Ask Copilot to show your team’s open approvals and it hands you a paragraph. No buttons, nothing to click. You still have to leave the chat and open SharePoint to act on any of it. SharePoint Copilot Apps exist to close that gap, and once I understood what that actually meant, I wanted to build one rather than just read the announcement. Public preview shipped July 9, 2026. I picked a scenario nobody in the…
In Part 1, we built a Foundry agent with long-term memory that could remember user preferences, roles, and context across sessions without any custom embedding pipelines. If you haven’t read that post, start there. This one builds directly on top of that code. Memory alone is useful. It just doesn’t go very far on its own. Knowing a user prefers bullet-point summaries or works in finance is helpful context, but it doesn’t change what the…
In Part 1, we explored the fundamental shift from manual SharePoint indexing to Azure AI Foundry’s SharePoint grounding tool. In Part 2, we built a complete, production-ready SharePoint agent system with multiple agent types. Now it’s time to tackle the most critical aspect of enterprise SharePoint AI agents: proper identity passthrough and delegated permissions. This is where many implementations fall short in real-world scenarios, and where the true power of Microsoft 365 Copilot API’s identity…
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…
We usually building a SharePoint Framework solution that requires access to specific resources secured with Azure AD such as Microsoft Graph, Yammer, and Dynamic CRM. In this post I will show you how you can consume Dynamics CRM API from an SPFx web part. Dynamics 365 30-day Trial If you don’t already have a Dynamics 365 environment, you can sign up for a 30-day trial from here. API permissions To be abe to obtain the…