- Microsoft unveils Agent 365 at Ignite 2025
- New platform allows you to view and manage all your agents at once
- Agent connectors and MCP compatibility are also launched
Microsoft has unveiled a host of new tools that companies can use to manage 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 grow their agent usage.
“Microsoft Agent 365 will extend the infrastructure for managing users to agents — helping organizations manage agents responsibly and at scale,” the company said.
Agent 365
The new platform, which resides in the Microsoft 365 admin center, will bring together enterprise security tools (Defender, Entra and Purview) with popular office software apps such as Word, Excel and Outlook to give agents the best chance of finding the information they need, increasing productivity across the board.
Agent 365 will give users a complete overview of every agent in their organization, as well as what permissions and access they have, including the ability to manage and restrict this.
Users will also be able to clearly see the connections their agents have with their employees and their data, and monitor agent behavior and performance in real-time to assess their impact in your organization.
Agents can then access apps and data to help improve the human-agent workflow, with connections to Microsoft’s new Work IQ platform to get even more context when needed.
All of this is secured with Microsoft’s top security tools that protect agents from threats and vulnerabilities before they are ever affected, as well as alerting agents who might leak or overshare data.
Elsewhere at Ignite, the company announced a host of new agents for its top office software apps, as well as previewing native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) on Windows.
This will make it easier for AI agents to connect to enterprise apps and tools, with developers now also able to make their apps easier to discover, and new agent connections that allow access to system files and Windows settings such as network and Bluetooth.
Finally, new agent workspaces will let agents interact safely and securely with software and perform their tasks without disturbing the human user.
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