Introduction In my previous post, I went through how you can index documents from SharePoint in Azure AI Search and how this might benefit your agent over the built-in SharePoint integration. One key benefit that I didn’t touch on is that you can bring in additional columns from SharePoint that are not currently exposed, but you can using Azure AI Search. I covered why this might be important in a recent blog post. ...
Introduction As of December 2025, this feature is in public preview - more information can be found in the official documentation. Whilst it is possible to shortcut some these steps by using the Azure AI Search SharePoint agentic knowledge source, this doesn’t produce great results with Copilot out of the box, for example citations don’t link back to the original SharePoint document. Whilst in theory, M365 Copilot agents can use a built-in SharePoint knowledge source that leverages a semantic index, in practice, it can be hit and miss (inconsistent, not always matching to most relevant content, etc.). ...