The Assistants API empowers developers to build AI-powered assistants within their applications. These assistants can leverage OpenAI’s advanced models, tools, and files to handle complex tasks, process user queries, and enhance productivity.

Currently in beta, the Assistants API supports multiple tools and functionalities, enabling developers to create intelligent workflows and integrate AI features seamlessly.

This article provides a comprehensive guide on how to extend bot-based message extensions as plugins for Copilot for Microsoft 365. By doing so, users can interact with third-party tools and services, enhancing their productivity. The article covers the concept of a plugin, prerequisites, and a step-by-step guide on creating a bot-based message extension.

Microsoft Graph connectors act as a bridge, seamlessly integrating external data sources with Microsoft 365, empowering you to unlock the true potential of your information. Imagine enriching your SharePoint Online search with learning modules from the Microsoft Learn Catalog API, or surfacing relevant customer data from your CRM within Outlook. With custom connectors, these possibilities become reality.

In this blog post, I will show you how to access different Azure resources, such as Azure Storage, directly from a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) using Azure API Management (APIM). This scenario is useful when you want to provide a seamless user experience for your application without exposing your backend services or credentials. This is a great way to simplify and secure your web app’s communication with the cloud.

In this blog post, I will show you how to create a Microsoft Teams tab app that can convert various types of documents into PDF format and then merge them into a single document pack. This app will use the Microsoft Graph API to perform the conversion and merging operations and will leverage the Teams Toolkit v5.0 to enable single sign-on (SSO) authentication. The app will also use an Azure function as its backend to handle the communication with the Graph API.

In this blog post, I will show you how to create a Microsoft Teams bot to add new bookmarks to the SharePoint list using Microsoft Graph API and implement single sign-on authentication using Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code version 5. Additionally, we’ll examine how Teams Toolkit may be used in conjunction with our existing Azure resources.

In Office 365, There is always a project requirement to upload files either to SharePoint Online document libraries or to Microsoft OneDrive. In this blog post, We will look into uploading large files to Microsft OneDrive using Graph API via SPFx and .Net App .

Network Console tool is available for Chromium-based DevTools for making synthetic network requests over HTTP. It can be used during the dev-test loop for web APIs.
In part of this blog, we will see how we can use the Network Console tool to make SharePoint Rest API HTTP GET and POST requests.

Form customizers are SharePoint Framework components that allow you to override the form experience in a list or library level by associating the component to the used content type. Form customizer components can be used in SharePoint Online, and you build them using modern JavaScript tools and libraries.

As we know, SPFx runs in the context of logged In user. In a scenario where your application needs to perform some tasks which require more permissions then currently logged In user, you can use this approach to handle those scenarios.
For example, You can configure Azure AD app with elevated Microsoft Graph API permissions and then call Microsoft Graph API from Azure Function.