Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - 10th of May, 2022

Call summary

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

New this week

• Article – Building real-time collaborative apps with Microsoft 365, Azure and Power Platform - Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs
• Article - Join the new Microsoft Viva Community Group on LinkedIn
• Sample - Teams platform update – tab-people-picker
• Documentation – Teams Dev Docs - Common reasons for app validation failure
• Microsoft 365 Platform Community (PnP) – May 2022 update. Thank you to active community members and supportive organizations for your contributions. Not on the list? Join us!
• Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 165 (May 2nd) Finland-based software architect and Office Developer MVP Laura Kokkarinen (Sulava) | @LauraKokkarinen | video | podcast

Demos

• Extend your Teams Search Based Message Extension to Outlook – search messaging extensions are Adaptive Cards (rendered in Teams and now in Outlook) and contain links to external content. See three steps for updating an existing messaging extension – update app manifest (manually or with Teams toolkit), add Outlook channel for bot (in Azure Portal or Bot Framework Portal), and sideload updated app in Teams. Capability in public developer preview. Covered Roadmap, more announcements at Microsoft Build.
• Getting started on using Azure Communication Services in your web site – glimpse the future in this demo showing some of the present capabilities of ACS – the same platform leveraged by Microsoft Teams, can be leveraged by you. Add voice and video calling capabilities to your web apps. Demo shows securely connecting 2 users through the ACS infrastructure and the few lines of code enabling this. ACS is fully managed by Microsoft. Use cases reviewed, sample provided.

The host of this call was Brian T. Jackett (Microsoft) | @BrianTJackett. 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 – Brian T. Jackett (Microsoft) | @BrianTJackett – 5:43
• Monthly contributors on the Microsoft 365 platform community efforts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen – 8:52
• Demo - Extend your Teams Search Based Message Extension to Outlook – Namrata Khubchandani (Microsoft) – 13:49
• Demo - Getting started on using Azure Communication Services in your web site – David Rousset (Microsoft) | @davrous – 26:13

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

Actions

• 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
  • 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 Teams Search Based Message Extension to Outlook
  • Documentation - Extend a Teams message extension across Microsoft 365
  • Tool – Teams Toolkit (Preview) | aka.ms/VSTeamsToolkit
  • Topic related sessions at Microsoft Build | May 24-26, 2022 | Register now
• Getting started on using Azure Communication Services in your web site
  • Documentation - What is Azure Communication Services? | aka.ms/communication-services-overview
  • Sample – Azure Communication Services Quick Starter
  • Test Portal - Azure Communication Services - Quick Test sample | aka.ms/acsquicktest
  • Documentation – Calling SDK overview

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

• 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)
• Microsoft 365 platform call | Tuesday, May 17, 8:00 am PT – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call (weekly)
• Power Platform monthly call | Wednesday, May 18, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall (monthly)
• Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework call | Thursday, May 19, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call (bi-weekly)
• 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 - 10th of May 2022