Copilot for Microsoft 365 Architecture

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Rob Sanfilippo

Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Rob worked at Microsoft for 14 years where he designed technologies for Microsoft products and... more

Copilot for Microsoft 365 uses the same architecture as all copilots, but it incorporates data from Microsoft Graph, a set of services and APIs that provides access to organizational data including documents, e-mails, calendar data, Teams meetings (including transcripts produced from voice communications), and Teams conversations.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is typically accessed through a natural language–based conversational UI that appears in a side pane in Office applications such as Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, and PowerPoint. A user types a prompt, such as “Create a Jira ticket to track the changes outlined in the last e-mail I received from Jim, make it due by the next maintenance date.”

Plugins can be registered with Copilot for Microsoft 365, allowing it to access and perform actions in third-party and line-of-business (LOB) applications, such as work item and expense tracking systems, through those applications’ APIs. The example prompt that requests an Atlassian Jira ticket could be executed if a Jira plugin is deployed.

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