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...

From the world of Teams in February

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We are mid-February and only two weeks away from my previous update, and already my list of things to mention is growing to big to wait for a monthly update. Here is a couple of important highlights from the past two weeks:

Administration and training:
The Teams Team have updated the documentation on Teams (here)
Take a look at the "Skill Enablement" series, The Foundation track has been updated (here)

Feature releases:
Anynode now certified for Direct Routing (here)
Administration of Auto Attendant and Call Queue is coming to the admin center (roadmap)
Discover easier sign-in process, released in the January updates to desktop client (here)
Teams will become a part of the Office ProPluss installation (roadmap)

Blogs of interest:
Here is a post on all the latest calling and meeting features (here)
If you are looking for the highlights from the past month or os, Take a look at Microsoft's own "February Round UP! (here)
A Teams Team size has been increased from 2500 to 5000 (uservoice)
Have you heard about "Supervision"? Read this post, and learn how you can meet regulatory requirements and more (techcommunity)
Teams Devices based on Android 5.x and higher can enroll in Intune (here)

Upcoming events:
Join the Microsoft Teams Team for a Government AMA (AMA) February 19th 9-10 AM ET

Skype for Business:
2015 Client February update (here)
2016 Client February update (here)

Other:
Not strictly related to Teams or SFB. But I have a lot of customers using voicemail, and it can be important to know what's happening with "Unified Messaging Online" (here)