Dataverse MCP Server revisited, agent context reduction strategies and the future of BizApps

It has been a while since I last tried the Dataverse MCP Server. Last summer, when it was in preview, I experimented with it extensively and posted my experiences to LinkedIn and to my blog:

• In this LinkedIn post, I showed how the Dataverse MCP Server can be used from Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Gemini CLI.

Agent 365 notifications

In my last blog post I explained in detail how to use the Agent 365 CLI to set up the infrastructure necessary to deploy a custom agent to Agent 365. So if you are just starting out, that post is a great way to get the prerequisites in place to be able to start developing your agent.

In this blog post I discuss how to build the actual agent, using the Agent 365 SDK, with specific focus on how to use the notification functionality in the SDK.

Exploring the Agent 365 CLI

Ever since Agent 365 was announced at this year’s Microsoft Ignite, I have wanted to explore this exciting technology and the possibilities it creates. Since the Model Context Protocol is a topic that is dear to my heart, I got especially interested in the Agent 365 MCP Servers, and the way they make it possible for an agent to interact with the various Microsoft productivity applications, such as Word and Teams, in different ways.

Creating dynamic MCP Servers using Agent 365

A while back I posted a video to LinkedIn that showed how to use the Microsoft 365 MCP Management MCP Server (yes, that is the name of the server) that is part of Agent 365 to dynamically create MCP Servers. In this blog post my intention is to show how this was accomplished.

Part 2 - Building the agent

In my last blog post I demonstrated how to connect to some of the MCP Servers that are part of the tooling servers in Agent 365. We used the tools MCP Inspector and Postman to accomplish this. In this blog post the goal is to use these MCP Servers in Microsoft Agent Framework, and present the resulting agent in a custom UI that uses CopilotKit and the Agent-User Interaction Protocol (AG-UI).