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...

A new feature in Teams: Share contact information in chat. And one feature change: Web pages will open in browser


Microsoft Teams makes it easier to share contact information for easier collaboration. Within a chat it will now be possible to use the @ mention to bring up a contact card you can send and share with others within your organization. Helping your colleagues connect with one another just got easier.

This is associated with the Roadmap ID: 375627

Another change in Teams, is how the "website tab" inside a channel behaves. In the coming weeks and months, webpages will no longer be displayed in the tab, but rather open a seperate web browser tab (your default). This is to better align with emerging best practices in web security and privacy while also improving the reliability of websites.