Microsoft Copilot Studio for beginners

Explore how the Power Platform enables dashboards, workflows, apps, and intelligent chatbots with drag-and-drop design, integrating Excel, SharePoint, Planner, SAP, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and more.

Explore how Microsoft Power Virtual Agents enables no-code, drag-and-drop creation of intelligent chatbots to automate internal and customer processes using natural language and AI.

Explore how to implement artificial intelligence with no-code and traditional coding approaches in Microsoft Copilot Studio for beginners, leveraging cognitive services for sentiment and language detection, and building conversational bots.

Explore Power Virtual Agents through Microsoft Docs and the official site. Learn to navigate topics, manage, create, publish, and deploy agents into a channel, and ask questions in the documentation.

Explore how to use the Power Virtual Agents community: post questions, share issues, browse announcements and topics, publish and deploy, and access analytics and extensibility resources.

Explore the Power Virtual Agents ideas portal to search for ideas, vote on them, and submit new ideas with descriptions to improve conversations and channel integrations.

Explore Power Virtual Agents planned features, including 2020 deliverables, location expansions such as Canada, and customizable bot behavior when no topic is triggered, with collaboration and upcoming, not-yet-public enhancements.

Configure and create your environment for Microsoft Copilot Studio across regions, start a 30-day free trial, and follow setup steps to access Parvati agents and sandbox options.

Learn to create your first chatbot in Microsoft Copilot Studio by provisioning and naming the bot, selecting a publish target, and awaiting provisioning (about 15 minutes).

Create your first chatbot - Part II: learn to use topics, analytics, and a database of questions to publish to channels like Facebook and Skype, with authentication and AI deployment.

Delete a bot from your environment by navigating settings and general settings, and understand the consequences of removing all bots and their contents from your tenant.

Manage your bots with ICAM in the Bolts panel, switch between environments, create new bots by naming and selecting an environment, and deploy them within your customer center organization.

Learn to manage topics in Microsoft Copilot Studio: distinguish system and user topics, view and edit names, descriptions, and trigger phrases, enable or disable user topics, with system topics non-deletable.

Discover how to use the suggest topics feature to import public web pages, generate topic questions and answers, and manage topics by enabling, deleting, and adding to existing topics.

Create a new topic in Microsoft Copilot Studio by adding trigger phrases, composing messages, saving changes, testing the bot, and linking to actions, questions, or transfers to an agent.

Learn how to call actions from Power Virtual Agents by building Power Automate workflows, configure credentials, pass inputs and outputs, and integrate with Office 365 tools to automate leave requests.

Create a new entity in Microsoft Copilot Studio by defining live request types, adding synonyms, and configuring location and vacation options, then save, test, and manage related topics.

Register a new app in the portal, create a client secret, and configure a redirect. Set api permissions and admin consent, then test authentication with a token.

Publish your chatbot updates by clicking publish to make the latest content available to users within about 15 minutes on supported platforms.

Publish to the demo website using Microsoft Copilot Studio, configure trigger phrases and welcome messages, and share the demo link with your team to showcase agent interactions.

Set up a Microsoft Teams app with developer tools, create a manifest, add a new app, configure domain permissions, install, test, and distribute for channels and group chats.

Congratulations on completing the course; connect via LinkedIn and YouTube to ask questions and share feedback, and use this experience to train others within your organization.