Have you tried out the latest agents within Microsoft Teams? Channel Agents finally brings Copilot directly into your Teams channels—ready to answer questions, summarize threads, and surface resources in real time. Perfect for project updates, onboarding and more – like a built in Project Manager. My personal favorite? Channel Agents share status reports in Loop.
From the Teams Admin Center, the newest setting is whether to auto-deploy these channel agents as pictured below. Channel Agents are allowed by default those a part of Public Preview. However, if all apps are blocked for your organization, Channel Agents are also blocked.
Currently, the following limitations apply to a Channel Agent:
- Only one Channel Agent can be supported in a Teams channel.
- Channel Agents can’t be added to additional channels – only the one it is created in.
- Private channels don’t currently support Channel Agents.
- In a standard or shared channel, the user must be an owner or member of the team and channel to create an agent.
- Users can’t add a Channel Agent to a meeting chat through the meeting chat’s Open Agents and bots button.
- If a Team owner has turned off the default setting Allow members to add and remove apps, only Team owners can create and delete a Channel Agent.
- Group chats aren’t currently supported to add to the agent’s knowledge.
- Scheduling skill will only schedule channel meetings in the agent’s channel.
- Channel Agents don’t officially support non-English (US) languages.
- Channel Agents with external users aren’t functional. Channel Agents and chats with external users can’t answer questions about the channel.
- Channel Agents aren’t supported in tenants that use Customer Key.
- Processing data from previews can happen outside of the EU Data Boundaries.
For more information, check out the link: Set up a Channel Agent for Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn