Simon Doy

What's new with Copilot in SharePoint and OneDrive?, Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup **Microsoft has an annual OneDrive event, where they reveal what's arrived, what's coming and what's in the future for both OneDrive, SharePoint and Copilot.** In this ses

We are just kicking off @m365north.bsky.social tonight, where @simonjhudson.bsky.social Dylan Hayes are talking about Whats New with Copilot in SharePoint and OneDrive.

Join us here
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Improving my approach: Using AI to Documenting Solution Designs for Development Teams I wanted to share an approach for how I am using AI to improve documenting solution designs and thoughts around a solution.

In this blog post, I wanted to share how I am improving how I work when sharing and documenting solution designs for the development team at iThink 365.

My Adventures in building and understanding MCP for Microsoft 365 Copilot So, I have been following the Model Context Protocol (MCP) world for a while now. I first heard about MCP just as we were going out to MVP Summit in March 2025. Already, the Microsoft Copilot Extensibility team were on the case with people like Fabian Williams experimenting with them. I have been following this space, reading articles and finally, over the summer, I have had some time to roll up my sleeves and look at how I would build an MCP Server.

This post represents the start of my journey into building an MCP server for Microsoft 365 Copilot. I delve into some of the articles that I found useful and explain what I am looking to build.

My Experiences with Copilot Studio – Gen AI Agents Not Behaving as Expected? Check Your Question’s Settings In this post we delve into an issue where Copilot Studio questions were not being processed as expected leading to poor user experience.

My Experiences with Copilot Studio – Gen AI Agents Not Behaving as Expected? Check Your Question’s Settings

In this post we delve into an issue where Copilot Studio questions were not being processed as expected leading to poor user experience.

Packed keynote at @bsidesleeds.bsky.social
Such a great community and friendly lot.
#communityrocks

Early morning start for @bsidesleeds.bsky.social

Excited to be part of this incredible local cyber security++ event with an incredible array of talks

Multi-Agents – The Rise of the AI Architect Last week, Microsoft Build 2025 announced the introduction of Multi-Agent Copilots within Copilot Studio and the ability to configure one Copilot Agent to make use of other Copilot Agent’s and their tools. I have been pondering on this for a while, but whilst watching the demos, this got me thinking about how these Agents will be delivered. It’s clear that there will be a lot of thought required to deliver a solid multi-Agent architecture, which will need to be designed and engineered!

I am spending a lot of time thinking about Multi-Agents within our business and our customers business.

In this post I start to share some of my thoughts and ideas.

Would to love to hear yours.

Viva Connections and SharePoint Framework Community Call - May 1st, 2025 Recording

💾 Recording of the @community.ms Viva Connections & #SharePoint Framework May 1st community call

• News
• Focus on SPFx powered experiences in Microsoft 365
• Demos by @simondoy.bsky.social and Brian McCullough

• Host @pnp.horse

...and more 🚀

📺 Watch → youtu.be/2bXc6zOpYYc/

Been looking forward to our session on Microsoft 365 Copilot with our partners Everon, Microsoft and Pax8

Great to the Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 has made it to BlueSky, thanks for organising @sympmarc.com

Looking for ways to explain how Microsoft 365 can benefit your organisation but not sure how to win over your leadership team, check out the Maturity Model and follow us here.
@mm4m365.org

YouTube video by Microsoft Community Learning Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 - April 2025

Did you miss the latest Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 Practitioners call? @simonjhudson.bsky.social
discussed a new Practical Scenario: Enhancing Brand Management. #MM4M365 Here's the recording: youtu.be/b36ZFdLdnw8

And here is @simondoy.bsky.social doing the hands on insights into #AI and @microsoft.com #Copilot at Coventry & Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce AI and #Cybersecurity event.
The 80% turnout is an indication of how important businesses see AI to their success.

Excited to be involved with @microsoftlearn.bsky.social
#mVPsPledgeToAnswers

A7: I think keeping it simple and not trying to duplicate the capabilities of other agent technologies in Microsoft 365 will help. Though there should be an upgrade path so that people can move to more complex solutions when needed. #CollabTalk

A6: I think having editable built-in agents will have a big impact on adoption. I do worry about the control and agent sprawl. #CollabTalk

A5: I think the fact that they are not as powerful and configurable as their Copilot Studio cousins is a big limitation. However, that is also their benefit as they are less complicated and do one thing well. Use in HR, Sales, Finance and IT #CollabTalk

A2: Agents should serve a particular focus like an App on a phone. Ensure you do not mix too many different data types that are for different purposes in your libraries. Ideally just the one purpose. #CollabTalk

A1: The generation of them is straight-forward and anyone can create them provided they have permission and licenses. They are a much lower bar to entry. They appear in SharePoint and easy to switch between agents through SharePoint. #CollabTalk

You are probably right will have to take a look at our pipelines.
Glad you got sorted though.

Hope that helps :)

We use this task in a build pipeline

dotnet publish i365.Connect.Api/i365.Connect.Api.csproj --configuration $(buildConfiguration) --output $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/api --property:WebPublishMethod=Package --property:PackageAsSingleFile=true

We use this task to deploy

- task: AzureFunctionApp@1
displayName: 'iThink Connect Api Deploy'
enabled: true
inputs:
azureSubscription: '${{ parameters.azureSubscriptionName }}'
appName: '$(functions.name)'
appType: functionApp
package: '$(Pipeline.Workspace)/api/drop/api'

Part 4: App-Powered Microsoft Planner Tasks – Features I would like to see in App-Powered Tasks In this blog post, the fourth of the series I discuss some ideas for future capabilities and making this feature more AI Agent friendly.

In the fourth and last blog post in the series on App-Powered Microsoft Planner tasks, I talk about some features and ideas that I would like to see. In particularly to make this capability more friendly in an AI Agent centric world.

#Copilot Agents are the focus for the next Maturity Model for #M365 session.
Join us as @simondoy.bsky.social takes us from poor to great.

18th March
Details, sign up and calendar invitation here:
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Part 3: App-Powered Microsoft Planner Tasks – Gotchas, Findings and Bugs In this blog post, the third in the series I discuss some of the bugs that I have seen.

In the third part of my blog series about the exciting new technology in Microsoft Planner and App-Powered. I discuss some of the issues that I had and highlight some of the bugs and issues that I originally found and those that have been fixed.

And we are off early start for @microsoft.com AI Tour London.
Looking forward to catching up with everyone and listening about AI Agents and finding out more.

#mvpbuzz

Planner App Powered Tasks Part 2: Recipe for Cooking up a Planner App-Powered Task Solution Following on from my introduction last week on App Powered Planner Tasks. In this blog post I show you how you can create your own Planner App-Powered Task.

Second Blog Post in my series on Planner App Powered Tasks. In this post get to understand how they are built. Get access to an example with code and try it out yourself using this Teams SPFx powered app which brings a custom UI to Planner.

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YouTube video by Microsoft Community Learning Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 - February 2025

💾 Recording of the @community.ms Feb 18 Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 Practitioners Comm Call

• Topic: How to run a Maturity Model Workshop
• Guests @sympmarc.com, Pia Langenkrans, @simondoy.bsky.social, @simonjhudson.bsky.social & Team!

#MM4M365

📺 Watch→ www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnZU...

Planner App Powered Tasks Part 2: Recipe for Cooking up a Planner App-Powered Task Solution Following on from my introduction last week on App Powered Planner Tasks. In this blog post I show you how you can create your own Planner App-Powered Task.

Planner App Powered Tasks Part 2: Recipe for Cooking up a Planner App-Powered Task Solution

Following on from my introduction last week on App Powered Planner Tasks. In this blog post I show you how you can create your own Planner App-Powered Task.

#PnPReactControls, Calendar Control PR created! Soon, it will be available at
@pnp/spfx-controls-react (lnkd.in/d4VavjsA ) 🙂
#PnP #SharingIsCaring #FluentUI9 #TypeScript #ReactJS #Microsoft365