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Microsoft 365 Copilot extensions and plugins

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Microsoft 365 Copilot extensions and plugins

How to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with your own data and actions — Copilot Studio agents, Graph connectors, and message extensions.

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What are Copilot extensions?

Ways to give Microsoft 365 Copilot access to data and actions beyond Microsoft 365: Graph connectors that index external content so Copilot can ground on it, plugins and API actions that let Copilot call external servic…

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What is a Microsoft Graph connector?

An integration that indexes content from an external system — ServiceNow, Confluence, Jira, file shares, a database — into Microsoft Search and the semantic index so it appears in search results and Copilot answers with…

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Who can add plugins and connectors?

Admins deploy Graph connectors and approve plugins and agents in the Microsoft 365 admin center; users can then enable approved plugins per conversation. Governance of what Copilot can reach is an admin function, not a…

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Add a knowledge base to Copilot grounding

Extension type: Graph connector

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Build a focused workflow agent

Extension type: Copilot Studio agent

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Return actionable cards from a search

Extension type: Message extension

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Let Copilot call an API

Extension type: Plugin / API extension

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