Weekly Update 10 February 2025 – Building Agents with Copilot Part 2, ACS Jan Updates
This week: Building Declarative Agents with API Plugins for Microsoft Copilot Part 2 – Prerequisites Azure Communication Services: January 2025 Feature...
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Building Declarative Agents with API Plugins for Microsoft Copilot Part 2 – Prerequisites
This is the second in a series of 5 blog posts and videos around Declarative Agents for Copilot. In this blog post I’m going to talk about what you need to get...
Weekly Update 3 February 2025 – Exchange Export and Import APIs, Teams AI tutorial, free GitHub Copilot
This week: Introducing the Microsoft Graph Export-Import APIs for Exchange in public preview Build a custom engine agent using Teams AI library and Teams...
Weekly Update 27 January 2025 – Copilot plugins removed from meetings, ACAT, Building Declarative Agents
This week: Microsoft removes ability for Copilot plugins to be added to meetings Automate app compliance with ACATBuilding Declarative Agents with API Plugins for...
Building Declarative Agents with API Plugins for Microsoft Copilot Part 1 – Introduction
This is the first in a series of 5 blog posts and videos around Declarative Agents for Copilot. In this blog post I’m going to talk about what Declarative...
Microsoft removes ability for Copilot plugins to be added to meetings
Microsoft is removing the ability for Copilot plugins (agents) to be added to Microsoft Teams meetings. Previously, it’s been possible from within a Teams...
Weekly Update 20 January 2025 – News for bot devs, adaptive card devs, GitHub Copilot Bootcamp, and more!
This week: Microsoft makes it easier for bot developers with built-in AI labels, citations, feedback & sensitivity Declarative Agent Copilot now supports APIs...
Declarative Agent Copilot now supports APIs secured with keys passed in query params or headers
Azure Functions is my favourite and go-to tool for writing APIs. I love the complete separation of concerns and totally serverless model of it. I love the built-in...
Microsoft makes it easier for bot developers with built-in AI labels, citations, feedback & sensitivity
Good luck making a bot these days that doesn’t includes some element of generative AI to improve answers to users. Back in April 2024, Microsoft updated the...
Weekly Update 13 January 2025 – Clearer AI-generated bot messages, TTK Updates, SQL Server
This week: Enhance AI-generated bot messages Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code update – January 2025 SQL Server: The Polymath of Databases? You...
About Me
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.
I'm passionate about creating great software that people will find useful and I want to help you do the same. This is my blog, you can find more about me, speaking engagements, code sample and more on my main site.
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