Copilot for Microsoft 365 Series - 6 - Extensibility options Wave 2 updates

Introduction

In early 2024 I released the first version of the Microsoft 365 Copilot extensiblilty options guide . Since then a lot has changed, especially the fact that Microsoft announced a at Build the capability of not only building Connectors and Plugins, but also Agents . This path was further strengthened with the Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 announcements in September 2024. Despite many other updates and announcements like Copilot Pages and others, the agentic capabilities within Copilot is one of the biggest updates which lets developers not only extend Copilot using plugins or connectors, but now you can build declarative agents which combine plugins and connectors into one single solution which can then be used either seperately or within the Microsoft 365 Copilot experiences.

As there where many updates and changes, I modified the initial version of my decision guide, which can be found in the following infographic:

Conclusion

As the infographic shows, you have a lot of options to choose from when it comes to finding the suitable approach for extending Microsoft 365 Copilot. And when the Agent Builder functionality is rolled out, I will certainly add this to that infographic as well.

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