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SharePoint Agents weirdness
We're looking at enabling SharePoint Agents to our Microsoft 365 Copilot users, however are running into some interesting issues while testing its capabilities and the whole implementation feels janky.
For example:
The agent returns answers or suggests prompts such as:
What’s the latest from my manager, organized by emails, messages, and files?
Provide a detailed summary of my Teams messages from this week about...
Summarize my emails from this week.
Why?! The agent is grounded to the SharePoint site's data and does not have access to other types of knowledge.
Furthermore, a site member can move an agent file into the Approved folder in the Site Assets library to make it show up as approved for the site, with no involvement from the site owner.
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I'm not sure if I can post external links here but I can try. I've just created a new blog site and added a post specifically on SharePoint Agents. It covers a lot of limitations, issues, etc. including the whole "Only the owner can approve" fallacy. I completely agree that the whole implementation is hacked together (as with a lot of the new features rolling out these days). All my posts are specifically focused on the issues, limitations, quirks, etc. to inform customers so they can make a better informed decision.
SharePoint Agents: Powerful Potential, But Not Ready for Broad Rollout – M365 Unfiltered
