- Assess tenant and data readiness for Microsoft Copilot—including the Copilot Readiness Report and update channels—identify and address oversharing and compliance risks, and plan a phased rollout across your organization.
After completing this module, you can:
- Assess tenant readiness for a Microsoft Copilot rollout, including the Copilot Readiness Report and update channels.
- Identify and address data readiness issues—data leaks, oversharing, and compliance gaps—before a rollout.
- Plan a phased rollout of Microsoft Copilot across the organization.
- Configure the Microsoft Copilot tenant-settings catalog, manage web search and Cowork administration, set up Copilot Search, and extend Copilot with Copilot Connectors and third-party AI providers.
After completing this module, you can:
- Configure the Microsoft Copilot tenant-settings catalog and identify each setting's admin-center location.
- Manage web search for Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Chat, and configure Copilot Search.
- Govern Cowork access and web-search behavior without authorizing chargeable usage.
- Manage third-party AI providers and evaluate whether a provider offering is handled as a Microsoft subprocessor or an independent processor.
- Configure Copilot Connectors and choose connector types that balance richer grounding against expanded data exposure.
- Recognize awareness-level extensibility surfaces, including SharePoint AI skills and the Copilot Frontier program.
- Establish governed identities for AI agents using Microsoft Entra Agent ID—assign sponsors and Microsoft Entra owners, automate sponsor-transfer lifecycle transitions, and apply Conditional Access to secure agent access.
After completing this module, you can:
- Explain the Microsoft Entra Agent ID identity model, including agent identity blueprints, agent identities, and agent user accounts.
- Assign sponsors and Microsoft Entra owners to an agent identity, distinct from Agent Registry ownership.
- Automate sponsor-transfer lifecycle transitions using Microsoft Entra ID Governance Lifecycle Workflows.
- Apply Conditional Access to agent identities and select the correct licensing model.
- Govern what agents can invoke using Agent 365 tools, including MCP servers, and curate the ongoing agent estate using Registry actions beyond initial onboarding.
After completing this module, you can:
- Review, approve, and block tools for agents, including Bring Your Own (BYO) MCP server requests.
- Manage ongoing Agent Registry actions beyond initial onboarding, including uploading a custom agent, reassigning an already-active agent's owner, deleting an agent, and starting or stopping Microsoft Foundry agents.
- Filter and audit the agent estate by publisher type and channel.
- Learn how to monitor using real-time visibility into all agents to detect sprawl, understand usage.
By the end of this module, you'll be able to:
- Explore the agents in your organization
- Monitor usage, performance and agent effectiveness
- Monitor agents using the registry and agent map
- View the security risks associated with the agents
- Learn how to set up policies and permissions to govern and secure agents.
By the end of this module, you'll be able to:
- Understand governance policies
- Set up policies, tenant settings, and permissions for the agents
- Perform agent lifecycle management tasks such as activate agents in a governed manner, assign owners, block agents, and use rules to govern agent usage
- Learn why Microsoft 365 offers several Microsoft Copilot and agent report sources, choose the right one for a given question, reconcile Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Foundry costs without double-counting, and use Microsoft 365 Service Health and Copilot controls to diagnose AI-service issues honestly.
After completing this module, you can:
- Select the correct report source to answer a specific Microsoft Copilot or agent adoption, productivity, or ROI question.
- Read the Copilot usage report and the separate Agent usage report to distinguish licensed access from actual adoption.
- Reconcile Microsoft 365 AI services costs across the Microsoft 365 admin center and Microsoft Cost Management.
- Apply AI FinOps practices—workload selection, model cost tiers, consumption reduction, and cost attribution—to optimize Microsoft 365 AI spend.
- Use Microsoft 365 Service Health and the Copilot Control System's three-pillar governance model to monitor AI-service health and recommend admin actions that improve adoption.
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Syllabus
- Assess readiness and roll out Microsoft Copilot
- Introduction
- Assess tenant readiness for a Microsoft Copilot rollout
- Exercise - Run and interpret the Microsoft Copilot readiness report
- Identify and resolve data readiness issues
- Exercise - Remediate an oversharing risk before rollout
- Plan a phased rollout across the organization
- Exercise - Stage a phased pilot rollout group
- Module assessment
- Summary
- Configure Microsoft Copilot settings and extensibility
- Introduction
- Configure the Microsoft Copilot tenant-settings catalog
- Exercise - Configure the Microsoft Copilot settings catalog
- Manage web search for Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Chat
- Manage Microsoft Copilot Cowork
- Configure Copilot Search
- Exercise - Configure web search and Copilot Search
- Manage third-party AI providers
- Exercise - Enable a third-party AI provider
- Configure Copilot connectors
- Govern SharePoint AI skills and the Frontier program
- Module assessment
- Summary
- Establish agent identities and secure access with Microsoft Entra Agent ID
- Introduction
- Understand the Microsoft Entra Agent ID object model
- Assign a sponsor and a Microsoft Entra owner
- Exercise - Assign a sponsor and owner to an agent identity
- Automate sponsor transfer with Lifecycle Workflows
- Exercise - Configure a sponsor-transfer Lifecycle Workflow
- Apply Conditional Access to agent identities and choose the right license
- Exercise - Apply Conditional Access to an agent identity blueprint
- Module assessment
- Summary
- Curate and control agents with the Agent Registry and Agent 365 tools
- Introduction
- Review, approve, and block tools for agents
- Exercise - Review requests and control tool availability
- Govern bring your own MCP servers
- Exercise - Review a bring your own model context protocol (MCP) server registration
- Perform ongoing Agent Registry curation
- Exercise - Reassign an active agent's owner
- Audit the agent estate by publisher and channel
- Module assessment
- Summary
- Monitor and manage agents with Microsoft Agent 365
- Introduction
- Introduction to Microsoft Entra Agent ID
- Monitor and manage agents
- Scenario
- Exercise – Monitor agents from the overview page
- Exercise - Monitor agents inventory in registry
- Exercise - Monitor agents using the agent map
- Exercise - View agents with exceptions and take action
- Exercise - Measure agent effectiveness
- Exercise – Monitor connected platforms
- Check your knowledge
- Summary
- Govern agents using Agent 365
- Introduction
- Govern agents scenarios
- Exercise – Set up agent settings and access
- Security and governance policies
- Exercise – Set up policy template
- Exercise – Set up permissions using access packages
- Exercise – Onboard an agent
- Exercise – Deploy and activate agents
- Exercise - Assign owners to agents to prevent agent sprawl
- Exercise - Block agents with security risks
- Exercise – Use rules and automate agent management
- Manage tools
- Exercise - Activate and manage tools
- View audit logs
- Check your knowledge
- Summary
- Monitor and optimize Microsoft 365 AI services
- Introduction
- Pick the right report source for a Microsoft Copilot adoption question
- Exercise - Pick the right report source
- Read the Microsoft Copilot usage report and the Agent usage report
- Exercise - Read the Microsoft Copilot usage report and the Agent usage report
- Reconcile Microsoft Copilot and agent costs across surfaces
- Exercise - Reconcile Microsoft Copilot and agent costs across surfaces
- Optimize AI spend across Microsoft 365 AI services
- Assess AI-service health with the Copilot Control System
- Module assessment
- Summary