Custom Engine Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot

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Agents in BizChat has been available for some time already, but now there is an upcoming update to Agents. The introduction of “ custom engine agents ” in Microsoft 365 Copilot! These specialized agents can be built on any large language model (LLM), toolchain, or orchestration tool, tailored specifically for your domain or tenant workflows. Initially supported in Microsoft Teams, this feature will soon be available in Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat ( BizChat ).   The introduction of Custom engine agents enables your organization to create customized experiences using your own AI systems and orchestrators. You can design unique prompts, connect to any LLM, and integrate these custom agents with Microsoft 365 Copilot. After the rollout, users will be able to access these agents, provided they are enabled and deployed in the Microsoft 365 admin center under the Copilot tab.   You can read more about the feature on this page . Eligible users can create agents using Micros...

Why you need to check those HCL's

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We ordered a server to be installed as a vmware server for lab purposes this fall. As we did this, and told the vendor what we wanted to do with the server, we were confident we'ld get a functioning server. 
Well, imagine our surprise when it turned out we could not install the VMWare softare. We ran into the problem and solution described in this post: http://www.bramschoenmakers.nl/en/node/500. It is up and running, but I'm sad to say it is true what the post say about disk preformance. So I guess I'm all ready looking for a new server.....