Weekly Update 7 July 2025 – The One With No News
This week’s update is a bit different – there are no new links or technical deep-dives to share, and there’s a good reason for that. It marks the start of...
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Weekly Update 30 June 2025 – Graph Shift Management API, New Model for VS, Azure AI Build Recap
This week: Deprecation of MS-APP-ACTS-AS header in Shifts Management Microsoft Graph APIs Better Models, Smarter Defaults: Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-4.1, and More...
Weekly Update 23 June 2025 – MCP Everywhere, Graph Mocks, M365 Dev Update Blog
This week: Agent mode is now generally available with MCP support MCP Servers for agent mode (VS Code) Microsoft Graph mocks from Microsoft Graph API...
Weekly Update 16 June 2025 – Edit Suggestions in VS, Sharing Links, Enterprise App Updates, Freedom
This week: Microsoft Docs MCP Server Next edit suggestions available in Visual Studio Find All Sharing Links in SharePoint Online Microsoft Is Changing the...
Weekly Update 9 June 2025 – Copilot Studio Tips, Developer Agents, EWS help, Teams Phone CCaaS Public Preview, Copilot Studio May Updates
I’m never going to financially recover from this Build like Microsoft: Developer agents in action Exchange Web Services code analyzer and usage...
Weekly Update 2 June 2025 – Exploring Agent Mode, Agentic DevOps, Entra Auditing, and Copilot ROI
This week: Agent mode has arrived in preview for Visual Studio Agentic DevOps in action: Reimagining every phase of the developer lifecycle Track Microsoft...
Weekly Update 26th May 2025 – Copilot APIs, Agents Toolkit, Insights AI, All the Build News
This week: Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs The Microsoft Teams Toolkit is now the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit The new Meeting AI Insights API is nice...
The Microsoft Teams Toolkit is now the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit
It’s finally happened! The Microsoft Teams Toolkit is now known as the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit. First announced at Build 2020, and with its GA in 2022,...
The new Meeting AI Insights API is nice … but there’s a big problem
As I spoke about this morning in my weekly update video, there’s a new Microsoft Graph API out, on the beta endpoint. It’s the “Meeting AI...
Weekly Update 19 May 2025 – Build 2025, ACS Sample Builder, Teams App Usage, Graph Meeting AI Insights
This week: How to Watch Microsoft Build 2025 Online Bringing AI to Meetings with the Sample Builder Analyze app and agent usage in Developer Portal Get...
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Hi, I'm Tom. I'm a Microsoft 365 Developer & Architect. I empower developers, architects, and organizations to achive more with Microsoft 365 by creating applications and services with technologies like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Graph, Adaptive Cards, and Office Add-Ins.
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