Empowering makers with a complete agent lifecycle in Microsoft Copilot Studio
Copilot Studio is excited to introduce two major updates: agent evaluation and enhanced analytics, both designed to support makers across the agent lifecycle.
Copilot
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Feature releases
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Power Virtual Agents + Community = Best practices for the new advanced authoring canvas
The new unified authoring canvas in Power Virtual Agents has only been in preview for a few weeks but it has already received a ton of positive community reviews and coverage. -
Power Virtual Agents’ new advanced authoring canvas
We are excited to announce the Public Preview launch of Power Virtual Agents’ new and enhanced authoring canvas! -
AI-assisted authoring: detect topic overlaps and get topic suggestions from bot sessions
AI-assisted bot authoring features – Topic overlap detection and Topic suggestions from chat transcripts are now available for public preview. -
Power Virtual Agents enhancements showcased in new Microsoft Mechanics video
Learn how easy it is to create intelligent chatbots directly in Microsoft Teams. -
Share and collaborate on your bot with subject matter experts
Let your teammates collaborate on a bot together! Read more about sharing your bot with others -
Webinar: Power Virtual Agents – What’s new
Join us in this webinar to learn about the new features in Power Virtual Agents in the April Wave. -
Webinar: Use Bot Framework Skills to extend the abilities of your Power Virtual Agents bot with Azure Bot Framework
Join us in the live webinar with Microsoft MVP, Arafat Tehsin, on using Bot Framework Skills to extend the abilities of your Power Virtual Agents bot with Azure Bot Framework. -
Power Virtual Agents is now available in more languages
Have your customers chat with your bot in one of the many supported languages. -
Reusing variables across topics, and setting variable values from external sources
Announcing bot variables (a.k.a. global variables) for Power Virtual Agents enabling variable reuse across topics and the ability to pass context into the bot from external sources. -
How to Use Conversational AI to Enhance Engagement
Check out our new Mechanics Video demonstrating how quickly you can create an enterprise chatbot with Power Virtual Agents. -
What is new and exciting for Power Virtual Agents Webinar May 15th
Since the release of Power Virtual Agents December of 2019, the development team has added a myriad of new features! In this webinar your hosts Reza Dorrani, Tomasz Poszytek, and Charles Sterling will take you on a tour of these new features, show you how to use them, walk through hard-earned best practices and make themselves available to answer your questions.