Jeremy Thake talks to Abram Jackson, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, about Microsoft Graph data connect. Data connect opens up all sorts of scenarios across Microsoft 365 user data. They talk about the differences in this access pattern vs Microsoft Graph API. The common scenarios that come up and how this all come about.

Show notes

• Microsoft Graph data connect documentation
• Microsoft Graph data connect tutorial
• Getting started with Microsoft Intelligence Platform – BRK3289 (Microsoft Graph data connect session) – Rishi Girish and Abram Jackson
  • Developing insight applications with Office 365 data and Microsoft Azure (Deep dive on Microsoft Graph data connect) – THR3142 – Tyler Lenig
• Abram Jackson on Twitter

Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein speak to Darrel Miller, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, about the Microsoft Graph SDK. Darrel sits on the Linux Foundation for Open API (formerly Swagger) and has been involved in products such as Azure API Management. He talks about how he got so passionate about HTTP APIs and what led him towards RESTful APIs and much more!

Show Notes

• Darrel's twitter
• Darrel's blog
• In the mood for HTTP
• OpenAPI initiative

Jeremy Thake talks to Juan Balmori Labra and Keyur Patel about Office add-ins. They talk about the journey it has been on for the last few years. At Ignite 2018 they announced hundreds of new APIs for office.js. They both discuss some of the cool scenarios they are seeing partners and enterprise developers build out.

Show Notes

• Custom Function (Dev Preview) Docs: https://aka.ms/customfunctions
• Try them out in ScriptLab: https://aka.ms/trycustomfunctions
• Excel API Open Spec: https://aka.ms/ExcelApiOpenSpec
• Report Issues for Office JS (Excel, Word, PPT, Outlook) https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js/issues
• Office Development http://dev.microsoft.com
• Stack overflow tag: [office-js]
• UserVoice Channel:  https://officespdev.uservoice.com/
• Keyur on Twitter @keyurp32
• Juan on Twitter @juaneloBalmori

News

• Adam Harmetz post on SharePoint at Ignite

Jeremy Thake talks to Nick Kramer about Microsoft Teams on Microsoft Graph. Nick covers off all the key features added to Microsoft Graph announced at Ignite 2018 two weeks ago. He also talks about when it will move from beta to v1.0.

Show notes

• Microsoft Teams on Microsoft Graph docs
• Contoso Airlines sample
•  Microsoft Teams Dev Center
• Ignite sessions on-demand on Teams
  • Drive Digital Transformation through Apps in Microsoft Teams – BRK2453 –  Andrew Bybee
  • Introduction to programmable voice and video in Microsoft Teams – BRK2463 – Andrew Bybee
  • How to manage secure custom applications in Microsoft Teams – BRK3136 – Andrew Bybee

News

• Microsoft Graph Community call Oct
• Microsoft Graph @ Ignite 2018
• Microsoft Graph on demand sessions from Ignite 2018

Community News

• Chris O'Brien - debugging in Azure Functions