Copilot agents, OpenAPI plugins and SharePoint, talked through plainly.
Jeremy Thake talks Microsoft 365 development with developers and product people, and the recent titles keep coming back to Copilot agents, custom engine copilots and SharePoint Embedded. The talk is relaxed but precise. It moves from Ignite catch-ups and travel stories to OpenAPI documents, Teams Toolkit and the choice between Copilot Studio and Visual Studio Code.
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The Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast is a conversation show about building on Microsoft's workplace platform. Jeremy Thake hosts, and Paul Schaefflein is named as a host in at least one episode. The recent titles keep coming back to Copilot. Declarative agents, custom engine copilots and agent news from Ignite 2024 all appear, alongside SharePoint Embedded and 'Atomic React Component Design with Julie Turner'. The value is in the detail. Sebastian Levert, who works as a PM on agent developer experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot, argues that good agents have to take actions rather than only retrieve information. He describes a demo built on GitHub's very large OpenAPI description, where he chooses just the endpoints he cares about and lets the tooling generate the plugins. Adaptive Cards come up as a familiar customization option for developers coming from Teams Toolkit and the bot framework. A separate conversation compares Copilot Studio with Visual Studio Code. The maker tool does much the same thing under the covers, but it assumes an OpenAPI document already in the right shape, and one speaker calls that a stretch. Andrew Connell appears on more than one episode. In the SharePoint Embedded conversation, the talk turns to letting a software vendor or dev team own their setup without a SharePoint admin blocking the way. There is a wry memory of the old farm days, when getting a new site collection meant getting past that admin. Single-tenant and multi-tenant licensing questions come up there as well. The Ignite 2024 conversation pauses to sort out product names, separating BizChat from Microsoft 365 Copilot as a product suite that covers both a work tab and a web tab. It also explains the commercial logic: moving web-tab users toward a license that grounds answers in their organization's own data. Joey Glocke returns almost exactly a year after his previous appearance and jokes about being on an annual cadence. His conversation traces how bots that needed an exact command string gave way to natural-language copilots, and how that shift led to the AI library in use today. The tone stays friendly throughout. Openings take in snow at Ignite in Chicago, a failed recording attempt and a rental car on the unfamiliar side of the road in England before the technical talk takes over. A sensible place to start is the title that matches the part of the stack a listener is working on: agents, SharePoint Embedded or React components.
Made for: Suits a developer or technical maker building on Microsoft 365 who wants Copilot agents, OpenAPI plugins, Teams tooling and SharePoint Embedded explained in relaxed, practical conversation rather than announcement copy.
What sets it apart: It stays inside one platform and gets specific about it: it compares Copilot Studio with Visual Studio Code, flags where OpenAPI documents need tweaking, and sorts out product names like BizChat. It does this in an easygoing tone that leaves room for conference and travel banter.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical post-Ignite pass through the Microsoft 365 Copilot names and tabs that blur together.
The post-Ignite pileup turns into a useful cleanup of Microsoft 365 Copilot language, with Jeremy Thake and his guest separating Microsoft 365 Copilot, Biz Chat, the work tab, and the web tab.
A practical look at choosing agent tooling when connectors do not expose the API actions developers need.
The Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast frames a practical choice for pro developers: when declarative agent tooling makes more sense than leaning on Copilot Studio connectors.
A candid post-Build check-in on why Copilot tooling still depends on well-shaped OpenAPI documents.
Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast uses a delayed post-Build catch-up to examine the assumptions sitting underneath Microsoft's Copilot tooling. Jeremy Thake and a second speaker walk through how Copilot Studio can let a maker drag and drop an OpenAPI document into a wizard, then…
SharePoint Embedded becomes tangible through conference workflows, licensing challenges, and fewer administrative bottlenecks.
SharePoint Embedded gets a grounded, useful treatment as a way for an ISV, software vendor, or development team to shape the application experience without waiting on a SharePoint administrator.
A steady primer on how Teams extensibility is moving toward custom engine copilots.
The Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast frames Joey Glock's return around a clear shift in Teams extensibility: from bot commands toward natural-language custom engine copilots.
Power Platform news with practical static.
Jeremy and Paul discuss recent updates in Microsoft 365 development, including text analytics extractive summarization and upcoming Ignite conference.
Jeremy Thake interviews Rob D'Orea about his journey as an ISV partner building StoragePoint for SharePoint and the evolution of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
The hosts discuss recent Microsoft 365 developments, including a jaw-dropping demo under NDA and the new AI-powered Bing search.
Hosts Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaefflein discuss Microsoft 365 development with industry experts.
Jeremy Thake and Andrew Connell talk through Ignite 2024 in Chicago, where Andrew says the event drew 10,000 attendees and a week of snow, power outages, and delayed session videos.
Jeremy Thake and Sebastian Levert compare declarative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio with agents built in Visual Studio Code and Teams Toolkit at Ignite.
Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast host Jeremy Thake talks with a guest about the rename from copilot extensions and declarative copilots to copilot agents and declarative agents.
Andrew Connell explains SharePoint Embedded as “SharePoint document libraries” exposed through Microsoft Graph, with the app owner controlling the entire user experience and business logic.
Joey Glocke says the Teams bot framework started with exact commands and intent detection, then had to adapt after ChatGPT changed user expectations in 2022.
Sebastien Levert of the Copilot DevX team tells host Jeremy Thake that a declarative copilot is "a scope down or an expert" version of Copilot for Microsoft 365, defined by instructions, knowledge and actions.
Jeremy Thake and Andrew Connell recap Build 2024 Copilot extensibility, starting from the BRK150 slide that compares Graph connectors, plugins, declarative copilots and custom engine copilots.
Abram Jackson, a 13-year Microsoft veteran, recaps the Build announcements for extending Copilot for Microsoft 365: declarative copilots built in Copilot Studio, API plugins, actions with user confirmation, and plugins in the Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook sidebar.