Build connectors and plugins for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365

Overview

University:

Microsoft Learn

Categories:

Typescript Courses, Microsoft 365 Courses, Microsoft Copilot Courses

Course Modules:

• Module 1:

  Develop a strategy to enhance Copilot for Microsoft 365 with custom skills and organizational knowledge. Focus on plugins and connectors to improve efficiency and productivity across applications.

  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

  • Describe ways to extend Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 to fit unique business needs, enriching user workflows.
  • Utilize Graph connectors to enhance Copilot's data access and discoverability for real-time engagement.
  • Expand Copilot's skills with plugins, enabling interaction with real-time data across Microsoft 365 apps.
  • Build custom copilots using foundational models for specialized user interactions within Microsoft 365.
• Module 2:

  Further develop strategies to enhance Copilot for Microsoft 365 with custom skills and organizational knowledge.

  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

  • Describe the business value, benefits, and limitations of extending Copilot for Microsoft 365.
  • Examine use cases for different extensibility options.
  • Optimize your plugins for use with Copilot.
  • Apply best practices for building high-quality plugins for Copilot.
  • Understand data, privacy, and security considerations for plugins and connectors.
• Module 3:

  Guided project:

  Building message extension plugins for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 using TypeScript and the Teams Toolkit.

  In this module, you'll practice how to:

  • Understand the purpose and functionality of Teams Message Extensions as plugins in Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365.
  • Set up a development environment and run the Northwind Inventory application.
  • Gain practical experience in running the application as a message extension in Microsoft Teams and Outlook.
  • Run the application as a plugin for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and experiment with prompting.
  • Add new commands to the application to expand the plugin capabilities and perform more tasks.
  • Understand the underlying code of the application and its workings in more depth.

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