Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community Call - 11th of April, 2023

Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community Call - 11th of April, 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 one demo.

New this week

Demo

  • Using Microsoft Graph and Azure Form Recognizer for optimizing productivity – this Hackathon winning entry - ScheduleEase app allows students to photograph their schedule then invoker Azure Form Recognizer to scan the image and deliver an array of class sessions with the help of Graph API calls. The user selects to add the session information to their Outlook calendar. The cross-platform app works on iOS, Android and Windows. Coding was done using .NET MAUI.

Announcement

  • Announcing Microsoft Teams toolkit cloud skills challenge – do you want to learn how to build apps for Microsoft Teams? Introducing a challenge hosted by MVP Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese to help you achieve this very objective. 1. Register for the challenge, 2. work through the “Build and deploy apps for Microsoft Teams using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code” Learning Path, and 3. become a contributor and have the chance to win a prize!

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

Agenda items

00:00 – Intro

10:58 – Latest updates – news across the Microsoft blogs – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen

12:20 – Microsoft Teams Platform updates – Wajeed Shaikh (Microsoft) | @Wajeed_Shaikh

14:17 – Together mode picture

16:02 – Announcement - Microsoft Teams toolkit cloud skill challenge – Garry Trinder (Microsoft) | @garrytrinder

22:36 – Demo – Using Microsoft Graph and Azure Form Recognizer for optimizing productivity – Houssem Ayadi & Aziz Gassara

36:56 – Closing 1

39:43 – Ad hoc Q & A

49:00 – Closing 2

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

Together Mode

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As always awesome to have you on the call – and if you missed it, enjoy the call on demand.

Actions

  • Register for the Microsoft Teams toolkit cloud skill challenge, April 12th – 24th.
  • Rate this call’s content and let us know how we can improve | aka.ms/community/calls/feedback Thanks!
  • 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

Announcement/Demo references

  • Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community videos - aka.ms/community/videos
  • LinkedIn group for discussions and updates - aka.ms/community/Li
  • Open-source assets –
    • github.com/pnp
    • github.com/officedev
    • github.com/sharepoint
    • github.com/microsoftgraph
  • Unified Sample gallery - aka.ms/community/samples
  • Product sample galleries
    • aka.ms/teams-samples
    • aka.ms/spfx-webparts
    • aka.ms/spfx-extensions
    • aka.ms/powerplatform-samples
    • aka.ms/list-formatting
  • One place for Open-source initiatives and samples - aka.ms/community/home
  • Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community calls - aka.ms/community/calls
  • Community call agendas - aka.ms/community/meetup
  • Request to Present - aka.ms/community/request/demo
  • Free E5 developer tenant - aka.ms/m365/devprogram
  • Learn training modules - aka.ms/m365/dev/learn
  • Conversations - Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast – m365devpodcast.com
  • Conversations - Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly
    • Video - aka.ms/pnpweekly
    • Podcast - pnpweekly.podbean.com
  • Conversations - Power Platform Connections – aka.ms/powerplatform-connections
  • Microsoft 365 & Power Platform sample gallery - aka.ms/community/samples
  • Learn how to get started in the open-source PnP community! – aka.ms/sharing-is-caring
  • Event – Microsoft 365 Conference – Las Vegas, May 2-4
  • Event – European Collaboration Summit 2023, Düsseldorf. May 24-26
  • Event – Microsoft 365 EduCon conferences – DC, Seattle, Chicago
  • Event – European Power Platform Conference, Dublin, June 20-22
  • Upcoming Community Events - communitydays.org
  • News – Microsoft 365 Developer Blog - aka.ms/m365dev/blog
  • News – Teams Blog - aka.ms/teams/blog
  • News – Microsoft Viva Blog - aka.ms/microsoftviva/blog
  • News – Microsoft SharePoint Blog - aka.ms/sp-blog
  • Teams Platform Updates - aka.ms/TeamsPlatformUpdates
  • Invite (ics) for the weekly Microsoft 365 & Power Platform call - aka.ms/community/ms-speakers-call-invite
  • Feedback on this call - aka.ms/community/calls/feedback

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 - 11th of April 2023