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Introducing Agent 365 – the control plane for agents

Agents are transforming the way we work. With Agent 365, you can reliably extend your infrastructure for users to agents — helping teams confidently deploy, manage, and secure their agentic AI.
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Overview

Agent 365 empowers and secures agents

  • Get a complete view of all your agents, including ones with Microsoft Entra agent ID, agents you register yourself, and shadow agents.
  • Make it easy to find the right agents for each role and business process within familiar workflows in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams.
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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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Included capabilities

Agent 365 extends familiar tools for users to agents

The same Microsoft’s management, security, and productivity solutions are tailor-made for your agents.

Microsoft Defender

Extend comprehensive security posture and advanced threat protection to agents.

Microsoft Entra

Protect agent identities and secure access to resources.

Microsoft Purview

Manage, protect and govern data that agents use and create across your entire organization.

Work IQ

Enable agents to use Work IQ to connect to your organization's unique data, context, and relationships to deliver an experience that's built for the flow of work.

Microsoft 365

Enable agents to access and work in Word, Excel and other productivity apps.

Microsoft Power Apps

Enable agent workflows with access to Power Apps and Power Automate.

Microsoft Power BI

Enable agents to create analytics and Power BI dashboards to support collaboration.
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Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Centralized hub to manage users, agent apps, and settings securely across your Microsoft 365 environment.
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Early access

Get started with Agent 365

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Get early access to Agent 365 for IT admins

IT Admins can try Agent 365 in Microsoft Admin Center with Frontier, Microsoft’s early access program for the latest AI innovations. Sign in now to turn on Frontier features and enable Agent 365 for your entire tenant or specific users.
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Discover Agent 365

Read more about how to extend your existing infrastructure, apps, and protections with purpose-built capabilities for agents.
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Explore more from the world of Agent 365

Missed the announcement? Here’s everything you need to know about your new favorite agent manager.
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Get all the details from the Microsoft Agent 365 announcement.
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See what Agent 365 can do for your agents.
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Pick up the basics

Discover more about Agent 365 across productivity and security.
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See what’s new in Entra

Explore the new Entra capabilities purpose-built to help you confidently activate agent innovation.
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Get the datasheet

Learn how Agent 365 extends to agents the very security and management controls you use today.
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Discover how you can keep full visibility and control as your use of agents grows.
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Partners

A growing ecosystem

Agent 365 helps you securely deploy, organize, and govern agents from partners including Adobe, Manus, Genspark, ServiceNow, Workday, and more.
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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.
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Grow pipeline with Sales Development Agent

Scale your team’s selling capacity — research, qualify, and engage leads 24/7 to drive revenue growth.
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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 equips agents with Microsoft 365 productivity and collaboration apps, Work IQ, and standard onboarding templates, simplifying human-agent workflows and enabling agents to understand work context.
  • 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.
  • These are complementary but distinct offers. Microsoft 365 is designed for your users, and Agent 365 is designed for your agents. They work in tandem to help organizations manage their user and agent environment.

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