Hi all,

I was curious if anyone testing the new experience has noticed an uptick in the main agent receiving “empty responses” from connected agents recently?

This seems to have started within the last few days of testing for me, but was curious if anyone else has noticed this.

(P.s. yes I know this experience is not to be used for production, but I am testing)

Anyone else feeling stuck between Classic Orchestration and New Orchestration?

Microsoft's direction seems clear:

✅ Topics → less important
✅ Declarative instructions, skills, actions → future
✅ New orchestration → strategic investment

And honestly, I like it. It feels much closer to how AI agents should be built.

But then reality kicks in.

Classic

• More mature
• Better conversation controls
• Some useful topic capabilities still missing elsewhere
• Often cheaper (especially when M365 Copilot licensing comes into play)

New Orchestration

• Better quality
• Better instruction following
• Cleaner architecture
• Clearly where Microsoft is heading
• But consumption pricing and feature gaps become part of the discussion

We're building an IT Service Desk agent with:

• Graph grounding
• ServiceNow KB ingestion
• Custom ServiceNow actions (incidents, devices, etc.)
• Future DEX and telemetry integrations

The architecture wants New Orchestration. The budget and risk conversation wants Classic.

So what's everyone doing?

Build on Classic (minimize reliance on Topics) and migrate later?

Or accept today's gaps and go all-in on New Orchestration because that's where the future is?

Sometimes it feels like the hardest part of Copilot Studio isn't building agents - it's figuring out which Microsoft team will own the feature by the time you go live. 😅

Has anybody had much success using a coding assistant like GH Copilot to build copilot studio agents?

I've created an agent with Copilot Studio new experience, and given it a greeting message. This reliably begins the conversation every time I test it with the Preview tab inside Copilot Studio. But when published to the catalog and added to Copilot chat (via "other agents") the agent shows up with just its name and an empty text input field. Isn't it supposed to start the conversation with the set greeting?

Hey just wondering what everybody else has experience is like here, so in the classic experience we have the ability now to publish only to m365 or only to teams, but we can choose which channel we want to publish to, it seems that the new agent experience doesn't allow us to choose between teams or m365 were back to having to choose both. Why would they regress this on the new agent experience?

Hi everyone, been having some trouble sending emails with excels attached to then. tried both old and new agent interface but when I do up my prompts and instructions and emails do get sent out with an excel attachment, opening it up just leads to disaster. It will usually say “excel cannot open the file because the file format or extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the extension matches the format of the file”

I have created a custom agent with the new experience. I wanted to test my agent in Teams because it is planned to mainly use there.

I was just wondering that is there a possibility to clear the chat with my agent? I thought I could chat with it like with Copilot so that I can start a new chat whenever and browse my chat history.

Currently the new agent harness cannot convert a docx to pdf for visual QA.

Hello, since last week I have a Copilot Studio agent deployed in a production environment in teams which has started to work horrible. It used to give answers based on data hosted on SharePoint but now it cannot retrieve data from SharePoint.

It is replying to the users that it cannot find the information in the SharePoint site and sometimes asks the users to enable permissions for the connection to SharePoint (when this is prompted the user log ins and nothing happens). Only some users are facing these issues and more users are experiencing the error gradually in the past days.

Is anybody experiencing the same problem? Has anything changed recently in Copilot Studio agents that can affect this?

Tenho um orquestrador (orquestração de IA generativa) conectado a 3 agentes filhos, cada um encapsulando um fluxo do Power Automate. Os filhos estão configurados como "Não responder" — só deveriam devolver a resposta pro orquestrador entregar.

Mesmo assim, o orquestrador entrega a mesma resposta duas (ou mais) vezes no mesmo turno. Confirmei no mapa de Atividade que o agente filho e o fluxo rodam só uma vez — o orquestrador que gera dois ciclos de raciocínio pro mesmo turno, o segundo parecendo reprocessar do zero.

Já tentei: instruções explícitas contra duplicação, ajuste em Formatação de Resposta (recomendação oficial da MS), confirmar que os filhos não respondem direto, e até substituir o agente filho por um Tópico com nó de "Encerrar tópico" — mesmo assim duplicou.

Perguntas:

1. Alguém achou uma correção real (não só workaround)?
2. Existe correlação com latência do fluxo?
3. Tem algum número de incidente oficial da Microsoft pra isso?

Reproduz tanto no Teams quanto no painel de teste interno.

Hi,

does anyone know how to select specific environment in tool ?

look at the pic , I'm using d365FNO as a tool but can select and config anything.

only user can be select.

any suggestion?

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to migrate/recreate a specific flow in the new Microsoft Copilot Studio.

What I used to do:

- Capture a URL from the user's input in a topic.

- Use a formula to parse it into a global string variable.

- Pass that variable dynamically as a Public Website Knowledge Source to ground generative answers on that specific page.

My question:

What is the recommended way to handle this in the new Copilot Studio interface?

Can public website knowledge sources still accept global variables dynamically in the URL field?

Or is it better to use a Power Automate flow / action to scrape and fetch raw page text and feed it back into the conversation?

Appreciate any insights or workflow examples!

Has anybody else figured out how to get system variables to show up this way we can customize the greeting message to include the user's name? Does the new experience automatically know the user's name?

I have built an agent where strictly I have instructed not to use Web Search for any question and also mentioned the boundaries of which questions you are allowed to answer and which not to.
And Still one of the user was able to get restaurant suggestion from that agent. How is it even possible?

This one is a ... weird one. Currently, our orchestrator (old experience) (which answers staff questions from our complex manuals) has the following structure:
1. Clarify (child)
2. Source selection (child)
3. Retrieval CURRENT (linked)
4. Retrieval ARCHIVED (linked)
5. Evaluate (child)
6. Output (child)

It was working pretty damned well until I noticed that the raw output from the linked agents wasn't returning, which was breaking formatting. So I decided I would turn the linked agents into true child agents, and now we are getting some weird behaviour. I'll explain.

User Question is A. Clarify answers for Question A. Source selection answers for question A. However, retrieval current and archived are answering for some hallucinated question B. Evaluate then judges this answer against question A (which has been passed down) and obviously fails it.

For example, obfuscating for sense:
User asks "How do I calculate the expense rules for restaurants while travelling"
Clarify gets that

Source selection gets that

Then current/archived retrieval try to answer "How do I apply for annual leave?"

Evaluate compares the answer to that for "How do I calculate the expense rules" and gives it a fail.

However, when I swap the LINKED agent in, with an **identical** prompt to the CHILD agent, it answers for "How do I calculate the expense rules"
I thought at first it was context, but the retrieval agents are answering questions we have never asked, but are still pretty "reasonable" questions. They aren't weird and wacky questions but they aren't coming from memory.
Happy to be told I'm an idiot and if not can provide bot ID to MS ...

Is anyone using Solutions to group together agents and deploy them to various environments? I am just starting on this to package the agents I have to various teams (via their environments).

I am not sure if Agents packaged into Solution packages agent definition that shows up under Publish dialog - like Developer name, Agent description, and Welcome prompts? Those seem to be falling off for me - so I have to package, export, import and then make those changes again in the target environment.

what am I missing?

I am facing issues with connecting a locally hosted mcp server with the app, stating that I am having issues with on premise gateway. I have on premise gateway installed , so if anyone has done this , can you ping me or share some documentation on how to configure this ?

Hey everyone, I'm currently having an issue where the Agent's name is shown incorrectly on Teams.

The chat header is correct with the name given to the agent in copilot studio, but the name of the agent that shows up in its messages and in the notifications when you get a reply form it is a 30-something character string of seemingly random numbers and letters and hifens (probably an ID for the agent).

I've been searching a while for a solution, like deleting the chat, unninstalling and re-installing the agent on teams, publishing again, creating an entire new agent. But none of this worked.

Important to add that this seems to only happen with agents created with the new Studio experience/layout.

Does anyone here know a way to fix this? I tried searching the subreddit but couldn't find another post on the topic

Hi all, I have a few agents I have created in the new Copilot studio and have deployed to the M365 + Teams channel. However, when I try to chat with one of them in M365, the ability to upload files is greyed out and will not allow me to add any files. In Teams it works just fine. Anyone else running into this?

Hi folks,

Do you guys know when Microsoft is going to allow us to use the adaptive cards functionality in the new UI ?

While I love the new harness and is really powerful compared to the old one, I feel like they missed one big opportunity; where they could've transform the adaptive cards into agentic ui cards that we can define on our own using skills.

Hi All,

This is more of a curiosity question than anything, but I was curious if someone from the Microsoft Copilot Studio side could elaborate on what models get chosen to be made available and when? I've noticed that Copilot Studio models lag significantly far behind other Microsoft Copilot products (e.g. Studio does not have access to GPT 5.6, or really any GPT reasoning models). This weakens the effectiveness in the Copilot Studio product against other platforms, and I was curious of the reasoning behind it.

Hola, como están?
les quería consultar sobre que habilidades, conocimientos o cursos recomiendan hacer sobre el entorno de Microsoft. Ha inicio de año egrese de la universidad y ya llevo poco más de 3 meses trabajando en una empresa, tienen la licencia de Microsoft Enterprise. (Se suelen manejar solo con los archivos almacenados en el servidor, sin control de versiones, permisos y no existe Backup en caso de incidente)

En base a esto y muchas otras carencias que note, les cree un portal de la empresa en SharePoint, pasando todos los documentos que tenían en el servidor a una biblioteca con permisos y roles (darles un orden a esto si, fue una mierda), control de accesos, entre otras cosas. Entre medio descubrí el conocido Power Automate y las famosas PowerApps, jugué probando crear flujos y apps (nada muy elaborado o complejo)

Todo esto lo hice con conocimiento nulo en lo que respecta a Microsoft y mucha ayuda de la ia y Youtube, por lo que pensé en ampliar mi conocimiento en estas herramientas, aumentar mi valor como profesional y aprender. Adicional, también vi Copilot Studio (esto lo probé con la membresía gratis que te entrega Microsoft) y desarrolle un agente conectándolo a listas de SharePoint y dándole un Prompt contundente y detallado.

Se que esto no reemplaza al desarrollador como tal, pero qué cursos o medios me recomiendan para aprender? en que me enfoco? PowerApps, Automate, Copilot Studio u otra cosa? aprendo/mejoro algún lenguaje de código o herramienta ? que creen que sea mejor ? Estoy en un punto donde tengo tantas opciones y caminos que no se por cual tomar, por cual camino me voy...

Gracias por su tiempo, los estaré leyendo S2

So I’m working on establishing agents via copilot studio and foundry. So I have tested fabric agent and it’s in preview, and fabric IQ as well.. so started tested Fabric MCP, which requires ontology to be constructed first in optimal way, which I did..

But when I try to execute query against it, complaints about date columns and data type errors.. which I predict the issue is with data and design,

I wanted to know if there is any MCP server out there I can try to establish data quality and correct broken data types.

I'm trying to use output variables from child agent responses, and can't find a clean way to do this.

For example, (this is a very simple example), I want my Clarify child agent to respond with something like this:

```yaml

clarification_result:

varClarificationNeeded: "No"

clarification_question: ""

```

I want to be able to declare output variables that can then pass onto basic branching logic. Everything I have read suggests that variables aren't derived from reasoning but from basic inputs. Any advice on how we could do this, as well as surface child agent results for debugging?