Microsoft has introduced Work IQ, a workplace intelligence layer that lets AI agents read and act on live Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 data. Developers can reach it through an MCP server, an A2A endpoint or a REST API instead of wiring up many Graph endpoints. Every request runs under the signed-in user's Entra ID identity.
SharePoint Embedded guidance for moving apps to production has been updated. It covers container and tenant limits, handling throttling, narrower Graph permissions and Office co-authoring. For developers building on the Microsoft 365 platform, it offers concrete planning and security points.
Microsoft has released a public preview of dotnetup, a cross-platform tool that installs and updates .NET SDKs and runtimes in the user's own directory without admin rights. It follows channels such as latest, lts and preview, reads global.json, and cleans up unused installs. Commands may still change before general availability.
Benjamin Abt explains how the .NET SDK's PublishContainer target can build an OCI image for ASP.NET Core services without a Dockerfile and deliver it to a registry, an archive or a local runtime. The article offers a practical rule for when SDK publishing fits and when a Dockerfile still makes sense.
Part 9 of Taiseer Joudeh's MCP series shows how to attach an existing ASP.NET Core MCP server to a hosted Foundry agent without changing its code. The setup covers a Foundry project, an Entra app registration, a custom MCP connection using OAuth identity passthrough, and a toolbox. It matters for .NET teams that want the agent loop in Azure while user-based authorization still works.
Microsoft Graph supplies calendar, mail and document data that can be indexed with Azure AI Search and passed to a language model to produce sourced answers. The article walks through a .NET retrieval-augmented generation flow with code for loading context, chunking documents and calling the model. It stresses least-privilege scopes and permission-aware retrieval, which matter for any enterprise assistant.
Microsoft has announced the public preview of dotnetup, a toolchain manager that installs, manages and updates .NET SDKs and runtimes in the user account on macOS and Linux. It needs no admin rights, supports side-by-side versions and respects global.json. It is a practical option for local machines and CI workers.