Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community Call - 21st of March, 2023

Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community Call - 21st of March, 2023

Call summary

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

New this week

Demos

  • Introduction to the Copilot in Power Virtual Agents – build and iterate a working topic for your Bot in minutes. Start with an out-of-the-box bot, then select to add a topic using Copilot. Enter a topic name and simple description and let Copilot generate trigger phrases, conditions, question nodes, message variations, output variables, and json for Adaptive Cards. Go try this in the unified authoring canvas preview today.
  • Azure Communication Services extensibility with APIs and with Power Platform connectors – ACS enables virtual appointments, click-to-call, and product integrations. New Power Platform integrations – deliver omni channel communications - SMS, e-mail and chat using PCF components, connectors, actions, triggers. See UI of a sign-in app on desktop and on a mobile device. Then see the flows behind the scenes. The Omni channel flow takes care of notifications/messaging to 3 channels simply by using 3 connectors.
  • Add chat capability to Microsoft Teams app using Teams JavaScript client library – see how the JS library can be used to add native Teams functionality into your applications. Install the library, note how APIs are grouped by capabilities that access functionality within Teams, initialize library, explore usage of capabilities – specifically context and chat. In demo, step through adding Teams chat to an app with a few lines of JS code. Fourth installment in a 5-part series.

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

Agenda items

00:00 – Intro

07:44 – Latest updates – news across the Microsoft blogs – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen

11:57 – Microsoft Teams Platform updates – Surbhi Gupta (Microsoft)

12:31 – Together mode picture

13:40 – Demo – Introduction to the Copilot in Power Virtual Agents – Gary Pretty (Microsoft) | @GaryPretty

27:58 – Demo – Azure Communication Services extensibility with APIs and with Power Platform connectors – Tomas Chladek (Microsoft) & David de Matheu (Microsoft) | @ddematheu

40:05 – Demo – Add chat capability to Microsoft Teams app using Teams JavaScript client library – Garry Trinder (Microsoft) | @garrytrinder

55:33 – Closing

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

Together Mode

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Thanks to many and to one dog for joining the call today. Hope to see you in person later this Spring at one of the events called out during the call today.

Actions

  • Register for Build once, deploy efficiently, connect across Microsoft 365 – Virtual event. March 29, 2023, 9:00AM PST.
  • Request to Present a demo during Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community calls - aka.ms/community/request/demo
  • Register for an Upcoming Event around Microsoft 365 and Power Platform advertised on the Community Days site.
  • Community call agendas are published each week at aka.ms/community/meetup
  • Opt into PnP Recognition Program – aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition
  • Register for upcoming Sharing Is Caring events:
  • 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 1400 samples from Microsoft and community.
  • Download the recurrent invite for this call – aka.ms/m365-dev-call

Demo references

General resources

Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites

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 - 21st of March 2023