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

This week Jeremy and Paul catch up to talk about the latest hot news from Microsoft 365 Development.

Microsoft News

MIME format support on mail endpoint

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/mime-format-support-for-outlook-mail-and-attachments-translate-item-id-apis-are-now-available-in-microsoft-graph-v1-0/

Reply adds message object

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/changelog#mail-outlook

Announcing availability of an updated Page Diagnostics Tool for SharePoint https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Announcing-availability-of-an-updated-Page-Diagnostics-Tool-for/ba-p/859877

M365 Development on MS Learn

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/browse/?roles=developer&products=m365

New CDN URLs and Subresource Integrity Hash for MSAL JS

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/new-cdn-urls-and-subresource-integrity-hash-for-msal-js/

Android and iOS and macOS GA MSAL

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/identity/blogs/microsoft-authentication-libraries-for-android-ios-and-macos-are-now-generally-available/

Community

Exploring The Microsoft Graph Toolkit Sergei Sergeev

https://spblog.net/post/2019/10/01/exploring-microsoft-graph-toolkit

SPFx overclockers or how to significantly improve your SharePoint Framework build performance Sergei Sergeev

https://spblog.net/post/2019/09/18/spfx-overclockers-or-how-to-significantly-improve-your-sharepoint-framework-build-performance

Adding a SharePoint page or list as tab to Teams using Graph API

https://myteamsday.com/2019/09/24/adding-a-sharepoint-page-or-list-as-tab-to-teams-using-graph-api/

Yo teams2.12.0-preview Wictor Wilen

aka.ms/yoteams

Using Azure Key Vault Secrets from your Azure DevOps pipelines

https://zimmergren.net/using-azure-key-vault-secrets-from-azure-devops-pipeline/

Jeremy talks to Nikola, who leads the engineering effort on the Microsoft Graph Toolkit, about the general availability announcement from 9/26. They talk about why web components was picked as the technology and some of the decisions along the way there. Nikola goes into detail about the reasons why the sign in component and person card were picked first and how the agenda component came about. They go into detail about the Build keynote demo built in vue and the challenges that identified along with much more!

Show Notes

• Graph Toolkit v1.0 blog announcement
• Microsoft Graph Toolkit on Github
• Microsoft Graph Toolkit on docs.microsoft.com/graph

Microsoft News

• Microsoft Learn Microsoft Graph modules

Jeremy Thake got to catch up with Wictor Wilen on Microsoft Teams and the work he's been doing around the yeoman generator. He talked about the customer scenarios for using messaging extensions in Teams as well as many other scenarios he's seeing on the platform.

Show Notes

• Microsoft Teams yeoman generator
• Microsoft Teams messaging extensions

Microsoft News

• Breaking change: redundant beta APIs for Microsoft Teams to be removed
• Breaking changes: Calls and online meetings API updates in Microsoft Graph beta
• Microsoft Graph metadata repo
• Microsoft events — the year ahead

T-Bag returns to the podcast to discuss how developers can leverage the Power Platform and CDS in their business applications.

Links

• Sales buddy video
• Todd's blog

Microsoft Links

• Upcoming deprecation of Discovery Service API
• Office 365 Outlook connector: Important upcoming changes
• Announcing Bookmarks for docs.microsoft.com

Community Links

• When creating a column with a space in the name, SharePoint now creates the internal name WITHOUT _x0020_!!!
• "Major update" to The Ultimate Guide to SharePoint Site Designs
• Announcing Graph.Community - Extending the Microsoft Graph SDK

Jeremy Thake talks to Andrew Connell with a follow up from Corey Roth's podcast on Azure Dev Ops CI/CD. Andrew talks about the new YAML Pipelines and how he is leveraging them for SPFx projects for multiple environment releases and testing.

Show Notes

• Azure Dev Ops Pipelines YAML Schema
• Azure Dev Ops Pipelines
• Azure Dev Ops Lab tutorial
• Andrew Connell's blog
• Andrew Connell on Twitter
• Voitanos SharePoint Training course

Community News

• Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp
• Adaptive Cards community call – August 8, 2019
• Office Add-ins community call – August 14, 2019
• Office 365 Developer Program Sample data packs
• People Picker component now available in the Microsoft Graph Toolkit
• SharePoint Framework v1.9.1 release notes

While Jeremy is out camping, Paul talks with Richard Nuckolls about Azure Data Engineering. Richard wrote the book on Azure Data Engineering, and shares insights from there regarding the tools available in Azure for data engineering, and when & why to use them.

• Azure Data Engineering from Manning Publications
• Richard Nuckolls on LinkedIn
• Manning Books on Twitter

Mike Ammerlaan provides insight to working on the marketing side of Microsoft and discusses the opportunities for developers using Microsoft 365 platform.

Microsoft links:

• Microsoft Graph SDK for Objective-C GA Release
• Microsoft Graph community call-August 6, 2019
• SharePoint Framework v1.9 release notes