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Manage and secure Microsoft 365 AI services

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  • 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.

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

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