Mahesh Chintha

  Microsoft Announced major updates to Copilot Studio in Build 2024. In this article we will see the new Copilot features announced in Build 2024. New User Experience Redefined simplified developer experience for creating copilots using Copilot Studio.  Templates Industry specific templates to create custom copilots based on the industry specific templates. Templates will accelerate the development as we do not need to start from scratch. Some of these templates are Store Operations, Sustainability Insights, Website Q & A etc. we can also save custom copilot as template and made it available to others. Create Copilots from SharePoint - Private Preview Users can directly create custom copilots from SharePoint site by selecting documents and extend the copilot using Copilot Studio. Copilot will be available on the SharePoint site and we can directly ask any questions on the data from the data within the SharePoint site Copilot Connectors/Knowledge Sources We can now bring in...

IT Helpdesk custom Copilot using Copilot Studio and AI Builder GPT Model: In this post we see how to create a custom copilot which acts as IT Helpdesk support using Copilot Studio and Power Platform AI Builder 'Create text with GPT using a Prompt'. In this case, copilot will generate solutions for end users or agents to support with IT issues using GPT model.   This copilot can be published and made it available to users across organization. Please refer the previous blog posts on how to publish a copilot to MS Teams or SharePoint site. Power Platform AI Builder: AI Builder is a Microsoft Power Platform feature that allows you to create and use AI models for your business needs, AI Builder offers a range of AI capabilities without requiring extensive coding or data expertise. Create custom Copilot using Microsoft Copilot Studio: We now navigate to Copilot Studio -  https://copilotstudio.microsoft.com  and create a custom copilot named 'IT Helpdesk Copilot' Create a Powe...

  Custom Copilot as a canvas control on SharePoint site: This post is an extension to Part 1 to deploy the custom Copilot to SharePoint site. Before proceeding further please refer to the Part 1 as we are leveraging the custom Copilot and Service Principal created in the previous post. Deploying custom Copilot requires an additional app registration(this is different than the one created in the Part 1 for enabling authentication) to register SharePoint site as a canvas app to host copilot and handle single sign on flow. Create App Registration for SharePoint App: Login to https://portal.azure.com -> Microsoft Entra ID -> Create New App Registration Select 'Single page application' for platform and the SharePoint URL where the copilot is to be hosted and accessed Select API permissions blade and add custom API permission which was created in part 1 Save the Application(client Id) and the tenant id these will be used in SharePoint canvas app Deploy SharePoint SPFx App on ...

Custom Copilot using Copilot Studio published to MS Teams: In this two part series we see how to create a custom copilot using Microsoft Copilot Studio for Generative Answers based on the SharePoint Knowledge DB(files uploaded to SharePoint) and deploy the copilot to MS Teams and a SharePoint site. Deploying custom copilot to MS Teams and SharePoint require an authentication enabled. Lets create an Azure Service Principal(Client Id and Secret) required to enable Manual Authentication as deploying to SharePoint requires Manual Authentication. Create App Registration for Authentication: Login to https://portal.azure.com -> Microsoft Entra ID -> Create New App Registration    Add delegated API permissions: openid, profile, Files.Read.All, Sites.Read.All from Microsoft Graph Add a Scope from 'Expose an API' blade. This is required to publish the copilot to SharePoint site. You can ignore this step if you are publishing your copilot to MS Teams only. Crete a client secret fro...