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Deprecation notice: Low-trust SharePoint add-ins in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition ↗
Support for low-trust SharePoint Add-ins in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition ends on January 12, 2027. The January 2027 public update will disable these add-ins by default. Organizations should identify affected solutions and plan their migration to supported alternatives, such as SharePoint Framework (SPFx). Sha…
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Your voice shapes SPFx: take our developer survey ↗
Help shape the future of SPFx. Share your developer experience in our survey, open until December 9, 2026, and help guide future investments. Explore highlights from a year of updates, including Copilot UX components, and discover what’s next on the roadmap and how to get involved in the community. The post Your voice …
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Your app needs documents. Do you really want to build a document platform? ↗
File storage is rarely just file storage. Imagine your team is building a contract management application. At first, the document requirement looks straightforward: upload a file, organize it, retrieve it, and let the right people open it. Then the real requirements from your customer, security, and operations teams ar…
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Streamline creation and management of AI-ready, custom apps with SharePoint Embedded ↗
SharePoint content isn’t limited to sites and document libraries. Increasingly, organizations are bringing Microsoft 365 content capabilities directly into the custom apps their users rely on. That’s where SharePoint Embedded comes in. SharePoint Embedded is a cloud-based, API-only document management platform that ena…
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Copilot UX components are generally available: bring interactive experiences into Copilot ↗
Copilot UX components are generally available with SPFx 1.24. Bring interactive dashboards, forms, and business actions directly into Microsoft Copilot, so people can complete tasks in context using experiences built on existing web skills and systems. The post Copilot UX components are generally available: bring inter…
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Develop enterprise-grade apps with SharePoint Embedded ↗
Taking an enterprise application from development to production requires confidence that it can scale, stay reliable, and be governed effectively. Recent SharePoint Embedded updates give developers clearer guidance for making those decisions, from understanding limits and managing throttling to choosing the right permi…
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Work IQ: the new retrieve tool ↗
The new Work IQ Retrieve tool grounds agents in the context of work, helping them reason over the right information and deliver more relevant, trustworthy responses. With one retrieval layer across work sources, developers can give agents richer organizational context without building separate search systems. Retrieve:…
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Build AI-powered apps without creating a vector database ↗
Developers building AI applications face a familiar challenge: how do you ground AI experiences in enterprise content while maintaining security, compliance, and governance? You can use the Microsoft 365 Copilot Retrieval API for SharePoint Embedded, which helps you add Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent experiences to yo…
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Pre-authenticated (tempauth) URLs are retiring: move to Microsoft Entra ID tokens before April 1, 2027 ↗
Starting April 1, 2027, affected Microsoft Graph file APIs will no longer return pre-authenticated URLs. Applications using these APIs must authenticate requests with Microsoft Entra ID access tokens. The post Pre-authenticated (tempauth) URLs are retiring: move to Microsoft Entra ID tokens before April 1, 2027 appeare…
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SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – September 2026 ↗
New Copilot UX components heading to Generally Available in October 2026, SPFx 1.24 Beta 5 is now available, React 18 support is coming in 1.24. Updates coming in Node.js support. The post SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – September 2026 appeared first on Microsoft 365 Developer Blog .
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Bring your plugin to Microsoft Copilot with Work IQ Developer Tools ↗
Bring an existing agent plugin into Work IQ Developer Tools (WIQD) and the plugin registry or create a new plugin to utilize the full Microsoft Copilot packaging workflow. A plugin gives Microsoft Copilot new ways to get work done. It packages one or more capabilities, such as skills, MCP servers, or agents, so Copilot…
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Join the Copilot Dev Camp Summit Fall Edition on September 30 ↗
The very first Copilot Dev Camp Summit will take place on September 30, 2026, at 8:00 AM Pacific Time, launching a new quarterly event for the Copilot Extensibility community. This free, quarterly online event brings together developers, makers, product experts, and the broader technical community to explore the evolvi…
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Investing in a more reliable Microsoft Graph PowerShell experience ↗
We’re focusing Microsoft Graph PowerShell on the platform where we can give you the most reliable, capable, and well-maintained experience: PowerShell 7.x and later. Built on modern .NET, PowerShell 7.x resolves many of the underlying assembly-loading and dependency issues that affect Windows PowerShell 5.x today. Conc…
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Behind SPFx Dev Skills: testing what agents know and fixing what they miss ↗
How much guidance does an AI coding agent actually need? See how we used evaluation data to target SPFx knowledge gaps, improving results without wasting tokens on what models already know. The post Behind SPFx Dev Skills: testing what agents know and fixing what they miss appeared first on Microsoft 365 Developer Blog…
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SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – August 2026 ↗
SPFx 1.24 Beta 3 is now available, React 18 support is coming in 1.24, and a new Copilot Components preview program opens for customers and partners. The post SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – August 2026 appeared first on Microsoft 365 Developer Blog .
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Building Agents for Teams: Managing the noise of collaboration ↗
Most of us are familiar with one-to-one agent chats: private, direct interactions where rules are relatively simple. With only you and the agent, each moment has clear intent. You can ask follow-up questions, pause, or restart without worrying about how each exchange affects anyone else. Collaboration in groups works d…
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Announcing the preview of the Work IQ Developer Tools ↗
Software is shifting from apps built for people to agents that can reason over context and act on someone’s behalf. Microsoft 365 Copilot put that shift in front of hundreds of millions of users, and Work IQ gave agents a production-ready intelligence layer to build on. What’s been missing is the path in between: getti…
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Build Once, Run Everywhere: Unified Manifest for Office Add-Ins now Generally Available ↗
Unified manifest support for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook makes it possible for developers to build a single app that works across Microsoft 365 apps, creating a more consistent experience for users and a simpler deployment model for IT admins. The post Build Once, Run Everywhere: Unified Manifest for Office Ad…
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Building Agents for Teams: Turning conversations into outcomes ↗
The Microsoft Teams platform mission is to build the best collaborative platform in the world. We want to make it easy for developers to build agents that participate seamlessly in chats, channels, and meetings, helping teams turn ideas into action in real time. By bringing agents directly into the places where collabo…
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SharePoint Copilot Apps Now in Public Preview: From Intent to Action in Microsoft 365 Copilot ↗
SharePoint Copilot Apps are now in public preview, introducing a new way to bring guided, action-oriented business experiences into Microsoft 365 Copilot. By combining natural language reasoning with structured UX, validation, permissions, and deterministic operations, organizations can help users move from intent to t…
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SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – July 2026 ↗
June celebrates the announcement of upcoming SharePoint Copilot Apps, ships the quality-focused SPFx 1.23.2 release, and shares the roadmap for the AI era - shaped by your feedback. The post SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – July 2026 appeared first on Microsoft 365 Developer Blog .
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Mailbox requirement set 1.16 now available for Outlook add-ins ↗
Mailbox requirement set 1.16 is now generally available for Outlook add-ins. This release reflects our continued investment in closing the gap between COM/VSTO and web add-ins, with a focus on message and information security. Mailbox 1.16 introduces APIs and platform updates that enable your add-in to: Decrypt protect…
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Remote Event Receivers are retiring: move to SharePoint webhooks before July 1, 2027 ↗
Remote Event Receivers in SharePoint Online are retiring. Starting July 1, 2027, all remote event receivers will stop firing events, including those registered using Microsoft Entra applications. The post Remote Event Receivers are retiring: move to SharePoint webhooks before July 1, 2027 appeared first on Microsoft 36…
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