Introduction

0:00 if you are a beginner wanting to learn how to use  co-pilot Studio you have come to the right place welcome to my complete tutorial for beginners I'm  going to take my time this one it's a long video it's broken up into sections so that you can get  to the place you need if you already know some of the basics and I'm going to take you step by step  through everything you need to know to build your own co-pilot agent as we're calling them now  with co-pilot studio so what we're going to be covering in this video is in the first section  how to get started Ed with creating a co-pilot by describing it or by using one of the built-in  templates how to add knowledge and there's lots of different ways you can add knowledge into  your co-pilots from public websites uploading documents we'll talk a little bit about other  data sources like SharePoint and dataverse in there too the importance of building out topics  and controlling the way the conversation flows

0:54 which is called conversational orchestration why  it's not just all AI all the time and there's good reason for that how to use entities and variables  which are some really clever things that help the co-pilot understand what's going on in the  conversation actions your co-pilot agent can take action on your behalf by going out and  using flows to retrieve things or by getting other pieces of information for you we'll talk  about the options you've got for publishing your co-pilot and then some of the other things that  you can do with it there's a lot in here if you get value out of this please please help me out  by liking commenting sharing this with people helps it reach more people and YouTube will help  get it out to all of those other people who want to learn this as well I am actually raing co-pilot  Studio as at the end of sort of late part of 2024 as the most strategic and useful skill that you  can learn in Power Platform you'll see that as we

1:53 go through but essentially this is the tool set  now that you use to build out your own co-pilot agent to extend co-pilot for Microsoft 365 or  any of the other first party co-pilots with all of the new things that have been announced  coming through in the Wave 2 of the Microsoft 365 co-pilot this is getting even closer to that  experience and more relevant and the road map of where co-pilot agents are going which is more  that I want to cover here is is a very bright future of interesting things that we're going  to be able to do i' would really encourage you to come on this Learning Journey with me and I  hope you get a lot out of it so let's get started with part one building a co-pilot everything  happens here you just want to go to your browser and go to this website co-pilot studio.

2:21 microsoft.com and sign up for a free trial now everything I'm showing you in this tutorial I'm  working on a free trial so you've got no problem