
Learn prompt engineering to craft precise, context-rich prompts for generative AI apps like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini, using goal, context, expectations, and source.
Learn to draft a Word document with Copilot in Word, creating a generative AI intern job opening and customizing details like stipend, company name, and application instructions.
Explore Copilot in Word’s tabular visualization by turning a spaghetti and meatballs ingredients list into a two-column ingredients and amount table. Create a directions table in this hands-on lab.
Explore Copilot in Excel to analyze a sales data sheet by formatting as a table, generating data insights, pivot charts, and identifying outliers and regions east, central, and west.
Explore AI security and governance from a solution architect and CTO viewpoint, applying defense in depth with Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft Sentinel for data and identity protection.
Learn how Microsoft Purview provides the information protection and governance layer to secure the Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI ecosystem, enabling data discovery, classification, sensitivity labeling, and multi-cloud compliance.
Explore how to securely integrate Microsoft Purview with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and learn the exact licensing needed: Office 365 E5 and Copilot for Microsoft 365, before demos.
Experience a hands-on lab that demonstrates creating and customizing communication compliance policies in the purview portal, including pre-built and custom templates, conditions, reviewers, and violations.
Explore zero trust essentials, including assume breach, explicit verification, and least privilege, and apply them across identity, endpoints, data, and applications using just in time access with Microsoft security tools.
Defender for cloud apps integrates with zero trust principles to protect cloud apps and data from compromised identities, using explicit verification, least-privileged access, and assumed breach.
Navigate the defender for cloud apps portal on security.microsoft.com to explore cloud apps, defender for endpoint, and defender for XDR, plus threat intelligence, devices, and policy templates.
Onboard a virtual machine to the defender portal using a local onboarding script from device management settings, and confirm the endpoint appears under assets and devices within minutes.
Learn to build file governance policies in Defender for Cloud Apps, integrate with Microsoft Purview for information protection, and apply sensitivity labels to Microsoft 365 files as a DLP policy.
Govern OAuth apps with the Defender portal by reviewing the OAuth apps center, assessing permissions, and creating policies to revoke or ban high-risk apps accessing Microsoft Graph.
Master identity and access management foundations, including just-in-time access, least privilege access, role-based and attribute-based controls, privileged identity management, and defender for identity integration with zero-trust principles.
Create a conditional access policy in the Microsoft admin center to require MFA for the Office 365 portal, while allowing sign-in to portal.azure.com from any location.
Apply role-based access control by assigning levels to users or groups across resource, group, subscription, or tenant scopes, including owner and reader roles, and note service principals and managed identities.
Onboard devices from Intune to Defender for Endpoint by enabling the connector and an EDR policy, then monitor onboarding progress and review exposure scores and recommendations.
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 is transforming how organizations work — and administrators are now expected to understand AI governance, data protection, licensing, and deployment across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. The AB-900: Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals certification validates exactly these skills.
This course is designed to take you from beginner to confident Copilot administrator, even if you have never managed AI tools or Microsoft 365 before.
You will learn how Copilot integrates with Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, Loop, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Power Platform, and how admins configure permissions using Entra ID, manage data access through Microsoft Graph, and prepare their tenant using the Semantic Index for Copilot.
We will walk through real-world admin scenarios including enabling Copilot licenses, troubleshooting data access issues, configuring responsible AI controls, understanding content boundaries, and applying governance and compliance best practices with Purview, DLP, Sensitivity Labels, Auditing, and eDiscovery.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Explain Copilot architecture and AI-readiness requirements
Configure and manage Copilot using the Microsoft 365 Admin Center
Apply governance, compliance, and responsible AI principles
Understand how Copilot works across M365 apps with live demos
Troubleshoot permission and semantic index issues
Prepare confidently for the AB-900 certification exam
Whether you are an IT administrator, student, business professional, or someone wanting to enter the Microsoft cloud ecosystem, this course gives you the exact practical skills and theory the AB-900 exam expects.
Enroll today and become one of the early professionals who can manage AI responsibly in the Microsoft 365 era.