Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community Call - 27th 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
- This call is now on summer break. The next Microsoft 365 & Power Platform call will be on 22nd of August.
- News
- Article - Announcing Microsoft Graph CLI SDK v1.0.0-preview release candidate
- Article - Breaking change: Enum property addition to teamworkdevices in Microsoft Graph
- Article - Announcing public preview of Bot Framework powered Viva Connections extensibility
- Article - Introducing profanity filtering control and customization for captions in Microsoft Teams meetings
- Article - 3 ways to reimagine hospitality and empower your frontline with Microsoft Teams
- Article - Introducing Multiple Viva Connections Experiences for Your Organization
- Article - June 2023 update of Power Automate for desktop
- Article - Direct Power Fx Dataverse actions support now in preview
Demos
- Microsoft Teams App Camp New Adventure! – same premise as before - reuse existing app investments, but now build a simple Teams app with Teams Toolkit and use the app to call existing web services in (your enterprise, public web services, and Microsoft Graph). The strategy focuses on messaging extensions – all types covered in this camp. The presenter shows high level architecture and then shows what you can build with the 6 new labs.
- Introduction to new Microsoft Graph Toolkit Search Components – MGT v3.0 launched today - June27. A completely new capability delivered (in preview) is Search, specifically Search Box and Search Results components. Easily add search to a page with two tags, find files anywhere in Microsoft 365 environment. See the much more interesting, customizable search options in hero app that ships with MGT. Rich set of customization options, but also quite capable out of the box.
- Securely consuming Azure Functions from Microsoft 365 solutions powered by SPFx – the 3rd installment on this end-to-end retail solution scenario you can build in Microsoft 365. In this demo, the focus is on the back-end .NET API relied upon by both the Teams personal app and a Viva Connections card. See in call in Postman and code in SPFx app for how to consume the API in a secure way by providing a token – easily configured.
The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen. Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call.
Agenda items
00:00 – Intro
09:01 – Latest updates – news across the Microsoft blogs – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
10:29 – Together mode picture
11:44 – Demo - Microsoft Teams App Camp New Adventure! – Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German
28:33 – Demo - Introduction to new Microsoft Graph Toolkit Search Components – Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | @sebastienlevert
45:51 – Demo - Securely consuming Azure Functions from Microsoft 365 solutions powered by SPFx – Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
58:37 – Closing
Thank you for your creativity and work execution. Samples are often showcased in Demos.
Together Mode
Thank you for joining the call today. See you next time on August 22nd.
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Demo references
- Microsoft Teams App Camp New Adventure!
- Introduction to new Microsoft Graph Toolkit Search Components
- Article - Microsoft Graph Toolkit v3.0 is now generally available
- Tool - Microsoft Graph Toolkit Playground – v3
- Toolkit - aka.ms/mgt/ (click the Latest button under Releases in Right sidebar).
- Demo (June 20) - Introduction to Microsoft Graph Toolkit v3 – Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | @sebastienlevert
- Securely consuming Azure Functions from Microsoft 365 solutions powered by SPFx
- Sample - Contoso Retail Dashboard
- Documentation - Build your first SharePoint Adaptive Card Extension
- Demo - Extend SPFx apps across Microsoft 365 - Contoso Retail scenario (2023-06-06) – Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
- Demo (June 13) - Exposing Microsoft Teams apps in Microsoft Viva with SPFx cards – Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
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 resume on August 22nd.
- 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 - 27th of June 2023