Microsoft 365 Developer Community Call recording -- 6th of January, 2021

Microsoft 365 Developer Community Call recording -- 6th of January, 2021

Call summary

Welcome to the New Year.  It’s a great time to visit the Microsoft 365 tenant – script samples gallery (129 scenarios and 173 scripts) including recently added Teams PowerShell support!  Sign up and attend an AMA and other events this month hosted by Sharing is Caring.  At the same time, sign up for the PnP Recognition Program. Released PnP Core SDK v1.5.0 and PnP PowerShell v1.9.0, and much work is being done on other projects.  Check out the TeamsFx authentication provider preview in MGT!  To see current releases and latest updates/nightly builds, access the Repos via the links in table below.  There were 7 new/updated script samples delivered this week.  

Open-source project status

(Bold indicates new this call)

Project Current Version Release/Status PnP .NET Libraries - PnP Framework v1.8.0 GA with .NET 6.0 support added Prepping v1.9 PnP .NET Libraries - PnP Core SDK v1.5.0 GA with .NET 6.0 support added Prepping v1.6 PnP PowerShell v1.9.0 GA In progress: V2 POC, Prepping for v1.8, nightly releases Yo teams - generator-teams v3.5.0 GA v4.0.0-next Yo teams - yoteams-build-core v1.5.0 GA, Next: v1.6.0-next.1   Yo teams – yoteams-deploy v1.1.0 GA   Yo teams - msteams-react-base-component v3.1.1   Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT) v2.3.1 GA, TeamsFx authentication provider preview! Preparing v2.3.1 release, working on v3.0.0 - Aligning all Toolkit components to Fluent UI Web Components

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

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

Actions

6 new scenarios and 1 script update contributed by

Blog: Getting started with PnP Script Samples – aka.ms/script-samples/getting-started – Many thanks!

Demos

Demos delivered in this session

Building enterprise solutions with Power Platform - Things to do and not to do – based on learnings from creating Teams ProvisionGenie that uses Power Apps Canvas app as UI, Dataverse as relational database and Azure Logic Apps to handle provisioning, Power Platform and supporting technologies are great, but plan differently when creating enterprise ready solutions.  Optimize developer experience, performance and security by using right tool for job.  Don’ts and recommended do’s for process flows, identity management, and database presented. 

SharePoint site provisioning with Microsoft Teams Notifications using Bot Framework – see how the PnP Framework (containing PnP Provisioning engine) is used to provision a new site based on the PnP template.  Azure provisioning web job is triggered by a queue message from a custom site template (previously known as site design).  Microsoft Teams bot pushes proactive notifications about current provisioning state to the configured channel via Adaptive Card updates.  Notifications are electively disabled/enabled from card. 

Updates on Independent Publisher Connectors & Coinbase Connector Demo –

49 connectors in production, 34 in pipeline today!  The Coinbase platform allows anyone to get crypto exchange rates, currencies, and current crypto market rates at a point in time.  This connector was built by a non-developer in a Power Apps sandbox.  Required creating first pull request and working through publishing process.  Canvas app calls a flow that uses connector to get currency information.    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

Topics covered in this call

  • PnP .NET library updates - Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365bert – 6:50

  • PnP PowerShell updates - Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365bert – 8:54

  • yo Teams updates - David Warner II (Catapult Systems) | @DavidWarnerII – 9:45

  • Microsoft Graph Toolkit updates - David Warner II (Catapult Systems) | @DavidWarnerII – 10:19

  • Microsoft Script Samples - Paul Bullock (CaPa Creative Ltd) | @pkbullock – 2:40

  • Microsoft Teams Samples - Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German – 10:58

  • Microsoft Power Platform Samples - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam – 12:19

  • Demo 1:  Building enterprise solutions with Power Platform - Things to do and not to do – Luise Freese[ | @LuiseFreese ]– 14:24

  • Demo 2:  SharePoint site provisioning with Microsoft Teams Notifications using Bot Framework – Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq) | @sergeev_srg – 27:22

  • Demo 3:  Updates on Independent Publisher Connectors & Coinbase Connector Demo – Natalie Pienkowska (Microsoft) | @NataliePienkow1 & Roy Paar (Microsoft) | @RoyPaar ** ** ** **

    – 40:50

Resources

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

General resources

Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites

  • Microsoft 365 platform call – January 11th at 8:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call

  • Office add-in monthly call – January 12th at 8:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall

  • SharePoint Framework call – January 13th at 7:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call

  • Adaptive Cards monthly call –January 13th at 9:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall

  • Power Apps monthly call– January 19th at 8:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall

  • M365 General Dev call – January 20th at 7:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig

  • Microsoft Identity Platform call – January 20th at 9:00 am PST | 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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