Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast

We are introducing a new series of podcasts talking to leaders from companies building products on top of Microsoft 365. Ayca Bas will be joining Jeremy Thake to interview them every other week on the show.

First up is Martin Seifert from OfficeAtWork to talk about how they have built Office add-ins, Teams apps and much more! Martin shares their journey from building Server products to our cloud services.

Check out their products at officeatwork — creating value by simplifying work

Alex returns to the show to discuss the updates to SPFx in the last year.

Microsoft News

• New features in Microsoft Graph To Do APIs and retirement of the Tasks (Beta) API
• Updates on controlling app specific access on specific SharePoint sites (Sites.Selected)
• What's new for Microsoft Graph connectors, August 2022 Update

In this episode Jeremy talks to Alicia Lu about the new features of the Teams JS SDK v2.0 updates that allow you to build your apps across multiple Microsoft 365 surfaces like Outlook, Office.com and Microsoft Teams.

Links from the show:

• Extend Teams apps across Microsoft 365 (preview) - Teams
• Build collaborative apps with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 services
• Microsoft Teams JS SDK v2 is now generally available - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
• GitHub - OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-library-js: JavaScript library for use by Microsoft Teams apps
• GitHub - OfficeDev/TeamsFx: Developer tools for building Teams apps
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-lu/

Microsoft News

• Microsoft Ignite
• Join us at the first Microsoft Power Platform Conference Sept 20-22
• Introducing the Azure Developer CLI (azd): A faster way to build apps for the cloud
• Restricted access to Microsoft Teams data via EWS starts September 30, 2022 - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Community Links

• What's new? Unboxing the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) v1.15
• My experiences and an approach to implementing Power Platform Dev Ops with the Power Platform Toolchain: Introduction

Jeremy talks to Pierce Boggan to talk about the Microsoft Teams Toolkit. Pierce talks about why this toolkit is important for Microsoft 365 developers. He explains how they built apps and bots for Microsoft Teams to help run their team.

Pierce Boggan on Twitter

Microsoft Teams Toolkit docs

Build apps with the Teams Toolkit and Visual Studio Code

Create a new Teams app using Teams Toolkit

In this episode, Jeremy Thake talks to Merill Fernando about the work he has done around PowerShell and Azure AD and Microsoft Graph. He talks about the amazing Graph X-ray tool that is super helpful for Identity and Intune developers out there!

Links from the show:

• merill.net
• Merill Fernando • 🇦🇺 • 🇱🇰 (@merill) / Twitter
• GitHub - microsoft/azureadexporter: PowerShell module to export a local copy of all Azure Active Directory configuration settings and objects.
• Graph PowerShell Conversion Analyzer - merill.net
• PSAzureMigratorAdvisor powershell module
• Mapping document from Azure AD PowerShell to Microsoft Graph Powershell SDK
• Graph X-Ray (merill.net)
• Graph Permissions Explorer - merill.net
• GitHub - msgraph/powershell: Share your own Graph PowerShell samples in the Discussions tab.

Microsoft News

• Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.15 - with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint
• Microsoft Teams JS SDK v2 is now generally available
• Application permissions for Bookings APIs in Microsoft Graph now available
• Upcoming billing changes for Microsoft Graph APIs for Teams messages

Jeremy Thake speaks to David de Mattheu about all the latest announcements in Azure Communication Services, including a new bulk mail service!

Links from the show:

• https://aka.ms/acs
• Microsoft Build 2022: Azure Communication Services updates to build faster and reach further
• Azure Communication Services on Microsoft Q&A

Darrel Miller returns to chat his work as an API Architect at Microsoft.

Links from the show:

• Microsoft API Guidelines
• https://aka.ms/graphfeedback

Altamish Ahmad joins Jeremy and Paul to discuss the Bookings API now on Microsoft Graph.

Links from the show:

• Microsoft Graph Bookings APIs now available on the v1 endpoint
• Use the Microsoft Bookings API in Microsoft Graph
• Beta - Use the Microsoft Bookings API in Microsoft Graph
• New features in Microsoft Graph Bookings APIs provide enhanced booking infrastructure
• Microsoft Bookings

Microsoft News

• Publish your app in the Microsoft Teams App Store
• Inside the making of the Azure SDK management libraries

Community Links

• Save data to app personal folder

Ed Averett joins Jeremy and Paul to discuss the extensibility story for SharePoint, OneDrive and Viva Connections.

Community Links

• NEW CONTROL - Adaptive Card Host
• https://github.com/pnp/AdaptiveCards-Templates
• Building Proxy Provider for SharePoint Framework and Microsoft Graph Toolkit (@sergeev_srg)
• Jarbas Horst: Graph API News: APIs for managing shared channels now available in Microsoft Graph (@devjhorst)
• How to Figure Out What Microsoft Graph Permissions You Need (@12Knocksinna)

Recently podcast-retired Andrew Connell joins pals Jeremy and Paul to catch up. And some of it is recorded! AC shares his thoughts on development topics.

Links from the show:

• Voitanos YouTube
• Voitanos blog
• MS Cloudshow Archive
• AC on Twitter

Microsoft News

• Microsoft Graph API support for new content type sync enhancements
• Get inspired with Microsoft 365 apps at Microsoft Tech Days
• PSReadLine 2.2 GA
• Announcing PowerShell Crescendo General Availability (GA)

Community Links

• How to Create Your First Teams Bot and Deploy it to Azure (@LauraKokkarinen)