Weekly Update 21 April 2025 – Build Sessions, No-Code Apps from Siri?
This week: Microsoft Build Sessions Apple’s bold idea for no-code apps built with Siri – hype or hope? You can also listen to the audio-only...
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Weekly Update 14 April 2025 – Custom Engine Agents in Copilot Chat, Apps for PSTN and 1-2-1 Calls, GCC Bots, MCP
This week: Introducing custom engine agents support for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Create personal scope apps that integrate seamlessly with Public Switched...
Weekly Update 7 April 2025 – New Graph APIs, Model Evaluations, AI, Msft 50
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Weekly Update 31 March 2025 – Teams mobile apps, ACS livestream, New Copilot Agents
This week: Best practices for Teams mobile apps Learning Series: Azure Communication Services Fundamentals (weekly livestream) Introducing Researcher and...
Weekly Update 24 March 2025 – Dressing for Summit, Team app tab caching, TTK update, Teams Phone in ACS, Copilot for ACS insights
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A New Assignment: using ClothesPilot to pack for MVP Summit
I forget exactly who it was that came up with this idea but I think it was either Kevin or Zoe from the excellent Copilot Connection podcast: how about using...
Weekly Update 17 March 2025 – Enterprise Agents, GPT 4.5 in Copilot Studio, New format SLN files, Claude in VS
This week: Building Declarative Agents for Microsoft Copilot – FREE 5-part video series How to deploy transformational enterprise-wide agents: Microsoft as...
Weekly Update 10 March 2025 – Building Declarative Agents, SPFx 1.21, Agents of Change
This week: Building Declarative Agents with API Plugins for Microsoft Copilot Part 4 – The Build Building Declarative Agents with API Plugins for Microsoft...
Building Declarative Agents with API Plugins for Microsoft Copilot Part 5 – Tips and Gotchas
As we wrap up this 5 part series, I wanted to point out a few things I came across building the solution you’ve been reading about. Hopefully they will help you...
Building Declarative Agents with API Plugins for Microsoft Copilot Part 4 – The Build
This is the fourth in a series of 5 blog posts and videos around Declarative Agents for Copilot: In part 1 I talk about what Declarative Agents with API...
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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