Inside M365 Copilot and Agents: Architecture, Plugins and Secure Deployment at Scale

Inside M365 Copilot and Agents: Architecture, Plugins and Secure Deployment at Scale

The Microsoft Copilot ecosystem is rapidly evolving to help organizations take advantage of AI agents securely and at scale. Its new Frontier program brings Agent Identities in Microsoft Entra, Agent 365 to help manage agents across the ecosystem, and new licensing with E7. With the introduction of new models, Microsoft has also opened up new channels, such as Agent Builder and Cowork, making building agents far easier than before. Securing all of these capabilities increases the knowledge required for every practitioner putting these capabilities to work. In this symposium, IANS Faculty Shannon Lietz walks attendees through these updates to:

• Understand the new Copilot capabilities, Agent Builder, plugins, connectors and MCP servers and how they actually work together
• Explore how organizations are shifting from human-led workflows to agent-orchestrated work and what this means for roles, processes and decision making
• Learn how to phase adoption and cover the practical controls needed for agents, including: identity scoping, data access boundaries, plugin risk, audit logging and abuse prevention

Audience

This event is for IANS clients and invited guests — there is no vendor sponsorship or presence.