What’s new in Copilot Studio: May 2025 

In this edition of our monthly roundup, we’re recapping the biggest news from Microsoft Build 2025 and announcing new resources for Copilot Studio adoption and training. 

May 2025 was a big month for Microsoft Copilot Studio and there are a ton of features to catch up on. In this edition of our monthly roundup, we’re recapping the biggest news from Microsoft Build 2025, giving a couple of important updates, and announcing new resources for Copilot Studio adoption and training. 

Microsoft Build 2025 roundup: Our biggest announcements 

Microsoft Build 2025 brought a wave of updates to Copilot Studio and Microsoft Dataverse, the operational database for agents, introducing powerful new tools for multi-agent systems, enterprise data access, and custom AI tuning. Here’s a quick overview of what dropped in Copilot Studio. 

Multi-agent orchestration: Copilot Studio now supports multi-agent orchestration, allowing agents built with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure AI, and Microsoft Fabric to collaborate by delegating tasks and sharing results to complete complex workflows. Copilot Studio will also support the open Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, allowing agents to connect to those built on third-party platforms. 

Computer use in agents: The new computer use capability, currently available to eligible United States-based customers, allows Copilot Studio agents to perform tasks across desktop and web applications, automating repetitive processes like data entry and document processing through AI-powered UI interactions. 

Bring your own model and Microsoft Copilot tuning: Makers can access more than 11,000 models in Azure AI Foundry and fine-tune them using enterprise data for even more context-rich and valuable agent responses. 

Other updates include: 

Get all the details on these announcements in Corporate Vice President Lili Cheng’s blog post. For an even more in-depth update, learn more about how Dataverse supports all these in Corporate Vice President Nirav Shah’s blog post from Microsoft Build 2025. You can also see a roundup of all the Microsoft Dataverse sessions presented at Microsoft Build 2025.

Build, publish, and monetize agents with the Agent Store 

Welcome to the Agent Store, your centralized, curated marketplace for agents built by Microsoft, trusted partners, and customers. Accessible through the left side navigation in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, the Agent Store makes it easier to browse, try out, and share agents for your business processes without having to build them from scratch. These agents work seamlessly across your Microsoft 365 ecosystem, so you can install an agent once and use it in multiple places. It’s all about speed, trust, and impact at scale. 

Right now, the Agent Store has more than 70 agents, ranging from knowledge assistants to complex multi-modal orchestrators. You’ll have access to more as makers and software development vendors build and share new agents in the coming months—and the store will offer personalized agent discovery based on your organizational context. For developers, the Agent Store also provides a platform to share your innovative agents with millions of Microsoft Copilot users and grow your user base. 

With robust support through Copilot Studio and the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit, the Agent Store includes both low-code and pro-code development options. Whichever way you prefer to build and deploy your agents, this marketplace helps you reduce development time and costs and get them out there faster. 

Learn more about finding and publishing agents through the Agent Store on the Microsoft 365 Developer Blog. 

Publish custom engine agents to Microsoft Copilot Chat: Now generally available 

The ability to publish custom engine agents built in Copilot Studio directly to Copilot Chat is now generally available and automatically enabled. This means all customers can now unlock powerful new ways to customize and extend Copilot experiences with rich, domain-specific intelligence, right inside the tools people use every day. 

Previously announced in public preview, this feature allows makers to publish agents built in Copilot Studio to Copilot, with full access to the features that make agents intelligent and useful. That includes topics, orchestration selection, autonomous triggers, analytics, and Azure AI integrations. These custom agents surface seamlessly across Microsoft 365 apps, including Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Office. 

Custom engine agents in Copilot support messages, quick replies, Adaptive Cards, multi-turn interactions, and multi-message responses—all backed by robust governance and analytics in the Microsoft Power Platform admin center. Now you can confidently scale custom Copilot experiences across your workforce, without changes to existing agents. 

General availability brings simplified deployment and seamless integration, turning every custom agent into a first-class participant in the Microsoft 365 Copilot experience. Read more about publishing and deploying agents on Microsoft Learn. 

Microsoft Graph connectors are now Copilot connectors

Microsoft Graph connectors are now called Copilot connectors, a name that better reflects their role in powering the Microsoft 365 Copilot experience. 

Copilot connectors bring external data into Microsoft 365 so Copilot and Copilot Studio agents can retrieve, apply reasoning to, and act on knowledge beyond the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. These connectors eliminate the need for duplicative uploads or clunky copy-paste workflows. 

For developers and makers, Copilot connectors are the bridge between your existing systems and your AI-powered solutions. Whether you’re supporting sales teams to query customer relationship management (CRM) system records, surfacing insights from product documentation, or building custom agents grounded in real enterprise data, connectors make it possible to create truly contextual and intelligent experiences. 

The change in name reflects a broader shift: AI isn’t just reading data anymore—it’s working with it. More than 40 Copilot connectors are already generally available or in public preview, including key sources like Gong, PagerDuty, and Unily, so connect your agents and systems in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Read more about building Copilot connectors on Microsoft Learn. 

Accelerate agentic operations with new adoption resources

We’re excited to introduce two new resources designed to help your organization get started with Copilot Studio quickly and effectively. Whether you’re launching your first agent or scaling across teams, these tools are built to simplify the building process and drive measurable impact across your organization. 

Microsoft Copilot Studio Adoption page 

This centralized hub offers comprehensive guidance for seamless integration across teams. It includes: 

• Step-by-step setup and deployment guidance.
• Role-based training for business users, developers and admins.
• Best practices and support documentation.
• Tools to help developers and leaders build and scale agents with confidence.

This page is your go-to destination for enabling success from day one. Explore the Copilot Studio AI Agents Hub. 

Copilot Studio scenarios in the Microsoft Scenario Library 

Explore 35 new custom agent scenarios across seven functional areas—each designed to showcase real-world value and accelerate adoption. Every scenario includes: 

• A clear use case with key performance indicators (KPIs) and key users.
• Agent functionality and flow breakdown.
• Architecture and key considerations.

These resources are crafted to help you unlock the full potential of Copilot Studio—empowering your teams to innovate, automate, and scale with ease.

Free Microsoft Copilot Studio training for Microsoft Power Platform makers

If you or members of your team are already familiar with Microsoft Power Platform, you may be wondering how the skills you have built using Microsoft Power Apps or Microsoft Power Automate translate to the world of agents. Microsoft worked with Shane Young, a Microsoft most valuable player (MVP) of 20 years, as part of a paid collaboration to bring you more than four hours of free, hands-on training on YouTube.

This series of videos will help you get started with Copilot Studio at your own pace so you can walk away with your own agents, ready to use. The training series includes demos, step-by-step builds, and deep dives into product-specific features, broken down into four sections: 

1. Introduction and demos (7 videos)
2. How to build a conversational agent (8 videos)
3. How to build an autonomous agent (10 videos)
4. Reusing your Microsoft Power Platform skills (4 videos)

Thousands of Microsoft Power Platform makers have already gone through the training, and we encourage you to spread the word and join in. Start watching or share with your team. You may be the makers who create the next best agent in the Agent Store. 

More ways to stay up to date on all things Copilot Studio

Check out all the updates live as we ship them, as well as new features releasing in the next few months.

To learn more about Copilot Studio and how it can transform your organization’s productivity, visit the Copilot Studio website or sign up for our free trial.