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Microsoft Copilot: Governed agents for Microsoft 365 work

Nine field-manual guides to the Microsoft Copilot stack: practical daily workflows, the technology map, Copilot Studio, declarative agents and API plugins, MCP tools, Graph connectors, Jira and Confluence automation, enterprise reporting pipelines, and security governance with ALM.

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Chapter 0

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Daily Workflows

Use Microsoft 365 Copilot for real meetings, mail, files, reports, and workbook analysis without trusting unsupported claims.

16 minmicrosoft-365 / prompting / workflows / verification

Chapter 1

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Technology Map

Pick the right Microsoft Copilot lane before building: app Copilot, Copilot Studio, declarative agent, API plugin, MCP, connector, flow, or custom engine.

18 minarchitecture / copilot-studio / connectors / mcp

Chapter 2

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Copilot Studio

Build Copilot Studio agents with the right mental model for knowledge, topics, tools, orchestration, publishing, and ALM.

19 mincopilot-studio / low-code / power-platform / alm

Chapter 3

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API Plugins

Package Microsoft 365 Copilot agents with narrow REST actions, response semantics, citations, and safe write contracts.

20 mindeclarative-agents / api-plugins / openapi / tools

Chapter 4

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MCP Tools

Expose live enterprise tools to Copilot through MCP while keeping auth, policy, approval, idempotency, and audit server-side.

20 minmcp / plugins / custom-tools / approval

Chapter 5

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Graph Connectors

Make external knowledge searchable and citeable in Copilot without widening access or confusing grounding with execution.

19 mingraph-connectors / grounding / acl / search

Chapter 6

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Advanced Jira Lab

Design the platform-owner version: Azure hosting, approved Jira contracts, Copilot/Foundry tool surfaces, Confluence prepare/commit, and audit.

28 minjira / confluence / azure / copilot-studio / advanced

Chapter 7

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Exec Reporting

Build the weekly reporting workflow as a source-backed operating console: evidence first, Confluence draft second, AI review third, approval last.

30 minreporting / confluence / power-automate / workshop

Chapter 8

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Governance

Release Copilot agents only after identity, data, DLP, approval, audit, ALM, and red-team gates match the blast radius.

20 mingovernance / security / alm / purview