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Agents 365 & Microsoft 365 Copilot Hub Redesign: April 2026 M365 Champions Community call

TiffanyLee — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:35:43 GMT

Hello Champions!

Here’s a recap and top Q+A from our May M365 Champions monthly call of 2026, featuring Agents 365 with Samer Baroudi ,Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager and Jessie Hwang, Microsoft Customer Experience PM II.

We kicked off the call by announcing the digital premiere of More Than Code: The SharePoint Community Film — a documentary-style experience that highlights the passion, innovation, and collaboration behind the global SharePoint community. Featuring stories and perspectives from MVPs, customers, and Microsoft leaders. Click here to check out the digital premiere and experience the story for yourself!

First, Samer Baroudi presented Microsoft Agent 365 as the control plane for agents, focused on helping organizations safely scale AI agent adoption through three pillars: observability, governance, and security. He explained that as AI agents rapidly expand across SaaS platforms, endpoints, and cloud environments, organizations need centralized visibility into what agents exist, who is using them, what data they can access, and how to manage risks like oversharing, shadow AI, and unmanaged “ownerless” agents. His demo walked through the Agent 365 experience in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including the centralized agent registry, shadow AI detection, agent maps, lifecycle management rules, policy templates tied to Entra/Purview/Defender, MCP tool controls, analytics dashboards, and conditional access policies for agents. He emphasized that Agent 365 extends existing Microsoft security and governance infrastructure—such as Entra, Intune, Defender, and Purview—to AI agents so organizations can adopt agents responsibly while maintaining visibility, compliance, and security controls at scale.

Jessie Hwang introduced the redesigned Copilot Adoption Hub on adoption.microsoft.com, describing it as a simplified and more approachable onboarding experience intended to help organizations accelerate Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption. She explained that the redesign focuses on foundational “L100” learning content for AI users, champions, and leaders. The new hub includes streamlined navigation, role-based resource filtering, embedded overview and demo videos, prompt galleries with direct “Open in Copilot” functionality, translated HTML-based content, leadership resources, community links, featured events, and curated adoption guidance. Jessie also highlighted ongoing investments including prompt deep linking, expanded multilingual support, new AI champion and admin resources, and a reorganized “Advanced Resources” section that still preserves deeper technical readiness and implementation materials for more experienced practitioners.

Q+A from this month's session:

1. I don't have admin access, but I work on agent governance, I made my own dashboard in streamlit that's now entirely redundant by Agent 365. My org will be hesitant to give me admin access, is there a role with minimal permissions that gives Agent 365 access but not all the other admin tools?

Answer: Today either AI Admin (read only) or Global Admin is required for end to end. I acknowledge your feedback however, and this is something our engineering teams are working on.

2. How does Agents 365 determine the risks of an agent?

Answer: Agent 365 determines risk using security telemetry and behavioral signals from Defender (identity signals), Purview (data signals), defender (threat signals). Together these provide a holistic view of agent risk posture.

3. If i have 10000 users in my tenant.. i have 3000 users are having permium license.. we have some enterprise agents published. how many additional agent 365 license i need to buy?

Answer: We recommend customers license for Agent 365, users that interact with agents, managers or sponsors of agents.

4. How is Microsoft balancing the needs of admins and the spirit of innovation for builders with A365 without requiring every E5 user to have A365 as well?

Answer: We don’t require every user to be licensed, Agent 365 is designed to let builders innovate freely, while giving admins centralized visibility, governance, and risk management at scale. Agent 365 is recommended for any user that interacts with agents, manager or sponsor of agents.

5. Wow so as things evolve I see having to have a paid license for this that and the other control or safeguard. Will MS in the future consider one license for all? Seems as though it can get very unaffordable fast the way it is trending.

Answer: Microsoft 365 E7 is the unified license that brings together Microsoft 365 E5, Entra suite, M365 Copilot and Agent 365.

6. Is the GCC implementation for Agent 365 on the Roadmap?

Answer: Currently no timelines we can share on this.

7. How granular is Agent 365 governance and RBAC?

Answer: The AI Administrator role was introduced to avoid overusing Global Admin permissions. Permissions dynamically update if an agent’s scope changes over time.

Agent 365 now supports expanded role-based access controls for:

AI administrators
Security admins
Security readers
Reports readers
User experience success managers

8. Are permissions shown in Agent 365 reflect only original developer scopes or also evolving runtime scopes?

Answer: They are dynamic and update as agent capabilities evolve.

9. Can organizations automatically archive or govern inactive agents?

Answer: Agent management rules currently ship with:ownerless agent reassignment auto deployment of Microsoft-built agentsother out-of-box lifecycle rules. Full “if this then that” conditional automation is planned for a future summer release. Samer specifically called the retention/archive scenario “a fantastic suggestion” and said he would relay it to the PM team.

10. Why are so many duplicate Dynamics 365 agents appearing?

Answer: Please file a bug if duplicates are confirmed.

11. Should organizations that cannot afford Agent 365 should simply block agent creation altogether?

Answer: Blocking users does not prevent shadow AI usage and positioned Agent 365 as Microsoft’s recommended solution for scaling governance through centralized inventory, lifecycle management, and risk visibility.

12. Is a limited-access role for Agent 365 that would allow visibility without granting full admin rights?

Answer: Microsoft expanded RBAC capabilities through the existing AI Administrator role and introduced an AI Reader role for read-only access to agents, metadata, and reporting without edit permissions.

Join us on June 23rd for our next community call.

Haven't joined the program yet? It's free! Join here: https://aka.ms/M365Champion.
Bring your questions to our discussion forum: https://aka.ms/DriveAdoption.

Launched: Microsoft 365 Adoption Hub Redesign

Karuana_Gatimu_MSFT — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:28:57 GMT

Driving successful adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot is both art and science. This community is dedicated to taking your feedback and continuing to provide tools that support you in that role.

Today we've done just that with the first release of our updated Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption hub that simplifies the experience and provides content for AI business users, AI Champions and AI Leaders. Explore the content and let us know your thoughts.

This builds on our original hub and also our Essentials of Copilot Adoption experience that was previously launched. We will continue to enhance this hub with content for Copilot Cowork and agent building tools over the coming weeks.

Advanced content like our Copilot Success Kit remains as well as technical guidance for IT Professionals in the advanced guidance section. We also continue to provide information about upcoming events and connections to our communities.

Of special interest to AI Champion leaders will be our redesigned Prompt Gallery which will now open a selected prompt directly in the person's Microsoft 365 Copilot experience so they can directly get work done. Filters by functional area, product and task are also included.

Prompt Gallery on Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption hub

Check out our launch blog, visit the site and share with your colleagues. We will also review this in our June Microsoft 365 Champion call. If you aren't signed up for our monthly calls where we review the roadmap, share tools and learning specific to adoption and share our content for you to reuse then visit this page to register today.

We've now published a video demo of the site for your use and reference. You can find it on Coffee in the Cloud on YouTube and here:

As always we value your feedback. Let us know how we are doing at aka.ms/amc/feedback.

Upcoming May 2026 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

JessieHwang — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:30:58 GMT

Join our next community call on May 26, 2026, to explore the new Copilot Hub experience and learn more about Agent 365.

Reminder: Our community calls are in the Teams webinar format, so you must register to receive the link to join. The join link will be sent to you in email with your webinar registration confirmation.

The calls will still start at 5 minutes past the hour for both sessions (at 8:05 AM and 5:05 PM PT), and it will still end at the top of the hour (9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively).

While our calls are open to everyone, you must be a member of the Microsoft 365 Champion Program in order to access the presentation materials - the access link is in the initial welcome email and the monthly newsletter emails sent the week before the community calls.

An on-demand recording will still be available on our Driving Adoption > Events pages, as well as on our Microsoft Community Learning YouTube channel.

If you have not yet joined our Champion community, sign up here to get access to the monthly newsletters, calendar invites, and program assets (e.g., the presentations).

Microsoft 365 Champion community call | May 2026 | PM

JessieHwang — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:01:34 GMT

Join our next community call on May 26, 2026, to explore the new Copilot Hub experience and learn more about Agent 365.

Host: Tiffany Lee
Guests: Jessie Hwang, Samer Baroudi
Moderators: Jessie Hwang, Casandra Marrero, Abby Schilbach

📢 NOTE: our community call formats are Teams webinars so you must register at https://aka.ms/M365ChampionCallPM to receive the link to join. The join link will be sent to you in email with your webinar registration confirmation.

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

👋 Was this forwarded to you? Join the Microsoft 365 Champion program today! Champions combine technical acumen with people skills to drive meaningful change. Our community calls are open to everyone, but only Champion program members have access to the presentation resources (access link is in the initial welcome email and in the monthly newsletters). Join now: https://aka.ms/M365Champions.

Note: If you are unable to watch the recording on YouTube, try watching it here.

Microsoft 365 Champion community call | May 2026 | AM

JessieHwang — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:01:11 GMT

Join our next community call on May 26, 2026, to explore the new Copilot Hub experience and learn more about Agent 365.

Host: Tiffany Lee
Guests: Jessie Hwang, Samer Baroudi
Moderators: Jessie Hwang, Casandra Marrero, Abby Schilbach

📢 NOTE: our community call formats are Teams webinars so you must register at https://aka.ms/M365ChampionCallAM to receive the link to join. The join link will be sent to you in email with your webinar registration confirmation.

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

Note: If you are unable to watch the recording on YouTube, try watching it here.

Enabling AI‑Driven Workforce Transformation with People Skills and Workforce Insights Agent: April 2026 M365 Champions Community call

TiffanyLee — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:16:33 GMT

Hello Champions!

Here’s a recap and top Q+A from our April M365 Champions monthly call of 2026, featuring: Enabling AI‑Driven Workforce Transformation with People Skills and Workforce Insights Agent with Anirudh Bajaj ,Microsoft Senior Product Manager and Jenny Huang, Microsoft Senior Customer Experience Program manager.

We kicked off the call with the annoucement of our digital premiere of More Than Code: SharePoint community film. More Than Code is a documentary-style short film featuring voices from MVPs, customers, and Microsoft leaders. Discover how connection, creativity, and collaboration helped turn a product into a global movement. Click here to watch the digital premiere today!

Anirudh Bajaj and Jenny Huang led the main topic this month with a deep dive into People Skills and Workforce Insights Agent. First, Anirudh highlighted a shift in how organizations must approach AI—moving beyond simply using AI tools to actively redesigning workflows around them. He introduced People Skills as a foundational capability to enable this transformation by providing visibility into workforce skills through AI-powered inferencing. By analyzing Microsoft 365 activity and combining it with a large pre-built skills taxonomy, the solution generates dynamic skill profiles for employees that can be validated or customized by users. These skills power scenarios such as finding experts, improving collaboration, and enabling personalized learning. Anirudh emphasized privacy and user control, noting that employees can manage their profiles, opt out of inferencing, and control sharing, while admins can configure governance policies.

Next, Anirudh introduced his colleague Jenny Huang who introduced us to the Workforce Insights Agent. The Workforce Insights Agent is designed to help leaders translate skills and organizational data into actionable decisions. She framed the agent within the growing need for strategic workforce planning in an AI-driven environment, where leaders must quickly understand team structure, skills distribution, and emerging gaps. The agent integrates data from Microsoft 365 profiles and external HR systems, enabling leaders to query organizational data conversationally and receive real-time insights, visualizations, and recommendations. Jenny outlined key use cases such as analyzing team composition, identifying hiring or skill gaps, and guiding talent movement and upskilling strategies. Currently available in the Microsoft Frontier program, the agent emphasizes governed data access and encourages customer feedback to shape its evolution toward general availability, positioning it as a critical decision-support tool for AI-driven organizational transformation.

Q+A from this month's session:

1. When will the Workforce Insights Agent be generally available (GA)?

Answer: There is no confirmed GA timeline yet. The team is actively relying on customer feedback from the Frontier program to determine readiness and scope before moving to GA.

2. Can we add a two layer skill approval? so we are getting confirmation person is actually skilled in "skill"? and then add levels (1 - beginner, 5 - expert (teaching level professional)?

Answer: We have not added expertise levels to the People Skills as an "expert" is very subjective and defined differently by organizations, and organizations have different level requirements (1-to-5 vs 1-to-10 vs categories (expert, beginner etc.) so it is challenging to standardize this. We are exploring offering skill depth/context in certain contexts e.g. while matching a person to an open role- to understand their skill depth. More to come on this.

3. People Skill AI - What is the distinction between this and Workforce Insights?

Answer: People Skills AI inferencing uses intelligence to make skill recommendation (AI inferred skills) . This is a data layer that is used by Copilot and Workforce Insights Agent to help you with decision making.

4. Can you help me understand what Agents explicitly we are talking about? There used to be a 'Skills' Agent, which I can no longer see in my environment (Frontier). I also cant see a 'People' Agent. I do however see a 'workforce insights' agent.

Answer: Skills agent and People agent are both retired in March and the capabilities are now folded into M365 Copilot chat and Workforce Insights agent.

5. Can these People skills be fed into a program like Workday, so they can be added to the Skills Cloud and be used for promotions, reviews, etc.?

Answer: Confirmed skills in People Skills can be exported for you to use it in other platforms/systems. Due to privacy reason, we are not allowed to provide export on inferred skills.

6. Is Viva Engage included in E5 licensing?

Answer: Yes! The core/standard experience is included the E5 license, which does include communities and integration in Teams.

7. Are these calls recorded and/or archived so we can review later?

Answer: Yes, the recording will be published on the Driving Adoption community and our YouTube Community Learning channel. However, only Champion program members have access to the presentation (see the link in your welcome email or the latest newsletter). If you're not a member yet, join here: https://aka.ms/BecomeAChampion.

8. Is frontier a paid programme?

Answer: It's not an additional to your M365 Copilot license, but you do need to opt into the program. More info here: Explore AI Early Access in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Frontier

9. Is the People Skills Agent and Learning Agent available to Copilot Chat Basic users or only the paid version of Copilot?

Answer: People Skills agent was deprecated in March and the capability are now available through M365 Copilot chat and Workforce Insights agent for M365 Copilot licensed users.

10. Can you see aggregated information from People Skills? Like see what level people are at with AI across the enterprise?

Answer: There are 2 aspects here: one is skills aggregation report and another one is skills level/proficiency. The first part can be done via skills landscape report (via Viva Insights, shown as a Power BI report), or through Workforce Insights agent which I will share more later Ani's presentation. On skills level/proficiency piece, it's not available today in People Skills.

11. Can you also add linkedin profile to the sources for People Skills inference?

Answer: Not directly the profile but if you have an inventory of what skills are attached/assigned to an user, you can import the list into People Skills as 3rd party skills.

12. On an enterprise level can an organisation navigate a recommended career path for an employee based on their people skills? How does this data show up?

Answer: Today Copilot can make general career and learning recommendations for users based on their skills. However, People Skills does not yet support career path suggestions based on job architecture/open job roles.

13. Are these features only managed by the Admins? We have a single tenant so our Agency doesn't have access to the Admin console. Many of these Admin features are not usable for us without a more granular way to manage them.

Answer: The admin controls can be set up by someone with the right permissions, these roles can do it today:

AI administrator
Knowledge administrator
Global admin

14. We are a multi-cloud environment (commercial and GCCH). Will these agents eventually be available on GCCH?

Answer: People Skills is currently only available in WW environment, we don't have an estimate on when we will be in GCC.

15. Am I understanding correctly that the PAX API allows access to our tenant's data by a third party? What data controls guide that interaction?

Answer: You can bring in 3P data via connectors or push APIs into MODIS and apply access control there.

16. Who can access the Workforce Insights Agent?

Answer: Any user with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license can access the agent. Currently, only through the Frontier program.

The tenant must also meet requirements (e.g., sufficient Copilot licenses in the environment).

17. Where does Workforce Insights Agent get its data from?

Answer: Default data comes from Microsoft 365 profiles (Entra). Additional data can be brought in via:

HR systems (Workday, SuccessFactors)
APIs or CSV uploads

Please note: Sensitive data is governed using strict data policies and access controls.

18. Do users have control over their skills and data?

Answer: Users are able to:

Confirm, edit, or remove inferred skills
Add their own skills manually
Opt out of AI inferencing entirely
Control whether their skills are shared across the organization

19. Can admins control how People Skills is deployed?

Answer:

Enable/disable the feature by user, group, or tenant
Control inferencing and sharing settings
Apply privacy and compliance policies
Pilot the feature in a limited scope before broad rollout

20. What are the main use cases of Workforce Insights Agent?

Answer: The agent helps with:

Understanding team structure and composition
Identifying skill gaps and distribution
Supporting workforce planning decisions
Driving talent movement and upskilling strategies

Join us next month on May 26th for our next community call featuring Copilot Hub & Agents 365.

Haven't joined the program yet? It's free! Join here: https://aka.ms/M365Champion.
Bring your questions to our discussion forum: https://aka.ms/DriveAdoption.

Upcoming April 2026 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

JessieHwang — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:56:33 GMT

Join our next community call on MApril 28, 2026, where we'll learn more about what's new with People Skills and the Skills Agent.

The calls will still start at 5 minutes past the hour for both sessions (at 8:05 AM and 5:05 PM PT), and it will still end at the top of the hour (9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively).

An on-demand recording will still be available on our Driving Adoption > Events pages, as well as on our Microsoft Community Learning YouTube channel.

If you have not yet joined our Champion community, sign up here to get access to the monthly newsletters, calendar invites, and program assets (e.g., the presentations).

Microsoft 365 Champion community call | April 2026 | PM

JessieHwang — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:28:55 GMT

Join our next community call on April 28, 2026, to learn more about what's new with People Skills and the Skills agent.

Host: Tiffany Lee
Guest: Anirudh Bajaj
Moderator: Jessie Hwang

📢 NOTE: our community call formats are Teams webinars so you must register at https://aka.ms/M365ChampionCallAM to receive the link to join. The join link will be sent to you in email with your webinar registration confirmation.

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

Note: If you are unable to watch the recording on YouTube, try watching it here.

Microsoft 365 Champion community call | April 2026 | AM

JessieHwang — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:28:30 GMT

Join our next community call on April 28, 2026, to learn more about what's new with People Skills and the Skills agent.

Host: Tiffany Lee
Guest: Anirudh Bajaj
Moderator: Jessie Hwang

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

Note: If you are unable to watch the recording on YouTube, try watching it here.

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腾龙总部办公室 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:17:24 GMT

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很多网址链接的可靠性和官方性存疑，需谨慎核实，

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《如t l后接4-5位数字》且无统一官方声明，可能涉及非授权或虚假链接，

部分内容要求添加个人微信或Q获取网址。此类造作存在信息泄露风险，

《业务性质需警惕》腾龙公司被部分网页描述为经验菠菜游戏

《博彩谣音》且位于境外《如果敢老街腾龙公司》

该类平台在境内属违法行为正规企业如，北京腾云天下科技有限公司，大数据服务商，

或深圳市腾龙信息技术有限公司，《科技企业》均不涉及游戏网址业务，需注意名称混淆，

《建议与注意事件》避免通过非正规渠道访问：所有提及网址均未通过可信机构《如工信部备案》

验证访问肯能面临安全风险，保护个人信息，切勿在不明页面填写手机号身份证等敏感信息；

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PowerPoint: Edit with Copilot, Brand Kit and Image Gen: Overview + demo- March 2026 M365 Champions Community call

TiffanyLee — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:04:07 GMT

Hello Champions!

Here’s a recap and top Q+A from our March M365 Champions monthly call of 2026, featuring PowerPoint: Edit with Copilot, Brand Kit and Image Gen with Anubhav Nigam and Khaleel Amarshi from the PowerPoint product team.

We kicked off the call with two major community event announcements. First, the recap of SharePoint 25th Birthday Celebration on March 2, 2026—a free digital event highlighting SharePoint’s most defining innovations and offering a forward‑looking view into its AI‑driven future, with insights from Microsoft leaders. We also shared that the Microsoft 365 Community Conference returns April 21–23, 2026 in Orlando, where attendees can connect with Microsoft experts, explore hands‑on labs, and dive into the latest advancements across AI and Microsoft 365.

Anubhav and Khaleel led the main sessions with a deep dive into what’s new in PowerPoint with Copilot, highlighting how presentation creation and editing are becoming significantly more intelligent and intuitive. Formerly referred to as “Agent Mode,” Edit with Copilot uses natural language to plan, execute, review, and deliver complex presentation tasks—going far beyond simple text edits. Copilot can reason across an entire deck, restructure content, rewrite slides for clarity or time, and ground its output using work content, files, the web, and the current presentation, all while continuously self-correcting to better match user intent.

A major focus of the session was brand‑aware, on‑brand creation by default through the combined use of organizational templates and Copilot Brand Kits. Templates act as the primary source of truth, while Brand Kits enhance results by supplying logos, colors, fonts, imagery styles, layouts, and brand voice—helping Copilot generate slides that truly look like they were created by the organization. The product team also showcased advances in context‑aware image generation and AI‑powered image editing, enabling users to generate, refine, and polish visuals directly in PowerPoint without relying on external tools. Together, these updates position PowerPoint Copilot as a powerful creative partner that reduces effort while raising the quality and consistency of presentations.

Q+A from this month's session:

1. Our Brand Kits we created seems to disappear all the time (shared as Official corp brand kit as brand admin). Sometimes they return but now seem to have fully disappeared.

Answer: Can you please report this via feedback? We will track this. This should not be happening and possibly some bug we will definitely look into.

2.Are we going to discuss the recently announced changes to Copilot Chat (basic) access in M365?

Answer: We're gathering more information and will bring it to everyone as soon as we can! Edit with copilot is on web already. And soon rolling out to desktop app.

3. What model does edit with copilot use?

Answer: OpenAI; We have a model picker coming soon. You will be able to pick the model to use (OpenAI or Claude)

4. Do the templates be in a particular format for the agent to read them and replicate the company branding?

Answer: It is recommended for templates to have example brand slides and brand info that guides the system. More information in this doc Keep your presentation on-brand with Copilot - Microsoft Support. The templates will appear in the chat pane contextually for your selection

5. Can we use templates at all? We don't have brand templates

Answer: You can use it without templates as well.

6. This functionality will leverage on templates in SPO Brand?

Answer: It will leverage templates from OAL or brand kits in Create

7. Do Brand Kits enable creating a branded deck from the main Copilot Chat landing page, or should users use Copilot in the PPT app itself? How do Brand Kits play into this?

Answer: For now, it will be available via "Edit with Copilot" inside PowerPoint. We will eventually have it at other surfaces as well.

8. If an official Brand Kit is added to Copilot Create, will it be available for PowerPoint?

Answer: Yes, the brand kits from Create are leveraged in PowerPoint edit with Copilot

9. My company has many business units with distinct branding - can the feature handle that?

Answer: Yes, you can have multiple brand kits at company level

10. How can you apply and use brand templates that are not built / or does not use SharePoint Asset Libraries? We have specific brand guidelines but are unable to use the branded PPT template we have available with Copilot. Any guidance would be appreciated, thank you

Answer: Keep your presentation on-brand with Copilot - Microsoft Support Hope this article will help. The Edit with Copilot leverages templates from either Copilot Brand kits or from Organization Asset Library)

11. Can the team consider have "authorized users" to setup a Brand Kit. Like Marketing or Sales Department personnel?
Answer: You can define a group of brand managers who can only create and publish official brandkits. You can also define edit access for a shared brand kit. Create and manage official Brand kits in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app - Microsoft Support

12. If we update slides in the organizational template would the presentations that use those slides also update?

Answer: Yes, we use the latest template available in OAL or brandkit.

13. Does the Brand Kit capability access an existing Organizational Asset Library in SharePoint?

Answer: Yes, while setting up a brand kit, you can reference your assets in OAL.

14. The brand kit intermittently disappears and fails to open, and now it doesn’t appear at all.
Answer: Can you please report this via send feedback option on Create Copilot. Will help us get the necessary information to debug the issue.

15. Is the Brand Kit the same as the SharePoint Brand Centre?

Answer: Brand kits and brand center are different. Brand center allows you to add part of brand information for applying brand to SharePoint sites and Viva. Brand kits help provide richer information for your brand including brand guidelines, styles, color palettes, voice etc. Brand kits are used by Copilot for branded content creation (image generation, presentation generation, video generation).

16. The experience has been that Brand Kits/Creating PPTs from brand templates is really best done in https://m365.cloud.microsoft/create vs. the Copilot desktop app.. does that sound accurate?

Answer: You can setup brand kits both from web or Copilot desktop app. There should not be a difference

17. Is Agent Mode available in the GCC environment?

Answer: +2-2.5 months after GA, this is the typical rollout timeline.

18. Are there any plans to make Brand Kits accessible via an API (such as MS Graph)?

Answer: Can you please share the use case?

19. How does a creative person export a brand kit to someone who has access to OAL? Typically those aren't the same person.

Answer: Export to brand kit is not available, but you can refer OAL assets in brand kit. Would love to understand the requirement for exporting brand kit to OAL

20. Our users are asking for Copilot chat to leverage OAL templates, OAL images, official Brand Kits, without having to find the 'agent mode' buried under hidden settings in the apps. Is there a way to set the default templates, images, brand kits, etc. for Copilot chat so that when users simply use the main Copilot chat window to create a PPT deck, it defaults to a specific corporate template/kit?

Answer: Getting brand kits work with Copilot chat is on the roadmap. More details on - Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint (Frontier) - Microsoft Support

21. If we like someone else's slide themes, can we upload sample slide decks for the agent to learn from to build our slides in a similar theme?

Answer: Edit with Copilot treats the input template as source of styling, layouts, and formatting. So depending on your input PPT/templarte your output look and feel will change.

22. Do the Brand Kits work with the old Office Themes? And actual potx (not just pptx)?

Answer: You can add both to a brand kit

23. Who can create brand kits?
Answer: IT administrator has to grant you access as Brand Manager. You also require a Microsoft Copilot license. Anyone can create a personal kit, but official kits can only be created by brand managers which can be configured by an office policy configuration. Create and manage official Brand kits in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app - Microsoft Support

24. With Copilot in PowerPoint, will it recognize the PPT templates or does the brand kit work better for keeping layout, color and other details consistent?

Answer: Edit with Copilot leverages templates first, and enhances with brand kit for on-brand output.

26. Is this using Claude models?

Answer: Currently, it's using OpenAI; We have a model picker coming soon. You will be able to pick the model to use (OpenAI or Claude).

27. Will Edit with Copilot in PowerPoint be on by default for the user like Edit with Copilot in Excel and Word?

Answer: Yes, change coming soon. It will save you those multiple clicks to get to agent and be on by default.

28. Is the Brand Kit the same as the SharePoint Brand Centre?

Answer: No, these are two different things as of today. Brand center leverages your info for SharePoint branding but brand kits on Create help you created branded images and PowerPoints via Copilot.

29. Can you have multiple brand kits for different clients?

Answer: Yes, you can have multiple brand kits.

30. Can the team consider have "authorized users" to setup a Brand Kit. Like Marketing or Sales Department personnel?

Answer: You can define a group of brand managers who can only create and publish official brandkits. You can also define edit access for a shared brand kit. Create and manage official Brand kits in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app - Microsoft Support

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Microsoft 365 Champion community call | March 2026 | PM

JessieHwang — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:14:22 GMT

Join our next community call on March 24, 2026, to dive into PowerPoint: creation in Copilot and agent mode.

📢 NOTE: our community call formats are Teams webinars so you must register at https://aka.ms/M365ChampionCallPM to receive the link to join. The join link will be sent to you in email with your webinar registration confirmation.

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

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Microsoft 365 Champion community call | March 2026 | AM

JessieHwang — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:14:09 GMT

Join our next community call on March 24, 2026, to dive into PowerPoint: creation in Copilot and agent mode.

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

Note: If you are unable to watch the recording on YouTube, try watching it here.

Upcoming March 2026 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

JessieHwang — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:02:39 GMT

Join our next community call on March 24, 2026, to dive into PowerPoint: creation in Copilot and agent mode.

The calls will still start at 5 minutes past the hour for both sessions (at 8:05 AM and 5:05 PM PT), and it will still end at the top of the hour (9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively).

An on-demand recording will still be available on our Driving Adoption > Events pages, as well as on our Microsoft Community Learning YouTube channel.

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Release Notes for adoption.microsoft.com

arinkomins — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:44:58 GMT

Hi all!

Just checking, but it doesn't look like adoption.microsoft.com's release notes (Release notes – Microsoft Adoption) has had any updates since the end of January -- which feels wrong. Is something misbehaving with that feed?

Word, Excel and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Overview + live demo- February 2026 M365 Champions Community call

TiffanyLee — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:17:58 GMT

Hello Champions!

Here’s a recap and top Q+A from our February M365 Champions monthly call of 2026, featuring Word, Excel and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot with Alex Yang, Chelsea Fesik and Sangeeta Kulkarni of the Office AI product team.

We kicked off the call with two major community event announcements. First, the SharePoint 25th Birthday Celebration is happening on March 2, 2026—a free digital event highlighting SharePoint’s most defining innovations and offering a forward‑looking view into its AI‑driven future, with insights from Microsoft leaders. We also shared that the Microsoft 365 Community Conference returns April 21–23, 2026 in Orlando, where attendees can connect with Microsoft experts, explore hands‑on labs, and dive into the latest advancements across AI and Microsoft 365.

Alex and Chelsea introduced the new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agents coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot, explaining that they are designed to solve the “blank page” problem by turning natural‑language intent into finished, professional artifacts, not just drafts. They positioned these agents as task‑specific “thought partners” that help users move from conversation to completed documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, grounded in enterprise data and the web while respecting permissions. The agents ask clarifying questions when needed (such as audience, tone, or format) and support multi‑turn iteration so users can refine content conversationally rather than starting from scratch.

During his demo, Alex focused on the Excel (and PowerPoint) agent experience, showing how Copilot can create a fully built Excel workbook directly from a natural‑language request. In his demo, the Excel agent generated a multi‑tab spreadsheet complete with formulas, structured models, and sourced data, then seamlessly handed the file off to Excel for further refinement. He explained that the agent intelligently decides when to use enterprise data versus web research and highlighted the workflow distinction: using agents in Copilot chat for creation from scratch, then switching to in‑app agent mode for precise, iterative edits once the file exists.

Next, Chelsea demonstrated the Word agent, emphasizing long‑form, structured writing scenarios such as guides, reports, and proposals. Her demo showed how Word agent asks clarifying questions (like audience, tone, and theme), then generates a polished document that users can refine through conversation—adding sections, changing tone, or expanding details. She highlighted multi‑turn iteration, visible references, and how the agent acts as a thought partner that helps users move past the blank page while still keeping them in control of the final output.

For more information on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agents coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot, read the official release blog by Sangeeta Kulkarni here!

Q+A from this month's session:

Can Word Agent use organizational templates?

Answer: Not fully today. Users can reference existing documents or templates and the agent will try to replicate them, but native support for organizational template libraries is still in progress.

Will Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents be available without Copilot Premium?

Answer: Rollout is currently prioritized for Microsoft 365 Copilot Premium customers, with broader availability planned after the initial rollout completes.

When will these agents be available worldwide (including Australia)?

Answer: Rollout started roughly two weeks before the call, with Microsoft aiming to saturate most worldwide tenants during March.

Will agents support corporate brand kits and branding guidelines?

Answer: This is planned but not fully supported yet. Agents can reuse referenced documents today, but formal brand kit and template integration is under active development.

Will these agents be embedded directly inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint?

Answer: They are accessed via Copilot Chat and the Tools/Agents menu. Inside the apps, users interact through Agent Mode, which is the preferred in-app experience.

When is the best time to use these agents in Copilot app vs agent mode in Word/PPT/Excel?

Answer: The Word/Excel/PowerPoint Agents in the M365 Copilot app are best suited for creating new documents. When you have a document already created and want to iterate on your document with Copilot with the document open side-by-side, then Agent Mode is best-suited for that.

How do Word/Excel/PowerPoint Agents differ from Researcher Agent?

Answer: Researcher is optimized for deep, long-running research. App agents are optimized for creating polished, app-native documents with layouts, charts, and formatting.

How does Microsoft reduce hallucinations in generated content?

Answer: Newer models have significantly lower hallucination rates, and agents surface citations, flag missing data, and provide templates when data can’t be verified.

Are sources and citations included in generated documents?

Answer: Yes. Agents generate explicit source lists for facts and numbers, especially for Excel and research-heavy outputs.

What happens if the agent can’t find reliable data?

Answer: Instead of fabricating information, the agent will flag missing data or provide a structured template for the user to complete.

Are these agents user-created or personal agents?

Answer: No. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Researcher, and Analyst are first‑party Microsoft agents, not user-created agents.

What happens to agents when a user leaves the organization?

Answer: Agents remain available. Files created by the user follow standard OneDrive offboarding and governance processes.

Do these agents live in a user’s OneDrive or SharePoint?

Answer: No. The agents themselves do not live in user storage; only the generated documents do.

Why am I seeing “Frontier agent availability is restricted” errors?

Answer: This indicates the tenant is not enrolled in the Copilot Frontier program and the GA version has not yet rolled out to that tenant.

Do I need to enable Anthropic as an AI provider for these agents?

Answer: Anthropic enablement is required for Frontier access, but many users simply need to wait for GA rollout to their tenant.

Will the Frontier agent disappear once GA is available?

Answer: Yes. The Frontier version will be replaced by the general availability agent when rollout completes.

Will these agents appear in the Copilot Tools menu?

Answer: Yes. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents will appear alongside Researcher and Analyst in the Tools menu.

Is there any difference between accessing the agent from copilot for m365 app or within the app itself?

Answer: The agents in the M365 Copilot app and from within the app itself are similarly capable. The M365 Copilot app agents are tuned towards creating documents, whereas if you want to do lots of iterative work, we recommend using the Agent Modes inside of the apps.

Can Excel Agent generate full financial models?

Answer: Yes. Excel Agent can generate multi-sheet workbooks with formulas, projections, dashboards, and scenarios.

Can Word Agent pull from enterprise data like meetings and files?

Answer: Yes. Word Agent can pull from Microsoft Graph sources such as emails, chats, meetings, and documents—respecting permissions.

Can agents generate charts, graphs, and visuals?

Answer: Yes. Word and Excel agents generate charts and tables, and PowerPoint Agent generates slides with visuals.

Can users iterate on generated content after creation?

Answer: Yes. Users can continue refining content either in Copilot Chat or directly in the app using Agent Mode.

Can prompts and agent behavior be version-controlled in SharePoint?

Answer: This is not applicable because these agents are not user-created; they are global first‑party agents.

Are governance controls the same as other Microsoft 365 files?

Answer: Yes. Generated files follow the same sensitivity labels, permissions, and compliance controls as any other file.

Are Word/Excel/PowerPoint Agents the same as Copilot Studio agents?

Answer: No. Copilot Studio agents are custom and user-created, while Office app agents are first‑party Microsoft features.

We have a managed property "Sensitivity" applied to OneDrive and SharePoint. These labels include "Corporate, sensitive, confidential, etc.) to assign to documents and data. Does - or - can Copilot agents be made to respond to Managed Properties to not include specific content with its creations?

Answer: Yes, all of the agents support sensitivity labeling and Azure Information Protection.

Is it possible to limit the data source to our tenant's content or is it always assumed to look/use the web?

Answer: Select Work (at top) then go to Settings and turn off Web search.

So, what's the best way to describe the different between Analyst and Excel Agent, or Researcher and Word Agent?

Answer: The Word and Excel agents are scoped specifically to functionality within those applications. Researcher will use content from a variety of sources in your enterprise and is meant for deeper analysis.

I'm in a GCC Tenant, are these available in there now?

Answer: These are currently in the process of rolling out the agents to users in the Worldwide (non-GCC) environments. We will be rolling them out to GCC at a later date.

The game changer and what I am waiting for is actually calling the WXP agents from an agent flow so that it can create documents in a deterministic way. When will that be possible?

Answer: No timelines to share about this just yet, but this is something we also really want as well. ;)

Join us next month on March 24th for our next community call.

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Upcoming February 2026 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

JessieHwang — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:07:27 GMT

Join our next community call on February 24, 2026, to learn more about Word, Excel and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

The calls will still start at 5 minutes past the hour for both sessions (at 8:05 AM and 5:05 PM PT), and it will still end at the top of the hour (9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively).

An on-demand recording will still be available on our Driving Adoption > Events pages, as well as on our Microsoft Community Learning YouTube channel.

If you have not yet joined our Champion community, sign up here to get access to the monthly newsletters, calendar invites, and program assets (e.g., the presentations).

Microsoft 365 Champion community call | February 2026 | PM

TiffanyLee — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:27:16 GMT

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Microsoft 365 Champion community call | February 2026 | AM

TiffanyLee — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:22:41 GMT

Join our next community call on February 24, 2026, to learn about Word, Excel and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

📢 NOTE: our community call formats are Teams webinars so you must register at https://aka.ms/M365ChampionCallAM to receive the link to join. The join link will be sent to you in email with your webinar registration confirmation. Clicking RSVP here will not provide a join link.

🗨️ Each call includes an open Q&A discussion section at the end, where you'll have a chance to ask your questions about Microsoft 365.

👋 Was this forwarded to you? Join the Microsoft 365 Champion program today! Champions combine technical acumen with people skills to drive meaningful change. Our community calls are open to everyone but only Champion program members have access to the presentation resources (access link is in the initial welcome email and in the monthly newsletters).

Join now: https://aka.ms/M365Champions.

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Excel Copilot now supports local files (Preview): what this means for everyday users

Anirudh07 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:55:06 GMT

In the Microsoft 365 Current Channel (Preview), Excel Copilot Chat now supports local Excel files, not just workbooks stored in the cloud.

This is a meaningful usability improvement because many users, especially students and early-career professionals, still work primarily with datasets stored locally on their devices.

Why this matters for adoption:

Users can now interact with Copilot Chat while analysing local Excel files.
This reduces friction for offline work, assignments, and exploratory data analysis.
It makes Copilot more practical for everyday learning and productivity workflows.

For users learning data analysis, reporting, or business intelligence, this update lowers the barrier to using Copilot consistently rather than only in cloud-based scenarios.

I am exploring how these preview features can improve real-world adoption and learning experiences, particularly for students and early-career users who work with Excel daily.