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...

Collaborative notes now also on mobile, a combined picker for gifs emojis and stickers and a multi account meeting plugin for Outlook.

Collaborative notes in Teams meetings is a feature that allows meeting attendees to work together to create agendas, take notes, and generate action items. However, until now, this feature has not been supported on mobile clients. This is about to change, as the roadmap item 128652 is set to roll out this month.

Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature that combines emojis, GIFs, and stickers into one picker. With this update, emojis, GIFs, and stickers will be combined in one picker under the smiley face icon. Clicking the smiley face will open the new feature. This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84023, and should be rolling out this month.

The Teams Meeting Add-in in Outlook now supports multi-tenant and multi-account scenarios. This means that if you’re signed into multiple tenants in Teams, the Teams Meeting button in Outlook will create a meeting invite link for the tenant you’re currently signed into. This obviously requires the user to be using the new version of Teams.