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Its account also describes a public preview of Dynamics 365 CRM in Teams, with pre-meeting briefs, case alerts and account updates inside the collaboration app. These are concrete examples of the shift Microsoft is describing, though the captured Microsoft summaries offer no inventory of the 30 skills.\n\nRelated agent announcements carry different access limits. Futurum reports that Service Agent in Microsoft 365 was entering private preview for select Frontier customers. It describes an agent that handles customer requests across Microsoft 365 applications and creates CRM cases automatically—capabilities reported by the analyst, not demonstrated in testing supplied for this story.\n\nSales Development Agent, meanwhile, was entering public preview, with Copilot-credit billing scheduled to begin November 16, 2026, according to Futurum. The firm says that agent researches prospects, writes personalized outreach, manages follow-ups and passes qualified leads to sellers.\n\nThe rollout of the skills themselves is less clear. The captured Microsoft page contains short blog summaries rather than the full announcements, and neither source supplies a skill-by-skill availability schedule or pricing for the set. The announcement should not be read as confirmation that all 30 skills were generally available on October 8.","content_kind":"author_paraphrase","explanation":{"feature":"The October 8 announcement targets sales and service workflows, while related agents have different preview schedules.","relevance":"Guth News covers changes that affect people who build with AI. 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