Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - 28th of June, 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.
Notice: This particular call is on a summer break between July 1st and 31st of August 2022. You will need to manually delete the individual meeting dates on your calendar for this call as we are not able to send you a meeting invite update to this accomplish this. All other Microsoft 365 developer community calls will be delivered as scheduled. This call will resume on September 6, 8:00 am PT.
New this week
- Samples – the Microsoft 365 Sample Solution Gallery now has more than 1100 samples from Microsoft and community | aka.ms/m365/samples
- Opportunity – Microsoft Community Initiative to build a unified Microsoft Cloud Community model with Microsoft 365 and Azure. We are looking for community members to join the Community Advisory Board | aka.ms/MCABLeaderApp
- Register Power Platform Samples Contributor | Wednesday, June 29, 10:00 am PT -
- Article – Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.15 – with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint - Microsoft
- Article – New site template updates: new templates and the template history panel – Nicole Woon (Microsoft) | @NovelNicole
- Article – Privacy changes to Microsoft 365 Usage Analytics – James Bell (Microsoft)
- Article – Microsoft Loop components: Extending capabilities in Microsoft Teams and Outlook - Tricia Van Hollebeke (Microsoft)
- Article – OneDrive File Picker v8 now Generally Available! - Ankita Kirti (Microsoft)
- Article – OneDrive Roadmap Roundup Q2 CY2022 - Ankita Kirti (Microsoft)
- Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast (June 28th) - PowerShell and Azure AD with Merill Fernando | podcast
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 172 (June 27th) with by Colorado, US based Architect, Developer and MVP at DMI - Beau Cameron | @Beau__Cameron | video | podcast
Demos
- Taking advantage of the Microsoft Graph Postman collections – in this 2nd installment, we look at 3 features demonstrating the integration between Postman and Graph Explorer. 1) Adding a request to a collection after getting request syntax from changelog or Graph Explorer, 2) using the collection runner to run a sequence of requests within a collection, 3) using Resources Explorer in Graph Explorer to find/export resources and import them (collection) to Postman.
- Introduction on the Microsoft Viva Learning extensibility – Viva Learning is bridging the divide between Learning systems and Work systems by exposing learning sources on the same surface employees are working. Learn about out-of-box integrations and Microsoft Graph APIs for syncing with content catalog and learner records. Viva Learning Graph APIs and roadmap include Content Sync API (Public preview) and Learner record (Assignment Sync and Completion Sync) APIs (Future preview).
- Introduction to Virtual Appointment Microsoft Graph API – a solution for business customers who have an existing scheduling system and Microsoft Teams, yet their customers do not have Teams installed on their mobiles or desktops. This virtual Teams call client builds on the existing onlineMeeting Graph API. Optimal for Business to Consumer (B2C) scenarios (telehealth, Interviews, video support, etc.) includes a virtual waiting room, SMS Appointment reminders and native browser join experience. In public preview.
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 – 8:44
- Demo - Taking advantage of the Microsoft Graph Postman collections - Rabeb Othmani (Microsoft) | @Rabeb_Othmani – 11:57
- Demo - Introduction on the Microsoft Viva Learning extensibility - Divyanka Malik (Microsoft) – 28:18
- Demo - Introduction to Virtual Appointment Microsoft Graph API - Ben Olson (Microsoft) – 39:50
Thank you for your creativity and work execution. Samples are often showcased in Demos.
Actions
- Opt into PnP Recognition Program | https://aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition
- Interested in joining the Community Advisory Board? Complete the Community Board Member Application | aka.ms/MCABLeaderApp. Registration closes June 30.
- Register for Sharing is Caring events:
- Power Platform Samples Contributor | Wednesday, June 29, 10:00 am PT - Register
- Writing for the Web | Monday, July 11th, 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
- Taking advantage of the Microsoft Graph Postman collections
- Documentation - Use Postman with the Microsoft Graph API | aka.ms/graph/postman
- Demo - Introduction to Microsoft Graph Postman collection - Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | @sebastienlevert
- Changelog - Microsoft Graph Changelog (Preview) | aka.ms/graph/changelog
- Tool - Graph Explorer
- Documentation - Using the Collection Runner
- Documentation - Running collections on the command line with Newman
- Introduction on the Microsoft Viva Learning extensibility
- Web page - Microsoft Viva Learning | aka.ms/VivaLearning
- Article - Viva Learning now generally available! | aka.ms/VivaLearningGA
- Get started - Microsoft Viva | aka.ms/VivaLearningAdoption
- Documentation - Introduction to Microsoft Viva Learning | aka.ms/VivaLearningDocs
- Skill up - Microsoft Viva Learning | aka.ms/Viva/Learning/PracticePage
- Introduction to Virtual Appointment Microsoft Graph API
- Article - Announcing the public preview of Virtual Appointment Graph API
- Registration - Virtual Appointment Graph API Public Preview
- Documentation - Create onlineMeeting
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, June 30, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call (bi-weekly)
- M365 General Dev call | Thursday, July 7, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig (bi-weekly)
- Office add-in monthly call | Wednesday, July 13, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall (monthly)
- Adaptive Cards monthly call | Thursday, July 14, 9:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall (monthly)
- Power Platform monthly call | Wednesday, July 20, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall (monthly)
- Microsoft Identity Platform call | Thursday, July 21, 9:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar (monthly)
- Microsoft 365 platform call | Tuesday, September 6, 8:00 am PT – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call (weekly)
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 - 29th of June 2022