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SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – August 2026
SPFx 1.24 Beta 3 is now available, React 18 support is coming in 1.24, and a new Copilot Components preview program opens for customers and partners.
Building Agents for Teams: Managing the noise of collaboration
Most of us are familiar with one-to-one agent chats: private, direct interactions where rules are relatively simple. With only you and the agent, each moment ha...
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New Office Add-ins Analytics Report in Universal Store Dev Center and Seller Dashboard
Today we are excited to announce the availability of enhanced Office Add-in analytics within the Universal Store Dev Center. The new Usage report shows how customers are using your add-in across Windows (2016), Mac (2016), iOS, and Web apps.
Adding bot support to a Kaizala group
In this post, I'll explore on how you can integrate a bot with a Kaizala group. Bot aids a lot of scenarios and can be a part of the conversations and adding value. In a regular group, the messages are received and seen by all users, and can result in a chatty experience. Public groups (managed hub and spoke groups) are well suited for this scenario where the user or subscriber types in a query allowing a bot to respond – while keeping these out of the purview of other users in the group. In order to implement this, following are the steps that will take you through this experience.
Exploring Kaizala card view scenarios
In the Developing a custom action for Kaizala blog post, I introduced Kaizala custom actions – which has 4 views (creation view, chat card view, response view and results / summary view). In this post, I'll explore different scenarios where each of the views can be used for a different purpose. While this post intends to give you an idea of card view customization and not an exhaustive list! Your creativity can take you way beyond. ????
Developing a custom action for Kaizala
Kaizala ships with many actions out of box allowing you to get work done within the context of a conversation or group. Few of them are surveys, quick poll, request location, announcement, etc. But there could be a case(s) where these are not sufficient for your business or requirements and you may want to build your own action. Kaizala platform allows you to extend the client side functionality through custom actions (or cards). There are 2 ways you can create a custom action:
Flow scenario #2b: Get response from custom Kaizala forms
In this post, I will explore how you could get response from custom Kaizala forms over email. This is very similar to the scenario mentioned in the previous post: Flow scenario #2a: Get response from custom Kaizala forms.
SharePoint Site Scripts and Site Designs – April 2018 release
We are happy to announce the availability of additional Site Script Actions for SharePoint Online Site Designs and Site Scripts. These new actions will enable you to further configure automatically the newly created site collections for your employees and will reduce the requirements of having external services integrated with the provisioning process.
SharePoint Patterns & Practices – April 2018 update
SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) April 2018 update is out with a summary of the latest guidance, samples, and solutions from SharePoint engineering or from the community for the community.
Introducing Microsoft Graph community samples
Developers all around the world are creating code samples and snippets using the Microsoft Graph with all sorts of languages in very different ways every day. Each of these community contributions can be found in blogs, different GitHub repositories and various other places.
Impact of Azure Access Control retirement for SharePoint add-ins
Azure Access Control (ACS), a service of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), will be retired on November 7, 2018. SharePoint is using ACS in numerous areas, but these are not impacted by this deprecation.