Course AB-6007-A: Secure and Govern your AI agent workforce
Duration: 1 Day
Learn how to administer and secure AI agents in Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Agent 365. This course combines focused instruction with hands-on labs covering agent discovery, identity governance, data protection, and threat monitoring across the Microsoft 365 admin experience.
Learners are expected to have working familiarity with Microsoft 365 administration — including the Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Entra basics (users, groups, Conditional Access), and core Microsoft Purview concepts. Prior experience with AI agents is not required. This course is intended for IT professionals responsible for administering Microsoft 365 environments that use AI agents, including:
- Microsoft 365 administrators
- Identity and access administrators
- Security and compliance administrators
- Cloud and platform administrators expanding into AI governance
Get started with Microsoft Agent 365
Microsoft Agent 365 is a control plane for AI agents that enables organizations to adopt agents at scale with proper oversight and guardrails. Microsoft Agent 365 extends your existing management, security, and governance processes and solutions to agents. It helps you control, observe, secure, and govern agents across your organization.
- Introduction to challenges for frontier firms
- What is Microsoft Agent 365?
- What are the benefits of using Microsoft Agent 365?
- Explore agent observability
- Implement governance across the agent lifecycle
- Protect agents using security capability
- Who uses Microsoft Agent 365?
Monitor and manage agents with Microsoft Agent 365
Microsoft Agent 365 provides real-time visibility into agents in your organization to detect sprawl, understand usage and behavior, and act on performance and risk signals. Observing these agents ensures agents are working as intended, delivering value, and not exposing the organization to risks. In this module, you learn how to monitor all the agents in your organization and manage them.
- Introduction to Microsoft Entra Agent ID
- Monitor and manage agents
- Scenario
- Exercise – Monitor agents from the overview page
- Exercise - Monitor agents inventory in registry
- Exercise - Monitor agents using the agent map
- Exercise - View agents with exceptions and take action
- Exercise - Measure agent effectiveness
- Exercise – Monitor connected platforms from the overview page (preview)
Govern agents using Agent 365
Agent governance is critical as it ensures agents are deployed and used in a controlled and secure manner. Microsoft Agent 365 helps establish governance controls in the agent lifecycle with onboarding and validation, establishes access governance controls for security and compliance, and ensures data compliance. In this module, you learn how to set up policies, permissions and rules to govern agents using Agent 365.
- Govern agents scenarios
- Exercise – Set up agent settings and access
- Security and governance policies
- Exercise – Set up policy template
- Exercise – Set up permissions using access packages
- Exercise – Onboard an agent
- Exercise – Deploy and activate agents
- Exercise - Assign owners to agents to prevent agent sprawl
- Exercise - Block agents with security risks
- Exercise – Use rules and automate agent management