Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - 27th of September, 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 three demos.
New this week
- App Camp Online training event on October 20th - Register at https://aka.ms/TeamsAppCamp
- Registration is now open for Microsoft Ignite – October 12-14, 2022.
- Article – People in Microsoft Viva – Putting people at the center of the employee experience – jolenetam (Microsoft)
- Article – Announcing Answers in Microsoft Viva – Chris McNulty (Microsoft) | @cmcnulty2000
- Article – Viva Topics product updates: Answers in Viva, new topic types, and more - Tehzeeb Versey-Patel (Microsoft) |
- Article – Microsoft Viva Connections and daily briefing email enhancements to unify the employee experience - Malavika Rewari (Microsoft) | @MalavikaRewari
- Article – New experiences coming to Microsoft Viva Engage - Michael Holste (Microsoft) | @Mike_Holste
- Microsoft Teams Platform Updates
- New section added - What’s being deprecated in Microsoft Teams
- Comprehensive documentation update for - Enable SSO for tab app
- Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast - Building OfficeAtWork with Martin Seifert (September 26th)
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 180 (September 26th) with UK based Independent consultant and Microsoft MVP - Chirag Patel (Patel Consulting) | @techChirag | video | podcast
Demos
- Build a productivity dashboard by using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio – build a productivity dashboard app (Teams tab) using the Teams Toolkit, .NET and Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT) to design tab in Visual Studio 2022. MGT components – agenda, todo, and file-list are used to deliver calendar events, Microsoft To Do tasks and files on dashboard. Create default tab from template, run it and then customize it (update placeholder values for authentication, add components). Now run your app!
- Latest status and the next investments areas for SharePoint Framework – overview on how developers can more efficiently extend Microsoft 365 apps for SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva, and more (to be announced soon) with SharePoint Framework (SPFx). Alex delivers latest steps for getting started with SPFx development from installing prerequisite tools to SPFx project creation, packaging, and simple deployment to production. See the same solution being added to SharePoint Online and to Teams.
The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen. Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call.
Agenda items
- Latest updates and news on the Microsoft 365 platform – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen – 8:28
- Updates on Microsoft Teams documentation – Wajeed Shaikh (Microsoft) | @Wajeed_Shaikh – 12:17
- Demo - Build a productivity dashboard by using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio – Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs – 16:18
- Latest status and the next investments areas for SharePoint Framework – Alex Terentiev (Microsoft) | @alexaterentiev & Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen – 31:48
Thank you for your creativity and work execution. Samples are often showcased in Demos.
Actions
- Register for Microsoft Ignite – October 12-14, 2022. Attendance options: Online, in-person in Redmond and selected geographies (local language) as well.
- Check out Microsoft Teams App Camp – aka.ms/app-camp
- Register for Teams App Camp Online event – October 20th - Register at aka.ms/TeamsAppCamp
- Opt into PnP Recognition Program – aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition
- Please provide us input around your current experiences on Microsoft Teams development - aka.ms/TeamsDevSurvey2022
- Register for upcoming Sharing is Caring events:
- Maturity Model Practitioners | Tuesday, October 18th, 7am PST – Download reoccurring invite.
- 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 with more than 1100 samples from Microsoft and community.
- Sign up to Share your story in the Learn from the community series.
- Request a Demo spot on the call – aka.ms/m365pnp/request/demo
- Download the recurrent invite for this call – aka.ms/m365-dev-call
Demo references
- Build a productivity dashboard by using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio
- Article (Tutorial) - Build a productivity dashboard with Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio
- Demo - Getting started with Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio – Garry Trinder (Microsoft) | @garrytrinder
- Tools - Microsoft Graph Toolkit
- Documentation - Get started with Microsoft Graph Toolkit
- Dev Playground - Microsoft Graph Toolkit: UI Components and Authentication Providers for Microsoft Graph | mgt.dev
- Documentation - Publish Teams apps using Teams Toolkit
- Tools – Microsoft Teams Toolkit
- Learn - Teams Toolkit overview for Visual Studio
- Demo - Introduction to Microsoft Teams Toolkit – John Miller (Microsoft) | @jmillerdev
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
- Microsoft 365 General Dev call | Thursday, September 29, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig (bi-weekly)
- Microsoft 365 platform call | Tuesday, October 4, 8:00 am PT – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call (weekly)
- Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework call | Thursday, October 6, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call (bi-weekly)
- Office add-in monthly call | Wednesday, October 12, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall (monthly)
- Adaptive Cards monthly call | Thursday, October 13, 9:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall (monthly)
- Power Platform monthly call | Wednesday, October 19, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall (monthly)
- Microsoft Identity Platform call | Thursday, October 20, 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 - 27th of September 2022