Microsoft is introducing Agent 365, a new enterprise management tool that gives IT teams full visibility into the AI agents operating across their organizations — even those developed by third-party vendors. Announced ahead of Microsoft Ignite, the dashboard shows every agent running in a company’s environment, tracks which ones employees are using most, and reveals how much time they are saving each week. Administrators can approve or block agents, manage identity and access, and detect emerging security risks.
Judson Althoff, Microsoft’s commercial business CEO, compared the process to onboarding a new employee: each agent receives its own identity and access profile. Agent 365 automatically detects agents from Adobe, Cognition, Databricks, Glean, ServiceNow, Workday, and those built through Azure AI Foundry or Copilot Studio. Additional vendors can integrate their agents as well.
Large enterprises, including EY, have already begun adopting Agent 365 to bring order to rapidly expanding internal agent ecosystems. With AI automations growing more complex, security firms such as Okta are also preparing tools to help companies track agent behavior.
The launch aligns with Microsoft’s broader push toward an “agentic OS” in Windows 11.
