Episode 124 on getting started with Office 365 development—Office 365 Developer Podcast

In episode 123 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk to Jakob Nielsen about the Excel Bot.
Weekly updates
Office Developer Program. NEW value, FREE perks! by the Office Dev team
SharePoint PnP webcast—Programmatically creating and updating modern pages in SharePoint Online by the PnP team
New Microsoft Teams training content available by Todd Baginski
Microsoft Teams Extensibility Training by OfficeDev GitHub
Gotchas writing Tabs for Teams by Andrew Coates
Microsoft Teams Extensibility by Collab365 Live
Richard diZerega on developing for Microsoft Teams and Bot Framework by Microsoft Cloud Show
Microsoft Graph adds SharePoint endpoint for Groups in the beta branch by Mikael Svenson
How to run SharePoint Framework Pattern and Practices Samples through Docker by Stefan Bauer
Get to know who is tracking your emails via the Microsoft Graph and Azure Functions by Elio Struyf
Controlling invitation of external members to an Office 365 group programmatically via the Microsoft Graph by Mikael Svenson
Singleton object in JavaScript by Paul Schaeflein
Show notes
Excel Bot GitHub Repo
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About Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen is a principal designer for the Microsoft Office team working on Excel and Office for professional developers and makers. In his 20+ years at Microsoft, he has worked with enterprise customers and partners in Microsoft Consulting Services and on the Dynamics and SharePoint products.
About the hosts
Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.
 
A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.

In episode 122 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates to Jeff Sakowicz about new Microsoft Graph features such as webhooks, delta queries and extensions.
Weekly updates
Microsoft Teams rolls out to Office 365 customers worldwide by Kirk Koenigsbauer
Microsoft Teams Now Generally Available to Office 365 Customers Worldwide by the Office Dev team
Create awesome bots, connectors and tabs in Microsoft Teams by Channel 9
Building Organization Apps for iOS, Android, Windows and the Web using Microsoft Graph by Channel 9
Improved Trending Insights in Microsoft Graph by the Office Dev team
SharePoint PnP March Release by the PnP team
SharePoint PnP Webcast – Accessing data in SharePoint from SharePoint Framework solution by the PnP team
Microsoft REST API Guide by the Microsoft Graph team
First HandlebarsJS Web Part in SPFx by Stefan Bauer
Creating and Renewing your Microsoft Graph webhook subscriptions by Elio Struyf
Creating a Node.js Application Secured by Azure AD by Kirk Evans
SharePoint Framework Script Editor Web Part by Mikael Svenson
Provisioning modern pages and SPFx web parts by Chris O’Brien
Building better solutions on the SharePoint Framework (webinar) by Waldek Mastykarz
Updated SPFx Content Slider Code for GA by Mark Rackley
What SharePoint Administrators need to know about the SharePoint Framework by Jeremy Thake
What administrators need to know about the SharePoint Framework w/ Microsoft’s Mike Ammerlaan—Hyperfish podcast by Jeremy Thake
Show notes
Microsoft Graph Documentation
Webhooks
Open Extensions
Schema Extensions
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About Jeff Sakowicz
Jeff Sakowicz is a program manager on the Microsoft Graph API team within the Cloud and Enterprise division in Redmond. His focus is on various platform capabilities like Delta Query, Webhooks, Hybrid, and the consent and permissions framework along with various Identity/Directory APIs. In his career at Microsoft, he has had a number of roles in the identity, collaboration and cloud productivity spaces. Before working on Microsoft Graph Jeff was on the Azure Active Directory PM team and previous to that he was a Support Escalation Engineer on the Cloud Identity team in Charlotte, NC.
 
About the hosts
Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.
 
A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.

In episode 121 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates are joined by Richard Moe, the Developer Community Program Manager for Microsoft Teams to discuss the launch of Microsoft Teams and the developer story with it.
 
Weekly updates
Microsoft’s Slack competitor, Teams, to be generally available March 14 by Mary Jo Foley
Microsoft Graph portal has a fresh, new look! by Office Dev
Adding custom app data to Microsoft Graph now in preview by Office Dev
SharePoint PnP Webcast – Provisioning SharePoint assets for your SharePoint Framework solution by the PnP team
Office Add-ins with Contextual Bots via Back Channel by Richard diZerega
New & Improved Cascading Dropdowns for SharePoint Classic Forms by Mark Rackley
How to use Handlebars in SharePoint Framework Projects by Stefan Bauer
New open source project – The SharePoint Admin Bot by Rick Van Rousselt
Microsoft Teams Tab Yeoman Generator by Wictor Wilen
Modern and it’s funky accent colors by Mikael Svenson
Show notes
Microsoft Teams Developer Documentation
Microsoft Teams Community Channels
Microsoft Teams Partner Inquiries
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About Richard Moe
 
Richard heads up the Microsoft Teams Extensibility developer community, where he helps champion and support partners building to extend Microsoft Teams via rich Tabs and Bots. His route to this role took a circuitous path, most recently as a Evangelist on DX supporting ISVs and before that helping launch the Microsoft Studios game portfolio launch on Windows. In fact, the majority of his career has been in the games industry, from Facebook to mobile games, as engineer, designer and everything in between.
About the hosts
Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.
 
A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.

In episode 120 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates are joined by MVP Mikael Svenson to discuss his community efforts with Office 365 Dev.
Weekly updates
SharePoint Framework reaches general availability by the SharePoint team
Microsoft gives SharePoint Extensibility a shot in the arm by eweek.com
SharePoint Framework reaches general availability by Chakkaradeep (Chaks) Chandran
SharePoint Framework reaches general availability by Andrew Connell
SharePoint Framework reaches general availability by Wictor Wilen
SharePoint Framework (SPFx) enterprise guidance by the SharePoint team
Visio JavaScript APIs generally available by OfficeDev
SharePoint PnP Webcast – Automate custom solution deployment steps at Office 365 and Azure by the PnP Team
Keep your SPFx and NPM Packages up-to-date by Stefan Bauer
Configure tenant policies for groups and sharing by Paul Schaeflein
Dive into PowerApps – Build Apps That Mean Business Without Writing Code by Charles Sterling and Martin Abbott
Serverless in Office 365 – Build Services with Azure Functions by John Liu
SharePoint PnP links
SPFx special interest group bi-weekly invite
PnP CSOM Core, PowerShell and Provisioning bi-weekly invite
SharePoint PnP YouTube Channel
Show notes
Mikael Svenson Blog
Mikael Svenson Twitter
Mikael Svenson MVP Profile
Puzzlepart
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About Mikael Svenson
Mikael Svenson is the CTO for Puzzlepart, an Office 365 consultancy. He works as a consultant delivering solutions Office 365, and has worked in the search field for over 15 years implementing solutions for major international corporations and for several Nordic governmental institutions. Mikael is a an international speaker as well as an Office Server and Services MVP for the past six years. He is a Microsoft P-TSP, and he is also involved in a lot of SharePoint community work in Norway. Mikael has worked with media monitoring software, developed an Enterprise Search Engine in C#, and developed for Office 365 and SharePoint in general. He has also authored two books, “SharePoint Search Queries Explained” and “Working with FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.”
About the hosts
Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.
 
A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.