Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - weekly community call recording from March 22nd, is now available from the Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel at http://aka.ms/m365pnp/videos.
Call Summary
Welcome to the weekly call focused on capabilities of the Microsoft 365 platform.
- Register for the Microsoft 365 Developer Program and get a free E5 developer tenant with instant availability and other assets.
- Get started with free training modules (74+) to accelerate learning Microsoft 365 platform capabilities. Now with new Viva Connections training!
- New Microsoft 365 Sample Solution Gallery with 1020+ samples from Microsoft and community that allow you to learn by example, expedite your development and appreciate what is possible.
- Sign up and participate in one of a growing number of events hosted by Sharing is Caring this month.
- Tune into the weekly
- Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast focused exclusively on Microsoft 365 dev topics – hosted by Jeremy Thake (Microsoft) and Paul Schaeflein (Addin365).
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Videos, Podcasts focused on the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365 hosted by Vesa Juvonen and Waldek Mastykarz
- Teams Platform Updates
- Sample - Link unfurling meeting sample
- Sample - User Specific Views in Adaptive Cards
- Teams Documentation Updates
- Step-by-Step Guide - Teams calling and meeting bot
- Step-by-Step Guide - Meetings Stage View
- Step-by-Step Guide - Teams file upload bot
- New series launched – Learn from the community. This week’s article: Learn from the Community: Microsoft MVPs digitize knowledge in a Community Bot for OneDrive. Sign up to Share your story
- Hear about the latest 6 Microsoft 365 Platform related stories and view 3 great demos delivered by Microsoft presenters on the latest capabilities of the Microsoft 365 platform.
The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen. Q&A takes place in chat throughout and live at end of the call.
Microsoft 365 Platform News Flash
- Ensuring reliable and trusted experiences for communication and collaboration in the hybrid work era - Mark Longton (Microsoft)
- Elevating hybrid experiences with Microsoft Teams Rooms and Teams devices - Microsoft Tech Community – Microsoft
- Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels is rolling out to public preview – Microsoft
- Announcing Operator Connect Mobile, delivering mobile-first experiences for Microsoft Teams Phone – Microsoft
- Walkie Talkie in Microsoft Teams integrated with Sonim XP8 - Christina Wu (Microsoft)
- Learn from the Community: Microsoft MVPs digitize knowledge in a Community Bot for OneDrive - Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs
Actions:
- Opt into PnP Recognition Program | https://aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition
- Register for Sharing is Caring Events:
- AMA (Ask me anything) - Viva ACE – Coming Soon
- First Time Contributor Session – TBS soon
- Community Docs Session – TBS soon
- Power Platform Samples – First Time Contributor – Monday, April 10th, 9am PST
- PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – TBS soon
- PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – TBS soon
- First Time Presenter – TBS soon
- More than Code with VSCode – TBS soon
- Maturity Model Practitioners – Tuesday, April 19th, 7am PST (every 3rd Tuesday of month, 7:00am PT)
- Getting Started with Viva Connection ACEs (2-part session) – TBS soon
- PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session – Register
- PnP Buddy System – Request a Buddy
- Request a Demo spot on the call – https://aka.ms/m365pnp/request/demo
- Download the recurrent invite for this call – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call
- Call attention to your great work by using the #PnPWeekly on Twitter.
It's so great to see the diversity of attendees on this call. Thank you for being a member of this community. Your commitment matters.
Demos delivered in this session
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Latest on Microsoft Graph connectors SDK – for connecting data sources into Microsoft Graph. There are many OOB connectors, and you can create custom Graph connectors to connect to LOB data. Presentation covers latest SDK features and capabilities, architecture, gRPC, templates (with a project structure), Connector SDK Test Utility, and a step-by-step demo setting up a connector using C#. Join Private preview today. Public release 2nd half 2022.
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Microsoft Teams Meeting app sample with link unfurling – User shares link to an asset in Teams, link calls app and gets “unfurled” into an Adaptive Card with actions. User sends card via Bot to Recipient. Recipient may click “Review in Meeting” button (action) invoking a task module that creates a meeting for User and Recipient to collaborate. Web App creates side panel tab, task module, authenticates user, calls Graph APIs and deep links.
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Building Microsoft Graph Toolkit apps with Microsoft Teams – opens with review of MGT basics. Develop Teams apps using either yo teams (Microsoft Teams Community driven Yeoman generator) or the Teams toolkit (Microsoft provided framework to build apps in .NET, JavaScript and TypeScript). Add MGT to your project, install the mgt-react package and MSAL 2 provider. Now add MGT components. Expose your apps in Teams, office.com, Outlook. MGT is Framework agnostic.
Thank you for your creativity and work execution. Samples are often showcased in Demos.
Topics covered in this call
- Latest updates and news on the Microsoft 365 platform – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen – 8:12
- D1: Latest on Microsoft Graph connector SDK – Rajdeep Chandra (Microsoft) – 15:28
- D2: Microsoft Teams Meeting app sample with link unfurling – Anuj Gupta (Microsoft) – 31:32
- D3: Building Microsoft Graph Toolkit apps with Microsoft Teams – Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | @sebastienlevert – 48:43
Resources:
Additional resources around the covered topics and links from the slides.
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D1: Registration – Microsoft Graph connectors SDK - Preview Sign Up | aka.ms/GCSDKPreview
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D1: Documentation - Overview of Microsoft Graph connectors | aka.ms/GraphConnectors
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D1: Documentation - Microsoft Graph connectors overview | aka.ms/GraphConnectorsAPI
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D1: Documentation - Use the Microsoft Search API to index data
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D1: Documentation - Introduction to gRPC
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D1: Connectors - Welcome to the Independent Publisher Connector Directory!
- D2: Samples Repo – Link unfurling meeting sample
- D2: Documentation - Bots in Microsoft Teams
- D2: Tools – Bot Framework SDK
- D2: Documentation - Link unfurling
- D2: Documentation - Designing Adaptive Cards for your Microsoft Teams app
- D2: Documentation - Apps for Teams meetings
- D2: Documentation - Designing task modules for your Microsoft Teams app
- D2: Documentation - Create deep links
- D3: Documentation - Build a Microsoft Teams tab with the Microsoft Graph Toolkit | aka.ms/mgt/teams
- D3: Documentation – Getting Started with Contact Exporter Sample
- D3: Tool - Yo Teams - the Microsoft Teams app generator
- D3: Tool - Teams Toolkit
- D3: Documentation - Microsoft Graph Toolkit: UI Components and Authentication Providers for Microsoft Graph | aka.ms/mgt/docs
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D3: Documentation - Styling components in the Microsoft Graph Toolkit
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D3: Documentation - Microsoft Graph Toolkit caching
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D3: Documentation - Localizing the Microsoft Graph Toolkit components
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D3: MGT Playground - Microsoft Graph Toolkit: UI Components and Authentication Providers for Microsoft Graph | https://mgt.dev/
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D3: Sebastien’s MGT Demos Repo - MGT Sandbox | aka.ms/mgt/sandbox
- D3: MGT Demos Playlist - Microsoft Graph Toolkit – YouTube
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D3: Issues – MGT Issus | aka.ms/mgt/issues
- D3: Learn – Develop apps with the Microsoft Graph Toolkit | https://aka.ms/mgt/learn
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 158 (March 21st) with US based, member of the Customer Engineering Team focused on developer enablement and on PnPjs project, Patrick Rodgers (Microsoft) | @mediocrebowler | video | podcast
General resources:
- Archives - Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Videos, Podcasts
- PnP Teams Quickstart | aka.ms/pnp-teams-quickstart
- Microsoft Teams Toolkit v2.2 | https://aka.ms/teams-toolkit
- Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub | aka.ms/m365pnp/community
- Microsoft Graph Toolkit in Microsoft Learn | http://aka.ms/learn-mgt
- Viva Connections https://aka.ms/VivaConnections
- SharePoint look book
- Yo Teams video training package
- .NET Standard 2.0 version of SharePoint Online CSOM API
- Microsoft 365 community (PnP) videos | aka.ms/m365pnp-videos
- Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
- yo Teams | aka.ms/yoteams
- Video - Getting started using yo Teams | Wictor Wilén (Avanade)| @wictor
- Build a crisis management site to connect people and information
- Developer documentation | https://aka.ms/spdev-docs
- PnP Power Shell
- SharePoint Modernization Partner Guidance - Feedback welcome
- Solution - Building a modern search experiences with SharePoint Framework web parts
- Page transformation guidance
- Page transformation videos
- Modernization scanner
- Microsoft 365 developer program site - Need to become a Tenant Admin to test look book capabilities? Get a Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription (free tenant for 90 days)
- SharePoint Provisioning Service - Easily provision look book designs to any tenant in the world
- SharePoint Provisioning templates on Github
- PnP Provisioning Tenant Templates documentation
- SharePoint Page Transformation webcast series
- PnP Power Shell
- SharePoint Modernization Tools
Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites:
- Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework call – March 24th at 7:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call
- Microsoft 365 platform call – March 29th at 8:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call
- M365 General Dev call – March 31st at 7:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig
- Office add-in monthly call – April 13th at 8:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall
- Adaptive Cards monthly call – April 14th at 9:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall
- Power Apps monthly call – April 20th at 8:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall
- Microsoft Identity Platform call – April 21st at 9:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar
Microsoft 365 Platform community call focuses on latest Microsoft 365 Platform updates and demos delivered by Microsoft presenters and takes place weekly on Tuesday. The alternating Special Interest Group community calls each Thursday focus on SharePoint Framework (client-side development/implementation) and Microsoft 365 Platform (includes Microsoft Teams, Bots, Microsoft Graph, CSOM, REST, site provisioning, PnP PowerShell, PnP Sites Core, Site Designs, Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, Column Formatting, list formatting, etc. topics.) with demos commonly delivered by community members. More details on the Microsoft 365 community from http://aka.ms/m365pnp.
You can download recurrent invite for this call from https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call. Welcome and join in the discussion. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, feel free to provide your input as comments to this post as well. More details on the Microsoft 365 community and options to get involved are available from http://aka.ms/m365pnp.
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Microsoft 365 PnP team, Microsoft - 23rd of March 2022