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.
- Extend agent oversight to security leaders to manage agent risks and business leaders to monitor business metrics and ROI.
- Onboard agents through IT-controlled workflows, applying security policy templates so every agent starts secure, governed, and compliant.
- Enforce least-privilege access by controlling which users, data, and tools or MCP servers agents can use. Limit access to only the resources and other agents they need.
- Leverage rules-based agent management to automatically enforce lifecycle policies, such as expiring inactive agents, flagging ownerless agents, or blocking risky agents.
- Strengthen visibility and traceability of agent actions and interactions with logging, reporting, and audit capabilities.
- Establish content safety controls to detect, retain, and investigate unethical agent interactions.
- Protect agent identities and prevent breaches by extending conditional access and internet traffic filtering policies from users to agents.
- Gain visibility into AI-related data exposure and protect the data agents create and use from oversharing, leaks, and risky behavior.
- Protect agents from threats, vulnerabilities, and adversarial attacks. Detect, investigate, and remediate incidents quickly, with visibility into attack paths.
"With Agent 365, IT leaders can confidently embrace agentic AI innovation through a unified control plane that provides the capabilities enterprises need to ensure agents are governed, observable, and secure—regardless of which tools, frameworks, or models were used to create them."
Brian Fielder, VP, Microsoft Tenant & Platform Management, Microsoft Digital
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.
Microsoft Defender
Extend comprehensive security posture and advanced threat protection to agents.
Microsoft Entra
Protect agent identities and secure access to apps, resources, internet, and other agents.
Microsoft Purview
Manage, protect, and govern data that agents use and create across your organization.
Microsoft 365 admin center
Centralized hub to manage users, agents, and settings securely across your Microsoft 365 environment.
GET STARTED
Start your Agent 365 journey today
Contact your Microsoft sales representative
Discuss pricing and adoption plans with your dedicated Microsoft sales representative, or inquire via this form.
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.
“What impressed us most about Agent 365 is that Microsoft didn't just build a platform–they built the trust layer enterprises actually need. The governance, security, and compliance are baked in from the start, so IT leaders can deploy AI with confidence.”
Eric Jing, CEO, Genspark
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.
Agents at Microsoft
Discover and deploy
Deploy with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Boost productivity and creativity using agents with Microsoft 365 Copilot — your secure AI assistant for work.
Build with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Use low code and generative AI to easily build, manage, and utilize agents to cover critical business processes.
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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