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...

Proper presenter or attendee roles in Teams

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Rolling out these days are the new presenter and attendee roles for meetings in Teams. This is yet another feature which brings Teams closer to the Skype for Business experience many are asking for.

Road-map feature 51047 should complete by the end of November, and will be enabled by default. I do recommend an update to training and user-guides.

To set the roles ahead of time, use the "meeting options" in the meeting entry to open up a web page where these settings can be set.

Locate the "Who can present", and choose from : "Everyone", "People in my organization", Specific people" and "Only me".

After you have selected "Specific people", use the search tool to pick the presenters.