MS-4014 Build a foundation to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot

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Extend Copilot’s capabilities with Microsoft Graph connectors and custom engine copilots, guiding participants to choose the best development path. It concludes with agent management in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Audience Profile

This course is ideal for executives and business leaders who are looking to harness the real power of AI-driven tools and extend Copilot  improve productivity, innovation, and decision-making. Whether you are new to AI or are instead seeking to deepen your understanding of Microsoft Copilot, this course can offer you really valuable insights and practical modern leadership skills in the era of modern AI.

Course Outline:

1 – Examine the Microsoft 365 Copilot design

• Examine the Microsoft 365 Copilot logical architecture
• Examine the key components of Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Explore the Microsoft 365 Copilot service and tenant architecture
• Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with plugins and Microsoft Graph connectors

2 – Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility fundamentals

• What is Copilot extensibility?
• What are agents?
• What are declarative agents?
• What are custom engine agents?
• Add knowledge with Graph connectors
• Add skills with plugins

3 – Choose a Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility development path

• Why extend Copilot?
• Which path for extensibility should you choose?
• Which development approach should you take?
• What development tools are available to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot?
• How are companies extending Microsoft 365 Copilot?
• How can I secure my data and ensure privacy?

4 – Introduction to Graph connectors

• Add a connection
• Configure the connection settings
• Set up the search schema attributes
• Set the refresh and crawl schedules
• Deploy and monitor your connection

5 – Introduction to declarative agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot

• What are declarative agents?
• How declarative agents work
• When to use declarative agents

6 – Manage agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot

• Manage agents for Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center
• Enable or disable Copilot extensibility