M365 Developers Update | August 2023 Edition

In this new monthly blog series focused on M365, we will be sharing product updates, notable reads, and other new resources that can be leveraged by developers who are building apps for the commercial marketplace.

Spotlight

• Navigate your way through Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility with this QuickStart guide. This interactive guide helps you understand what M365 Copilot is, how to build plugins, and why you should extend with M365 Copilot. Read through the guide to access demos and learn how to get hands on with OpenAI plugins.
  
• Keep your app top of mind and top of chat with message extensions in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot. In this post, we answer the most common questions about using message extensions in Teams.
  
• Microsoft Graph Toolkit v3.0 is now generally available. Learn more about this release packed with new capabilities, improvements and so much more, including the option to build apps for new scenarios like selecting an item from a collection of entities, toggle between light and dark mode, switch between multiple logged in account, send chat messages in the context of your apps, select taxonomy items, provide a fully functional search experience, and leverage our entirely new theming experience.
  
• Microsoft 365 Developer Proxy v0.9 with over-consenting guidance. Learn more about the latest preview version of the Microsoft 365 Developer Proxy, we are introducing the preview ability to detect over-consented apps that use Microsoft Graph.
  

Learn

• Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast: Extending Microsoft Teams with ChatGPT with Joey Glocke on Apple Podcasts. Hear how you can get started enabling ChatGPT scenarios in Microsoft Teams to pave the way for extending Microsoft 365 Copilot in the future.
  
• In this tutorial, learn how to build a search-based message extension in Microsoft Teams... and get ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot
  
• Learn how you can extend Microsoft 365 Copilot by building a plugin or by connecting to an external data source
  
• New Microsoft Graph APIs for managing Microsoft Teams webinars are now in preview
  

Online Training

• Build and deploy apps for Microsoft Teams. Skill up with the Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code learning path.
  
• Community calls: Learn from our experts on a variety of Microsoft 365 platform topics.
  

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