Microsoft introduced in the present day a brand new Microsoft 365 Copilot agent known as App Builder that may assist customers create and deploy apps “in minutes.”
As Microsoft defined, this agent permits staff to construct apps utilizing their Microsoft 365 information, together with paperwork, displays, spreadsheets, and notes, “simply as simply as having a dialog.”
“Describe what you want in pure language, and Copilot helps you construct it. And since the outputs are built-in together with your Copilot expertise, they’re safe, ruled, and linked to your Microsoft 365 information,” stated Charles Lamanna, president of Enterprise & Business Copilot at Microsoft.
“Work with App Builder to create and refine dashboards, charts, calculators, lists, and some other interactive factor you’ll be able to dream up. You may preview and refine your app, over a number of edits and feedback, with out leaving Copilot.”
In the present day, Redmond additionally unveiled a brand new Workflows agent designed to assist staff automate duties equivalent to calendar administration, electronic mail sending, and sharing group updates.
To make use of it, customers should describe what they need to automate and await Copilot to transform their prompts into automated flows throughout Outlook, Groups, SharePoint, Planner, and different providers.
These new brokers are additionally designed to align with Microsoft 365 Copilot’s enterprise-grade safety protections and can robotically implement role-based entry controls and particular person permissions for information.
“They’re accessible completely via Microsoft 365 which helps guarantee all exercise stays safe, compliant, and aligned with organizational insurance policies,” Lamanna stated. “For admins, administration is streamlined with unified permissions, visibility, and controls throughout the group. Entry to those conversational AI constructing instruments may be managed within the agent stock part of the Microsoft 365 admin heart, so there isn’t any want for one-by-one guardrails.”
Lamanna added that, for now, the App Builder and Workflows brokers can be found solely to Microsoft 365 Copilot prospects enrolled within the Frontier program.
Whereas App Builder is coming to the Agent Retailer for purchasers within the Frontier program this week, Workflows is already accessible there for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers.
In the present day’s information follows Microsoft’s September announcement that the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will probably be robotically put in on Home windows techniques outdoors the European Financial Space (EEA) area which have the Microsoft 365 desktop shopper apps.
As a part of the identical effort to broaden Copilot’s attain, it additionally revealed that Microsoft 365 Copilot brokers will probably be added to the Edge sidebar beginning in late September 2025, and it added a brand new setting that enables Microsoft 365 admins to pin the Microsoft 365 Copilot app to the Home windows taskbar.
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