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Introduction Copilot Studio makes it super easy to add SharePoint as a knowledge source to your agents. However, there is one issue that I keep running into, which is that we cannot read the properties of the documents in SharePoint. This is a problem because often important information about the document is not in the content itself, but rather in the properties of the document. Take this example below. The agent has been granted access to a document library. I have added a couple of documents and purposefully added a value to the property called ReferenceID that is not in the document content itself. When I ask the agent to provide the value that would be in the ReferenceID property, the agent is not able to provide the value. If the value was in the document content, the agent would be able to provide it. ...

Introduction Announced as part of Agent 365 at Microsoft Ignite 2025, MCP servers with access to Microsoft 365 services were announced. This was great news as up until then, you had to build your own servers to connect to Microsoft 365 services. However, it was not clear if it was only possible in Copilot Studio agents, or if you could use it elsewhere, such as in declarative agents. I’m here to report it is indeed possible - let me show you how. ...

Introduction As of December 2025, this feature is in public preview - more information can be found in the official documentation. Whilst it is possible to shortcut some these steps by using the Azure AI Search SharePoint agentic knowledge source, this doesn’t produce great results with Copilot out of the box, for example citations don’t link back to the original SharePoint document. Whilst in theory, M365 Copilot agents can use a built-in SharePoint knowledge source that leverages a semantic index, in practice, it can be hit and miss (inconsistent, not always matching to most relevant content, etc.). ...

Example plugin in use Introduction In this article I’m going to go over how you can bring in (and modify) external data in to M365 Copilot (or just Copilot from here on in) by the use of plugins. Copilot has had many names since launch (e.g. “M365 Chat” in Teams), but it is currently called just “Copilot” within Teams and M365. There are two current methods to bring in data in to Copilot: ...

This is a quick blog post to summarise how to work through paging and delta updates in Graph API. Examples are in Typescript but you can adapt to the different SDKs Microsoft provides. Paging If you’ve called an API before you will most likely encountered paging before. Paging is where you receive a “page” of data, instead of all of it one go (think a page in a book as opposed to the whole book). Paging works in that you request each page separately from an API and, if required, request multiple pages if more data is required. ...

The problem This will be a quick one today. I recently came across this issue when running an (Node.js) application using the MS Graph JavaScript SDK in production (fine in development). This is most likely a weird edge case in my configuration or how I built my application, but wanted to put it out there in case anyone else has this issue. Whenever I was calling a Graph endpoint it was returning an error message body: n.call is not a function with a status code of statusCode: -1, which didn’t give me a lot to go off of! ...

Introduction If you are responsible for administering Teams within your organisation, you’ve almost certainly come across the Teams PowerShell module. It is used for pretty much all admin and configuration tasks within Teams. If something can be done in the Teams Admin Center (TAC), it will almost certainly be able to be achieved in Teams PowerShell - and in many cases only in Teams PowerShell. And - if you are like me - when running repeatable tasks or commands, I think automation and hence this article. ...

Introduction Have you wanted to manage your Teams devices within a script, or from the command line? Well, now you can. I will cover how you can do this for pretty much any Teams Device that is provisioned in Teams by using Microsoft Graph. What can you do? As of 7th June 2022, with Microsoft Graph endpoints can achieve the following: List devices Get device Restart device Get device diagnostics Get device operations Update device software Get device health Get device config There are a couple provisos to be aware of in using Microsoft Graph and Teams devices: ...

Introduction Have you ever had an idea to ask a bot to perform a simple interaction? Then this article is for you. A simple interaction could be an answer to a question you asked: You: What time is it? Bot: It’s 3.56PM You could achieve this (and more) by building a bot using tools such as Power Virtual Agents or Bot Framework, but that is a little overkill for a simple interaction. ...

A while back I wrote about how using a custom authentication provider with the Graph SDK would allow for the use of a client credential flow. Since then, I began using the @azure/identity package to obtain the access token instead. However, with the release of the Graph Javascript SDK 3.0, this is no longer needed. With the use of TokenCredentialAuthenticationProvider you can now pass the generated Credential from @azure/identity directly in to TokenCredentialAuthenticationProvider and use the SDK without having to manage the retrival of the token. ...