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Service Communications API being retired Dec 2021, use new GA API in Graph...
Check your code, Flows and PowerShell for manage.office.com ServiceComms references… What is this about? This is about the API call used to get service health status and update messages in Office 365. This is widely used in PowerShell examples on the web: a quick search for “office 365 service status powershell” returns many people with solutions that use this API call. Disclaimer: I’m piecing some of the information in this article together from multiple places, such as Microsoft Docs but also dates on GitHub history etc. If there’s an official Tech Community blog post about this that I’ve missed (or that subsequently gets posted) I’ll come back and update this information. Let me know if you spot anything that needs changing. If you’re using a URL that starts like this:https://manage.office.com/api/v1.0/{tenant_identifier}/ServiceCommsthen this blog post is for you! Read more:Microsoft Graph Service Health And Communications API is now GA, legacy Service Communications API being retired December 2021 | The thoughtstuff BlogIntegrating Microsoft Teams and Power Apps - webinar April 27th
I’m going to be speaking at afree-to-register webinaron April 27th at 1600 London (1500 UTC / 0800 Pacific) about the Microsoft Power Platform and specifically Power Apps. Why the interest to this group? Well, I'm going to run through a demo building a Covid Employee reporting tool, where staff can report both good and bad observations. These can then be triaged and any required improvements identified. This will be via a Power App, but then will jump into Microsoft Teams to create a new channel and start a new conversation about that item. So, if you want to understand better how to integrate Power Apps and Microsoft Teams without needing to write any code, then this webinar might be useful. The webinar is free,but you need to register. When you do register, there is a “Questions & Comments” section. If there is something specific you want me to cover, please do add it in there and if I can include it I will.Two Free events to learn about Azure Communication Services
There are two free to attend online events coming up soon I'm going to be talking at, which I think might be of value to this community. On May 11th I'm going to be talking about what's possible with Azure Communication Services and how you can get started. This is expected to be around 1530 BST (1430 UTC). You can see more details and register here:I’m Speaking at Commsverse Half-Day Event “End to End Voice in Microsoft Teams” May 11th | The thoughtstuff Blog On May 12th I'm presenting "Azure Communication Services - a developer's guide" where I'm going to cover what's possible, with some demos and sample code to help you get started. You can see more details and register here:I’m Speaking at: Teams Nation May 12th (online) | The thoughtstuff Blog Hope to see you there!How to: Create your own Family Video Room using Azure Communication Services
If we learnt one thing in 2020, it’s how to use video conferencing to replace in-person meetings. Nowhere has this been more obvious (to me) than family meetups. Sure, I’m doing more conference calls for work, but I’ve always done conference calls for work. I’ve never done them for catching up with my extended family, though. Skype, Teams, Zoom, HouseParty – I don’t know about you, but we’ve tried them all. They all have their advantages and disadvantages. As a developer, I was left thinking “I wonder if I could do something different: something that’s just right for our family, with just the stuff we need, and easy enough for everyone to use”. Post continues at:How to: Create your own Family Video Room using Azure Communication Services without writing any code (if you don’t want to) | The thoughtstuff Blogwhere I talk about how I used the Azure Communication Services sample code, with some modifications, to create a family video room, secured with a PIN. The blog contains links to a GitHub repository you can use as a template to create your own family video room, powered by Azure Communication Services!
Learn Azure Communication Services - a series of how-to blog posts
Azure Communication Services (ACS) is Microsoft’s latest platform which empowers developers to build communication capabilities into their applications. Through a series of blog posts (15 at the time of this post) and accompanying videos I’m going to talk about what ACS is, what it can do and how you can use it. It’s a series aimed at developers but if you’re non-technical you will still get a lot out of the first few days where we discuss capabilities and considerations. To start: visit https://learnacs.dev I hope you find this series of blog posts useful on your ACS journey. I’d love to hear your feedback on Twitter. And, if you do like this content and find it useful, consider subscribing to my YouTube channel for more videos like these, my RSS feed for more blog posts like these or my email newsletter for a weekly round-up of what’s new. I talk about building solutions with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft Cognitive Services, Azure Communication Services.
Subscribe to changes in Microsoft Teams presence – Now in Preview!
We’ve been able toquery Microsoft Graph for the presence state of Microsoft Teams usersfor a while, but only via a simple GET call. There hasn’t been a way to subscribe to changes, other than polling that GET call every minute or so. Now, however, there is a way to do this!You can subscribe to change notifications for presence via a new presence subscription API which is now inPublic Preview. This subscription is similar to other Graph webhooks. See my blog post:How to: Use the new Webhooks for Microsoft Teams Channel & Chat Messagesfor more details on how to use them generally. This doesn’t replace the existingGETmethod which can you continue to use. This is simply a nicer way to be told about changes to presence state. Read More:https://blog.thoughtstuff.co.uk/2020/07/subscribe-to-changes-in-microsoft-teams-presence-now-in-preview/How to: use the new Visual Studio Extension for Microsoft Teams Platform Development
At Build 2020, Microsoft announced a newMicrosoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, to make it easier to get started building apps for Microsoft Teams. If you’ve watched or listened to myWeekly Update from June 14ththen you will already have heard me talk about this, but I wanted to go into more detail about exactly to get started using it. Here’s how to install and use the toolkit. I’ve focused on Visual Studio Code, because it’s available right now (the extension for Visual Studio is expected shortly) [Continues at:https://blog.thoughtstuff.co.uk/2020/07/how-to-use-the-new-visual-studio-extension-for-microsoft-teams-platform-development/]App Templates for Microsoft Teams
I've created a new collection page: App Templates for Microsoft Teams I've listed ALL the available templates you can install, by category: Productivity Communication Question Answering Team Culture Specific also: intro & deployment video Enjoy! https://www.thoughtstuff.co.uk/app-template-for-microsoft-teamsHow to: Use the new Webhooks for Microsoft Teams Channel & Chat Messages
We’veknown for a little whilethat Microsoft have been looking at adding webhook support for Microsoft Teams data. Thanks to asession by Bill Bliss at Microsoft Ignite 2019and because things are now rolling out and lighting up, we now know what that’s going to look like, and what webhooks will be available. In fact, even though the documentation isn’t quite caught up yet, the webhooks described belowwork todayandyou can try them out. Read on for a fully worked example of how to set them up. Disclaimer:These webhooks are in Beta, so shouldn’t be used for production environments. Also, they are VERY new and not all the documentation is live yet. Bear all that in mind when reading and acting on this blog post. Read more:https://blog.thoughtstuff.co.uk/2020/01/how-to-use-the-new-webhooks-for-microsoft-teams-channel-chat-messages/
