- Microsoft reveals Agent 365 at Ignite 2025
- New platform allows you to view and manage all your agents at once
- Agent connectors and MCP support were also released.
Microsoft has introduced a number of new tools for businesses to get familiar with all of their AI agents.
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, the company launched the Microsoft Agent 365 platform, which will make it easier for organizations to manage and hopefully increase the use of agents.
“Microsoft Agent 365 will extend the infrastructure for managing users to agents, helping organizations govern agents responsibly and at scale,” the company said.
Agent 365
The new platform, located in the Microsoft 365 admin center, will bring together the company’s security tools (Defender, Entra and Purview) with popular office software applications such as Word, Excel and Outlook, to give agents the best opportunity to find the information they need, increasing productivity across the board.
Agent 365 will give users a complete view of every agent in their organization, as well as what permissions and access they have, including the ability to manage and limit them.
Users will also be able to clearly see what connections their agents have to their people and data, and monitor agent behavior and performance in real time to evaluate their impact on their organization.
Agents can then access apps and data to help improve human-agent workflow, with connections to Microsoft’s new Work IQ platform for even more context when needed.
All of this is protected with Microsoft’s best-in-class security tools, which protect agents from threats and vulnerabilities before they are affected, as well as warn about any agents that may leak or overshare data.
Elsewhere at Ignite, the company announced a number of new agents for its core office software applications, as well as launching a preview of native support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) on Windows.
This will make it easier for AI agents to connect with applications and business tools, and now developers will also be able to make their applications easier to discover, and new agent connectors will allow access to system files and Windows settings, such as network and Bluetooth.
Finally, new agent workspaces will allow agents to securely interact with the software, carrying out their tasks without disturbing the human user.
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