Part 3 of a series on building agents with the Microsoft Work IQ API. Part 1 introduced Work IQ, and Part 2 built a conversational A2A client with multi-turn context and streaming. Over the last year, one problem has followed nearly every capability we added to our private AI application: tools multiply quickly. The first connector is manageable. So are the first few functions. Then the agent needs email, calendar, people, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive.…
Over the last year, our team has been building a private AI application for clients. The use cases changed from project to project, but the infrastructure underneath them started to look uncomfortably familiar. We needed agents. Then tools for those agents. Then connectors to Microsoft 365 and other systems. Then indexing, retrieval, conversation state, monitoring and permission checks. Every new capability solved a user problem while quietly giving us another component to operate. I saw…
In this blog post we will see how to setup MSAL to get consent for several resources in an office add-in to get access to Microsoft Graph, SharePoint and a secured Azure functions. If you are looking for the source code, you can find it here 🙂 Create a word add-in project First we need to install Yeoman (as a prerequisites) and generator-office to create an office add-ins: Then run following command and create a…
In the previous post we developed the functions to get and apply a provisioning template using PnP core library and deployed them to the Azure Portal, then we configured the Application Registration by uploading the certificate needed for authentication process and added API permissions we need to do the operations on SharePoint. In this post we will implement the web part to call our functions and also we will learn how we can use some…
We are living in a world which everyday you wake up with some brilliant features added to your favorite libraries and you can’t wait to use them somewhere in your solution. In this post I will show you how easy is to call Azure Functions from SharePoint Framework Web Part and also how you can use React Hooks to simplifies your components and get rid of extra classes and life cycles around them. As you…