From Build to Operate: ALM Patterns for Production‑Ready Copilot Studio Agents
summary
Shows how Copilot Studio agents move from Dev to Test to Prod using solutions as source of truth, replacing hard‑coded endpoints with environment variables and swapping auth via connection references, then pushing packaged managed solutions through pipelines for one‑click deployments. Demo builds a custom connector (MCP) where a dev URL is replaced by an env var, test run returns four items, and the pipeline updates values automatically. New preview adds environment suffix for M365 and inline deployment; demo works.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00ALM for Copilot Studio agents
- 1:09Application lifecycle management
- 2:36Environments in ALM
- 5:51Standard ALM deployment
- 9:23Demo: environment-aware agents
- 14:21Solutions and variables deep dive
- 16:07Creating environment variables
- 17:53Connection references
- 18:57Building agent from scratch
- 23:07Updating endpoints
- 25:33Automating deployments
- 27:00Agent deployment review
- 27:43M365 environment visibility
- 29:27Call to action
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