Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast

Carmen Ysewijn and Luise Freese talk with Paul about their open-source project ProvisionGenie, discussing its components and their experience with the tools used to create the magic.

Links from the show:

• ProvisionGenie

Microsoft News

• Breaking changes to the settings endpoint in the Microsoft Graph eDiscovery API (beta)
• Announcing general availability of Microsoft Graph Export API for Microsoft Teams messages
• Latest on SharePoint Site Scripts – Intro and Roadmap
• Bring VS Code themes to Visual Studio 2022! - Visual Studio Blog

Community Links

• How to Get the Microsoft 365 Connected User with PnP PowerShell
• MagicTooltips: PowerShell module to display contextual information about the command you're currently entering

Ayca and Bob return to the show to talk about a new video series that discusses the Who's Online bot created using Bot Framework Composer and Cognitive Services.

Links from the show:

• https://aka.ms/BotComposerSeries

Microsoft News

• Text Analytics for Extractive Summarization

Community Links

• ASP.NET Core 5 Microsoft Power BI Reporting
• ProvisionGenie - an open-source provisioning engine for Microsoft Teams

Maisa Rissi and Darrel Miller join Jeremy and Paul to talk about the latest updates to the Microsoft Graph SDKs, including PowerShell, .Net, Javascript and a new CLI.

Links from the show:

• Access Microsoft Graph through a new preview CLI
• Microsoft Graph .NET SDK v4 now generally available with streamlined authentication and more
• Microsoft Graph JavaScript SDK 3.0.0 is now generally available

Microsoft News

• Multi-tenant architecture for SaaS apps - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
• MS Graph, Blazor WebAssembly and Azure Static Web Apps - DEV Community

Community Links

• Microsoft Teams Meeting Apps – Lifecycle basics (@Moeller2_0)
• Graph.Community library on the Community CloudCast (@paulschaeflein)

Orion O'Malley joins Jeremy and Paul to talk about the Microsoft 365 App Certification program and its benefits for organizations and developers.

Links from the show:

• https://aka.ms/getCertified

Microsoft News

• Updates for Microsoft Teams bots in Multi-Geo environments
• Announcing a new Microsoft Teams authentication provider and file upload feature in the Microsoft Graph Toolkit
• Viva Connections Public Preview

Community Links

• Microsoft Graph Toolkit in a Teams application with yo teams (and SSO)
• Bringing external data into Microsoft 365 - custom search result types and verticals
• Azure SDK / Identity series

Sean McDonough shares his tips and tricks for improving SPO performance. Sean's tips are for developers, administrators and users!

Community Links

• Accessing SharePoint sites with resource specific consent (RSC) and Microsoft Graph
• Restrict calls to Azure Functions from SPFx
• Add multiple users to a SharePoint Group using single API Call
• Flexible and powerful logging using PnP Logging in SPFx
• Demystify Microsoft Viva Connections its extensibility model

Prashant G Bhoyer sits down with Paul to answer questions about the AI offerings in Azure and how they are used in M365 and how they can be used by developers.

Microsoft News

• Microsoft 365 Developer channel
  • Using Microsoft Graph Explorer to make REST API requests
  • Understanding authentication and authorization in Microsoft Graph Explorer
  • Building apps with Microsoft Graph Explorer
• Microsoft Graph JavaScript SDK v3 upgrade guide

Community Links

• Putting some more FUN into Azure Functions, Managed Identity & Microsoft Graph (@LuiseFreese)
• Simulating 429 Throttling in Microsoft Graph API (SharePoint/OneDrive workloads) (@camerondwyer)
• Introducing the Property Pane Portal (@Path2SharePoint)

Tom Resing joins Paul at SPFest in Chicago to talk about his work as a Content Designer on SharePoint Syntex.

Microsoft News

• Microsoft Graph .NET SDK v4 now generally available with streamlined authentication and more
• Breaking changes to the Microsoft Graph connectors API (beta)
• What’s Coming to OneNote

Community Links

• Fetching Teams User Info from Microsoft Graph with TeamsFx SDK
• Bring external data into Microsoft 365 using Graph Connectors

Joel Rodrigues joins Paul to talk about his projects using SPFx and Azure Functions, as well as his role as a maintainer of the PnP Re-Usable controls repository.

Links from the show:

• Work with Azure Functions Proxies
• Authentication and authorization in Azure App Service and Azure Functions
• PnP Reusable Controls
• Joel on Twitter
• Joel's blog

Microsoft News

• Office Add-in Development Community (PnP) – July 2021 update
• Introducing the broadcast development kit for Microsoft Teams
• Secure Open API (Swagger) calls with Azure Active Directory

Community Links

• Using VS Code Teams Toolkit Extension for Teams App Development (@girlie_mac)
• Secretless applications: use Azure Identity SDK to access data with a Managed Identity (@YannickReekmans)
• Get with the times & ditch TSLint in favor of ESLint in SharePoint Framework projects (@voitanos)

Zhenya Savchenko and Tim Ng from the Developer Division at Microsoft join Jeremy and Paul to talk about the Microsoft Teams Toolkit.

Links from the show:

• Microsoft Teams Framework (TeamsFx)
• Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio (Preview)
• Teams Toolkit for VSCode (Preview)
• Single sign-on (SSO) support for tabs
• Developer Portal (Preview)
• https://aka.ms/teamsdevdocs

Microsoft News

• MSAL for React is here!
• MSAL for Angular v2 is now available

Community Links

• Azure AD User Account Federation Report (@darrenjrobinson)

Elio Struyf joins Paul to talk about his experiences while building an application in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, including the Microsoft for Startups program.

Links from the show:

• Squarl
• VSCode: MS Graph Completion
• Elio's extension on Visual Studio Marketplace
• Elio's blog

Microsoft News

• Build apps for Microsoft Teams with .NET
• Improved API support for working with files in the SharePoint recycle bin
• Raise the bar for your app security – Get Microsoft 365 Certification by passing these security controls - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Community Links

• Output connection strings and keys from Azure Bicep (@johnny_reilly/a>)
• Updated script to re-index user profiles for search (@mikaelsvenson)
• StreamDeck series on Paul's blog