Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - 17th 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 - Office JavaScript API for Power Query read-only data now available for Excel
• Article - Announcing changes to Office Add-ins’ ExecuteFunction commands
• Article - Publish your app in the Microsoft Teams app store – Bob German (Microsoft) - @Bob1German
• Article - Microsoft Teams Webinars: Celebrating One Year Together
• Article - Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store - April 2022 – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
• Sample – Bot Release Management
• Documentation - Teams Glossary
• Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 166 (May 16th) with US-based Principal PM Lead, DevDiv, VS extensions - Pierce Boggan (Microsoft) | @pierceboggan | video | podcast

Next week’s call

The call will start at the usual time. We will cover 1 topic and 1 demo in the first 30 minutes, then we will switch over to the Satya Nadella’s keynote at Microsoft Build 2022.

Demos

• Integrate Microsoft Graph connector content on Office.com - bring external data into Microsoft Search via Graph connectors. Once data is known, it can be found at Office.com, Teams, SharePoint, Bing at Work, etc. using Microsoft Search, Context IQ, and Search at Workplace. Link and content details typically rendered in sharable Adaptive Cards. Review Graph connector anatomy and core code to create connection, schema, externalItem, and add activities, for building your custom connector.
• Your Microsoft 365 app within the fingertips of employees with Viva Connections – use a common set of back-end APIs to provide enterprise level functionalities to a host of UIs - Teams, Outlook, Office.com, Viva and ACEs built with SPFx components. The example scenario – An office desk booking app. Security and API hosting from Azure, data in SharePoint lists. Reports in Power BI, Booking cards in Teams and Viva Connections Dashboard. Notifications in Outlook. Thorough code walkthrough.

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 – 7:46
• Demo - Integrate Microsoft Graph connector content on Office.com - Mounika Narayanan (Microsoft) – 14:40
• Demo - Your Microsoft 365 app within the fingertips of employees with Viva Connections - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm and Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia – 28:56

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

Actions

• Register for Microsoft Build | May 24-26, 2022
• Watch the Innovation Keynote with Jeff Teper – Innovate with collaborative apps and low code | aka.ms/teamssessins
• Opt into PnP Recognition Program | https://aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition
• Register for Sharing is Caring events:
  • Power Platform Samples Contributor | Tuesday, May 31, 9:30 am PT - Register
  • Writing for the Web | Thursday, June 23, 12pm PT | 3pm ET | 9pm CET - Register
  • Writing for the Web | Monday, June 27, 10am PT | 1pm ET | 7pm CET - 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

• Integrate Microsoft Graph connector content on Office.com
  • Documentation - Microsoft Graph connectors overview for Microsoft Search | aka.ms/graphconnectors
  • Documentation - Microsoft Graph connectors overview | aka.ms/graphconnectorsapi
  • Gallery - Microsoft Graph connectors | aka.ms/graphconnectorsgallery
  • Article - Microsoft Editor is now superpowered using Context IQ to help you stay in the flow of your work
• Your Microsoft 365 app within the fingertips of employees with Viva Connections
  • Sample – PnP.SafeDesk365

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

• 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 call | Tuesday, May 24, 8:00 am PT – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call (weekly)
• M365 General Dev call | Thursday, May 26, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig (bi-weekly)
• Office add-in monthly call | Wednesday, June 8, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall (monthly)
• Adaptive Cards monthly call | Thursday, June 9, 9:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall (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 - 17th of May 2022