Extending SharePoint capabilities - Lightning Tools - SharePoint Partner Showcase
We are excited to share a new episode on our partner showcase series focused on SharePoint in Microsoft 365. In this post, we focus on Lightning Tools which is providing a set of additional features and capabilities directly on top of SharePoint.SharePoint and OneDrive at Microsoft Ignite 2025: What to Expect
Next week Microsoft Ignite 2025 lands in San Francisco’s Moscone Center for the first time! Bringing a wave of innovation that’s reshaping the industry for AI-driven content management, secure collaboration, and seamless digital experiences.Consumption-based pricing for SharePoint agents
Learn more about the pay-as-you-go pricing model as it relates to SharePoint agents in Microsoft 365. Last month, we introduced consumption-based pricing for SharePoint agents. This new billing model offers greater flexibility for organizations looking to start using SharePoint agents. The pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) meter enables customers to pay only for the messages they consume, providing an alternative to a per user/per month license. This model is designed to accommodate varying usage patterns, making it ideal for businesses with fluctuating demands.SharePoint Embedded & M-Files: powering a new wave of industry agents for document management
Today, July 1, 2025 marks a new era in the document management industry, and a new chapter for SharePoint as the world's leading document management platform. Today we share the news that M-Files has announced that they are using SharePoint Embedded to natively store their customers' content in Microsoft 365. By natively leveraging SharePoint Embedded, M-Files is enhancing its deep portfolio of solutions with the full richness of Microsoft 365, Purview, and Copilot. We are thrilled to deepen the long-standing partnership between M-Files and Microsoft for the benefit of our mutual customers beyond the existing integrations into Office, Teams, Dynamics, and more that M-Files provides. Let's take a look at what this means for the new era of document management... M-Files has always been known for excelling in high value solutions for accounting, tax & audit, wealth management, consulting, engineering, energy & utilities, scientific research, insurance brokers and manufacturing. With deep integration into line of business systems commonly used in these sectors, and extensive metadata, business objects, and advanced document management capabilities, they have built formidable expertise in these verticals. However, until today, when choosing another document management platform from a competitor, customers had to make the difficult choice to lose the benefits of Microsoft 365 as the content would be stored in a separate repository. Losing features such as fully native co-authoring, the best security and compliance in the industry with Microsoft Purview, and direct support with Copilot and the rest of the features of Microsoft 365 in order to get the deepest industry solutions and line of business system integration, was a painful choice. Starting today, customers no longer have to choose. M-Files now leverages SharePoint Embedded as the storage layer for their platform. This means M-Files customers' content lives within the security boundary of Microsoft 365 with full Purview support. Everyone gets completely native co-authoring and sharing exactly like they do in OneDrive or SharePoint thanks to SharePoint Embedded. Microsoft Search can find and index the content without any connectors. Most importantly, Copilot can reason over the content in M-Files and a whole new generation of agents can be delivered with curated, AI-ready content that customers have long stored in M-Files. Considering the vast amount of industry content that customers already store in M-Files, unlocking that for use with Copilot and being able to build new agents for professional services, manufacturing and energy & utilities and all of the other verticals that M-Files specializes in is an exciting new era for document management. Customers no longer have to choose between the "system of record" and the "system of engagement". The time to securely enable all this high value content for the AI-driven future has arrived. At Microsoft our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We are proud to empower M-Files and all of their customers to achieve more in the era of AI by building on SharePoint Embedded! To learn more about the partnership and capabilities available today from M-Files built on SharePoint Embedded, click here. To learn more about SharePoint Embedded, the best way to store documents and build AI-focused applications, click here.SharePoint Hackathon Winner - SharePoint Agents
We are excited to provide more details on the winners of the recent worldwide SharePoint Hackathon 2025. We had four different categories on this hackathon, which was available for everyone to join with different objectives for different roles from end user, designer, architect, or developer and more. We announced the nominees and winners for each of the categories in a separate blog post, but also wanted to provide more details on the winner submissions for each category. Winners in the SharePoint Agents category were Sudipta Kumar Basu, Kuntal Chakraborty, Pritam Mallick, and Snehasish Das from Capgemini. This category focused on demonstration of SharePoint agent use case on the distinct kinds of materials and source files which are used for the agents. Their submission was a great example on creating powerful agents with customer specific materials. You can find detailed demonstrations on their submission within the following video. Presenters - Sudipta Kumar Basu, Kuntal Chakraborty, Pritam Mallick & Snehasish Das Host - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) References to latest SharePoint Agents information: Agents in SharePoint Get started with SharePoint Agents Introduction to SharePoint agents Create a SharePoint agent for your site Getting started with SharePoint agents Get started with SharePoint agents IT governance and control Unlocking Efficiency: SharePoint Agents in Action | SharePoint Hackathon Thanks to all the participants on the SharePoint Hackathon 👏🙏🧡 Please provide us with input and feedback in the hackathon. Should we do this again? - https://aka.ms/sharepoint/hackathon/feedback Got feedback on the latest SharePoint features, SharePoint Hackathon or any other topics? Feel free to add comments and we'll get back to you.
