مايكروسوفت إجنايت 2025: نظرة معمقة للمطورين حول بناء الوكلاء لـ Microsoft 365

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 conference brought significant advancements for developers focused on building intelligent agents for the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. This blog post summarizes the key announcements, focusing on the new capabilities in Declarative Agents, Custom Engine Agents, and the introduction of Microsoft Agent 365, which collectively empower organizations to create secure, governable, and scalable AI solutions. Whether you’re a novice agent developer or a seasoned AI expert, Microsoft 365 now provides a comprehensive platform to build agents that seamlessly integrate with enterprise systems, leverage cutting-edge AI technologies, and adhere to stringent security and governance standards.

M365 Copilot Platform and Developer Flexibility

The reality of agent development is that it is not a one-size-fits-all approach. The right development path depends on factors like developer skill set, intended use case, IT requirements, compliance needs, budget, and even personal preference. Microsoft understands these diverse needs and provides solutions to meet developers wherever they are in their AI journey.

• Developers can choose between focusing on business process automation without worrying about the underlying AI stack.
• Alternatively, they can opt for deep control and orchestration with custom AI stacks tailored to specific use cases.
• The platform also supports developers with existing investments in various frameworks and AI platforms.

Declarative Agents: Simplified Development on the Microsoft 365 Copilot AI Stack

Declarative Agents allow developers to focus on the agent’s functionality rather than the complexities of the underlying AI infrastructure. This approach simplifies development and accelerates delivery by leveraging the AI stack that powers Microsoft 365 Copilot.

• Instructions-first development: Developers define the agent’s purpose, grounding knowledge, and tool access in a declarative schema. The platform then handles orchestration and execution.
• TypeSpec-powered authoring support: Provides improved validation and reduces complexity. It’s now generally available as an alternative for building manifests and capabilities.
• Enterprise grounding: Agents can be securely grounded in organizational data, ensuring context-rich and compliant responses by using Microsoft 365 information from SharePoint, email, Teams, Dataverse, and more.
• Integrated tool invocation: Declarative agents can utilize approved Copilot Connectors and API plugins under policy without the need for custom orchestration code. MCP Servers are also supported for expanded tool invocation.
• Connected agents: Multi-agent scenarios are now available allowing connections with other Microsoft agents such as Researcher.
• Production-ready by design: Declarative agents inherit the enterprise-grade security, identity, and lifecycle management of Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Governance and extensibility: Agents can be published with admin controls, guardrails, and extensible capabilities through connectors and plugins, without requiring core logic rebuilds.
• Building Environment: Using the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit in Visual Studio Code, you can define instructions, ground your agent in enterprise data, and deploy to Microsoft 365 surfaces like Copilot and Teams with one-click deployment.

Custom Engine Agents: Full Control and Customization

Custom Engine Agents are ideal for developers who require complete control over the AI stack, including the choice of LLMs, orchestration logic, and tool integration.

• Flexibility: Use any LLM (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and orchestrator (Microsoft Agent Framework, LangChain, CrewAI, or custom solutions).
• Customization: Define reasoning strategies, multi-agent orchestration, tool invocation, file upload, and custom workflows without constraints.
• Deep integration: Securely connect to Copilot APIs for enterprise grounding in M365 or extend to other line-of-business APIs.
• Publishing: Surface custom agents in Copilot, Teams, and other M365 apps while maintaining your runtime and architecture.
• Observability and governance: Integrate with Microsoft Agent 365 for policy enforcement, security, compliance, and secure tool access.
• Strategic Foundation: The Microsoft 365 Agents SDK provides the structure for bringing your agent to Microsoft 365, handling authentication, conversation management, and channel connectivity. The Microsoft Agent Framework is an open-source development kit for building AI agents and multi-agent workflows.

Microsoft Agent 365: Enterprise-Grade Management and Security

Microsoft Agent 365 serves as the control plane for agents, providing enterprise-grade management, security, governance, and deep integration with Microsoft 365 apps.

• Registry: Provides a comprehensive view of all agents within the organization, including registered and shadow agents.
• Access Control: Enables management of agent access, limiting it to necessary resources and preventing compromise with risk-based conditional access policies.
• Visualization: Allows for exploring connections between agents, people, and data, and monitoring agent behavior and performance in real time.
• Interop: Equips agents with access to apps and data, simplifying human-agent workflows and connecting them to Work IQ for business process integration.
• Security: Protects agents from threats and vulnerabilities, detects, investigates, and remediates attacks. It also secures data created and used by agents from oversharing, leaks, and risky behavior.

Conclusion

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 showcased a powerful suite of tools and frameworks designed to empower developers in building intelligent agents for Microsoft 365. From the simplified approach of Declarative Agents to the full control offered by Custom Engine Agents, and the robust management and security provided by Microsoft Agent 365, developers have a comprehensive platform to create secure, governable, and scalable AI solutions that seamlessly integrate with enterprise systems and empower users. Start exploring the tools today!

Source: Microsoft 365 Developer Blog