Microsoft has retired the Computer Use feature in the Researcher agent and moved the capabilities to Copilot Cowork. Under this new setup, automated web tasks are no longer covered by the Copilot Premium license, switching organizations to a usage-based billing model.
The Microsoft 365 Admin Agent is now generally available as a Microsoft-managed agent, giving all administrators with an Entra built-in role AI-powered access across the admin center and Copilot Chat. If you don’t need this agent, block it.
Built-in Teams agents (such as Facilitator, Channel Agent, and Copilot Agent in Teams) now have their own dedicated governance experience in the Teams admin center, separate from traditional app management.
Microsoft has designated the Planner Agent as a core agent. Core agents are fully controlled by Microsoft. Find out what this means for your organization.
Agent Builder in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat now lets users submit their Copilot agents for review by IT administrators, making them available to everyone in the organization or to a specific group of people through the Agent Store.
Microsoft updated the licensing prerequisites for the Agent 365 standalone license. Enterprise customers now require Microsoft 365 E5, while SMB customers need Business Premium plus additional add-ons for full functionality.
Microsoft informed about the general availability of Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, previously available in the Frontier program, bringing personalized, AI-assisted upskilling to the tools users already use.
The Interpreter agent in Teams now supports a new consecutive interpretation mode for turn-based speech-to-speech translation for meetings in two languages.
Microsoft is rolling out a new Personal Attendant agent for Teams Phone to users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license in the Frontier program. Personal Attendant is an AI-powered voice agent that handles incoming calls on behalf of the user.
Microsoft is retiring the existing agent registry Graph API in June 2026. The new Agent 365 Graph API is only available to tenants with at least one Agent 365 license.
Microsoft has rebranded the Surveys agent to Forms agent and is adding Copilot Chat directly into the Microsoft Forms editing experience.
Microsoft is rolling out a new Pay-as-you-go meter for Windows 365 for Agents, a Cloud PC platform designed to run AI agent workloads.
The Agent Registry is moving from Microsoft Entra to Agent 365 in the Microsoft 365 admin center on 1 May 2026, giving administrators a unified catalog of all agents across the organization. Also, the agent registry Graph API will soon be deprecated and replaced by a new Agent 365 API.
Microsoft is bringing federated Copilot connectors to general availability in Microsoft 365 Copilot in April 2026. Using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), these connectors provide real-time access to third-party data sources without storing or indexing customer data in Microsoft services. All federated connectors are enabled by default.
The AI Administrator role in Microsoft 365 and Entra now includes additional permissions for Agent 365, enabling AI Administrators to manage agents without involving a Global Administrator.
The SharePoint list agent is generally available. The agent creates lists from plain language or existing content in Teams, Outlook, and Word, but its scope is limited to list creation.
Copilot Agent Builder now supports AI-generated icons for Lite Agents. Describe the look, generate a unique icon, and skip the manual artwork.
Microsoft is retiring the Skills Agent and People Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot as of March 2026, and recommends two other Frontier agents instead. I wouldn’t count on those agents for a long-term availability.
AI in SharePoint, formerly known as SharePoint Knowledge Agent, now relies on Anthropic’s Claude as the underlying AI model. Now, AI in SharePoint may no longer respond to user requests.
The Researcher agent now includes seven pre-enabled 3rd-party connectors for users in Frontier mode. These federated connectors allow real-time access to external data sources.