Microsoft expands Copilot agents and admin controls across M365

Microsoft published a February 2026 update to Microsoft 365 Copilot that expands agent capabilities, extends integrations across Outlook, Teams and Forms, and introduces new admin and governance tooling intended to accelerate enterprise deployments and reduce operational risk.

The company framed the release as the February edition of its What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot series and announced a new Microsoft Agent 365 blog and discussion space on Microsoft Tech Community. “Also new this month, the Microsoft Agent 365 blog and discussion space on Microsoft Tech Community. We recommend following it for the latest product news and insights on observability, security, and governance of agents in your organization,” Microsoft wrote on the TechCommunity blog.

A core technical advance is improved grounding for agents. TechCommunity says, “Newly created declarative agents can now ground answers in scanned PDFs and image-based documents from SharePoint. This unlocks a major class of enterprise content that was previously difficult for agents to process. This enables organizations to leverage AI assistance with document archives and legacy scanned materials. This feature rolled out in February.” The change addresses a long-standing enterprise pain point: archived, image-based documents that resist search and automated summarization.

Microsoft also extended agent surfaces. The update lists agents and integrations across the Copilot app, Copilot Chat, Teams, OneDrive, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. TechCommunity notes that “access to agents built with Copilot Studio and Foundry through Outlook gives users access to their organization's custom-built agents directly within the Outlook experience” and that this integration is “rolling out in March.” Forms gets a direct Copilot integration as well: a Go-planet release record for February (ID 553136) says, “Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now integrated in Microsoft Forms, including enabling the Surveys Agent from within Forms,” and explains that the Surveys Agent helps draft invitations, recommend improvements to quizzes and analyze results for users with a Copilot license.

On the governance front Microsoft introduced admin-side reporting and inventory tools aimed at giving IT teams visibility into agent usage and risk. Go-planet documents a new agents usage report that will appear in the Microsoft 365 admin center and notes the report “will include total active agent users, total active agents, active users segmentation by licensed and unlicensed users, and active users and active agents segmentation by publisher type.” The company also listed “Power user report and intelligent summaries for Copilot Dashboard” and a “risk-based inventory of AI agents for Microsoft Defender” among IT admin capabilities.

Developer and admin management endpoints surfaced in community reporting. Reddit posts collected two new Microsoft Graph API endpoints for Copilot management: GET graph.microsoft.com/copilot/admin/catalog/packages and GET graph.microsoft.com/copilot/admin/catalog/packages/{id}. Those items are community reported and have not been restated in the official TechCommunity blog.

Microsoft is also pushing customization and tuning. An aggregated release note describes new Copilot Tuning templates in Agent Builder for drafting complex documents, validating guidelines and adjusting writing style. That description appears alongside a Go-planet release record labeled ID 552589 with a June CY2026 tag, indicating some uncertainty about broader availability or staging.

The update ties technical capability to enterprise control: Microsoft is increasingly packaging agent features with admin telemetry, role-based controls and Defender integration so organizations can scale Copilot while auditing and mitigating risk. Early community analysis cautions that consolidating generative tools into a single Copilot narrative and new protections such as Brand Impersonation Protection will require careful administrative configuration to avoid false positives and unexpected workflow disruption.

For now the February release maps a practical path for enterprises to adopt more agentic workflows, while placing observability and governance at the center of that push.