In the past couple of days, we have recapped all the new features that Microsoft added to Excel and Teams during the last four weeks. Now, it is time to do the same for Microsoft 365 Copilot, which the company has been heavily promoting recently. This time around, the change log is shorter than previous months, primarily because there are only two updates on the administrative side.
Starting off with the management front, SharePoint agents will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center agent inventory from September, which will make it easy to discover, govern, and manage them. Right now, admins can monitor Copilot Search adoption trends within their organization and retire ownerless agents through the same admin center.
Other capabilities available this month include a request and approval flow for Frontier and agents in Microsoft 365. Additionally, Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM) can now be leveraged to detect sensitive prompts that users are triggering on Copilot surfaces, allowing admins to implement better guardrails.
On the consumer-facing front, customers will be able to utilize SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app and the Teams app store from next month. For now, they can try GPT-5 in Copilot Chat, and a new Tools menu in the same service that contains dedicated AI agents like Researcher and Analyst.
Other enhancements include:
- When using Copilot Chat in Outlook or in Microsoft 365 Copilot, the AI assistant can reference attachments in emails
- PowerPoint decks can be created quickly with Copilot
- Analyze and edit images in Copilot Chat right now, with a dedicated visual editor coming next month
- Users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license can generate images on the web, macOS, and Windows. Mobile support is coming in October.
- Microsoft Edge for Business customers can now utilize summarization features in Copilot Chat
- Custom dictionaries now available for Copilot in Teams
You can find out more details about all of the above in the dedicated blog post here.