- Microsoft Unveils Agent 365 at Ignite 2025
- The new platform allows you to see and manage all your agents at once
- Agent connectors and MCP compatibility have also been released
Microsoft has unveiled a host of new tools for businesses to get to grips with all 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 increase the utilization of their agents.
“Microsoft Agent 365 will extend the user management infrastructure to agents, helping organizations govern agents responsibly and at scale,” the company said.
Agent 365
Installed in the Microsoft 365 admin center, the new platform will bring together the company’s security tools (Defender, Entra and Purview) with popular office applications 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 view of every agent in their organization, as well as the permissions and access they have, including the ability to manage and limit them.
Users will also be able to clearly see how their agents relate to their people and data, and monitor agent behavior and performance in real time to assess their impact on your organization.
Agents can then gain access to applications and data to help improve human-agent workflow, with connections to Microsoft’s new Work IQ platform to gain even more context when needed.
All of this is secured with Microsoft’s best-in-class security tools, protecting agents from threats and vulnerabilities before they are affected, as well as warning of any agents that might leak or share too much data.
Elsewhere at Ignite, the company announced a host of new agents for its core desktop software applications, as well as launching a preview of native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support 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 connectors allowing access to system files and Windows settings such as network and Bluetooth.
Finally, new agent workspaces will allow agents to interact securely with software, carrying out their tasks without disturbing the human user.
Follow TechRadar on Google News And add us as your favorite source to get our news, reviews and expert opinions in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button!
And of course you can too follow TechRadar on TikTok for news, reviews, unboxings in video form and receive regular updates from us on WhatsApp Also.
