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Kiril
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Sep 09, 2020

Microsoft Teams display for Surface Pro or iPad (Meeting information outside the meeting room)

Dear community,   is there anything similar to meetio (https://www.meetio.com/) in the Microsoft Teams ecosystem? What I am trying to achieve is to put a display outside our meeting rooms (e.g. nex...
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ChrisWebbTech
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Sep 10, 2020
Well unfortunately there is no flow action for creating an online meeting, but the graph call for it seems to be able too, so you would have to do some graph calls, which I think Vesa has some blogs for, but it might require some premium licenses etc. to run them thou. But that could be a fun little project to create a PowerApp that can manage a Teams room via an iPad (PowerApp loaded on the iPad) that creates the meetings and has the Teams meeting URL etc. on it.

Example 4: https://compliance.microsoft.com/informationgovernance?viewid=retention
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Vesa Nopanen
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Sep 10, 2020

ChrisWebbTech great idea with that PowerApp! #innovativethinking

Now that you got me to that track you could create a PowerApp that would show the calendar information. Perhaps using a Flow or scheduled script to write information to a SharePoint list (or CDS) so you guarantee that PowerApp is not showing too much details there. Or that room calendar events could be queried directly as well. 

 

And as for the creation of meeting there are Graph APIs available. Use of Graph API in Flow requires premium licensing. The issue would be that the creation of online event is possible only with delegated permissions and would have to run under user's context (instead of using Graph API call as application). 

 

Thinking a bit more: the PowerApp could create a calendar meeting and then initiate meeting (inviting the room in) directly using CloudComminications Graph API, which is getting app level support "in near future". 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/application-post-onlinemeetings?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http

 

Sounds like something fun to build and test.

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