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Introducing Tip of the Day I am excited to announce a new blog series that aims to provide useful tips and tricks for developers who work with Microsoft 365. I will share a quick tip that can help...

SharePoint Copilot Apps rendering interactive UI inside Microsoft 365 Copilot

SharePoint Copilot Apps: build interactive Copilot UI with SPFx (preview)

Summary For years SPFx has been the way to extend the SharePoint experience. With SharePoint Copilot Apps — shipping in the SharePoint Framework v1.24 preview — you can now use those exact same sk...

Declarative agent manifest 1.8 adding email and meeting actions

Tip of the day – Declarative agents can now act on email and meetings (manifest 1.8)

Tip Until now, declarative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot were great at reading and answering — but taking action on your mailbox or calendar meant wiring up API plugins. With declarative agent m...

A friendly office worker at a keyboard surrounded by cinematic green hacker code

Tip of the day – Become a movie hacker in your browser (harmless office fun)

Tip My most popular posts are still the PowerShell pranks — so here’s one with zero PowerShell, zero install, and zero risk. Open a browser tab, start mashing the keyboard, and instantly look like...

Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs grounding a custom app in Microsoft 365 data

Tip of the day – Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs: ground your own apps in M365 data

Tip If you are building a custom app or a custom engine agent and you keep hitting the same wall — “how do I let AI answer from our SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams content without copying all that ...

MAI-Thinking-1 on Azure AI Foundry

Tip: Try MAI-Thinking-1 – Microsoft's First Reasoning Model on Azure AI Foundry

Tip At Microsoft Build 2026 (June 2, 2026), Microsoft unveiled MAI-Thinking-1 — their first in-house reasoning model, now available in private preview on Azure AI Foundry. If you are evaluating re...

GitHub Copilot App Agent-Native Desktop Experience

GitHub Copilot App – The Agent-Native Desktop Experience (Technical Preview)

Summary At Microsoft Build 2026 (June 2, 2026), GitHub announced the GitHub Copilot app in technical preview — a dedicated desktop application that acts as a control centre for agentic development...

Microsoft Build 2026 Key Highlights

Microsoft Build 2026 – Agentic AI, MAI Models, and the Agent-Native Platform

Summary Microsoft Build 2026 kicked off on June 2, 2026 with a wave of announcements centred on agentic AI, new in-house AI models, quantum computing, and Windows as a developer-first platform. Th...

GitHub Copilot Workspace – Build entire features from one prompt

Tip of the day – GitHub Copilot Workspace: Build entire features from one prompt

Summary GitHub Copilot Workspace lets you describe a feature in plain English and get a complete multi-file implementation plan with code changes ready to review and merge. Here’s how to start usi...

What are AI Agents – plain English guide for M365 developers

What are AI Agents? A plain English guide for M365 developers

Summary “AI Agent” has become one of the most overused terms in tech right now. It means something specific to an AI researcher, something different to a Microsoft sales deck, and something else e...