Question

A pharmaceutical company already has Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses deployed across its research division. The head of R&D wants employees to be able to ask questions about internal clinical trial protocols stored in SharePoint directly from within the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat experience they already use, without opening a separate application. The IT team wants the fastest, lowest-friction way to surface this content. Which approach best fits this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Create a declarative agent using the Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility framework that grounds on the SharePoint content and surfaces within Microsoft 365 Copilot

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Build a standalone custom agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio and publish it to a public website

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Develop a custom application on Microsoft Foundry Agent Service using Azure AI Search over the clinical trial documents

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Fine-tune a foundation model in the Microsoft Foundry model catalog on the clinical trial protocols and deploy it as an endpoint