MS-4010: Build plugins and connectors for Microsoft 365 Copilot Training

Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility fundamentals

• Explain how Copilot and agents work together to create a personalized, intelligent assistant with the knowledge and skills unique to your business.
• Describe the types of agents and the wide spectrum of capabilities with which they can be customized.
• Explain how to ground your Copilot responses with multiple enterprise data sources for more relevant and reliable responses.

Choose a Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility development path

• Decide whether to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot using its existing orchestrator or to build a custom engine agent, based on their specific needs and goals.
• Gain insights into the various development tools and methods available, whether they prefer pro-code or low-code/no-code solutions, and how to set up their development environment for building these extensions.
• Understand the different ways to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot, including using declarative agents, custom engine agents, plugins, and connectors.
• Explain data privacy and security considerations for developing each extensibility option.

Connect Microsoft 365 Copilot to your external data in real-time with message extension plugins built with .NET and Visual Studio

• Understand what message extensions are and how to build them
• Create a message extension
• Understand how to authenticate users using single sign-on and call a custom API protected with Microsoft Entra authentication
• Understand how to extend and optimize message extensions for use with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Guided Project - Build a message extension plugin with TypeScript (TS) for Microsoft 365 Copilot

• Understand the purpose and functionality of Teams Message Extensions as plugins in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Learn how to set up a development environment and run the Northwind Inventory application.
• Gain practical experience in running the application as a message extension in Microsoft Teams and Outlook.
• Run the application as a plugin for Microsoft 365 Copilot and experiment with prompting.
• Develop skills in adding new commands to the application to expand the plugin capabilities and perform more tasks.
• Understand the underlying code of the application and how it works in more depth.

Introduction to declarative agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot

• Evaluate whether a declarative agent is appropriate to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot for your scenario.
• Describe how the components of a declarative agent work together to create agents that run on Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Build your first declarative agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot by using Visual Studio Code

• Design a declarative agent to solve a business problem.
• Implement a declarative agent with custom knowledge.
• Upload and use a declarative agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot to validate the results.

Build your first action for declarative agents with API plugin by using Visual Studio Code

• Design a declarative agent with actions using an API plugin
• Integrate a declarative agent with an API plugin connected to an anonymous API
• Run declarative agent with an API plugin in Microsoft 365 Copilot to validate the results

Use Adaptive Cards to show data in API plugins for declarative agents

• Create an Adaptive Card template that shows the data from the API.
• Verify that the Adaptive Card template correctly renders API data.
• Configure the API plugin to render the data using the Adaptive Card template.
• Upload your declarative agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot and validate the results.

Add custom knowledge to declarative agents using Microsoft Graph connectors and Visual Studio Code

• Design a declarative agent with a Graph connector
• Integrate a declarative agent with a Graph connector
• Run declarative agent with a Graph connector in Microsoft 365 Copilot to validate the results