Call summary
Welcome to the weekly call focused on capabilities of the Microsoft 365 platform. In this particular call, we highlighted recently announced and key existing resources as well as latest samples, project releases, news, community events and three demos.
New this week
- Registration open for AMA (Ask me anything) – Viva ACE | Tuesday, April 26th - Register
- Teams Platform Sample - Live coding interview using Shared meeting stage
- Teams Step-by-Step Guide - Generate meeting side panel
- Article - April 2022 – Viva Topics Integrations with Teams, Syntex, Outlook and Yammer | Chris McNulty (Microsoft) | @cmcnulty2000
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 162 (April 18th) with Stockholm, Sweden based Principal Program Manager, Wictor Wilén (Microsoft) | @wictor | video | podcast
- Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast - Development Topics with Andrew Connell (April 12th) | @@andrewconnell |podcast
- Microsoft 365 Platform Community (PnP) – April 2022 update is available! The great people and supportive organizations delivering solid work in this community over the last month is recognized today! Thank you.
Demos
- Latest on Microsoft Graph Data Connect datasets - REST APIs, Connectors and Data Connect make up the Graph Ecosystem. Data Connect enables bulk data access for insights and analytics. Data is stored in Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse. Reviewed 9 data sets recently released, 2 more to be released soon and 7 in the Backlog. Briefly covered Azure Synapse integration and quick demo of the Synapse Copy Data Tool (wizard).
- Extending Teams apps to Outlook and Office.com – the first in a series of application extensibility demos. Microsoft is delivering on an Ignite commitment to enable you to build a personal app once and expose it across hosts – Teams, Outlook, Office.com. In this session, modify a simple Teams app to run across hosts. Two changes - update manifestVersion to “m365DevPreview” and reference “v2.0.0.beta.2” teams-js in package json. Hub specific code addressed in future demo.
- Graph Connectors updates and Postman samples - use Graph Connectors to get and surface external data in native Microsoft 365 experiences like search - GA, intelligent discovery, compliance, Viva Topics, and context IQ – in development, and People – in Preview. Recent platform updates include Schema Updates API, new AAD permissions and simplified ACL. Upcoming work described, see Graph connector search demo and finally step through how and why build a connector using Postman.
The host of this call was Brian T. Jackett (Microsoft) | @BrianTJackett. Q&A takes place in chat throughout and live at end of the call.
Agenda items
- Latest updates and news on the Microsoft 365 platform – Brian T. Jackett (Microsoft) | @BrianTJackett – 6:53
- Monthly contributors on the Microsoft 365 platform community efforts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen – 11:23
- Demo - Latest on Microsoft Graph Data Connect datasets – Nik Charlebois (Microsoft) | @NikCharlebois – 15:15
- Demo - Extending Teams apps to Outlook and Office.com – Saurabh Bhatia (Microsoft) | @iamSBTron – 29:36
- Demo - Graph Connectors updates and Postman samples – Brian T. Jackett (Microsoft) | @BrianTJackett – 37:33
Thank you for your creativity and work execution. Samples are often showcased in Demos.
Together Mode
Thank you for being part of this community and these calls. You make this community great!
Actions
- Mark your calendar for Microsoft Tech Days | Thursday, May 5, 2022.
- Register for Microsoft Build | May 24-26, 2022
- Register for Sharing is Caring events:
- AMA (Ask me anything) – Viva ACE | Tuesday, April 26th, 9am PT - Register
- Community Docs Session | Tuesday, May 17, 10:00 am PT - Register
- Power Platform Samples – First Time Contributor | Monday, May 9, 10:30 am PT- Register
- Maturity Model Practitioners | Tuesday, April 19, 7:00 am PT - Register
- PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session | Register
- PnP Buddy System | Request a Buddy
- 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 from Microsoft and community.
- Sign up to Share your story in the Learn from the community series.
- Request a Demo spot on the call – https://aka.ms/m365pnp/request/demo
- Download the recurrent invite for this call – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call
Demo references
- Latest on Microsoft Graph Data Connect datasets
- General
- Documentation – Graph Data Connect Policies
- Repo – Graph Data Connect Solutions
- Documentation - Quickstart: Use the Copy Data tool in the Azure Data Factory Studio to copy data
- Site Collection Level
- Article - View usage data for your SharePoint site
- Documentation - View search usage reports in modern sites
- Tenant Admin Level
- Documentation - Microsoft 365 Reports in the admin center - SharePoint site usage
- Documentation - Microsoft 365 usage analytics
- Via Microsoft Graph
- Documentation - SharePoint site usage reports
- Extending Teams apps to Outlook and Office.com
- Sample - Getting Started with Todo List Sample
- Documentation - Teams Toolkit Overview
- Documentation - Extend Teams apps across Microsoft 365
- Graph Connectors updates and Postman samples
- Documentation - Microsoft Graph connectors overview | aka.ms/graphconnectorsapi
- Documentation - Use Postman with the Microsoft Graph connectors API
- Demo - Latest on Microsoft Graph connectors SDK – Rajdeep Chandra (Microsoft)
General resources
- Archives - Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Videos, Podcasts
- PnP Teams Quickstart | aka.ms/pnp-teams-quickstart
- Microsoft Teams Toolkit v2.2 | https://aka.ms/teams-toolkit
- Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub | aka.ms/m365pnp/community
- Microsoft Graph Toolkit in Microsoft Learn | http://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 community (PnP) videos | aka.ms/m365pnp-videos
- Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
- yo Teams | aka.ms/yoteams
- Video - Getting started using yo Teams | Wictor Wilén (Avanade)| @wictor
- Build a crisis management site to connect people and information
- Developer documentation | https://aka.ms/spdev-docs
- PnP Power Shell
- SharePoint Modernization Partner Guidance - Feedback welcome
- Solution - Building a modern search experiences with SharePoint Framework web parts
- Page transformation guidance
- Page transformation videos
- Modernization scanner
- 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)
- SharePoint Provisioning Service - Easily provision look book designs to any tenant in the world
- SharePoint Provisioning templates on Github
- PnP Provisioning Tenant Templates documentation
- SharePoint Page Transformation webcast series
- PnP Power Shell
- SharePoint Modernization Tools
Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites
- Power Apps monthly call | Wednesday, April 20, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall (monthly)
- Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework call | Thursday, April 21, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call (bi-weekly)
- Microsoft Identity Platform call | Thursday, April 21, 9:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar (monthly)
- Microsoft 365 platform call | Tuesday, April 26, 8:00 am PT – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call (weekly)
- M365 General Dev call | Thursday, April 28, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig (bi-weekly)
- Office add-in monthly call | Wednesday, May 11, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall (monthly)
- Adaptive Cards monthly call | Thursday, May 12, 9:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall (monthly)
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, Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, Column Formatting, list formatting, etc. topics.) with demos commonly delivered by community members. More details on the Microsoft 365 community from http://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 http://aka.ms/m365pnp.
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Microsoft 365 PnP team, Microsoft - 20th of April 2022
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