Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Development Community call - 5th of January, 2023

Call summary

Welcome to the bi-weekly call focused on Microsoft 365 platform development topics. In this call, we focus on Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Graph, Power Platform, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists with topics ranging from development tools to list and column formatting, to site design and provisioning, and more.

New this week

• Agenda set for next Microsoft 365 platform call - Tuesday, January 10th, 8:00 am PT.
  • Latest news from Microsoft engineering on Microsoft 365 topics
  • Maisa Rissi and Peter Ombwa– Introduction Microsoft Graph PowerShell v2 preview release
  • Vesa Juvonen and Andrew Connell (Voitanos) – Introduction to Viva Connections learn module - Tutorial part 1
  • Waldek Mastykarz – Test how your SPFx solutions respond to throttling with Graph Developer Proxy
• Announcements
  • Sharing-Is-Caring training dates in January - aka.ms/sharing-is-caring
  • Community Recognition Program badges for 2023 - aka.ms/community/recognition
  • Top 5 Independent Publisher Connectors and publishers of 2022!
• Project releases
  • Microsoft Teams Toolkit – v4.2.1 GA (VS Code)
• Power Platform - Independent Publisher Connectors submissions
  • Top Connector Asks
  • Good Flow story? Tell us. FlowOfTheWeek – aka.ms/FlowOfTheWeekForm
• Script samples
  • New - PnP PowerShell – How to extract the employees shown in the People Web part on pages in a selection of Site Collections to CSV- Kasper Bo Larsen | @kasperbolarsen
  • Good first issue asks
• Microsoft Teams samples
  • Teams OpenAI Conversation Bot – Lee Ford | @lee_ford
  • Wanted – Updated Microsoft Teams JavaScript samples using Teams SDK v2 | Microsoft Teams Development Samples | aka.ms/Teams-Samples

Demo

Building Find Time solution with Microsoft Graph and Power Apps – evolving Waldek Mastykarz’s meetings app into a themes-aware Power Apps canvas app for Teams that leverages Microsoft Graph! In Graph Explorer, create calls to 3 endpoints - populate meeting picker, identify meeting slots, and create an event. Add calls (actions) to a Power Apps custom connector that will be called from your canvas app. Schedule a Teams meeting in canvas app within Teams.

The host of this call was David Warner II (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII. Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call.

Agenda items

• 07:33 – PnP .NET library updates - Bert Jansen (Microsoft) @O365bert
• 09:17– PnP PowerShell updates - David Warner II (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII
• 09:56 – yo Teams updates - Stephan Bisser (Solvion) | @stephanbisser
• 11:16 – Microsoft Teams Toolkit updates - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
• 12:32 – Microsoft Graph Toolkit updates - David Warner II (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII
• 13:17 – Independent Publisher Connectors - Jocelyn Panchal (Microsoft) | @JocelynP_PM
• 15:33 – Microsoft Script Samples - David Warner II (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII
• 16:30 – Microsoft Teams Samples - Bob German (Microsoft) @Bob1German
• 17:24 – Microsoft Power Platform Samples - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
• 18:12 – Together mode picture
• 19:09 – Building Find Time solution with Microsoft Graph and Power Apps – Luise Freese | @luisefreese
• 38:39 – Q&A

Together Mode

Thank you for joining the call today. Great to see you in 2023. And thank you for all the feedback you have submitted to us. The feedback helps us understand how we can make Microsoft 365 even better.

Actions

• Opt into the PnP Recognition Program | aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition
• Do you have a cool flow? Tell us about it so we can write about it. #FlowOfTheWeek aka.ms/FlowOfTheWeekForm
• Register for upcoming Sharing is Caring events:
  • Power Platform Samples Contributor | Tuesday, January 10th, 10:30am PST | Register
  • First Time Contributor | Thursday, January 12th, 10am PT | 1pm ET | 7pm CET – Register
  • Maturity Model Practitioners | Tuesday, January 17th, 7am PST – Download reoccurring invite
  • Writing for the Web | Monday, January 23rd, 10am PT | 1pm ET | 7:00pm CET - Register
  • PnP SPFx Samples w/NVM | Wednesday, January 25th, 9am PT | 12pm ET - Register
  • PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session | Register
  • PnP Buddy System | Request a Buddy
• What key scenarios are missing from the PnP Core SDK? Let us know and/or view the latest changes at PnP Core SDK Changelog.
• PowerShell – The team is thinking of dropping support for PS 5, any strong objections? Suggestions in general? Please visit PnP.PowerShell Changelog
• Ideas for Microsoft Lists? aka.ms/Feedback/Lists
• Suggestions for yo teams? Discussions
• Create a connector – Top Power Platform Independent Publisher Connector Asks
• Wish list for Microsoft Teams
• Register for the Microsoft 365 Developer Program and get a free developer tenant
• Get started with free training modules covering Microsoft 365 platform capabilities.
• Visit the Microsoft 365 Unified Sample Solution Gallery from Microsoft and community.
• Request a Demo spot on the call – https://aka.ms/m365pnp/request/demo
• Download the recurrent invite for this call – https://aka.ms/spdev-sig-call

Demo references

• Building Find Time solution with Microsoft Graph and Power Apps
  • Article - #65 Find meeting times and schedule a meeting using Microsoft Graph – Waldek Mastykarz
  • Demo - Find meeting times for multiple people on Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Graph - Waldek Mastykarz
  • Sandbox - Microsoft Graph Toolkit Playground
  • Tool – Microsoft Graph Explorer
  • Sample – Fluent UI for Teams (Northstar) theme
  • Sample – Microsoft Graph toolkit people-picker lookalike for Power Apps

Thank you for your great work. Samples are often showcased in Demos. Request a Demo spot on the call https://aka.ms/m365pnp/request/demo

Open-source project status

General resources

• Script Samples - Getting started with PnP Script Samples – aka.ms/script-samples/getting-started
• Samples - Power Platform Samples | aka.ms/powerplatform-samples
• Microsoft 365 tenant – Script Samples Gallery | aka.ms/script-samples
• Microsoft Teams Samples Gallery | aka.ms/teams-samples
• Microsoft 365 Extensibility look book gallery | aka.ms/m365/extensibility
• Archives - Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Videos, Podcasts
• PnP Teams Quickstart | aka.ms/pnp-teams-quickstart
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit v3.x | https://aka.ms/teams-toolkit
• Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Community Blog | aka.ms/m365pnp/blog
• Microsoft Graph Toolkit in Microsoft Learn | https://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 (Microsoft)| @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 Page Transformation webcast series
• PnP PowerShell
• SharePoint Modernization Tools

Upcoming calls | Recurrent invites

• Microsoft 365 platform call | Tuesday, January 10, 8:00 am PT – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call (weekly)
• Office add-in monthly call | Wednesday, January 11, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall (monthly)
• Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework call | Thursday, January 12, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call (bi-weekly)
• Microsoft 365 platform call | Tuesday, January 17, 8:00 am PT – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call (weekly)
• Power Platform monthly call | Wednesday, January 18, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall (monthly)
• Microsoft 365 General Dev call | Thursday, January 19, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig (bi-weekly)
• Microsoft Identity Platform call | Thursday, January 19, 9:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar (monthly)

About

Microsoft 365 Development Community bi-weekly calls are targeted at anyone who’s interested in the general Microsoft 365 development topics. This includes Microsoft Teams, Bots, Microsoft Graph, CSOM, REST, site provisioning, PnP PowerShell, PnP Sites Core, Site Designs, Power Automate, Power Apps, Column Formatting, List formatting, etc. topics. More details on the Microsoft 365 community from https://aka.ms/m365pnp. We also welcome community demos, if you are interested in doing a live demo in these calls!

You can download recurrent invite from https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig. Welcome and join in the discussion. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, feel free to provide your input as comments below this post as well. More details on the Microsoft 365 community and options to get involved are available from https://aka.ms/m365pnp.

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Microsoft 365 Community (PnP) team, Microsoft - 5th of January 2023