This week Paul Schaeflein talks to Vesa Juvonen about the SPFx 1.10 release. This introduces a preview to building Office add-ins and Personal Apps in Microsoft Teams.

Show Notes

Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.10 – extending SharePoint Framework across Microsoft 365

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/announcing-sharepoint-framework-1-10-extending-sharepoint-framework-across-microsoft-365/

Microsoft News

Microsoft Meetings Capture Solution template

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/announcing-the-microsoft-teams-meetings-capture-solution-template/

Single sign on office add-ins

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/creating-single-sign-on-add-ins-for-office-has-never-been-easier/

Microsoft Graph Toolkit offers new Tools and Updates!

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/microsoft-graph-toolkit-offers-new-tools-and-updates/

IFTTT and Microsoft Graph

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/how-to-empower-your-microsoft-365-team-with-a-microsoft-graph-and-ifttt-integration/#IFTTT

Advancing Azure Active Directory availability

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-azure-active-directory-availability/

New year, new browser – The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview and now available for download

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2020/01/15/new-year-new-browser-the-new-microsoft-edge-is-out-of-preview-and-now-available-for-download/?WT.mc_id=DX_MVP4025064

Community

Creating a year at a glance calendar in Teams - Glenn Scales

https://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2019/11/creating-year-at-glance-calendar-in.html

Copying files between Microsoft Teams using Microsoft Graph - Jarbas Horst

http://www.devjhorst.com/2019/12/copy-files-between-microsoft-teams-using-microsoft-graph.html

In this episode, Jeremy Thake talks to Kevin Bellinger about the Profile APIs preview for Microsoft Graph. 

Show links

• Profile APIs in docs
• Kevin Bellinger on Twitter

Microsoft Graph

Insights v1.0

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/microsoft-graph-insights-api-is-now-available-in-v1-0/

Create subscription (now includes chatMessage)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/subscription-post-subscriptions?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http

Set up change notifications that include resource data (preview)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/webhooks-with-resource-data?view=graph-rest-beta

Microsoft Graph presence APIs are now available in public preview

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/microsoft-graph-presence-apis-are-now-available-in-public-preview/

Microsoft Developer

Now available: Azure AD App registrations Token configuration (preview) simplifies management of optional claims

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/now-available-azure-ad-app-registrations-token-configuration-preview-simplifies-management-of-optional-claims/

Microsoft Authentication Libraries for Java and Python are now generally available

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/microsoft-authentication-libraries-for-java-and-python-are-now-generally-available/

Community

Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK - Lee Ford

https://www.lee-ford.co.uk/graph-api-powershell-sdk/

Dear Microsoft: Site Designs for Good Information Architecture – Too Brittle?

https://sympmarc.com/2019/12/08/dear-microsoft-site-designs-for-good-information-architecture-too-brittle/

Paul sits down with Sébastien Levert to talk about taking your SharePoint skills to the cloud.  Seb discusses architecture decisions, technology stack and coding practices that should be considered and upgraded to help move code to the cloud.

Seb is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sebastienlevert and blogs at https://www.sebastienlevert.com/

Jeremy Thake interviewed Chris O'Brien, Office Apps and Service MVP (10+years) at the European SharePoint Conference in Prague. Chris shares his journey with PowerApps as an established Microsoft 365 developer. He shares a story of a super car company and how they are using Power Apps in their production line.

Gary Pretty picks up the conversation about Bots & AI and dives deep into the Ignite 2019 announcements including v4.6 of the SDK and Composer. As a former MVP, Gary is passionate about community, so the conversation also covers the Bot Builder community repository and the channels in which listeners can provide feedback.

Links from the show:

• Bot Framework What's New
• Video walkthrough of Composer by Ben Brown
• Ignite Sessions on demand:
  • Deep Dive into Conversational AI using Azure Bot Service and Cognitive Services
  • Creating enterprise conversational user experiences with virtual assistants
  • Create sophisticated, enterprise-ready bots from your existing data, with no code using Azure Cognitive Services QnA Maker
• Microsoft GitHub
  • https://www.github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework
  • https://www.github.com/BotBuilderCommunity

Microsoft news

• Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v6.0
• Developing for the new category of dual-screen devices built for mobile productivity
• The Microsoft Graph team wants to hear from you!
• Upcoming API changes to return limited information for inaccessible member resources
• Microsoft 365 Developer certification

Community News

• Getting related team information from Private Channels - Alex Terentiev
• Postman for B2C Guest accessto Microsoft Graph
• Podcast list by Philip Worrel

Microsoft MVP Alex Terentiev sits down with Paul to discuss Office 365 development topics including SPFx/Teams and bots and developer tools and languages. Alex discusses his work around React Templates and SPFx library components and other successful projects.

Alex's links

React Templates Using SPFx Library Components. 

http://blog.aterentiev.com/2019/06/react-templates-using-spfx-library.html#more

https://twitter.com/alexaterentiev

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekseiterentiev/?locale=en_US

Ignite News

Book of news - Ignite 2019

https://news.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/sites/563/2019/11/Ignite-2019-Book-of-News.pdf

All Things Developer Tools at Microsoft Ignite

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/all-things-developer-tools-at-microsoft-ignite/

Delivering increased productivity for bot development and deployment

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/delivering-increased-productivity-for-bot-development-and-deployment/

Ignite Blog: Microsoft Fluid Framework preview

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-365-Blog/Ignite-Blog-Microsoft-Fluid-Framework-preview/ba-p/978268

Jeremy Thake talks to Yina Arenas and Darrel Miller about what is new for Microsoft Graph from Ignite.

See all the recordings for Microsoft Graph at Ignite.

Read the Microsoft Graph blog post announcement.

Go get the Microsoft Graph PowerSHell SDK 

Paul talks with Doug Ware about his experience on modernizing workloads. Most organizations have systems on-premise that must integrate with cloud services, and Doug talks thru his strategies for locating and modernizing those systems. you can follow Doug on twitter @DougWare.

Community Links

Ignite 2019 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream and related technology sessions

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Ignite-2019-guide-to-SharePoint-OneDrive-Yammer-Stream-and/ba-p/930289

The Microsoft Teams Guide to Ignite 2019

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/The-Microsoft-Teams-Guide-to-Ignite-2019/ba-p/942149

This week Jeremy Thake talks to Darren Jeffor, a Principal Architect in the Convesrational AI engineering team about the Virtual Assistant solution.

Show Notes

• Microsoft Virtual Assistant docs
• Calendar Skill for Virtual Assistant docs

Microsoft News

Attaching large files to Outlook messages in Microsoft Graph (preview)

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/attaching-large-files-to-outlook-messages-in-microsoft-graph-preview/

Community News

Adaptive Cards community call-October 10, 2019

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/adaptive-cards-community-call-october-10-2019/

Adaptive Cards for Blazor

https://github.com/mikoskinen/Blazor.AdaptiveCards

Office Add-ins community call–October 9, 2019

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blogs/office-add-ins-community-call-october-9-2019/

JSON Serialization in .NET Core 3: Tiny Difference, Big Consequences

https://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/json-serialization-in-net-core-3-tiny-difference-big-consequences?WT.mc_id=DX_MVP4025064

Jeremy Thake had the pleasure of catching up with Kevin Gallo, Microsoft CVP, to talk about Windows development. Kevin talks about how he got started in Microsoft, what drew him to Windows development platform and then onto the strategy developers should understand with Windows development. 

Show Notes

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/

KevinTGallo on Twitter

Microsoft News

Microsoft Graph SDK v1.18.0

Microsoft Graph SDK code snippet

Microsoft technology podcast showcase

Community News

Microsoft Graph SDK dotnet contrib github repo

Graph Community logging message handler