Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community Call - 25th of April, 2023

Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community Call - 25th 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 three demos.

New this week

Demos

  • Why build Power Platform Solutions in Microsoft Teams? – Microsoft Teams is built for hybrid collaboration and delivers contextual information, automations and actions. Power Platform delivers bespoke functionality, connection to data and workflows. Microsoft is focused on bringing elements of Teams and Power Platform Suite together. Hear about app integration in Fabrikam Airport work shift management example and how to identify Power platform apps ripe for Teamifying. Preview 3 app integration features, deep dive next week.
  • Bring your existing projects to Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code – covers several new features in Teams Toolkit v5.0 that make it much easier to migrate what you have to Teams. To create/deploy Teams app today is a lot of work. The task is simplified. Key v5.0 features reviewed – project files, pre-defined actions, and Visual Studio Dev Tunnels. Inspect differences in code walk through as migrate existing Teams Conversation Bot SSO quick-start sample into a Teams Toolkit project.
  • Building a Magic Note app to plan the day efficiently with AI & Microsoft Graph – introducing the first-place winner of Hack Together. Magic Note is an AI-powered application that’s your daily minder/assistant. App captures your randomly organized activities list. Uses AI and Microsoft Graph to organize and build your daily schedule. Edit/approve entries after which app updates m365 connected resources (events, meetings, to-do tasks, etc.). The Windows 10/11 app uses Microsoft Graph, Azure conversational language understanding cognitive service and .NET.

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

Agenda items

00:00 – Intro

08:56 – Latest updates – news across the Microsoft blogs – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen

10:28 – Microsoft Teams Platform updates – Surbhi Gupta (Microsoft)

11:32 – Announcement - Microsoft Teams toolkit cloud skill challenge – Garry Trinder (Microsoft) | @garrytrinder

12:10 – Together mode picture

12:59 – Demo – Why build Power Platform Solutions in Microsoft Teams? – Stuart McCarthy (Microsoft) & Marcus Castro (Microsoft)

28:20 – Demo – Bring your existing projects to Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code – Garry Trinder (Microsoft) | @garrytrinder

45:00 – Demo – Building a Magic Note app to plan the day efficiently with AI & Microsoft Graph – Ahmad Mozaffar (ContraForce) | @AhmadMozaffar99

57:06 – Closing

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

Together Mode

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Thank you for joining the call. A packed house today. Looking forward to seeing many of you in-person soon at a conference near or not so near to you.

Actions

  • Register for the Microsoft Teams Toolkit Cloud Skills Challenge, April 12th – 26th. | aka.ms/LearnTeamsToolkit
  • 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

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
  • Teams Toolkit Cloud Skills Challenge – aka.ms/LearnTeamsToolkit
  • Teams Documents – aka.ms/TeamsDevDocs
  • Teams Samples – aka.ms/TeamsSamples
  • Teams Feedback – aka.ms/TeamsPlatformFeedback
  • 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 - 25th of April 2023