Microsoft Graph community call -- June 2021

  This month’s community call features presentations on Assignment Graph API (v1.0 will be released to Microsoft Teams EDU tenants within days), Dev Tips and Tricks with Microsoft Graph (save coding time with 2 VS Code Extensions), and Microsoft Graph Data Connect (extracting information at scale from Microsoft Graph).  Q&A throughout call in chat.  Microsoft Graph session recordings from Microsoft Build Conference are now available on demand.  The call was hosted by Brian T. Jackett (Microsoft) | @BrianTJackett.  Microsoft Presenters were Leif Brenne, Mei Tan and Nik Charlebois. Guest presenter Elio Struyf (Squarl).   This session was recorded on June 1, 2021.

Topics

Assignments API – specifically the Assignment Graph API v1.0 will be released in Microsoft Teams EDU tenants within days.  The APIs align to an instructor’s workflows around assignments – create, append resources, track submissions, grade and post results back to students.   Try out the APIs in the Graph Explorer tool.   Think of a Team as a Class, and assignments are the class activities/coursework.     

Dev Tips and Tricks with Microsoft Graph - Save time with 2 VS Code Extensions 1) MS Graph Completion (autocompletion for Microsoft Graph URLs)  and 2) Microsoft Graph Essentials (Preview) (CSS Completion and HTML web component attributes, if using MGT) inside Visual Studio Code.  Extensions created by presenter are available in Marketplace.  Microsoft Graph Essentials extension comes with snippets, code completion for CSS variables, and an extension pack. 

Microsoft Graph Data Connect - is about extracting information at scale from Microsoft Graph.  Starting with an architecture overview – learn about creating an Azure Data Factory, Azure storage account, and establishing the data pipeline connection between the Microsoft 365 dataset and storage account.  Once the pipeline is setup, define source and sink, trigger the sync and use Power BI to display data insights.   

Actions

• Interested in Presenting during this call?   Contact Brian.Jackett@microsoft.com or Jeremy.Thake@microsoft.com
• Mark your calendar – next Microsoft Graph community call is on July 6th at 08:00am PDT - https://aka.ms/microsoftgraphcall 

Resources

From demos:

• Documentation - Create educationAssignment 

• Documentation – educationAssignment API 

• VSCode Extension - MS Graph Completion 

• VSCode Extension – Microsoft Graph Essentials 

• Web - Microsoft Graph Data Connect 

• Documentation - Overview of Microsoft Graph Data Connect 

Agenda

• Assignments API  - Leif Brenne (Microsoft) | @secondleif and Mei Tan (Microsoft) – 1:10
• Dev Tips and Tricks with Microsoft Graph - Elio Struyf (Squarl) | @eliostruyf – 22:44
• Microsoft Graph Data Connect - Nik Charlebois (Microsoft) | @NikCharlebois – 33:20

Microsoft Build 2021 - Microsoft Graph session recordings

General resources

• Suggestions – https://aka.ms/M365Dev-Suggestions   
• Graph TAP Program - https://aka.ms/GraphTAPForm** **
• Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast https://www.m365devpodcast.com/
• Microsoft Graph Mailbag - https://aka.ms/MSGraphMailbag
• Microsoft Q & A – Graph - https://aka.ms/askgraph/
• Learn Module - Get started with Microsoft Graph Toolkit | https://aka.ms/mgt-learn
• Repo - Microsoft Graph Toolkit v2.1 | https://aka.ms/mgt  
• Documentation – Microsoft Graph Toolkit Overview | https://aka.ms/mgt-docs
• Playground – Microsoft Graph Toolkit Playground | https://mgt.dev

Stay connected

• See the full blog post for this call at - https://aka.ms/m365pnp/community/blog
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/microsoft365dev @Microsoft365Dev​
• YouTube - https://aka.ms/M365DevYouTube​
• Recurrent Invite to this community call - https://aka.ms/microsoftgraphcall
• All Microsoft 365 developer community calls – https://aka.ms/M365DevCalls