Category: Copilot Studio (previously Power Virtual Agents)

 

Ignite 2025 Announcements You Need to Know and Why They Matter

I was fortunate to attend Microsoft’s Ignite conference last week, and just like I’ve seen before at other conferences, we see that agents and AI are (and will probably stay) a big focus of Microsoft. After letting all the announcements sink in, one message came through loud and clear: agents aren’t just assistants anymore, they’re becoming core players in the low-code and business apps world. The Power Platform is nowRead More

Keep your agents organized: Create File Groups for better responses

When you’re building agents in Copilot Studio, adding knowledge sources is a key step in building your agent. One of the quick ways to add knowledge to the agent is by providing documents! This can be done in 2 separate ways today, and the option you’ll go for will depend on how your agent will be used, and by whom! Today you can use SharePoint or OneDrive as a knowledgeRead More

Learn how to customize Copilot in D365 Field Service (preview)

A few days ago I came across an article on learn.microsoft.com that explained how to streamline inventory visibility in Dynamics 365 Field Service by using the out of the box Copilot inside of Dynamics365 Field Service. What this allows us to do is customize the agent that lives inside of D365 Field Service in a way that when a user opens a work order, it can ask the agent toRead More

How to populate lookup columns using Copilot Studio’s Dataverse Connector

Today I was building an agent using Copilot Studio and one of the things that I was trying to do was using Dataverse knowledge for the Agent to access information from a table, reason over it, and use the Dataverse connector to create a new record if needed. The problem that I was facing was that I needed to populate two lookup fields to create a new record and afterRead More

Learn how to enable Customer Intent for Custom Agents in Copilot Studio!

Previously I have written articles on the Customer Intent agent in Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Contact Center where I explained how the Customer Intent agent works, and how to enable it. If you haven’t had a chance to read those articles yet, you can do so here and here. How great would it be if we could allow our custom built agents (yes the ones you build using CopilotRead More

Let your custom Agent search Knowledge Articles in Dynamics 365!

Wouldn’t it be great if your custom agent could do more than answer questions? If it could actually help customers resolve their issues without ever needing to chat with a live agent or search through pages of knowledge articles by themselves? By giving your custom agent access to the knowledge base in Dynamics 365 Customer Service, you’re doing exactly that. With the help of Power Automate, you can use anRead More

New AI Agents to close deals faster

You might have noticed some buzz online last week when Microsoft announced three new AI-driven sales agents within Microsoft 365 Copilot and Dynamics 365 Sales. These new Agents are designed to enhance sales teams’ efficiency and effectiveness. By grounding them in CRM data, Microsoft graph and other business data , these agents will give highly personalized and context-aware responses, helping sales teams engage with prospects and customers more effectively. SinceRead More

Extending Copilot in D365 Sales – Part 2

If you’ve worked with Dynamics 365 Sales, before most likely you’ve seen Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales. Please note that I am not talking about Copilot for Sales, which requires an additional license, I am referring to Copilot that sits inside of the D365 Sales application. Out of the box this Copilot empowers sellers with quick access to sales data from Dynamics 365, allowing sellers to ask questions on DynamicsRead More

Extending Copilot in D365 Sales – Part 1

You have most likely heard of all the different Copilots that Microsoft published in the past year, from Copilot in Microsoft Teams to Copilot in SharePoint, Dynamics 365 apps and of course Microsoft 365 Copilot which is grounded in business data, allowing users to ask questions about work related things. In this article I am going to discuss how we can extend Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales. Just to beRead More

Building Topics with Inputs & Outputs in Copilot Studio

There have been a lot of updates to Copilot Studio recently! During the Power Platform Community Conference Microsoft announced a lot of new features, but there were some other things that went unnoticed or were not mentioned. Maybe you’ve noticed that Copilot’s responses are A LOT faster then they used to be? That is absolutely correct! Microsoft made some great improvements which is why you are seeing this! Another featureRead More