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...

Windows Server 2019 - Now in preview

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For those of you who missed it last week, here is a link to the announcement of Windows Server 2019 Preview release: Preview post on microsoft.com

The big question for me, is of course if Skype for business Server 2019 will be supported on the Server 2019 upon release, but was not able to get a straight answer. The information available at this time is only related to Server 2016. But I am guessing that is because Server 2019 has not been available to test yet.

It took quite som time for SFBS 2015 to be officially supported on Server 2016, but the final releases of Wave 2019 are still months away, and I am hoping we will see an alignment of versions by then. After all, the client team has already made a statement that the client software will be supported on Windows Server 2019.