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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 17/09/2026

Join Fabio Franzini and me at #RoadToWPC for a preview of WPC 2026! We'll explore extending Microsoft 365 Copilot with MCP and SharePoint Copilot Apps. 23 September, 9:30 AM to 1 PM CEST. Online, in Italian. Register free: www.wpc.education/road-to-wpc-2026

RoadToWPC 2026 poster featuring speakers Fabio Franzini of Apvee Solutions and Matteo Pagani of Microsoft. Session: Extending Microsoft 365 Copilot with MCP and SharePoint Copilot Apps. Online on 23 September, 09:30 to 13:00 CEST, in Italian.

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 03/08/2026

Curious how Microsoft IQ helps your AI agents tap into real knowledge? From August to November, join our live series, a new episode every two weeks, on Foundry IQ, Work IQ, Web IQ and Fabric IQ, plus Agent 365 for governance. Register: aka.ms/MicrosoftIQLive #MicrosoftIQ #AI

Promotional banner for the Microsoft IQ Live stream series on Microsoft Reactor, running from August 6 to November 12, 2026, with a new episode every two weeks. It lists the speakers Ayca Bas, Marco Casalaina, Mike Carter, Paolo Pialorsi, Leyre de la Calzada Alonso, Farzad Sunavala, Chafia Aouissi, Josh Ndemenge and Srikumar Nair, plus the topics Foundry IQ, Work IQ, Web IQ, Fabric IQ and Agent 365. Registration link: aka.ms/MicrosoftIQLive

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 30/07/2026

Record yourself doing a task once, and Skill Recorder turns it into a skill an AI agent can repeat. GitHub Copilot reconstructs your intent and steps, then builds a Skill or an Automation. Works with Cowork, Copilot Studio, Scout and more. github.com/microsoft/skill-recorder

The Skill Recorder capture window, with a record button, a timer, an optional narration toggle, and readiness checks.

The Skill Recorder library, showing recorded sessions on the left and the reconstructed intent with a numbered list of steps on the right.

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 17/07/2026

A skill I built and tested on my own vacation is now in the PowerCAT catalog. It watches Teams and email for urgent asks from key people or topics, then pings my personal inbox. I disconnected and missed nothing: microsoft.github.io/cat-agent-skill…

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 17/07/2026

PowerCAT shipped new resources for building Copilot Studio agents in the task paradigm (Cowork, Scout): microsoft.github.io/mcscatblog/post… github.com/microsoft/copilot-studio… microsoft.github.io/cat-agent-skills

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 16/07/2026

Tried something with Agent 365. My agent runs on an autopilot identity and queries Work IQ, so when I ask "which meetings did you have today?" it returns its own calendar, not mine. On an autopilot identity the token identifies the agent, not the user, so Work IQ answers as the agent.

Teams chat: the user asks 'which meetings did you have today?' and a Microsoft Learn Agent replies that it had one meeting, listing subject, organizer, time, location and RSVP status from its own calendar.

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 22/06/2026

Copilot Cowork is GA, so I reused the exact same MCP server and OAuth registration from my federated connector to power a Cowork plugin. No new Entra app, nothing to register again. www.developerscantina.com/p/cowork-…

A friendly white and blue cartoon robot with a glowing smiling face, holding a glowing connector plug marked with a padlock and a floating data module, against a bright blue sky with clouds. It represents a secure MCP connector.

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 18/06/2026

You can plug your own MCP server into Microsoft 365 Copilot as a federated connector: live data on demand, nothing ingested into the tenant. New post with the full setup, Entra auth included: www.developerscantina.com/p/mcp-fed…

A friendly cartoon robot handing a glowing data sphere through a golden padlock to a smiling Microsoft Copilot orb, against a blue sky.

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 17/06/2026

The Work IQ APIs are now generally available. Give your custom agents Microsoft 365 organizational data, far beyond Graph. Built for every scenario: MCP and A2A for agentic, REST for traditional. www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-3…

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 16/06/2026

Copilot Cowork is now generally available. It runs complex, long running tasks against your org data and returns a finished result. New skill catalog to extend it, plus a Cost Management Dashboard for tracking Copilot Credits. GPT 5.5 (EUDB compliant) and Edge browsing are available in Frontier.

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 11/06/2026

The day is here. I am at BeConnected in Italy today. Come to my two sessions: 🔹 10:55, Room 4: MCP in the Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem 🔹 16:10, Room 6: onboarding agents into Agent 365 Come say hi 👉 www.beconnectedday.it/?mtm_campaign…

BeConnected Day banner with a Star Trek style starship flying through a rainbow colored space scene. Text reads: The number 1 free community event on Microsoft technology in Italy, 11 Jun, A journey beyond technology.

Star Trek Kirk and Spock standees flanking a chair at the Be:Co BeConnected booth.

Attendees walking through the blue-lit hallway at BeConnected Day.

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 05/06/2026

BeConnected is next week, the number 1 free community event on Microsoft tech in Italy, on June 11. I am speaking twice: MCP in the Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem, and onboarding agents into Agent 365. Free and open 👉 www.beconnectedday.it/?mtm_campaign…

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 02/06/2026

Microsoft Scout is out. Like OpenClaw, but with safe work-data access via WorkIQ, Teams built-in, skills, browser automation. I use it for briefings, OOF triage, expenses. www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-3…

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 19/05/2026

🚀 Speaking at BeConnected Day — FREE event in Milan, June 11th! Two sessions: 🔌 MCP in the M365 Copilot ecosystem 🤖 Onboarding agents into Agent 365 Grab your free ticket 👇 www.beconnectedday.it/?mtm_campaign… #BeConnectedDay #Copilot #MCP

BeConnected Day speaker card for Matteo Pagani, Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect, June 11 — featured in a Starfleet uniform.

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 08/05/2026

Agent 365 SDK works beyond M365! Built a standalone web agent with full observability + governance via Agent 365, Azure Monitor & Aspire — all from one Microsoft OpenTelemetry package. One library, three destinations. 🚀 #Agent365 #OpenTelemetry #AIAgents

Agent 365 activity dashboard showing 3 active users, 7 sessions, and 0 exceptions for mpagani-basic-agent

Active users list showing 3 users who interacted with the agent on May 8 2026

Aspire dashboard showing distributed traces from the standalone web agent

Basic Agent web UI showing a chat interface

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 05/05/2026

Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot can be genuinely fun when the result solves a real problem 😊 I built a React + Azure Functions PWA to plan our family trip to Disneyland Paris: shared timeline, weather-aware scheduling, live ride queues, restaurants, and manual rearranging. Small project, real use.

Screenshot of a Disneyland Paris trip planner showing weather forecast cards and a timeline with scheduled shows and free time blocks.

Screenshot of a restaurant selection dialog listing Disneyland Paris restaurants with filters for parks and restaurant types.

Screenshot of a ride selection dialog showing Disneyland Paris attractions with park filters, queue status, and estimated wait times.

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 30/04/2026

I had an AI agent test my event registration form 20+ times via Playwright — different data, complex routing, Excel verification. It found a bug I'd have missed. Playwright + AI agents is a game changer for boring-but-critical testing. 🤖

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 29/04/2026

Last stop of the Copilot Developer Camp: Milan! Being kicked off right now by Paolo Pialorsi. Deep dive on building agents for M365 Copilot in the morning, hackathon in the afternoon. #CopilotDevCamp #Microsoft365

Paolo Pialorsi kicking off the Copilot Developer Camp in Milan

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 28/04/2026

I vibe coded a tool to solve a common Copilot Studio need: seeing user feedback in detail. Filter by agent, search feedback, and expand any entry to see the full conversation context. Open source 👇 github.com/qmatteoq/copilotstudio-feedback #CopilotStudio #VibeCoding

Dashboard view showing feedback entries from Copilot Studio agents

Detail view showing the full conversation context for a feedback entry

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 27/04/2026

GPT-5.5 is out and it's built for agentic workflows — multi-step reasoning, tool use, autonomous execution. Already available in Azure AI Foundry and GitHub Copilot. openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ #GPT55 #AgenticAI

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 24/04/2026

Kamal Shree and the one and only @donasarkar.bsky.social introduce the Copilot Developer Camp in Rome! Packed room and packed agenda, full of sessions and practical workshops on building agents for the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem #copilot #microsoft365

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 23/04/2026

The first round of sessions from Microsoft Build 2026 has been added to the catalog! Go and check it out if you want a sneak peak of the topics that will be covered during the 2 days! Hint: AI will play a big role. And agents, of course 😊 build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions #msbuild

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 23/04/2026

Next level of smart working 😊 Getting ready for the Copilot Developer Camp in the Microsoft headquarters in Rome tomorrow! We have a packed agenda and an amazing line up of speakers! #copilot #microsoft365

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 16/04/2026

Thanks to the support of my friend Francesco Lana, I upgraded my home network: 1) Upgraded my FTTH provider 2) Moved to Unifi and Dream Router 7 3) Added a new cable to bring Internet to my PC using Ethernet Well, I can’t complain 😊

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 13/04/2026

Excited to be at the Global Azure Bootcamp in Milan! Join me at 5.15 PM to see how you can use Azure to manage authentication for an MCP server and consume it through the Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem www.azuremeetupmilano.it/e/3814/Globa... #azure

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 10/03/2026

Today I had the great opportunity at the Microsoft AI Tour in Milan to show a glimpse of the future of Agent 365: hwo you can take any pro-code agent and, by using the Agent 365 CLI and the Agents 365 SDK, make it part of the control plane, so you can monitor it, govern it and protect it. #msaitour

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 05/03/2026

Excited to join the AI Tour in Milan on March 10! I'll discuss integrating pro-code agents into Agent 365 for enhanced observability, monitoring, and security with Entra, Defender, and Pureview. Plus, an amazing lineup of speakers and sessions: aitour.microsoft.com/flow/microso... #aitour #agent365

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 01/03/2026

Oh my way to Bucharest for a Copilot Studio hackathon with multiple customers. It will be an intense but fun week! #CopilotStudio #Copilot

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 22/02/2026

Beautiful day in Milan to experience for the last time the Olympic spirit of the city #MilanoCortina #Olympics

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 16/02/2026

We continue our journey on how to consume Entra-authenticated MCP servers in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. After building a protected MCP server and used it in a declarative agent, now we learn how to do the same with Copilot Studio #mcp #CopilotStudio www.developerscantina.com/p/mcp-copilo...

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 10/02/2026

Beautiful day in Seattle for the first day of #MCAPSTechConnect! Today, after the keynote, I will start my personal Tech Connect experience with two tech talks. Super excited!

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 07/02/2026

Hello Seattle! I’ll be spending the next week here for #MCAPSTechConnect, where I’ll have the privilege to share my experience on building agents for the Microsoft 365 ecosystem with more than 5000 colleagues from all over the world!

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 30/01/2026

We’ve built an Entra-authenticated MCP server—now let’s actually use it 👀 Here’s how to connect it to a declarative agent in Copilot Chat using the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit and the new MCP support: 👉 www.developerscantina.com/p/mcp-declar... #Microsoft365 #Copilot

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Consuming an authenticated MCP server with a declarative agent in Copilot Chat

In this post, we'll learn how to create a declarative agent using the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit that consumes an Entra-authenticated MCP server.

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 29/01/2026

I’ve started to use Obsidian to track my notes and tasks, but I was missing a mobile-friendly way to manage them. Then I discovered TaskForge for iOS! You get a unified view of tasks across pages, calendar views, widgets, a mobile friendly UI to add and edit tasks. apps.apple.com/it/app/taskf...

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 28/01/2026

As a follow up to my previous article, in this new post we explore how you can turn the Entra-authenticated MCP server from being single-tenant to multi-tenant www.developerscantina.com/p/mcp-entra-... This enables user with anty work account to securely connect to our MCP server. #MCP #AI

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Enabling multi-tenant authentication for MCP servers with Microsoft Entra and APIM

In this post, we'll learn how to enable multi-tenant authentication for MCP servers, allowing users from any organization to access your protected APIs.

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 26/01/2026

As promised 👇 Here’s a step-by-step guide on building your own MCP server with .NET, secured using Entra via Azure API Management. In the coming weeks, I’ll also dive into how this protected server can be used inside the Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem. 👉 www.developerscantina.com/p/mcp-entra-...

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Building an authenticated MCP server with Microsoft Entra and .NET

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 25/01/2026

Nice use case for custom agents in GitHub Copilot. Since I write blog posts in Markdown, I've created a custom agent in VS Code that helps me to review and improve the quality of my work right side by side with the post #github #githubcopilot #blog

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 21/01/2026

Agent Identity in Microsoft Foundry is pretty cool! I built an Entra-authenticated MCP server, and getting it to work with declarative agents + M365 Copilot meant setting up OAuth 2.0 very carefully. In Foundry? No extra work. The agent has its own identity in the tenant, so everything just clicks.

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 20/01/2026

Success! 🎉 I’ve got an MCP server secured with Entra authentication, managed via Azure API Management, and consumed by a declarative agent using OAuth 2.0. I’m currently deep in prep for an internal event, but I’ll try to carve out time soon to write a blog post. More to come! #Microsoft365

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 11/01/2026

Lately I'm struggling with keeping up with all my tasks so, inspired by others, I'm starting the experiment to use Obsidian as a second brain to dump notes and information. So far, I like the simplicity, the usage of Markdown and easy sync with GitHub. Let's see how it goes! #obsidian #secondbrain

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 16/12/2025

I’m here at The Agentic Day in Lodestar! It’s a packaged agent full of practical content and insights about using AI and agents in various contexts: coding, enterprise with Microsoft 365, data with Fabric and much more! #AgenticDay

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 11/12/2025

OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.2! And it’s already live in Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot. The pace of innovation here is wild—in a good way. 🔗 openai.com/index/introd... #OpenAI #Copilot

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 04/12/2025

WPC never disappoints! It’s great to spend 3 days with friends, colleagues and customers. Here are the demos for my sessions: - Copilot agents with Microsoft 365 Agents SDK github.com/qmatteoq/WPC... - Multi agents architectures for the Microsoft 365 ecosystem github.com/qmatteoq/WPC... #WPC2025

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 02/12/2025

WPC 2025 day 1 was a blast! Lot of networking and great content! Looking forward for day 2 and my session about building pro-code agents for Microsoft 365! #WPC2025 #Microsoft365

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 01/12/2025

Today I’m at the Microsoft House for the GitHub Universe Recap. Once a dev, always a dev 😊—excited to dive into the latest updates on GitHub Copilot and see what’s coming next for developers. #GitHub #GitHubUniverse

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 30/11/2025

@brianmbendis.bsky.social are you doing any signing session this afternoon at Milan Games Week? I’m a big fan of your work and I would love to get my copy of House Of M #1 signed 😊

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 28/11/2025

On my way to the Microsoft House in Milan for .NET Conf, where I’ll be speaking on building agents for Microsoft 365 with .NET. The event is sold out, but it will be streamed live at www.dotnetconference.it (the event is in Italian) #dotnet #microsoft365

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.NET Conference 2025 | Milano, 28 novembre 2025 | La conferenza tecnica italiana dedicata a .NET

La conferenza tecnica italiana dedicata a .NET

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Matteo Pagani @matteo.devcantina.com · 25/11/2025

I just discovered watching an Ignite session that the GitHub Copilop app modernization extension for VS Code supports migrating Semantic Kernel and Autogen projects to the new Microsoft Agents Framework. Neat! aka.ms/ghcp-appmod/... #msignite #ai #agentframework

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GitHub Copilot app modernization - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Upgrade and migrate your Java applications to Azure

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