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...
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Weekly Update 6 January 2025 – GitHub Copilot Free in Visual Studio, Microsoft in 2024
This week: GitHub Copilot Free is here in Visual Studio Microsoft in 2024: What Mattered to Our Readers You can also listen to the audio-only version...
Weekly Update 30 December 2024 – Azure resource connections, JSON wrangling, Creativity in Business
This week: Connect securely to your Azure resources Deserializing JSON to a string or a value Creativity in Business: Navigating the AI-Driven Future with...
Weekly Update 23 December 2024 – Retiring My Day, ACS Sample Code, Copilot branding
This week: We are retiring the My Day feature from the Microsoft 365 App AI-Powered Chat with Azure Communication Services and Azure OpenAI Microsoft Changes...
Weekly Update 16 December 2024 – Teams Toolkit Copilot, Teams Message Extensions as Agents, Microsoft’s Silicon Journey
This week: Preview the GitHub Copilot extension for Teams Toolkit Extend bot-based message extension as agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft’s Silicon...
Weekly Update 9 December 2024 – Tree Shaking TeamsJS Apps, ACS Bidirectional Audio is here, Code Referencing in Visual Studio Copilot
This week: Boost your Microsoft 365 app performance: Introducing tree shaking in TeamsJS Build your own real-time voice agent – Announcing preview of...
Weekly Update 2 December 2024 – Book of AI, AI Toolkit, New Graph Call for Copilot, IDC AI Report
This week: The Book of AI AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code There’s a new Microsoft Graph endpoint for viewing user’s Copilot interactions IDC’s 2024...
There’s a new Microsoft Graph endpoint for viewing user’s Copilot interactions
A new Microsoft Graph endpoint showed up last week, called Get all enterprise interactions. The current description for this (which might well change by the time...
Weekly Update 25 November 2024 – Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, Change Notifications, ACS Realtime audio streaming, Semantic Kernal History, Office Add-ins
This week: Introducing the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK Filtered change notifications in Microsoft Graph callRecords API are now available Ignite 2024:...
My Microsoft Ignite 2024 Session Picks (before the keynote)
It’s time for another Ignite! Here are my top 5 picks for what to watch this year. I’ve deliberately left out the keynote, as that’s required watching...
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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.
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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