Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - 3rd of May, 2022

Call summary

Welcome to the weekly call focused on capabilities of the Microsoft 365 platform. In this particular call, we highlighted recently announced and key existing developer resources, news, community events and two demos.

New this week

• Article – What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2022
• Documentation - Teams feature update – Set up CI/CD pipelines
• Documentation - Step-by-step guide updates – Microsoft Teams Developer Documentation
• Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 164 (May 2nd) with Belgium based Consultant, Office Development MVP Elio Struyf (Struyf Consulting) | @eliostruyf | video | podcast
• Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast (April 26th) - Bookings API with Altamish Ahmad (Microsoft) | podcast

Demos

• Extend your Microsoft Teams app to Outlook and Office.com – using the same development tooling to expose a Teams app in 3 host environments. Here’s how. Download latest TeamsJS v2 SDK, open VS Code and run 2 commands to upgrade the Teams app package so the app will run in other hosts and to upgrade the SDK to point to TeamsJS v2.0. Done! Learn more about M365 cross stack tooling journey here and at Microsoft Build.
• Introducing new M365 Assessment Tool with SharePoint Syntex Module – an open-source assessment platform, for which additional modules can be built by Microsoft and Community. Uses CLI to run assessments tenant wide or on selected site collections. Step through tool download, usage and interpretation of Power BI report results. Replaces Modernization scanner. Effectively analyzes content stored in SharePoint and generates recommendations. In the case of Systex, the module identifies where Syntex could deliver highest impact.
• Run Office Scripts with a button - now in Excel for Windows – what are Office Scripts, the new script button, and how to get involved in the scripting journey. Scripts automate repetitive tasks and processes, and they are stored in your OneDrive for anywhere access by anyone with access to your workbook. Scripts are recorded and written in TypeScript/JavaScript. The new script button shown in demo is a first offering that works on Excel - web and Windows.

The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen. Q&A takes place in chat throughout and live at end of the call.

Agenda items

• Latest updates and news on the Microsoft 365 platform – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen – 6:47
• Demo - Extend your Microsoft Teams app to Outlook and Office.com – Erin Bailie (Microsoft) – 9:54
• Demo - Introducing new M365 Assessment Tool with SharePoint Syntex Module – Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365Bert and James Eccles (Microsoft) | @jimdeccles – 22:10
• Demo - Run Office Scripts with a button- now in Excel for Windows – Nancy Wang (Microsoft) | @nancyatMSFT – 40:51

Thank you for your creativity and work execution. Samples are often showcased in Demos.

Actions

• Register for Microsoft Tech Days | Thursday, May 5, 2022.
• Register for Microsoft Build | May 24-26, 2022
• Opt into PnP Recognition Program | https://aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition
• Register for Sharing is Caring events:
  • Community Docs Session | Tuesday, May 17, 10:00 am PT - Register
  • Power Platform Samples – First Time Contributor | Monday, May 9, 10:30 am PT- Register
  • Maturity Model Practitioners | Register
  • PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session | Register
  • PnP Buddy System | Request a Buddy
• 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.
• Sign up to Share your story in the Learn from the community series.
• Request a Demo spot on the call – https://aka.ms/m365pnp/request/demo
• Download the recurrent invite for this call – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call

Demo references

• Extend your Microsoft Teams app to Outlook and Office.com
  • Tools - Teams Toolkit (Preview) | aka.ms/VSTeamsToolkit
  • Documentation - Microsoft Teams JavaScript client SDK v2 Preview | aka.ms/TeamsJSSDK
  • Demo - Extending Teams apps to Outlook and Office.com – Saurabh Bhatia (Microsoft) | @iamSBTron
  • Topic related sessions at Microsoft Build | May 24-26, 2022 | Register now
• Introducing new M365 Assessment Tool with SharePoint Syntex Module
  • Tool - Microsoft 365 Assessment tool | aka.ms/microsoft365assessmenttool
  • Repo - Microsoft 365 Assessment tool
• Run Office Scripts with a button - now in Excel for Windows
  • Automate button – New workbook -Excel
  • Program - Join the Microsoft 365 Developer Program today!
  • Scenario - Office Scripts sample scenario: Punch clock button
  • Documentation - Office Scripts samples and scenarios | aka.ms/sample-scripts
  • Feedback - Office Scripts @ M365 Developer Call
  • Resources - Office Scripts Portal | aka.ms/office-scripts
  • Documentation - Sample Scripts | aka.ms/officesamplescripts
  • Program - Office Scripts Makers | aka.ms/oscripts

General resources

• Archives - Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Videos, Podcasts
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit | https://aka.ms/teams-toolkit
• 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 Platform Community (PnP) videos | aka.ms/m365/videos
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
• yo Teams | aka.ms/yoteams
• SPFx Developer documentation | https://aka.ms/spfx
• 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 with automatic renewal if used for dev purposes

Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites

• Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework call | Thursday, May 5, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call (bi-weekly)
• Microsoft 365 platform call | Tuesday, May 10, 8:00 am PT – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call (weekly)
• Office add-in monthly call | Wednesday, May 11, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall (monthly)
• M365 General Dev call | Thursday, May 12, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig (bi-weekly)
• Adaptive Cards monthly call | Thursday, May 12, 9:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall (monthly)
• Power Platform monthly call | Wednesday, May 18, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall (monthly)
• Microsoft Identity Platform call | Thursday, May 19, 9:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar (monthly)

Microsoft 365 Platform community call focuses on latest Microsoft 365 Platform updates and demos delivered by Microsoft presenters and takes place weekly on Tuesday. The alternating Special Interest Group community calls each Thursday focus on SharePoint Framework (client-side development/implementation) and Microsoft 365 Platform (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.) with demos commonly delivered by community members.

More details on the Microsoft 365 community from https://aka.ms/m365pnp.

You can download recurrent invite for this call from https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call. 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 Platform Community team, Microsoft - 4th of May 2022