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Beschreibung
Renowned Microsoft AI authority Lisa Crosbie unveils an essential guide to mastering agent building and business process automation with Microsoft Copilot StudioFeaturing a foreword by Dan Lewis, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Copilot Studio Microsoft Copilot Studio Step by Step: Customizing Copilot and creating agents is the definitive, hands-on guide for professionals seeking to master Microsofts low-code agent-building platform. The book combines reference material with step-by-step tutorials, making complex AI concepts accessible to low-code makers, consultants, and IT pros. You will learn to design, build, and deploy AI-powered agents that automate workflows, transform business processes, and integrate with Microsoft 365 Copilot and your line of business systems. Through practical scenarios, best practices, and end-to-end examples, this book equips users with the skills to leverage Copilot Studio for organizational value, offering the depth and clarity needed to turn ideas into working solutions, and emerging as the essential resource for this rapidly growing technology. By reading this book, you will: Understand the foundational concepts and architecture of Microsoft Copilot Studio and AI agents Create AI-powered agents using natural language and low-code tools for internal and customer-facing scenarios Configure autonomous agents with event-driven, scheduled, and data-based triggers Ground your agents in organizational knowledge by connecting to multiple data sources Author structured conversational topics using advanced tools like branching logic and adaptive cards Extend agent capabilities with connectors, prompts, MCP servers, and workflow automation Design multi-agent orchestration using child and connected agents to delegate tasks across specialized domains Publish and authenticate agents across Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, websites, and other external channels Monitor agent performance using built-in analytics to optimize user experience Expand your solutions with advanced capabilities for integration with voice channels, customer engagement hubs and Azure AI
Renowned Microsoft AI authority Lisa Crosbie unveils an essential guide to mastering agent building and business process automation with Microsoft Copilot StudioFeaturing a foreword by Dan Lewis, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Copilot Studio Microsoft Copilot Studio Step by Step: Customizing Copilot and creating agents is the definitive, hands-on guide for professionals seeking to master Microsofts low-code agent-building platform. The book combines reference material with step-by-step tutorials, making complex AI concepts accessible to low-code makers, consultants, and IT pros. You will learn to design, build, and deploy AI-powered agents that automate workflows, transform business processes, and integrate with Microsoft 365 Copilot and your line of business systems. Through practical scenarios, best practices, and end-to-end examples, this book equips users with the skills to leverage Copilot Studio for organizational value, offering the depth and clarity needed to turn ideas into working solutions, and emerging as the essential resource for this rapidly growing technology. By reading this book, you will: Understand the foundational concepts and architecture of Microsoft Copilot Studio and AI agents Create AI-powered agents using natural language and low-code tools for internal and customer-facing scenarios Configure autonomous agents with event-driven, scheduled, and data-based triggers Ground your agents in organizational knowledge by connecting to multiple data sources Author structured conversational topics using advanced tools like branching logic and adaptive cards Extend agent capabilities with connectors, prompts, MCP servers, and workflow automation Design multi-agent orchestration using child and connected agents to delegate tasks across specialized domains Publish and authenticate agents across Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, websites, and other external channels Monitor agent performance using built-in analytics to optimize user experience Expand your solutions with advanced capabilities for integration with voice channels, customer engagement hubs and Azure AI
Über den Autor
Lisa Crosbie is a globally recognized expert in Microsoft AI and Business Applications, a published author, a sought-after global conference speaker, and prolific content creator, with a YouTube channel boasting over 100,000 subscribers and millions of views.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

Part 1: Introducing Copilot Studio and agents

Chapter 1: Understanding Copilot Studio and agents . 1

Practice files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Get started with Copilot Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Understand the capabilities of Copilot Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Explore use cases for Copilot Studio agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 26

Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter 2: Designing effective agents . 29

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Choose the type of agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Select the agents orchestration model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Design the agents capabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Understand and calculate agent costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Part 2: Building agents with Copilot Studio

Chapter 3. Building agents with the lite experience of Copilot Studio . 63

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Describe and configure an agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Build an agent from a template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Share and manage agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Chapter 4: Building agents in Copilot Studio . 97

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Understand environments and solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Configure a new agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Manage agent settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Edit the Conversation Start topic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Start with an agent template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Install a managed agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Chapter 5: Building autonomous agents . 129

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Identify use cases for autonomous agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Build an autonomous agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Publish and monitor an autonomous agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Chapter 6: Grounding agents in knowledge . 169

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Understand how knowledge works in Copilot Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Connect to public websites as a knowledge source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Add files as a knowledge source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Add SharePoint as a knowledge source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Add real-time connectors to enterprise data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Chapter 7: Authoring topics . 233

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Create and edit topics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Use message nodes and adaptive cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Use questions, variables, and entities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Use formulas, logic, and generative answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Manage topic transitions and internal triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Chapter 8: Extending agents with tools . 317

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Use connectors and REST APIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Create agent flows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Add tools to a topic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Use a prompt as a tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Add tools from a Model Context Protocol server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Chapter 9: Designing multi-agent orchestration . 391

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Understand multi-agent orchestration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Create and use child agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Connect to existing agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Skills review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Practice tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Part 3: Publishing and monitoring your agent

Chapter 10: Publishing and authenticating agents. 413

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Understand and select the agent authentication method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Publish and test an agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Choose and configure channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780135491508
ISBN-10: 0135491509
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Crosbie, Lisa
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Hersteller: Microsoft Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Pearson, St.-Martin-Str. 82, D-81541 München, salesde@pearson.com
Maße: 235 x 195 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Lisa Crosbie
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.12.2025
Gewicht: 1,098 kg
Artikel-ID: 136809306