Microsoft Agent 365, now generally available, expands capabilities and integrations

​Today we’re announcing the general availability of Agent 365, plus previews of new capabilities to discover and manage shadow AI agents, including local agents like OpenClaw and Claude Code. The post Microsoft Agent 365, now generally available, expands capabilities and integrations appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .

Microsoft Agent 365 Now generally available for commercial customers. Connect with your Microsoft 365 expert Choose an ecosystem partner for agent security and governance AI agents aren’t coming—they’re already in your environment. They show up in places you expect (like Microsoft Copilot ,  Microsoft Teams , and  Microsoft 365 ) and even more places as technology evolves (a local autonomous personal AI assistant or a new software as a service (SaaS) agent connected to your sensitive data. ) The problem isn’t that agents exist.

It’s that they proliferate fast, span apps, endpoints and cloud, and often operate outside the visibility and control of the teams accountable for risk.  When an agent can invoke tools, access data, and interact with other agents, any “helpful” workflow can turn into data oversharing, tool misuse, or over-privileged actions in seconds.  And as agents become even easier to create and deploy, your attack surface grows with them.

  That’s why end-to-end observability matters: you can’t govern what you can’t see, and you can’t secure what you don’t understand—especially when the number of agents is a moving target.   Microsoft Agent 365  helps you take control of agent sprawl as your control plane to  observe, govern, and secure agents and their interactions —including agents built with Microsoft AI and agents from our ecosystem partners—using the admin and security workflows your teams already run.   Agent 365—the control plane for agents General availability starts today for Agent 365.

Additionally, we’re announcing the previews of new Agent 365 capabilities and integrations to help you scale agent adoption with the right controls in place.   Observability, governance, and security for agents operating independently —Agent 365 is expanding to cover agents that operate with their own credentials and permissions. Discovery of agents and shadow AI , using capabilities of Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Intune  for both local and cloud agents. A secured, managed environment for agents to work  in Windows 365 for Agents.

Coverage for a wide ecosystem of SaaS agents,  including agents innovated by software development companies (SDCs). Support for evaluation, adoption, and usage  from Microsoft and ecosystem partners worldwide. Manage agents with a single control plane, regardless of how or where they work As organizations move from pilot to adoption, AI agents are being deployed across increasingly diverse use cases. Some act with delegated access, working on behalf of users; others operate with their own credentials and permissions, participating in team workflows or operating behind the scenes.