Top 10 use cases why you need SharePoint Copilot Agents

Let’s digest the news and updates from Micrososoft’s Copilot Wave 2 announcements together and summarize the business values for the (power) end user:

Copilots in SharePoint

1. User Empowerment: End users can create customized AI agents in SharePoint without developer support.
2. Enhanced Search: Users can filter content, allowing Copilot to return more relevant results based on selected documents.
3. Collaboration and Sharing: Created Copilot experiences can be easily shared within teams or integrated into SharePoint sites.
4. Your new Microsoft Teams Team Member: Add Agents to your current conversations; there is less need to leave the context you are currently in.
5. Security Improvements: Focusing on specific subsets of content can reduce security risks associated with broader searches.
6. New SharePoint FileType: Embed agents into your SharePoint site, work with existing permissions.
7. Inclusion & Adoption: These easy-to-use Copilot agents can increase your company’s adoption of AI.
8. Organizational Considerations: Leaders must prepare for managing new file types and user-generated content while enhancing AI experiences.
9. Fewer hallucinations: Copilot Agents will focus and scope on the SharePoint Site configured, not indexing complete intranet, company knowledge or WWW corpus.
10. Stay focused, less context switching: Stay on your SharePoint Site or Microsoft Teams Conversation you are currently in, you don’t need to open a new Browser Tab and prompt Copilot.

Your next steps

Nevertheless, there is a need to increase and improve Governance, Security and Compliance. Customers already telling me that not everyone should create Copilot Agents.

Agents are here to stay. You are going to see agents in Copilot Studio, which delivered extensions for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Then you can use Copilot for Microsoft Teams (Business Chat, Biz Chat) to prompt these agents.

Talk to us at HanseVision, we offer (Microsoft-funded or paid) Workshops for Copilot / Studio and we are specialized in Security, Governance and Compliance for Copilot.