Tag: Explainer
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If you’ve been following Microsoft Ignite this year, you may have noticed something big quietly land among all the announcements. It’s called Agent 365, and it’s shaping up to be the missing piece we’ve all been waiting for in the world of Microsoft AI governance and enterprise-ready agents. For a while now, organisations have been…
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Most agent scenarios I hear clients discussing during planning workshops start with chat. Generative copilots for policy Q&A. Retrieval agents that summarise information. And while custom copilots can integrate with Power Automate or use agent flows, the simplest and most direct way to extend Copilot Studio agents is through tools. These let agents move beyond…
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My team recently came across a new feature in Microsoft’s AI prompt management interface called Test Hub (Preview), and it looks like a game-changer for anyone working with reusable prompts. Traditionally, testing AI prompts has been a bit of a trial-and-error process. You’d tweak a prompt, run it, check the response, and repeat until it…
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Licensing isn’t the most exciting topic in technology — until it becomes the reason innovation is blocked. For many organisations, Copilot Studio licensing has been that blocker. While the per-user licensing model for Microsoft 365 Copilot was straightforward, around $40 per user per month for productivity enhancements in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams, the…
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Microsoft has just released a preview of Request for Information (RFI) in Copilot Studio agent flows, and I think this is one of the most important updates yet for organizations building AI-powered automations. Why? Because automation is powerful, but judgment still matters. In industries like insurance, finance, healthcare, or legal, there are moments where AI…
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A New Era of AI-Powered Productivity Microsoft has reimagined the Office.com experience for business and enterprise customers. Rather than landing on apps and recent documents, users are now greeted with the Copilot Chat interface, a free, AI-driven chat service included as part of many Microsoft 365 subscriptions. This shift marks a pivotal moment, Copilot Chat…
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I’ve spent a lot of time recently walking clients through the different AI options in Microsoft, discussing what each model offers and designing solutions that fit their business needs. As I explained the pros and cons of the various licensing approaches, it struck me that a clear, structured summary would be useful beyond those conversations,…
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Generative AI has captivated industries, redefined creativity, and accelerated innovation—but its journey didn’t begin with ChatGPT or DALL·E. Like all revolutions, it began with quiet, foundational work that grew in sophistication over decades. Here’s a look at how generative AI evolved—from early logic-based systems to today’s creative collaborators. 🌱 1950s–1960s: Seeds of Possibility and Simulated…
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Power Pages just took an important step toward tighter platform integration and better enterprise-grade capability. In the 2025 Wave 2 release plans, Microsoft is introducing a change that aligns Web Roles in Power Pages with Dataverse Security Roles for users authenticated via Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD). This means that when users make updates…
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What if your Dataverse tables could think for themselves? With the new Prompt field capability in Microsoft Dataverse, we’re entering a new era where business applications don’t just store data—they understand it. 📌 What Is the Prompt Feature in Dataverse? In simple terms, this feature lets you embed a natural language AI prompt directly into…