Managing agent inventory and costs
summary
Demonstrates using Agent 365 inside the Microsoft 365 admin center to inventory, govern and secure agents with Entra, Defender and Purview signals, pin high-value agents, reassign ownerless agents, and create if-this-then-that policies that auto-expire unused agents. Shows Microsoft Graph API for scripted lifecycle actions, links Copilot chat to a billing policy with a $90,000 quarterly budget and 50%/90% alerts, and near-real-time reports with 2,000/3,000-credit 28-day high-consumption alerts.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Agent management introduction
- 1:50AI agents in enterprises
- 3:15Agent 365 control plane
- 4:39Microsoft 365 admin center
- 7:10Agent inventory governance
- 8:13Ownerless and pinned agents
- 9:15Policy automation for agents
- 9:58APIs for agent lifecycle
- 10:41Cost management with billing
- 12:25Monitoring agent credits
- 13:29Summary and future
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