MS-4009 Training: Extend Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 with Copilot Studio

Overview

In this modern productivity boosting course, explore how to effectively use Microsoft Copilot so you can enhance your productivity and leadership capabilities. Learn how you can start crafting effective prompts, and how you can leverage Copilot’s AI to really transform your executive workflow. To streamline your decision-making and accelerate true creativity within your organization.

Audience Profile

This course is ideal for business leaders and executives who are looking to maximize the potential of AI-driven tools in Microsoft 365. Whether you’re new to AI or looking to deepen your understanding of Microsoft Copilot, this course can provide you really valuable insights and practical exercises to enhance your daily operations as well as strategic planning.

In this extensibility course you will learn how to customize and extend the capabilities of Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 to meet specific organizational needs. What you learn ranges rom understanding the fundamentals of Copilot extensibility to creating custom actions and plugins that integrate external data and automate workflows. This can enhance your productivity and user experiences within your organization.

Audience Profile

This course is ideal for developers, app makers, and IT professionals who are familiar with Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and are looking to expand its capabilities. Are you interested in integrating external data sources? Building custom Copilot actions? This course is what you’re looking for, providing you with the knowledge and practical skills to create powerful, tailored Microsoft 365 solutions.

Understand Copilot Extensibility Fundamentals

• Learn the core components of extending Microsoft Copilot, including Graph connectors, plugins, and custom copilots
• Explore how each extensibility option enhances Copilot’s capabilities
• Understand the foundational stack and how Copilot Orchestrator integrates with Microsoft Graph
• Examine the different types of extensibility, including workflow instructions, actions, triggers, and knowledge grounding

Create and Implement Copilot Studio Actions

• Learn to design, create, test, and publish Copilot Studio actions
• Understand how to extend Microsoft Copilot with additional capabilities using a low-code interface
• Explore practical scenarios for enhancing productivity and collaboration through customized actions
• Develop a strategy to integrate Copilot actions across Microsoft 365 applications

Extend Copilot with Graph Connectors

• Integrate external data sources into Microsoft Copilot using Graph connectors
• Enhance data discoverability and engagement within Microsoft 365 applications
• Leverage Copilot for research and Q&A with custom datasets
• Use Microsoft Graph to enable Copilot to reason over comprehensive enterprise content

Expand Copilot Capabilities with Plugins

• Design plugins that interact with real-time data and workflows
• Create message extension plugins for Microsoft Teams to enhance user engagement
• Develop API plugins to retrieve and manipulate real-time information from external services
• Utilize Copilot Studio to design and implement custom plugins that fit your organizational needs

Build Tailored Conversational Actions

• Create conversational actions that provide specific, context-aware responses
• Integrate external data and custom logic into Copilot’s conversational capabilities
• Develop tailored topics and conversations that align with business logic and user needs
• Use Copilot Studio to build seamless, integrated experiences within Microsoft 365