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Available May 1: Agent 365—the control plane for agents

Get the confidence to move from agentic AI experimentation to enterprise-scale operations by giving your IT team one place to observe, govern, and secure every agent across your organization.

Agent 365 will be generally available on May 1.
Overview

Stay in control as agents become part of everyday work

Monitor and manage agents in real time. Protect all agents end-to-end. Establish guardrails for agents and users.
  • Get a complete view of all agents in your organization, including agents built with Microsoft AI platforms, agents from our ecosystem partners, and any agents you register yourself.
  • Visualize how agents fit into the broader ecosystem, connect with other agents, and perform over time to simplify monitoring and resolve issues quickly.
  • Track agent performance, speed, quality, business impact, and ROI to make informed decisions.
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  • Extend agent oversight to security leaders to manage agent risks and business leaders to monitor business metrics and ROI.
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CONTROL PLANE FOR AGENTS

Scale with confidence

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"The best way to manage agents is to extend the infrastructure you use for managing users"
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Capabilities

Manage agents by extending the systems you use for employees

Observe, secure, and govern every agent across your organization with familiar systems, tailored to the unique needs of agentic AI.
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Microsoft Defender

Extend comprehensive security posture and advanced threat protection to agents.
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Microsoft Entra

Protect agent identities and secure access to apps, resources, internet, and other agents.
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Microsoft Purview

Manage, protect, and govern data that agents use and create across your organization.
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Microsoft 365 admin center

Centralized hub to manage users, agents, and settings securely across your Microsoft 365 environment.
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GET STARTED

Start your Agent 365 journey today

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Contact your Microsoft sales representative

Discuss pricing and adoption plans with your dedicated Microsoft sales representative, or inquire via this form.
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Read the Agent 365 technical documentation

Learn how to get started; manage, protect, and govern agents; and extend your agents to be Agent 365 compatible.
Partners

A growing ecosystem of agents built and managed by Microsoft trusted partners

Agent 365 helps enterprises securely deploy, organize, and govern agents across a growing partner ecosystem.
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Agents at Microsoft

Discover and deploy

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Deploy with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Boost productivity and creativity using agents with Microsoft 365 Copilot — your secure AI assistant for work.
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Build with Microsoft Copilot Studio

Use low code and generative AI to easily build, manage, and utilize agents to cover critical business processes.
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Create smarter with Microsoft Foundry

Design and manage adaptable agents that automate tasks, integrate with your apps, and enhance user experiences.

FAQs

  • Agent 365 is the control plane for managing AI agents, enabling organizations to extend their existing infrastructure for users to agents with purpose-built capabilities tailored for agent needs—all without reinventing processes.
  • Any agent published through Microsoft 365 channels and registered with an Entra Agent ID will automatically appear in the Agent 365 inventory. Agents built outside these environments will require additional steps.
  • Agent 365 provides comprehensive agent management, including discovery, lifecycle management, and IT-defined guardrails for both agents and the people who create or manage them.
  • Agent 365 enforces least privilege access, secures agent access to resources, protects sensitive data, and includes advanced threat protection and vulnerability management.
  • Agent 365 will be generally available on May 1, 2026, as part of qualifying Microsoft 365 plans or as a standalone plan.
  • Agent 365 provides detailed logging, reporting of agent actions, data security risks, security events, and audit trails to ensure compliance and performance assessment.
  • Microsoft uniquely extends Entra—protecting over 1B enterprise identities—to agents, integrates seamlessly with agent platforms, and delivers the most widely used productivity apps, making management and security effortless.
  • Microsoft 365 E7 is designed for organizations deploying AI broadly, where Copilot, agents, and enterprise security need to work together as a single, governed system. Agent 365 is also available as a standalone license, while ME7 provides the most complete experience for scaling agents securely across an organization.
  • Microsoft 365 E7 includes Agent 365. ME7 brings together Copilot, AI agents, and enterprise grade security, governance, and management to operationalize AI at scale. Agent 365 is the control plane within ME7 that provides centralized governance, security, and observability for agents, so they can run safely across the organization.

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