ALM for Copilot Studio Agents: The Foundation
A practical guide to setting up Application Lifecycle Management for Copilot Studio agents - from environment strategy to deployment confidence.
The Custom Engine
Page-Level PDF Citations in Copilot Studio
How to deliver page-level PDF citations in Copilot Studio for SharePoint and uploaded file knowledge sources, so users land on the exact page that grounded the answer.
Wiring up a Snowflake-managed MCP server in Copilot Studio
An end-to-end walkthrough for wiring a Snowflake-managed MCP server into a Microsoft Copilot Studio agent with delegated user OAuth through Microsoft Entra ID, including the Cortex Agent prerequisite, the manual OAuth path Snowflake actually requires, and the small details that make or break the setup.
Building a Custom Human-in-the-Loop Experience for Copilot Studio Workflows
When every workflow approval is another email in someone's inbox, something has gone wrong. A custom connector pattern that lets Copilot Studio workflows pause for human input and resume through any UI you want.
Wiring up the Jira (Atlassian) Remote MCP server in Copilot Studio in 5 mins
The Atlassian Remote MCP server uses Dynamic Client Registration. If you wire it up with Manual OAuth in Copilot Studio you'll waste an afternoon. Use Dynamic discovery and a few Atlassian admin toggles, and you're done in five minutes.
Herding Clouds: Taming Pay-As-You-Go Billing Policies in Power Platform at Scale
Assigning billing policies to 50+ environments by hand doesn't scale, and nobody reads the budget alert email before Monday. This post walks through a bulk assignment script and an automated unlinking pipeline that solve both problems.
Bulk File-Based Testing for Copilot Studio: Beyond Standard Evals
How to build a scalable bulk file-based testing framework for Copilot Studio agents using Dataverse, SharePoint, Power Automate, and Power BI when standard evals aren't enough.
Get Answers Over SharePoint Lists and Other Structured Data — Turning Natural Language into Dynamic Queries in Copilot Studio
How to turn natural language into OData queries over SharePoint list data using Copilot Studio connector tools with dynamic inputs — from a one-tool starter to production patterns with dynamic schemas, semantic search, and response shaping.
How to Set Context Variables to Copilot Studio Agents Using WebChat
Learn how to reliably pass context variables to Copilot Studio agents via WebChat using a Redux middleware that works on both Direct Line and the M365 Agents SDK.
Quality Gates for Copilot Studio: Automated Evaluations in Azure DevOps
How to use the Copilot Studio Evaluation API to build automated quality gates in Azure DevOps pipelines, blocking PR merges when agent quality drops below threshold.