By Lukas Velush
Publication Date: 2025-11-21 16:34:00
The number and sophistication of agents that our employees are building here at Microsoft is growing rapidly.
To help us and all enterprises respond to this new opportunity, the company just announced Microsoft Agent 365 at Microsoft Ignite. This product serves as the control plane for AI agents—a new evolution of the existing systems that organizations like ours use to manage people and apps.
“We’re empowering our employees and teams to build agents with guardrails. We have governance structures in place to ensure our internal agents are useful, safe, and properly scoped.”
David Johnson, principal program manager architect, Microsoft Digital
Our team—Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization—is now using Agent 365 to track agents that employees and teams from across the company are building and deploying. We’re also using it to access the dashboard that allow us to manage and govern agents companywide. We plan to utilize the new platform to…
