Tag: Video

Enhancing Your Copilot Studio Agent with Topics and Actions

Video URL = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-nHz5Z3Avk

In this video, we explore how to extend the capabilities of your Copilot Studio agent by integrating external knowledge sources using topics and actions. Here’s a step-by-step guide based on the video content:

1. Creating the Agent:

  • Start by creating an agent as usual, providing a description and general instructions. Ensure the orchestration option is selected and enabled. 0:12

  • The initial knowledge source selected is a single site, which allows the agent to answer questions in a basic manner. 0:23

2. Improving Information Retrieval:

  • To enhance the agent’s responses, especially for current news, create an action using Brave search. 0:54

  • Set up a free Brave account and obtain the API key for Brave search. 1:08

  • Configure the action to use Brave search for web news queries. 1:18

3. Creating and Configuring Topics:

  • Add a new topic that triggers when users ask about news. 2:01

  • Describe the trigger conditions and steps for the topic. 2:13

  • Create a search query variable to feed into the Brave search action. 2:31

  • Ensure the variable captures the prompt and keywords from the user’s query. 3:09

4. Testing and Publishing:

  • Test the setup by asking the agent for the latest news on a specific topic, such as “Alpine” or “Ferrari”. 3:58

  • Verify that the topic triggers correctly and retrieves detailed news results via Brave search. 4:19

  • Publish the updated agent to make the enhancements live. 4:35

By following these steps, you can significantly improve the relevance and detail of the information your Copilot Studio agent provides, leveraging external knowledge sources effectively.

Thank you for watching the video!

Check Windows Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) enablement

Windows Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) is an excellent method to improve the security of your Windows devices for free. It is not generally enabled by default and my free script here:

https://github.com/directorcia/Office365/blob/master/win10-asr-get.ps1

enables you to quickly see whether all the ASR rules are enabled for your Windows device.

The script also has other reference links you can use if you then wish to enable ASR in your environment. Always be careful enabling something like this without at least putting it in audit mode first to determine any impact in your production environment.

The video run through above and here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KLGsNuz088

hopefully give you a better idea about what the script can accomplish for you.

Basic event capture in Microsoft 365

If you want to be able to find out what has happened in Microsoft 365 you’ll need to ensure that you have enabled the appropriate logs as well as being able to view information there when needed. This video shows you the basic locations for logs in Microsoft 365 as well as the different services that cane be used to query and report on these. It is important to have all your logging enabled well in advance of when you’ll need it. This video should get you started.

Video link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YSHlo4Cvgo

Introduction to Exchange Online Protection

This video is the technical session from my May 2023 Need to Know webinar that focuses on helping people understand Microsoft 365. The aim is to help viewers get an overview of how Exchange Online Protection secures their environment and where they can go to made additional adjustments if required.

The session was recorded using Microsoft Teams.

You can find the slide deck for this session here – https://www.slideshare.net/directorcia/may-2023-ciaops-need-to-know-webinar