AI01/08/202504/08/2025

Beyond Manual Indexing: Building Intelligent SharePoint Agents – Part 2: Implementation

In Part 1, we explored the fundamental shift from manual SharePoint indexing to Azure AI Foundry’s SharePoint grounding tool. We covered the challenges of traditional approaches, the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot API, and the economic considerations for enterprise adoption. Now it’s time to get our hands dirty with the actual implementation. In this part, we’ll build a complete, production-ready SharePoint agent system. Prerequisites and Setup Before diving into implementation, ensure you have the following…

AI23/07/202523/07/2025

Beyond Manual Indexing: Building Intelligent SharePoint Agents – Part 1: The Foundation

You know that feeling when you’ve spent weeks building a custom indexing pipeline for SharePoint content, complete with incremental updates, change tracking, and governance controls—only to discover that Microsoft just released a tool that does all of this automatically? Many companies these days store thousands of policy documents, procedures, and knowledge base articles scattered across multiple SharePoint sites. The existing solution required manually extracting content, chunking it into a vector store like Azure AI Search,…

AI16/07/202504/08/2025

Beyond Basic Web Search: Building a Specialized AI Agent with Bing Custom Search

When building AI agents for enterprise applications, standard web search often returns irrelevant results that compromise the quality of your solution. During a recent client project, our team needed an AI assistant capable of providing developers with specific documentation and code samples. While Bing Search returned results from various sources including outdated forum posts and unofficial tutorials, we required focused, authoritative content from trusted developer resources. This challenge led us to implement Bing Custom Search—a…

AI11/07/202504/08/2025

Migrating from Bing Search APIs to Azure OpenAI Agent with Grounding Bing Search

With Bing Search APIs scheduled for retirement on August 11, 2025, developers need a robust migration strategy to maintain search-powered AI applications. Microsoft has introduced a compelling alternative through Azure OpenAI Agents with the “Grounding with Bing Search” tool, seamlessly integrated with Semantic Kernel. This comprehensive guide covers the complete migration process, from Azure AI Foundry project setup to implementing grounding capabilities in your .NET applications. Strategic Advantages of Migration The transition from standalone Bing…