Microsoft Introduces Always-On AI Agent Scout for Teams, Outlook, and More

Microsoft announced Scout, an always-on AI agent for Microsoft 365 that autonomously coordinates tasks across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint. The report emphasizes Scout's identity and access controls (per-agent Entra identities), integration with Purview compliance controls, credential protection, and an adaptive intelligence layer called Work IQ, notes privacy concerns from behavioral profiling, and states Scout is in private preview requiring Intune, Frontier enrollment, and a GitHub Copilot license.