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

Building Intelligent SharePoint Agents – Part 1: The Foundation

I spent weeks building a custom indexing pipeline for SharePoint content: incremental updates, change tracking, governance controls, the works. Then I found out Microsoft had already shipped a tool that does most of it automatically. If you’re maintaining a RAG pipeline against SharePoint right now, you’ll recognize the problem before I finish describing it. Companies store thousands of policy documents, procedures, and knowledge base articles across multiple SharePoint sites. Building an AI agent against that…

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

Bing Search APIs were retired on August 11, 2025. Any app still calling Bing Web Search or Custom Search directly stopped working that day, and there’s no fallback. Microsoft’s replacement path is Grounding with Bing Search, a tool you attach to an agent in Azure AI Agent Service. A quick note on timing. Azure AI Foundry was renamed Microsoft Foundry in January 2026, and the setup below reflects what Microsoft now calls Foundry Agent Service…