🧠 Partner Academy: Copilot Newsletter

August 2025 Edition

🚀 What’s New in Microsoft Copilot

🔧 August Feature Updates

Microsoft has rolled out new features for Copilot Studio and Dataverse, available for early access starting August 4, 2025. Highlights include:

  • Column Management for Dataverse Knowledge in Copilot Studio: Empower admins, makers, and analysts to streamline data workflows.
  • Expanded Add-in Actions for Copilot Agents: New developer tooling updates announced at Build 2025 for Office Add-ins and Copilot integration.

📘 https://learn.microsoft.com/power-platform/release-plan/2025wave2/microsoft-copilot-studio/associated-features
🛠 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/office-addins-at-build-2025/

🌟 Customer Success Story of the Month

Contoso Manufacturing transformed its supply chain operations using Microsoft 365 Copilot and custom-built agents. By integrating Copilot into Teams and Outlook, they reduced manual reporting time by 60% and improved forecasting accuracy by 35%.

Their success was powered by:

  • Copilot Studio for building custom agents
  • Azure AI for document intelligence
  • Seamless integration across M365 apps

Want to be featured next month? Reach out to your Partner Success Manager!

📚 Skilling & Learning Resources

🔍 Deep Dives & Hands-On Labs

  • https://learn.microsoft.com/power-platform/release-plan/2024wave2/microsoft-copilot-studio/planned-features
  • https://github.com/orgs/Azure-Samples/repositories

🧠 Recommended Learning Paths

  • https://learn.microsoft.com/training/modules/introduction-microsoft-copilot/
  • https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/release-plan/2024wave2/sales/microsoft-copilot-sales

🛍️ Agent Store Spotlight

📢 How to Publish Your Agent

The Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Store is now live with over 70 agents! Partners can publish agents using Copilot Studio or the M365 Agents Toolkit.

Benefits of publishing:

  • Reach millions of Microsoft 365 users
  • Co-marketing and partner support
  • Insights into usage and feedback

📘 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/introducing-the-agent-store-build-publish-and-discover-agents-in-microsoft-365-copilot/
🛠 https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365-copilot/extensibility/copilot-studio-agent-builder-publish

🧭 Specialized Copilot Guides

TL;DR – What’s the Difference?

Copilot Type Purpose
GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer for developers using code editors like VS Code
M365 Copilot Embedded in Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, Teams) for productivity
Copilot Studio Build custom agents using low-code/no-code tools

📘 Learn More:

  • https://docs.github.com/copilot
  • https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365-copilot/
  • https://learn.microsoft.com/training/paths/create-copilot-studio-agents/