Microsoft 365 Developer Community Call recording -- 30th of September, 2021

Call summary

Have a look at Microsoft 365 tenant – script samples gallery (90 scenarios and 118 scripts, using CLI for Microsoft 365, PnP PowerShell, SPO Management Shell tooling and more…).  Register Today for Hacktoberfest 2021 - Begins October 1.   Attend an event in October – November hosted by Sharing is Caring.  Sign up for the PnP Recognition Program.  Project releases this week include PnP Core SDK - PnP Transformation Framework: Public Preview, Yo teams - generator-teams - v3.3.0 GA and - yoteams-build-core v1.3.0 GA.

Open-source project status

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Note: While version releases are periodic, nightly releases are nightly! Subscribe to nightly releases for the latest capabilities.

As well, there were 4 Script samples and 3 Teams samples this week.

The host of this call was Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com) | @paolopia.

Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call.

Actions

• Register today for Hacktoberfest 2021 – https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com

• Register for Microsoft Ignite (Digital event) - November 2-4, 2021- https://ignite.microsoft.com

• Opt in to PnP Recognition Program |https://aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition

• Register for Sharing is Caring Events:

  • First Time Contributor Session – November 3rd (EMEA, APAC & US friendly times available)

  • Community Docs Session – October 5th 

  • Power Platform Samples – First Time Contributor - October 27th

  • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – November 16th

  • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – TBS

  • Ask Me Anything (AMA) – List Formatting – October 5th

  • Ask Me Anything (AMA) – PnP PowerShell – October 26th

  • First Time Presenter – October 12th

  • More than Code with VSCode – November 9th

  • Maturity Model Practitioners – October 19th (every 3rd Tuesday of month, 7:00am PT)

  • PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session – Register

  • PnP Buddy System – Request a Buddy

• Download the recurrent invite for this call –https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig

• Call attention to your great work by using the #PnPWeekly on Twitter.

Microsoft Teams Development Samples

https://aka.ms/TeamsSampleBrowser

• Meeting Record Names - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
• Bot with Meeting Lifecycle - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
• Improved yo teams with MS Graph Toolkit - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0

Microsoft Power Platform Samples

https://aka.ms/powerplatform-samples

• No new Power Platform samples this week

Script Sample

https://aka.ms/script-samples

• Extract Space content type Modern page as template and save to SharePoint – Valeras Narbutas (Macaw) | @ValerasNarbutas
• Export SharePoint List Data to CSV with attachments – Valeras Narbutas (Macaw) | @ValerasNarbutas
• Get, Update, Add, Remove SharePoint list items in large lists - Valeras Narbutas (Macaw) | @ValerasNarbutas
• Apply column format to SharePoint column - Valeras Narbutas (Macaw) | @ValerasNarbutas

Demos delivered in this session

• Teams Leaderboard – measure Channel engagement with a Teams Toolkit sample in Blazor – use Gamefication approach for displaying activity from a Microsoft Teams channel.   Sample uses TeamsFx for scaffolding a Teams Blazor project, calls Microsoft Graph to retrieve messages and reactions and a simple UI to visualize the Leaderboard.  Populate dropdowns with Team and Channel IDs.   App counts/returns score data for evaluated activities (messages initiated, reactions, responses) for user selected activity in targeted Teams Channel.      

• Surface an embedded web chat that can communicate with users in a Teams Channel – application sample allowing Microsoft Teams to interact with external users via Web Chat.  Uses Bot Framework, Azure Cosmos DB to store conversations, adaptive cards and activity handlers for conversation.  Architecture and code reviewed.   External user submits request in Web Chat form.   Communications about request limited to internal Teams channel except when Bot is @ mentioned.  Easily add new channel, web chat bot to app. 

• Updates on Independent Publisher Connectors for Power Platform & UK Bank Holidays Connector Demo – time off request app using independent publisher connector to grab a list of UK Government Bank Holidays (json).  Employees quickly determine if time being requested falls on a bank holiday negating the need to request time off for those official holidays.  User enters dates in request form, Power Automate flow processes the request - checks holidays and returns answer.   Create a connector during Hactoberfest 2021.

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

Topics covered in this call

• PnP .NET library updates - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com) | @paolopia – 9:20

• PnP PowerShell - Erwin van Hunen (Valo Intranet) | @erwinvanhunen – 12:30

• yo Teams updates - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com) | @paolopia – 14:54

• Microsoft Graph Toolkit updates - Beth Pan (Microsoft) @beth_panx – 15:39

• Microsoft Script Samples -  Paul Bullock (CaPa Creative Ltd) | @pkbullock – 03:14

• Microsoft Teams Samples - Bob German (Microsoft) @Bob1German – 17:42

• Microsoft Power Platform Samples - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com) | @paolopia – 20:41

• D1: Teams Leaderboard – measure Channel engagement with a Teams Toolkit sample in Blazor – Thomas Gölles (Solvion) | @thomyg – 22:23

• D2:  Surface an embedded web chat that can communicate with users in a Teams Channel – Lee Ford (Symity) | @lee_ford – 35:10

• D3:  Updates on Independent Publisher Connectors for Power Platform & UK Bank Holidays Connector Demo – Natalie Pienkowska (Microsoft) | @NataliePienkow1 & Martyn Lesbirel (Dynamiti) – 45:05

Resources

Additional resources around the covered topics and links from the slides.

• Documentation - Prerequisites: Get started with Microsoft Teams app development 
• D1:  Issues – OfficeDev/TeamsFx
• D1:  Video demo - Getting stated with Microsoft Teams Toolkit and Blazor
• D1:  Article - Recognize active team members with the CLI for Microsoft 365 
• D1:  Repo - TeamsLeaderboard 
• D1:  Video - Getting started with Blazor for Teams Development - E32 
• D2:  Sample - Teams WebChat Sample 
• D3:  Connectors - Microsoft Power Platform Connectors  
• D3: Connector Repo - U.K. Government Bank Holidays 

General resources

• 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 v2.2 | https://aka.ms/teams-toolkit
• Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub | aka.ms/m365pnp/community 
• 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 (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

• Microsoft 365 platform call – October 5that 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call

• SharePoint Framework call – October 7th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call

• Office add-in monthly call – October 13th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall

• M365 General Dev call – October 14th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig

• Adaptive Cards monthly call – October 14th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall

• Power Apps monthly call – October 20th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall

• Microsoft Identity Platform call – October 21st at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar

General Microsoft 365 Dev Special Interest Group 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, PowerApps, 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 to 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 PnP team, Microsoft - 1st of October 2021