Extending SharePoint Enterprise Search with Microsoft Graph Connectors
This article describes the steps to configure Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors to extend SharePoint Enterprise Search with Microsoft Graph.
November 19, 2025
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Approaching Inventory for Agents Published in Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 now runs on agentic AI, but tracking custom, shared, and ISV agents isn’t simple. This post breaks down where agents live, how the Admin Center inventory works, and why scalable management remains a challenge. Plus, what’s next with Graph API.
November 10, 2025
Understanding Copilot Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
In the blog, Lewis Baybutt breaks down how Copilot agents enhance Microsoft 365 by enabling users to interact with enterprise data and perform tasks. The article explores agent types, developer tools like Agent Builder and Copilot Studio, and how consumption licensing unlocks deeper functionality.
August 19, 2025
Practical AI: Copilot in Outlook Brings AI to Email Filtering
Prioritize My Inbox is a new AI-powered mail filtering technology available in the new Outlook, OWA, Outlook (classic), and mobile clients. Unlike traditional inbox rules, Copilot's LLMs and access to Graph data makes Prioritize My Inbox much more aware of what a user does and what's important to them. Instructions allow users to tailor how filtering happens, but most is done by the AI.
August 4, 2025
Analyzing Copilot’s Zero-Day, M365 Local & Copilot Agents: Practical 365 Podcast S4 E41
In this Episode of the Practical 365 podcast, Steve and Paul deep dive into the Microsoft 365 Copilot exploit, "Echo Leak," discussing its implications for AI safeguards and the future of agentic AI. The conversation then shifts to a recent global outage affecting Google and Cloudflare, highlighting the challenges of maintaining hyperscale services. We also examine Microsoft's new initiative to offer containerized M365 instances in Europe, addressing concerns over data sovereignty. Finally, they discuss the latest advancements in Copilot agents, emphasizing the importance of understanding AI reasoning.
July 14, 2025
A Microsoft 365 Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide to Copilot Studio
There's a lot to learn about Copilot Studio, especially for hard-pressed Microsoft 365 tenant administrators who already have too much work to do. This article gives administrators the essential details that they should consider as Copilot agents become more interesting to their organization.
June 25, 2025
How to Plan MCP Deployment for Copilot Studio Agents
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is available for use with Microsoft Copilot Studio, enables powerful integrations with external systems—but also introduces new security challenges. This article explores how to securely deploy MCP with Copilot Studio Agents.
May 20, 2025
Practical Graph: Use Audit Data to Improve Finding Inactive Copilot Users
A previous article explained how Microsoft 365 usage report data can highlight inactive Copilot users. If we add audit data to the mix, the analysis becomes much richer because we can see exactly what use people make of different Copilot apps, like Word, Chat, Outlook, and so on. Better data means better decisions!
April 28, 2025
Will Copilot Agents Run Amok in Microsoft 365 Tenants?
Everyone's very excited about the potential goodness of Copilot agents, but how Microsoft 365 tenants will manage potentially thousands of agents in the future is something that isn't clear. Some administrative capabilities are in the Microsoft 365 admin center, but are these sufficient? We don't think so, and this article explains why and what we'd do about the problem.
February 3, 2025
Practical Graph: Finding and Removing Underused Microsoft 365 Copilot Licenses from User Accounts
Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing costs a lot of money. At $360 annually, it's important to make sure that everyone with a license makes full use of Copilot to become more productive and efficient. Usage data is available in the Graph, and some PowerShell can reveal who's using Copilot and who's not. With that data, you can decide whether to remove licenses for reassignment to other users.
January 29, 2025
Practical Copilot: Creating a Declarative Agent
Microsoft is all in for Copilot at present and agents are a big part of the story. Multiple ways exist to create a declarative agent for use with Copilot in BizChat and Teams. This article reviews how to create an agent with the Teams Toolkit, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft 365 Copilot - and if any usage data are created for custom agents.
January 21, 2025
Practical Copilot: Figuring Out What People Do with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft has a new allInteractionHistory Graph API in beta. The API returns details of user interactions with Microsoft 365 Copilot apps, like Copilot in Word and Copilot in Outlook at a much more detailed level than what is available in the usage report API. Despite the current flaws in the API, having access to detailed information about how people use technology is incredibly valuable.
December 10, 2024