“An API for teamwork” 🎙 – all about Microsoft Teams as a platform on The Intrazone podcast

Configure and extend – that’s the productivity metaOS mantra of Microsoft Teams as a platform. And it echoes through every bot, tab and connector you can dream up and build for your team.

 

In this episode, Chris and I uncover the power and capabilities of Microsoft teams as a platform. We chat with two experts inside and outside of Microsoft. First, we hear about the design and strategy of how to extend Teams at the scale of the worldwide Microsoft 365 customer base from Bill Bliss, platform architect for Microsoft Teams engineering. We then turn to the real-world approach of one of our strong Microsoft MVP developers in this space, Wictor Wilén (Global innovation lead, Avanade). Wictor shares how he develops teamwork solutions for his company and their vast customer base. You’ll hear all about bots, tabs and connectors – the basis of the what and how to approach extending the Microsoft Teams platform offering.

 

 

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Left to right [The Intrazone guests]: Wictor Wilén (Global innovation lead & Microsoft MVP at Avanade) and Bill Bliss (Platform architect, Microsoft Teams – Microsoft).

Links to important on-demand recordings and articles mentioned in this episode – plus screenshots from Ignite 2019 talks and Wictor’s SPS’2010 web parts book cover referenced in the episode below my signature:  

• Articles and sites
  • "Microsoft Teams architecture update" by Bill Bliss #MSIgnite19/#BRK3215
    • "CliffNotes: Bill Bliss on Microsoft Teams Architecture" by Brent Middleton, content marketing specialist - AvePoint, Inc.
  • "Build a Microsoft Teams app from scratch in 20 minutes" by Wictor Wilen #MSIgnite19/#THR2005
  • "Building modern enterprise-grade collaboration solutions with Microsoft Teams and SharePoint" by Mike Ammerlaan #MSIgnite/#MDEV30
  • "Streamline business processes with the Microsoft Teams development platform" by Karan Nigam (Microsoft), Zakiullah Khan Mohammed (Microsoft) and Nicholas Gill (American Red Cross); #TMS50
    • “American Red Cross - Power Platform and Microsoft Teams” | case study video
  • "A Yeoman Generator for Microsoft Teams": https://aka.ms/yoTeams
  • Office 365 developer program; @Microsoft365Dev.
  • Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. 
  • Microsoft Tech Community Home
  • Stay on top of Office 365 changes
  • Listen to other Microsoft podcasts
• Events
  • SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events
    • SPS North Germany/Bremen (Feb.28-29, 2020); @SPSBre
    • Chicago Suburbs Microsoft 365 2020 (​Feb.29.2020); @spschiburbs
    • Office 365 Saturday - Redmond, WA (March 7^th)
  • Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide); related blog, "Ignite The Tour 2019/2020 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and Stream sessions"
  • SP TechCon (San Francisco, CA) | February 18-21, 2020
  • Collab365’s #GlobalCon1 – 5-day virtual conference | March 2-6, 2020
  • AIIM Conference (Dallas, TX) | March 3-5, 2020
  • ShareCamp – Mar.7-8.2020 -- 10^th anniversary
• Hosts and guests
  • Bill Bliss – Twitter | LinkedIn
  • Wictor Wilén – Twitter | LinkedIn
  • Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]
  • Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host] 

 

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The SharePoint team wants you to unleash your creativity and productivity. And we will do this, together, one Teams customization at a time.

 

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Slide screenshot: "High-level architecture – Microsoft Teams: one level deeper” from #MSIgnite19/#BRK3215 by Bill Bliss.

Slide screenshot: "Bring SharePoint apps and content into Teams” from #MSIgnite19/#MDEV30 by Mike Ammerlaan.

A Yeoman Generator for Microsoft Teams Apps projects. (https://aka.ms/YoTeams)

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