Code. Deploy. Go Live.

The original audio recording cut out ~30 minutes (when the full episode was ~47m).

In episode 14 of the Code Deploy Go Live podcast, hosts Julie Turner and Andrew Connell cover the latest news for full-stack developers in the Microsoft ecosystem, including updates to Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft 365 Copilot, SharePoint Framework, and several notable deprecations.

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🔗 Node.js v22.18.0 Runs TypeScript natively!
🔗 [MC1143301] SharePoint agents are available in Teams app Store
🔗 SharePoint App Prioritization - SharePoint in Microsoft 365
🔗 SharePoint Framework community call - September 4, 2025
🔗 Support Update for SharePoint Framework Field Customizers in Lists and Document Libraries
🔗 Introducing the New SharePoint Page Template Gallery
🔗 What's new in Azure AI Foundry | August 2025
🔗 What's new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | August 2025
🔗 Announcing Copilot Studio Agent Academy
🔗 Dev Proxy v1.1 with Improved Support for Microsoft Graph Batching
🔗 Bicep Templates for Microsoft Entra ID Resources is GA
🔗 Julie Turner LinkedIn: Microsoft Graph typings not updated in 2 years
🔗 Microsoft Graph CLI Retirement
🔗 Microsoft Graph Toolkit Retirement

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Andrew's Pick:
🔗 The Daily Show: Patrick McGee - "Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company"
Julie's Picks:
🔗 3-Ingredient Rhubarb Compote

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Music Credit: Ken Bagley

In this episode of Code Deploy Go Live, hosts Julie Turner and Andrew Connell discuss Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility options, Power Platform environments, and interview Wes Preston, a Microsoft MVP since 2009 who works primarily in the productivity space with SharePoint, lists, and Power Platform.

The discussion centered on the balance between Power Platform (low-code/no-code) and Pro Dev (professional development) approaches for Microsoft 365 extensibility, with a focus on when each approach is appropriate and how organizations should make these decisions, as well as the newly introduced Power Apps Code Apps (jokingly nicknamed "alPACAs").

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From the episode intro & banter:
🔗 Extend M365 Copilot: Declarative Agent Alt to Copilot Studio
🔗 Live Microsoft 365 Learning for SPFx, Copilot, and MS Teams
🔗 Webinars - register for upcoming or watch previous webinars
🔗 CollabDays New England - October 17, 2025

From the interview with Wes:
🔗 The Power Platform Pivot with MVP Paul Culmsee and Ryan Cunningham from Microsoft
🔗 Vibe Coding using Power Apps Code Apps and GitHub Copilot by Scott Durow
🔗 Create a custom web application to run within Power Apps!

🎁 PICKS
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Andrew's Pick:
🔗 Copilot Broke Your Audit Log, but Microsoft Won't Tell You
Julie's Picks:
🔗 Find insights and answers across Carbon Markets News, Registries, and Datasets
🔗 Instagram Reel

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Music Credit: Ken Bagley

• (00:00) - Introduction

In this news-heavy episode, Andrew and Julie dive deep into the latest developments shaking up the Microsoft 365 and Azure AI landscape. Fresh off Julie's vacation to Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, the duo tackles a whirlwind of announcements dominated by artificial intelligence updates, including OpenAI's surprise release of open source models and the long-awaited launch of GPT-5. They explore how these developments impact Microsoft 365 Copilot users, from new budget controls and enhanced chat tools to the integration of GPT-5 as the foundational model for enterprise users.

The conversation takes an interesting turn as Andrew and Julie engage in a thoughtful debate about Microsoft's development philosophy, questioning whether the company's push toward simplified tooling and SDKs sometimes comes at the expense of developer understanding. They discuss the balance between productivity and transparency, using examples from Teams development and the SharePoint Framework to illustrate their points. The episode wraps up with Julie's fascinating pick about recreating ancient Egyptian bread using 4,500-year-old yeast, and Andrew's recommendation of Context7, an MCP server that provides access to over 31,000 documentation libraries for developers.

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Microsoft 365 Message Center
🔗 [MC1122160] Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: Set budget limits for "Pay-as-you-go billing" in Microsoft 365 admin center
🔗 [MC1122153] New Tools feature coming to the Microsoft Copilot Chat prompt box
🔗 [MC1099692] Microsoft Copilot: Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app
🔗 [MC1122144] Microsoft Graph Metered API Update

Microsoft 365
🔗 What's new in Copilot Studio: July 2025
🔗 Build Smarter with the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit MCP Server
🔗 Bring your own agents into Microsoft 365 Copilot
🔗 Unlock the full power of Microsoft 365 Copilot search with the Copilot extension
🔗 Introducing Copilot memory: a more productive and personalized AI for the way you work

Azure AI Foundry
🔗 What's new in Azure AI Foundry July 2025
🔗 Announcing the browser automation tool preview in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
🔗 Introducing Deep Research in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
🔗 Building AI Agents: A2A .NET SDK
🔗 AI Agent MCP Tools: Quickstart to MCP tools development with Azure AI Foundry SDK
🔗 Announcing Model Context Protocol support preview in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

OpenAI OSS models + GPT5
🔗 Open Models from OpenAI
🔗 The gpt-oss is probably Phi 5
🔗 GPT-5 is here
🔗 Introducing GPT-5 for developers
🔗 Microsoft & OpenAI GPT-5 announcement

Miscellaneous
🔗 Automate your project with GitHub Models in Actions
🔗 Introducing Gemini CLI & GitHub Actions
🔗 Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

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Julie:
🔗 Ancient Egyptian Bread Making with 4,500-Year-Old Yeast

Andrew:
🔗 Context7 - Up-to-date documentation for LLMs and AI code editor 

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Music Credit: Ken Bagley

In this episode, we dive deep into Microsoft 365 Copilot - the enterprise-grade AI assistant built specifically for business environments. We'll explain how it differs from consumer AI like ChatGPT, discuss its licensing options (from the $30/user/month model to consumption-based alternatives), and clarify common misconceptions.

We'll also demystify the relationship between AI assistants and the large language models powering them. You'll learn how Microsoft 365 Copilot leverages GPT-4o but enhances it with proprietary orchestration, enterprise-grade security, and seamless integration with your Microsoft 365 data and workflows.

Finally, we'll explore the extensibility options that allow Copilot customers to create custom agents tailored to specific business scenarios.

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News:

🔗 Microsoft Releases Urgent Patch for SharePoint RCE Flaw Exploited in Ongoing Cyber Attacks

🔗 MSRC: Customer guidance for SharePoint vulnerability CVE-2025-53770

Episode:

🔗 How Microsoft 365 Copilot Works: Understanding the Tech Stack Behind the Magic

Picks:

🔗 Julie: iD Tech | Summer Tech Camps & Online Programs for Kids & Teens
🔗 Andrew: NSLC: Summer Pre-College Career Exploration Programs for Students & Claude Code (by Anthropic)

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Music Credit: Ken Bagley

• (00:00) - Introduction

In this episode of the Code Deploy Go Live podcast, Julie Turner and Andrew Connell discuss feature deprecation in hosted services & platforms, as well as how to handle, communicate, and roll these changes out to users and customers.

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News:

🔗 Andrew Connell LinkedIn Post - Power Automate vs Zapier
🔗 Power Apps: One Option for Extending M365
🔗 Workshop: Build Declarative Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot
🔗 Microsoft 365 Roadmap Item #422308
🔗 Microsoft 365 Roadmap Item #487428
🔗 State of Devs 2025
🔗 Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
🔗 SharePoint Framework Issues #10310
🔗 Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit Issue #14193
🔗 What's new in Microsoft Teams – June 2025
🔗 Message Center Update MC1108844
🔗 What's new in Microsoft 365 Copilot – June 2025
🔗 What's new in Azure AI Foundry June 2025

Picks:

Andrew:
🔗 YouTube Video
🔗 Warp Terminal
🔗 Raycast for Windows
Julie:
🔗 Chipotle Garlic BBQ Blend
🔗 Fried Chicken Seasoning

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🔗 LinkedIn
🔗 Bluesky

Music Credit: Ken Bagley

• (00:00) - Introduction

In this episode of the Code Deploy Go Live podcast, Andrew Connell and Julie Turner discuss their experiences at the TechCon 365 conference, share personal updates, and delve into the latest news in development, with a particular focus on the Power Platform and its implications for developers. They reflect on the challenges and frustrations surrounding the Power Platform, the importance of understanding various development options, and the need for a cohesive development strategy within Microsoft 365.

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News:

🔗 Dev Proxy v0.29 with refactored architecture, MCP server, and exposed LM prompts
🔗 Agent mode is now generally available with MCP support
🔗 Use MCP tools in agent mode
🔗 MCP server docs for VS Code
🔗 Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs: Unlocking enterprise knowledge for AI with the Retrieval API
🔗 Deprecation of ms-app-acts-as header in Shifts management Microsoft Graph APIs
🔗 Deprecated: SPFx Field Customizers, Further Eroding M365 Dev's Trust
🔗 Microsoft retires SharePoint Framework field customizers
🔗 SharePoint Framework Field Customizers Support Update - Message Center
🔗 Announcing model context protocol support preview in Azure AI Foundry agent service
🔗 The future of AI developing code assist – a multi-agent tool

Picks:

🔗 Andrew: YouTube Premium
🔗 Julie: Simon Sinek: You're Being Lied To About AI's Real Purpose! We're Teaching Our Kids To Not Be Human!

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Music Credit: Ken Bagley

• (00:00) - : Introduction

In this episode of Code Deploy Go Live, Julie Turner and Andrew Connell unpack the latest updates in the Microsoft 365 and cloud ecosystem. From GitHub Actions enhancements and the launch of the State of CSS 2025 survey to a major Google Cloud outage and Microsoft's new Sovereign Cloud initiative, they break down what matters and why.

But the real headline? Microsoft’s deprecation of SharePoint Framework Field Customizers. Julie and Andrew dive deep into the implications of this controversial move, exploring how it breaks long-standing developer contracts, disrupts business-critical solutions, and erodes trust in the SharePoint extensibility model. If you're a Microsoft 365 developer, this is a must-listen episode.

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News:
🔗 Release Branch Strategies in CI/CD with Federated Identity - GitHub edition
🔗 State of CSS 2025 Survey
🔗 GCP Service Health - June 12, 2025
🔗 Introducing Multi-Vector and Scoring Profile integration with Semantic Ranking in Azure AI Search
🔗 Resharing to external users required after enabling Microsoft SharePoint integration with Microsoft Entra B2B
🔗 Announcing comprehensive sovereign solutions empowering European organizations
🔗 Microsoft Is Changing the Way It Delivers M365 Enterprise App Updates
🔗 AC's Blog Post: SharePoint Online's Support for Content Security Policy
🔗 Support Update for SharePoint Framework Field Customizers in Lists and Document Libraries
🔗 AC's Blog Post: Microsoft retires SharePoint Framework field customizers

Picks:
🔗 AC: Netflix: Turning Point Vietnam War
🔗 JT: Where the ‘Chef’s Table: Legends’ Eat Around the World | Condé Nast Traveler
🔗 JT: We Feed People Documentary

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Music Credit: Ken Bagley

• (17:10) - News

In this episode, Andrew Connell and Julie Turner discuss the highlights from the Microsoft Build Conference 2025, reflecting on new developments in Microsoft 365 and Azure. They share personal experiences from recent conferences, the launch of their podcast, and delve into significant updates such as the rebranding of the Teams Toolkit to the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit, changes in SDKs, and the frustrating release of the Teams AI Library v2 preview.

The conversation emphasizes the importance of these updates for developers and the evolving landscape of Microsoft technologies. In this episode, Andrew Connell and Julie Turner discuss the complexities and frustrations surrounding the Teams AI Library and its recent developments. They delve into the improvements in declarative agents, the introduction of TypeSpec for easier API management, and the role of MCP servers in decoupling operations. The conversation also touches on upcoming APIs for Copilot, rapid updates on Azure, and a comparison between the development focus of Microsoft 365 and Azure.

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News:

• VS Code: Old Fashioned CSS Formatter
• Microsoft Build 2025
• Microsoft Build 2025 - Book of News
• AC's Article - Microsoft 365 Full-Stack Developer's Recap to Build 2025
• AC's YouTube Playlist - Microsoft Build 2025 - for Microsoft 365 Full-Stack Developers

Picks:

• AC: NASA MCP Server 
• Julie: Boards by Elle Simone Scott

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Music Credit: Ken Bagley

• (07:46) - News

In this episode, Julie Turner and Andrew Connell share the latest enhancement in Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines with federated identity login via the Microsoft 365 CLI, thanks to Martin Lingstuyl. This new feature simplifies the login process and eliminates the need for app registrations and certificates. The main focus of the episode was the critical discussion of the frustrations and challenges faced by developers due to the lack of robust API support in Microsoft 365.

They also discuss the importance of both delegated and application permissions, and why every new feature in Microsoft 365 should be supported by APIs from day one. Understand the impact of missing APIs on business processes and the necessity for comprehensive API coverage in modern development.

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News:

• Add login through federated identity for Azure Devops
• Nested App Authentication: Now generally available across Microsoft 365
• Announcing the updated Teams AI Library and MCP support
• TypeSpec 1.0 GA: API First, Made Practical
• Dev Proxy v0.27 with generating TypeSpec files and configuring using natural language
• Show HN: An MCP server for understanding AWS costs
• Microsoft Copilot Studio ❤️ MCP
• The Azure MCP Server, bringing the power of Azure to your agents

Picks:

• AC: Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown
• Julie: Netflix's Chefs Table | Legends

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Music Credit: Ken Bagley

• (00:41) - News

In this episode, Andrew Connell and Julie Turner discuss the release of PMP PowerShell V3 by Erwin van Hunen, which now supports .NET 8 and PowerShell 7.4. We also touch on new Microsoft Teams development templates for creating collaborative agents and some recent bugs discovered in Teams app development. The focus of this episode is on data storage options for Microsoft Teams app development. Andrew and Julie explore four primary methods for storing data in Teams apps: SharePoint site collections, OneDrive, SharePoint Embedded, and Azure resources.

They discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each option, providing insights into when and why to use each method. Whether you're building a simple app or a robust enterprise solution, this episode offers valuable guidance including security considerations and practical tips for effective data management in Teams app development.

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News:

• PnP PowerShell v3 released!
• Explore AI-Powered Teams Apps
• 🐞Tabs - React with Fluent UI template has invalid scopes

Picks:

• AC: Playwright Live - Testing with AI using Playwright MCP (Model Context Protocol) + Live Demo
• Julie: The Lost Kitchen - Chocolate Chip Cookies

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• (04:20) - News