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...

Pinned apps coming to the Teams Mobile client

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Soon you will be able to get to your pinned personal apps even from the mobile client. This makes the client even richer, and is in my opinion, a great step in the right direction for  the "mobile only" end-users. 

This new feature affects your company's LOB applications, 3rd party applications and even private applications the end-user creates themselves. It doesn't look like the client supports adding new apps from the store, but as an admin this is controlled through policies

The roll-out of this feature started at the end of May, and should soon be available to tenants according to a post in the Admin message message center.