Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community Call - 6th of June, 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.
Latest updates
Announcements
- Summer schedule for this call only. This call will not take place from July 4th through August 15th. The weekly call will resume on August 22nd.
- News
- The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Teams as a Platform
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | May 2023
- Intelligent meeting recap in Teams Premium, now available
- SharePoint roadmap pitstop: May 2023
- AMA for SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, and Stream | June 14th 10am PT
- Introducing Syntex repository services: Microsoft 365 superpowers for your app
- Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy v0.8 with minimal permissions detection and improved simulating throttling
- Microsoft Viva Connections solutions are now available in the Microsoft AppSource
- Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.17.3 for Microsoft 365 extensibility
- Build your own app’s copilot on Microsoft Teams with the new Teams AI Library
- Deprecation of sha1Hash on OneDrive Personal
- Conversations
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 213 (June 5th) with Portugal-based Developer, Microsoft 365 Architect, and Microsoft MVP - Rodrigo Pinto (Storm Technology Ltd) | @ScoutmanPt | video | podcast
- Power Platform Connections - Lewis Baybutt | Power Platform Connections Ep 15 (June 2nd) | video
- Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast – Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy with Garry Trinder and Waldek Mastykarz (June 5th) | podcast
- Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast – Teams Toolkit v5 with John Miller (June 1st) | podcast
Demos
- Introduction to Microsoft Syntex Repository Services - Part 2 – review scenarios and features of Syntex Repository Services - the containers and APIs that make it work. Review Repository Services application structure – Containers and Drive Objects in Microsoft Graph. Address permissions, custom properties, sensitivity labels, Office and video player support. Live demo using Postman to call Graph using new Repository Services APIs. Create container, add item (document/video), preview. How Repository Services differ from SharePoint site storage.
- Introduction to Bot Framework powered Viva Connections cards – leverage your existing bot investments (code) and expose functionality in Viva. Teach your bot how to speak Viva! Learn about Bot powered ACEs, implementation details, packaging and distribution. No Coding, self-contained bot deployed to SharePoint via a package. Step through code, manifest, create package, upload to app catalog, go to dashboard, add card. Talk about authentication and updating, Capability goes to Public Preview this week.
- Extend SPFx apps across Microsoft 365 - Contoso Retail scenario – shows an end-to-end Microsoft Teams personal app with web parts and widgets created with SharePoint Framework. Solution uses SPFx (v1.17). The Dashboard can be rendered in SharePoint Online, Teams, Microsoft 365 Portal, and Outlook.com. Secured Azure functions in back-end. Solution is deployed in tenant’s app catalog. Thoughts on architecture. Step through code and manifest to understand how solution was built.
The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen. Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call.
Agenda items
00:00 – Intro
10:41 – Latest updates – news across the Microsoft blogs – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
11:27 – Microsoft Teams Platform updates – Surbhi Gupta (Microsoft)
12:51 – Together mode picture
14:13 – Demo - Introduction to Microsoft Syntex Repository Services – Marc Windle (Microsoft)
31:44 – Demo - Introduction to Bot Framework powered Viva Connections cards – Luca Bandinelli (Microsoft)
39:01 – Demo - Extend SPFx apps across Microsoft 365 - Contoso Retail scenario – Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
56:20 – Closing
Thank you for your creativity and work execution. Samples are often showcased in Demos.
Together Mode
Awesome to have everyone on the call today. Thank you for joining your fellow community mates in the outdoor auditorium.
Activities & Actions
- Agenda set for next Microsoft 365 & Power Platform weekly call - Tuesday, June 13th, 8:00 am PT.
- Latest news from Microsoft engineering on Microsoft 365 topics
- Marc Windl – How Microsoft Syntex Repository Services powers Microsoft Loop
- Lan Li & Kishor Subedi – Introduction to Power Automate Copilot
- Paolo Pialorsi - Exposing Microsoft Teams apps in Microsoft Viva with SPFx cards
- Event - HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack (June 1 – 15, 2023) | aka.ms/hack-together-teams
- ACT NOW – save €300 on tickets for the European Power Platform Conference – Dublin, 20-23 June
- 365 EduCon - Use promo code “Community” to save 25% off any pass type.
- Washington DC – June 12-16, 2023
- Seattle – August 21-25, 2023 & PWR EduCon
- Chicago – October 30 – November 3, 2023
- Upcoming Community Days Events - aka.ms/communitydays
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- Community call agendas are published each week at aka.ms/community/meetup
- Register for upcoming Sharing is Caring events:
- Maturity Model Practitioners | monthly – 3rd Tuesday, 7am PST - Register
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- Get started with free training modules covering Microsoft 365 platform capabilities.
- Visit the Microsoft 365 Unified Sample Solution Gallery with more than 1570+ samples from Microsoft and community.
- Download the recurrent invite for this call – aka.ms/m365-dev-call
Demo references
- Introduction to Microsoft Syntex Repository Services
- Article - Introducing Syntex repository services: Microsoft 365 superpowers for your app | aka.ms/syntex/repositorybuild23
- Preview - Register for more details about Microsoft Syntex | aka.ms/repositorypreview
- Demo - Introduction to Microsoft Syntex Repository Services – Marc Windl (May 30th)
- Introduction to Bot Framework powered Viva Connections cards
- Extend SPFx apps across Microsoft 365 - Contoso Retail scenario
- Documentation – PnP/PnPjs home
- Sample - Contoso Retail Dashboard
- Article - How to use SPFx powered Microsoft Teams apps in Outlook and Office
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
Recurrent call invites
- Microsoft 365 platform call | weekly - Tuesday, 8:00 am PT – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call (Note: This call will be on holiday from Tuesday July 4th through Tuesday August 15th)
- Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Dev call | bi-weekly - Thursday, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig
- Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework call | bi-weekly - Thursday, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call
- Office add-in call | monthly - 2nd Wednesday, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall
- Power Platform call | monthly - 3rd Wednesday, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall
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 - 6th of June 2023