Developing connectors and plug-ins for Microsoft 365 Copilot (MS-401)
Expand Microsoft Copilot and develop your own AI agents
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Machine Learning Engineer
Learn about the different ways to extend Copilot, including creating plug-ins and connectors, and how to choose the right option for your use case. The course also covers best practices for creating high-quality plug-ins and connectors, as well as considerations for data, privacy, and security. This course will be a critical resource for extending and customizing Copilot for Microsoft 365 for your use cases.
1. Microsoft Copilot Extensibility Fundamentals
Learn how to develop a strategy to enhance Copilot for Microsoft 365 with custom capabilities and organizational knowledge, focusing on plug-ins and connectors to improve efficiency and productivity across applications. It describes the options for extending Copilot and emphasizes integrating these extensions to maximize the tool's potential.
2. Selecting a Copilot extensibility development path
Learn how to develop a strategy to enhance Copilot for Microsoft 365 with custom capabilities and organizational knowledge, focusing on plug-ins and connectors to improve efficiency and productivity across applications. It describes the options for extending Copilot and emphasizes integrating these extensions to maximize the tool's potential.
3. Guided project: Create a message extension plug-in with TypeScript (TS) for Microsoft Copilot
This guided project involves creating message extension plug-ins for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 using TypeScript and the Teams Toolkit.
- Describe ways to extend Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 to meet individual business needs and improve users ' workflows
- Describe how graph connectors can be used to improve Copilot's data accessibility and discoverability for real-time engagement
- Describe how plug-ins extend Copilot's capabilities and enable interaction with real-time data in Microsoft 365 applications.
- Describe ways to create custom copilots using basic models for specific user interactions within Microsoft 365
- Describing the business value, benefits, and limitations of extending Copilot for Microsoft 365
- Investigate use cases for different extension options
- Optimizing your plug-ins for use with Copilot
- Applying best practices for creating high-quality plug-ins for Copilot
- Understanding data, privacy, and security considerations for plug-ins and connectors
- Understanding the purpose and functionality of Teams Message Extensions as plug-ins in Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
- Setting up a development environment and running the Northwind Inventory application
- Gain practical experience in running the application as a message extension in Microsoft Teams and Outlook
- Running the application as a plug-in for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and experimenting with prompting
- Develop skills to add new commands to the application to extend the plug-in's functionality and perform additional tasks.
- Deepen understanding of the underlying code of the application and how it works
This course consists of training training and is led by a trainer who supervises the participants live. Theory and practice are taught with live demonstrations and practical exercises. The video conferencing software Zoom is used.
This course is intended for developers who want to learn more about the various extension options available in Copilot and how to choose the right ones for their application scenarios. Programming skills and experience with Visual Studio are required.
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