Control plane for AI agents, licensed per user, that brings Entra security controls like Conditional Access to agents. The agent inventory lives in its registry within the Microsoft 365 admin centre.
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Terms in this definition
- Control plane
Management layer used to create, configure and remove resources, as distinct from the data plane where they are used. Azure Resource Manager fills this role for Azure, and in AKS Azure operates the Kubernetes control plane on your behalf.
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
- AMPRS
An acronym for availability, manageability, performance, recoverability and security: the five design qualities used to sort non-functional requirements and to weigh up trade-offs between design decisions.
- LIKE
Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.
- Conditional Access
Policy engine in Microsoft Entra ID P1 that, depending on signals such as risk or named locations, allows access subject to controls like MFA or a compliant device, or blocks it.
- Agent
A specialised form of Microsoft Copilot set up for one particular job, pairing instructions with knowledge and skills. You can create one in Copilot Studio, SharePoint or Agent Builder, and administrators control them from the Microsoft 365 admin center.
- Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, Microsoft's software-as-a-service productivity suite. A Microsoft Entra tenant provides its identity, and its data is not governed by Azure RBAC.
Related terms
- Policy template
A package of Entra, Purview, SharePoint and Defender policies, given a name, in Microsoft Agent 365. The package is applied automatically at publication, activation or upload of an agent, and can also be applied afterwards with an Apply template rule.