Table of Contents
Summary
- Introduction of Microsoft Agent 365 to Frontier program customers, enhancing agent management and productivity.
- Core capabilities include agent registry, access control, visualization, interoperability, and security.
- All admins in Frontier program tenants will have Agent 365 features activated by default.
- New features available in Microsoft 365 admin center, Defender, Purview, and Entra, with tools for admins and users in Teams, SharePoint, and other apps.
- Resources provided to help organizations prepare, including documentation and links to additional information.
Admin Impact: Medium
User Impact: Low
Release Start: 18 Nov 2025
Release End: 18 Nov 2025
Services: M365 Copilot, M365 Copilot Chat
Category: Plan for change
Tags: New Feature
History
11/18/2025 Item Added to Message Center
Microsoft Message
Introduction
We’re introducing Microsoft Agent 365 to customers in the Frontier program. Agent 365 is the IT control plane for agents. It equips your agents with the same apps and protections, tailored to agent needs, saving IT time and effort on integrating agents into business processes. Agent 365 includes leading Microsoft’s security and productivity solutions: Defender, Entra and Purview to protect and govern agents; Microsoft 365 apps and Work IQ to accelerate their productivity; and Microsoft 365 admin center to manage agents.
Core capabilities include:
- Registry: Get a complete view of all agents in your organization, including those with agent IDs, agents you register, and shadow agents.
- Access Control: Bring agents under management and limit their access to only the resources they need. Prevent compromise with risk-based conditional access policies.
- Visualization: Explore connections between agents, people, and data. Monitor agent behavior and performance in real time to assess organizational impact.
- Interoperability: Equip agents with apps and data to simplify human-agent workflows. Connect them to Work IQ for context and onboarding into business processes.
- Security: Protect agents from threats and vulnerabilities. Detect, investigate, and remediate attacks targeting agents. Safeguard data agents create and use from oversharing, leaks, and risky behavior.
When this will happen
Rollout begins November 18, 2025, at 9:00 AM PST.
How this affects your organization
Who is affected: All admins and admin-selected users in Frontier program tenants.
What will happen:
By default, Agent 365 will be ON for all Frontier program tenants.
Admins will see new Agent 365 features in Microsoft 365 admin center, Defender, Purview, and Entra, including:
- Agent inventory for Entra ID first-party and third-party agents.
- Agent third-party observability integrations with key partners.
- Agent default policy template.
Admins will have access to:
- Agent 365 SDK.
- Agent 365 tools in Copilot Studio and Foundry.
- Users will see new Agent 365 embodiment features in Teams and SharePoint, plus agent collaboration in Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel.
Screenshot 1 – Agent Overview in the Microsoft 365 admin center:
Screenshot 2 – All Agents in the Microsoft 365 admin center:
What you can do to prepare
To get started:
- Visit the new Agent Overview and Inventory experience in Microsoft 365 admin center.
- Review learn documentation.
Review resources to learn more:
- Introducing Agent 365 – the control plane for agents
- Frontier_Getting-started-guide.pdf
- Announcement blog: Microsoft Agent 365: The control plane for AI agents
- Learn documentation: Microsoft Agent 365 | Microsoft Learn
Compliance considerations
The Frontier program provides early access to experimental Microsoft 365 Copilot innovations. Agents and AI features designated as “Frontier” are previews for evaluation and feedback purposes. Availability and capabilities may change at any time.