{"id":4189,"date":"2025-03-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-copilot\/blog\/?post_type=copilot&p=4189"},"modified":"2025-02-28T16:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T00:28:39","slug":"whats-new-in-copilot-studio-february-2025","status":"publish","type":"copilot","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-copilot\/blog\/copilot-studio\/whats-new-in-copilot-studio-february-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s new in Copilot Studio: February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In this edition of our monthly roundup, we’re recapping new Microsoft Copilot Studio<\/a> features released in February 2025:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re excited to announce that the ability to publish your custom agents created in Copilot Studio directly to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat<\/a> is now in public preview, unlocking new capabilities to customize and extend Microsoft 365 Copilot. This latest update enables your agents to take advantage of the full functionalities of Copilot Studio within Copilot Chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Accordingly, your agents published to Microsoft 365 can now utilize features like agent handoff, Azure AI Foundry integrations, orchestration selection, and\u2014where more control of the conversation is needed\u2014topics. They can also automate and execute business processes using autonomous triggers. With this greater functionality comes the need for greater oversight, so makers can also monitor their custom agents\u2019 trends and performance with analytics (see more updates on analytics below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Customers can also access the full security and governance features in the Microsoft Power Platform admin center, along with messages, quick replies, and adaptive cards enabled for Copilot Chat. Whether you’re launching a new agent or publishing an existing one, you can now benefit from additional channels and enable employees to access these agents through Microsoft 365 Copilot. To get started, head to Copilot Studio, enable the Microsoft 365 Copilot Channel, and select \u201cSubmit to Teams or Microsoft 365\u201d when publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enterprise data is the cornerstone of businesses: shaping strategies, driving decisions, and making it possible for your agents to provide accurate and context-rich responses. This month, we released new out-of-the-box Microsoft Graph connectors in Copilot Studio and Copilot Chat out to public preview. Now you can connect your agents to data in Stack Overflow, Salesforce Knowledge, GitHub, and Unily, which makes it easy for your organizations\u2019 agents to access and use those content sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Development teams can now retrieve documentation, code snippets, and track issues directly from GitHub repositories using simple queries from within Copilot Studio. Teams gain immediate access to both community and internal Q&A data, enabling instant solutions to coding and IT challenges. Additionally, sales, frontline, and customer support teams can pull customer insights, FAQs, and case resolutions from Salesforce Knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get started, configure the new connectors in the Microsoft 365 admin center. For more details, check out our guide: Set up Microsoft Graph connectors in the Microsoft 365 admin center | Microsoft Learn<\/a>. Once the applications are connected, add them as Knowledge Sources<\/a> in Copilot Studio. These connectors will also show up as additional knowledge in the Microsoft 365 agent builder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In many cases, an organization\u2019s agents will share common messaging and content sources, actions, triggers, and entities. Rather than repeatedly copying and pasting these foundational elements for every new agent, makers and admins can now use Component Collection to import, manage, and export core agent components\u2014including topics, knowledge, actions, and entities\u2014across various environments. This process not only accelerates agent creation, but it also allows you to designate a preferred solution that automatically integrates changes through Component Collection and Solution Explorer.<\/p>\n\n\n Customers can also configure pipelines and guide makers, which empower admins to centrally govern citizen-led and pro-dev-led projects at scale with less effort. Admins set up the appropriate safeguards that govern and facilitate solution development, testing, and delivery across the organization. Then, makers can submit deployment requests to admins from within Copilot Studio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With the ability to set, template, reuse, and govern components, the process of building and scaling agents becomes easier, faster, and more consistent. To learn more about these capabilities, check out the following resources: <\/p>\n\n\n\n When it comes to understanding agent experience, optimization, and ROI, analytics are critical. This month, Copilot Studio rolled out several new analytics features. The built-in analytics page will now feature detailed insights and telemetry for the actions configured within the agent. This new view allows makers to identify the most-used actions, evaluate execution success, and optimize workflows with real-time data\u2014critical for continuing to optimize and improve an agent\u2019s performance and value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additionally, makers and admins with the “Transcript Viewer” role and permissions can now access a comprehensive view of conversations and responses for trend analysis and diagnostics. This feature has been eagerly anticipated; it provides deeper insights into the conversations your agents have with end users and how they track to the various key performance indicators (KPIs) within the analytics dashboard. These transcripts include detailed topic initiation, node triggers, and outcomes to help diagnose and refine interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lastly, we\u2019ve expanded the regions in which customers can take advantage of these robust analytics insights by expanding to the Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud (GCC) in general availability. Review and benefit from these advanced analytics to gauge user engagement, performance, and satisfaction so you can further refine your agents. All these updates empower makers and admins to spot trends, resolve issues faster, and optimize performance, helping agents work more effectively for your end users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every year, cyberattacks get more sophisticated. In this age of generative AI, cross-domain or cross-prompt injection attacks (XPIAs) can occur when there are malicious instructions passed to the agent from an external system. These attacks can result in the agent taking an action or sending a message based on the malicious instructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Microsoft, we\u2019re committed to continuing cutting-edge research and proactive development to keep Copilot Studio language models and customers secure. It\u2019s imperative that customers are protected from attacks that target agents to perform malicious actions that the\u2019re not configured to automate. Based on state-of-the-art research, we recently rolled out a feature that adds more protection against\u2014and better detection of\u2014XPIAs, further reducing the risk of a successful attack. This feature is enabled by default everywhere and cannot be disabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What does this mean for Copilot Studio customers? It means you\u2019ll be able to meet more stringent security requirements related to security protections, and that your data and operations are safeguarded against evolving threats. This proactive approach helps ensure that your organization remains compliant with industry standards and best practices for cybersecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Microsoft 365 Agents Software Development Kit (SDK) is a powerful tool that provides developers with building blocks to create agents that handle user interactions, orchestrate requests, generate responses based on enterprise knowledge, and collaborate with other agents. In November 2024, we announced that the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK would support C# development. Now, developers can also use JavaScript to create agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the rollout of this feature, developers can take advantage of their existing skills and knowledge in JavaScript to build sophisticated agents that can enhance productivity and streamline business processes. The Microsoft 365 Agents SDK provides interoperability with Copilot Studio, allowing developers to extend existing agents built using Copilot Studio with additional functionality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For all the information and documentation, check out the Agents for JavaScript repository on GitHub<\/a>. You\u2019ll find samples, templates, test bots, and plenty of other resources to get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re excited to announce two powerful improvements to the embedded agent builder in Microsoft 365 Copilot, powered by Copilot Studio: Public web scoping and end user feedback. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Makers can now ground their Copilot agents on scoped publicly available websites, and leverage these websites as knowledge. Rather than letting agents perform a full web search, makers can constrain their agents\u2019 external knowledge sources to specific websites for the most relevant answers. This capability already existed in custom agents built from Copilot Studio, but it now extends to agents built in Microsoft 365. This feature is enabled automatically under the \u201cConfigure\u201d tab. In the \u201cKnowledge\u201d section, simply enter the URLs of approved public websites and your agents will use those as their knowledge base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This new feature gives makers greater control over the information that Copilot agents access, and helps ensure responses are more accurate and scoped to the right context. By specifying trusted websites, makers can enhance the reliability of the agents’ answers and provide end-users with more consistent responses. Additionally, this capability helps in maintaining the integrity of the information provided by the agents, by limiting the sources to those that have been vetted and approved by the makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The public web scoping feature is particularly useful for organizations that have specific knowledge bases or industry-specific websites they rely on. By integrating these sources, agents can deliver more specialized and contextually appropriate responses, which can be crucial for customer support, technical assistance, and other use cases where more precise information is necessary. This increased function can even help reduce the frequency of escalations to human support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Makers can also now submit feedback\u2014compliments, problems, or suggestions\u2014directly to the product team from inside the Microsoft 365 agent builder. Just as end users can rate an AI-generated agent response with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, makers can now do so in preview chat. You can also use the \u201cSend Feedback\u201d option to send feedback at any time while using agent builder, and there\u2019s a specific feedback option if a responsible AI (RAI) error pops up. When submitting feedback, you can choose to write a comment and, optionally, allow the product team to collect supporting metadata like AI Prompt, AI Response, and Conversation ID. (You can review this data before clicking send.) \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n This feature is exciting because makers now have a way to share feedback without breaking their flow during the agent authoring process, and with relevant surrounding context. This helps the product team react quickly to feedback, without needing to go back and forth to get additional troubleshooting information, and gets you back on track as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meill\u00e4 on ilo ilmoittaa…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mi\u0142o nam og\u0142osi\u0107…<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u0e40\u0e23\u0e32\u0e21\u0e35\u0e04\u0e27\u0e32\u0e21\u0e22\u0e34\u0e19\u0e14\u0e35\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48\u0e08\u0e30\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28…<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re delighted to announce the addition of twelve new languages to the conversational agent creation experience in Copilot Studio and the Microsoft 365 agent builder. The new supported languages include Chinese (traditional), Czech, Finnish, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Norwegian Bokm\u00e5l, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This feature enables expanded language support in areas where the Microsoft 365 agent builder was recently launched. It\u2019s auto-enabled for makers whose browser language is one of the supported languages and whose environment is in a Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service supported region. The language of the conversational agent creation experience will default to the browser language if the specific language is supported in this new update. This means that thousands of makers can create new agents in their native language, without further configuration, and serve their local customers natively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read more about language support and use<\/a> in Copilot Studio here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Publish custom agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Add enterprise data with new Microsoft Graph connections <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Import and export agent components in Copilot Studio <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Analytics updates: Actions analysis, transcript enhancements, and Government Community Cloud availability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Security: Cross-prompt injection attack (XPIA) mitigation improvements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Microsoft 365 Agents Software Development Kit for JavaScript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Embedded Microsoft 365 agent builder updates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Twelve new languages supported in conversational agent creation experience <\/h2>\n\n\n\n