I’m excited to head back to the TechCon365 conference in Seattle, WA, June 23-27, 2025, presenting a full day workshop & pair of half-day workshops on customizing Microsoft 365 Copilot and building custom apps for Microsoft Teams and the SharePoint Framework (SPFx)!
Register before January 17 & save $500 off your registration!
Full-day Workshop: Develop Declarative Agents to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot to get the most out of your investment!
You’ve rolled out Microsoft 365 Copilot and now your organization has entered the AI revolution.
Mission accomplished… or is it?
Out of the box, Microsoft 365 Copilot only has access to the underlying LLM’s baseline knowledge and some content in your Microsoft 365 tenant.
But most companies have valuable data outside Microsoft 365—manuals, standard operating procedures, policies, inventory systems, ERPs, CRMs, sales data, and more!
After learning how copilot works, you’ll learn how to unlock copilot’s power by extending its knowledge and teaching it new skills! From populating the semantic index with unstructured content using Microsoft Graph connectors to creating actions and implementing RAG patterns for real-time relational data access, you’ll make copilot truly yours!
This workshop for full-stack developers focuses on creating declarative agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot to implement specific scenarios. You’ll learn how to build scalable enterprise solutions without additional Copilot Studio licensing costs. Follow along as I builds these connections, APIs, actions, and custom agents—or roll up your sleeves and build your own using your Microsoft 365 tenant and Microsoft 365 Copilot license!
Half-day Workshop: Develop enterprise web apps for Microsoft Teams and enhance employee productivity
Did you know you can use your existing web development skills to create apps for Microsoft Teams? Is your experience of customizing Teams limited to Power Apps and do you want to leverage those web dev skills to build more powerful solutions? If so, then this half-day workshop is perfect for you!
You’ll get started building apps for Microsoft Teams using the Teams Toolkit (TTK) for VS Code and learn what’s possible through lots of demos! We’ll create custom tabs for channels, personal apps, and modal dialogs, learn how to leverage single-sign-on (SSO), call external services such as Microsoft Graph, and even extend conversations with action & search-based message extensions.
But that’s not all! You’ll learn how these apps can be used across Microsoft 365 apps, including SharePoint Online, and Outlook, and even how they’re the basis for customizing & extending Microsoft 365 Copilot!
Feel free to sit back and learn or bring your laptop to build your own MS Teams apps! Everyone will walk away with all the resources used and created throughout the workshop!
Half-day Workshop: Use the SharePoint Framework to develop apps & customize SharePoint & Viva Connections
The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is Microsoft’s recommended way to customize and extend your SharePoint site and Viva Connections.
Whether you’re an experienced SharePoint developer or new to the platform, this half-day workshop is perfect for you. You’ll learn how to set up your development workstation for SPFx and discover how to create web parts, UX extensions, and Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) for Viva Connections. We’ll also cover working with SharePoint lists, libraries, and Microsoft Graph data.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll understand the full range of possibilities for your next SharePoint customization project. And if you’re using SharePoint Server on-premises (2016, 2019, or Subscription Edition) rather than SharePoint Online? Don’t worry—we’ll cover what’s possible in each version!
Feel free to sit back and learn or bring your laptop to build your own SPFx solutions. Everyone will walk away with all the resources used and created throughout the workshop!
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