Agent governance

In this edition of our monthly roundup, we’re recapping new features released in Microsoft Copilot Studio in July 2025.

Copilot Studio is excited to introduce two major updates: agent evaluation and enhanced analytics, both designed to support makers across the agent lifecycle.

This sample demonstrates how a copilot created with Microsoft Copilot Studio can be published to a SharePoint site, with seamless SSO support. Coupled with the Generative Answers capability, it provides a secure conversational experience, fully embedded in SharePoint.

The Copilot Studio implementation guide provides a framework to do a 360-degree review of your project. It highlights potential risks and gaps, aims at aligning the project with the product roadmap, and shares guidance, best practices and reference architecture examples.

The PVA Test Framework for Power Virtual Agents is a sample solution published on GitHub that demonstrates how to run tests against a chatbot using the Direct Line channel, and validate that the bot works as expected

We are excited to share the brand new integration between Power Virtual Agents and the Azure AI Studio.

If you are using Bot Framework bots in your organization, you can now easily extend their functionality by calling your Power Virtual Agents bot as a skill.

If you are using Bot Framework bots in your organization, you can now easily extend their functionality by calling your Power Virtual Agents bot as a skill.

You can now create and use regular expression (regex) entities in your Power Virtual Agents bot.

AI-assisted bot authoring features – Topic overlap detection and Topic suggestions from chat transcripts are now available for public preview.

Power Virtual Agents makes it super easy for bot authors to partner with their admin on bot roll out.

Millions of customers around the world use Power Virtual Agents to easily create and manage bots. Now, those bots can be extended with powerful Bot Framework Composer capabilities that run inside of Power Virtual Agents.