Custom Engine Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot

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...

Start creating your own "together mode scenes" in Microsoft Teams

Together mode is great and fun way to view participants in meetings, and Microsoft Teams comes with quite a few nice scenes to play around with.

Fresh off the press is the Teams Developer Tool to create and share your very own backgrounds. 

Take a look at the provided documentation, and have a go for yourself Teams together mode

For those organizations who want to control what their users are using as backgrounds and together mode scenes, this can be done by assigning individual meeting policies where the "Select video filters" is set to anything but "all filters".


The feature has just started rolling out, and it could be the end of July before the rollout is completed.