Develop enterprise-grade, AI-ready custom apps with SharePoint Embedded

“Just add documents” sounds simple. Until it isn’t.

Once enterprise requirements enter the picture, a simple document feature can become an entire platform: content management, permissions, collaboration, governance, agentic experiences, recovery, and administration.

The question becomes: Do you want to build all of that, or build on it?

With SharePoint Embedded, developers can use Microsoft 365 as the document platform behind their application while owning the experience in front of it.

That can mean more time building what makes your app different, and less time rebuilding commodity content services.

Learn how SharePoint Embedded can help you build collaborative, enterprise applications on governed content in the latest SharePoint Embedded blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/your-app-needs-documents-do-you-really-want-to-build-a-document-platform/?utm_source=social-MTC

Want to learn more about recent updates? Check out our other recent blog posts:

• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/develop-enterprise-grade-apps-with-sharepoint-embedded/?utm_source=social-MTC: Explore the latest SharePoint Embedded guidance to help you plan with confidence, design for reliability at scale, and strengthen governance. Get clearer guidance on limits, throttling, authentication, and authorization to inform your production decisions. 
• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/streamline-creation-and-management-of-ai-ready-custom-apps-with-sharepoint-embedded/?utm_source=social-MTC: Learn how the Apps experience in the SharePoint admin center gives admins a centralized place to create and review SharePoint Embedded apps, reducing the need for PowerShell scripts or Graph connectors for app creation. The experience supports registering or associating a Microsoft Entra app, assigning owners, and configuring billing as part of the creation flow. 

Next steps

Get started quickly by pointing your coding assistant at the https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dev/embedded/build/sharepoint-embedded-mcp-server?utm_source=social-MTC to provision and manage resources through natural language. Run: npx https://github.com/microsoft/SharePoint-Embedded-MCP-Server and then ask it to create a SharePoint Embedded project and a sample app you can upload files to.

Prefer to start with a guided view? Use the https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SharepointEmbedded.ms-sharepoint-embedded-vscode-extension to create a container type, configure the owning app and billing, register the container type, create containers, and load a sample app.

Not sure where to start? Visit the https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dev/embedded/sharepoint-embedded-documentation?utm_source=social-MTC to learn more about SharePoint Embedded and https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dev/embedded/scenarios-and-use-cases?utm_source=social-MTC.

Transparency: I support the SharePoint Embedded product team.