Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Concept

An open protocol that lets AI applications connect to tools and data sources in a standard way. An MCP server exposes capabilities, and any compatible agent can discover and call them.

Sessions on this topic (14)

• Dataverse ❤️ Copilot Studio: Connect your CRM Data with MCP Servers VS Connectors and Knowledge Sources · Angeliki Patsiavou · M365Con 2027
• Introduction to the BPA app and the related ERP Analytics MCP · Hylke Britstra · M365Con 2027
• How Coding Agents Actually Work: Tools, MCP, and the Agent Loop · Tore Nestenius · M365Con 2027
• CLI Tools with .NET for Humans and agents as well. · Gabor Ruzsinszki · M365Con 2027
• Give Your Agent Hands, Not the Keys: Building an Agent Harness in .NET · Saeed Esmaeelinejad · M365Con 2027
• MCP + Microsoft Foundry: Connecting AI Agents to the Enterprise · Smita Nachan, Nanddeep Nachan · M365Con 2027
• Turn Your Azure Functions into an MCP Server with APIM · Habeeb Yakubu · M365Con 2027
• Dataverse ❤️ Copilot Studio: Connect your CRM Data with MCP Servers VS Connectors and Knowledge Sources · Angeliki Patsiavou · M365Con 2027
• Introduction to the BPA app and the related ERP Analytics MCP · Hylke Britstra · M365Con 2027
• How Coding Agents Actually Work: Tools, MCP, and the Agent Loop · Tore Nestenius · M365Con 2027
• CLI Tools with .NET for Humans and agents as well. · Gabor Ruzsinszki · M365Con 2027
• Give Your Agent Hands, Not the Keys: Building an Agent Harness in .NET · Saeed Esmaeelinejad · M365Con 2027
• MCP + Microsoft Foundry: Connecting AI Agents to the Enterprise · Smita Nachan, Nanddeep Nachan · M365Con 2027
• Turn Your Azure Functions into an MCP Server with APIM · Habeeb Yakubu · M365Con 2027

Glossary

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• Microsoft Foundry · Related to · Product
  Microsoft's platform for building, evaluating and operating AI applications and agents with model catalog, agent service, tools, evaluation and observability; formerly Azure AI Foundry.
• Agent skill · Related to · Concept
  Reusable package of instructions, scripts and resources that an AI agent loads on demand to perform a specific task consistently.
• Agent loop · Related to · Concept
  Control cycle in which an AI agent plans, calls tools, observes the result and repeats until the goal is reached or it must hand over to a human.
• Knowledge source · Related to · Concept
  Content an agent in Copilot Studio can ground its answers on, such as SharePoint sites, files, websites, Dataverse tables or connectors.
• ERP Analytics MCP · Related to · Product
  MCP server that exposes Dynamics 365 ERP analytics from Business Performance Analytics to AI agents.
• Dataverse MCP server · Related to · Product
  MCP server that lets agents query and update Dataverse and Dynamics 365 data through the Model Context Protocol, an alternative to connectors.
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• Habeeb Yakubu · Related to · Person
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