s roundup of Microsoft AI news. Lots of cool news and updates this week, but I’m especially excited for Build next week and all the new goodies we’ll get to play with.
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🧩 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
📺 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
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
Copilot cloud agent: Fast, cost-efficient models for simple tasks
One-click fixes for failing Actions with Copilot cloud agent
Easily apply Copilot code review feedback with Copilot cloud agent
Auto model selection now routes based on your task in VS Code
Copilot usage metrics reports now use GitHub-owned download URLs
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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