Want to make your custom Copilot agent even more accessible? Integrating Microsoft Copilot into Teams ensures your users can access AI-powered assistance right where they collaborate every day. In this guide, you’ll learn how to easily publish your Copilot to Microsoft Teams, customize its appearance, and maximize its adoption across your organization.
Why Add a Copilot Agent to the Teams?
Integrating your Copilot agent directly into Microsoft Teams unlocks a new level of accessibility and collaboration across your organization. Here’s why it’s a smart move:
- Meet Users Where They Are:
Microsoft Teams is already the central hub for communication and collaboration in many organizations. Adding your Copilot to Teams means users can access AI assistance without leaving the platform they’re using every day. - Faster Support and Answers:
Instead of navigating to a separate app or website, users can simply open Teams and start interacting with Copilot. This streamlines workflows, saves time, and boosts productivity. - Improve Internal Processes:
Copilot can help automate repetitive tasks, answer FAQs, guide users through internal processes, or even help with onboarding new employees — all within the familiar Teams environment. - Enhanced Adoption and Engagement:
Users are more likely to engage with Copilot when it’s easily accessible. Embedding it in Teams ensures higher visibility and encourages more frequent usage. - Centralized Communication:
Keeping all interactions — human and AI — within Teams helps maintain a centralized communication record. This can improve tracking, reporting, and accountability across projects or departments.
By adding Copilot to your Teams channel, you’re not just deploying an AI agent — you’re making intelligent support a natural part of your organization’s daily conversation.
Once you have created a custom Copilot agent within Microsoft Copilot Studio, you may want to share it with others in your organization. Here’s how you can easily set up your Copilot to be accessible through Microsoft Teams:
Step 1: Navigate to the Channels Tab
- In Microsoft Copilot Studio, select your Copilot agent.
- Click on the Channels tab.
- Channels allow you to publish your Copilot to different platforms, including Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 apps.
Step 2: Enable the Microsoft Teams Channel
- Find the Teams and Microsoft 365 channel option.
- Check the box to enable this channel.
- Click Add Channel to activate it.
Note: When you first enable this channel, Microsoft automatically assigns a generic title, description, and old icon (sometimes even the outdated Power Virtual Agents logo). You must update these settings manually to ensure your Copilot appears professional and consistent with your brand.
- Update the Copilot’s:
- Name
- Description
- Icon
- Background color
- Save your changes.
Step 3: Publish Your Copilot
- After setting up the Teams channel, you must republish your Copilot.
- Publishing applies all your updates and makes the Copilot live and accessible within Teams.
Tip: There are additional availability options you can configure under the Teams channel settings, depending on whether you want to limit access to certain users or teams.
In Conclusion
Sharing your Microsoft Copilot agent within Microsoft Teams is a powerful way to bring AI assistance directly into your organization’s daily workflows. By simply enabling the Teams and Microsoft 365 channel, customizing its appearance, and republishing your Copilot, you can make your agent easily accessible to your colleagues and teams.
Whether you’re offering internal support, answering FAQs, or streamlining business processes, embedding Copilot into Teams ensures your users get the help they need — right where they work.
With just a few setup steps, you can expand the reach and impact of your Copilot and unlock even more value for your organization.
Happy Developing!