Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast

Wes Hackett talks to Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein about how the Addin365 team bulid apps against the Microsoft Graph. Wes goes into detail about how he balances the v1.0 endpoint and the beta endpoint with his customers expectations. He talks about mechanisms they've put in place for continuous integration and how they work as a team. He discusses why he thinks the Microsoft Graph is such a key strategy for any ISV in the Microsoft ecosystem.   Show notes Using bots to aid the adoption of Microsoft Teams  at Microsoft Ignite 2018 Wes Hackett on Twitter Addin365

Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein interview Todd Baginski, Canviz & Office Services MVP, about how he built the connectors to Microsoft Graph for the PowerApps templates in the gallery. Show Links New Office Templates: Meeting Capture, QuickTask, and Company Pulse Performance considerations with PowerApps by Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi Tips for making your apps more maintainable by Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi PowerApps Coding Guidelines & Tips by Todd Baginski HOW TO: Make a custom connector for PowerApps and Flow that calls the Microsoft Graph API by Todd Baginski   News The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure eBook - August update is now available Site Scripts & Site Designs – Summer 2018 Update   Community News Using a custom Azure Function in Flow (e.g. to call the Graph) By Chris O'Brien What you should know about building Microsoft Flow connectors  Waldek Mastykarzh Help prevent data loss in Microsoft Flow with these 3 things by Waldek Mastykarz The unfulfilled potential of Microsoft Flow connectors by Waldek Mastykarz

In this weeks podcast recorded on July 31st, Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein talk to Arturo Lucatero from the Azure AD Identity team about Managed Service Identity.   Show Notes What is Managed Service Identity for Azure resources Blog post Arturo's twitter News A new way to manage roles and administrators in Azure AD Community News Azure Functions Calling Azure AD Application with Certificate Authentication - Brian Jackett  

In this weeks show, Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein interview Vincent Biret about the Microsoft Graph Open Extensions and Calendering functionality. Vincent also discusses how his team does integration and unit testing within his apps and much more. Show Links June Microsoft graph community call Vincent Biret on Twitter Vincent Biret's blog Open extension lab News Surface Go Imagine Cup 2018 Winners - smartARM Community News .NET Core: Building Function app with Microsoft Graph API and Azure Functions by Hansamali Gamage Microsoft Graph. AngularJS SPA to interact with SharePoint Online Using Microsoft Graph to get a PDF preview of a file in SharePoint by file path by Mikael Svenson New Microsoft Graph powered developer template supports work life balance and compliance by Office Platform Ecosystem Team

Jeremy got to catch up with Yochay Kiriaty, Group Program Manager at Microsoft responsible for the Microsoft Bot Framework.  In this interview they discussed what the Bot Framework is, how it relates to the Azure Bot Service. Yochay explained why there is a re-architecture as part of jump from v3 to v4 of the Framework. They also talked about the common authentication flows and whats there to help. He also shared common bots that he sees being built out there in the wild.   Show Links Microsoft Bot Framework Azure Bot Service Yochay on Twitter News Office Developer Bootcamps Microsoft Graph Update   Community News Sending Mail with Microsoft Graph and SPFx by Paolo Pialorsi SharePoint SPFX and Microsoft Graph 30 min lab Change the display name of a message sender by Paul Schaeflein Executing batch requests with Microsoft Graph and SharePoint Framework by Markus Moeller How to sort planner tasks using order hint and Microsoft Graph by Laura Kokkarinen A starter scaffold for my Azure Functions by Jeremy Hancock  

In this episode recorded on June 29th 2018, Jeremy Thake talks to Casey Burke and Audrie Gordon from the Microsoft PowerApps engineering team on the new templates that are Microsoft Graph enabled. Jeremy discusses with them the balance of Power Users building line of business applications and the transfer over to full-time developers to add additianal capabilities. They discuss the benefits of the Common Data Service and the connectors to Microsoft Graph. News  Static web site hosting on Azure Storagehttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-storage-static-web-hosting-public-preview/?WT.mc_id=staticwebsites-twitter-antchu Managed Service Identity - GA for App Service & Azure Functionshttps://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam/2018/06/26/announcing-general-availability-and-sovereign-cloud-support-of-managed-service-identity-for-app-service-and-azure-functions/ Github acquisitionhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/everyone-complaining-about-microsoft-buying-github-needs-to-offer-a-better-solution/ Community news SharePoint Site Designhttps://laurakokkarinen.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-sharepoint-site-designs-and-site-scripts/  Graph for Win32 and WPFhttps://office365university.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/microsoft-graph-api-how-to-use-in-windows-forms-application/https://office365university.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/wpf-application-with-microsoft-graph-api/ PowerShell Script Cloud Azure Functionshttp://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2018/06/powershell-script-cloud-azure-function-pnp.html Education Space : Intune device management for studentshttps://teams.rocks/2018/06/25/microsoft-365-automation-using-sds-attributes-intune-graph/ Show Links PowerApps Home PowerApps Templates PowerAPps Community PowerApps on YouTube PowerApps on Twitter Audrey Gordon on Twitter Casey Burke on Twitter  Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2018

The inaugral podcast with Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein as co-hosts. Jeremy and Paul record the first episode in Las Vegas after the SharePoint Conference North America 2018. They discussed: - SharePoint in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Graph general available API announcements - Microsoft Graph SDKs - PowerApps templates and Microsoft Graph   Here are some of the links mentioned in the show: - Productivity hackathon https://officehack4.devpost.com - SPC18 announcements https://aka.ms/spc18-blog  

At the MVP Summit in Redmond, I got time to talk to John Liu about Microsoft Flow, from a professional developer perspective. John did a great job of explaining how it can be useful for those of us that write code for a living. Links https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/logic-apps-workflow-definition-language http://johnliu.net/microsoft-flow/ https://powerusers.microsoft.com/ https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein talk Microsoft 365 with fellow industry experts. The show formerly known as Office 365 Podcast is back!

In Episode 130 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Andrew Coates talks with Vesa Juvonen and Daniel Kogan about SharePoint Developer announcements at Build 2017.   Weekly updates How to monetize with Office add-ins and apps by Office Dev SharePoint PnP webcast—introduction to Visual Studio Extension for SharePoint Framework by the PnP team Announcing updated SharePoint Framework developer training by Office Dev Andrew interviews Vesa and Dan on Channel 9 at build 2017 by Channel 9 SharePoint Online free developer tools list for Windows by Velin Georgiev Tooling up for SharePoint Framework by Danny Jessee Utilizing ngOfficeUIFabric People Picker in SharePoint by Julie Turner Microsoft Teams Developer Preview mode by Microsoft Teams Get started with the Cortana skills kit by Greg Duncan Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS is available on iTunes or search for it at “Office 365 Developer Podcast” or add directly with the RSS feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast. About the guests Vesa Juvonen is a senior program manager within SharePoint engineering. He works in the team responsible for the SharePoint customization model, including SharePoint Framework and developer community initiatives from engineering. Previously, he worked as a SharePoint CAT team member in CXP and as a principal consultant with Microsoft Services for eight years before movin the to product group. Vesa also leads the virtual team that created the SharePoint Patterns and Practice (PnP) initiative to help customers and partners to learn right ways to customize and extend SharePoint and Office 365. Daniel Kogan is a principal group program manager responsible for the SharePoint developer platform and extensibility. As a 15-year veteran at Microsoft (joining by way of acquisition), Daniel has a leader in a number of critical areas of SharePoint and Office Server. In his 25+ years of tech leadership, Daniel holds a number of patents for his work and is the brain behind a number of popular features in 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.

In Episode 129 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with a number of key Office extensibility engineers about Build conference announcements. The panel includes Tristan Davis, Wey Love, Bill Bliss and Yina Arenas.  Weekly updates New SharePoint and OneDrive capabilities accelerate your digital transformation by the SharePoint team SharePoint Virtual Summit by the SharePoint team Build recorded sessions by Channel 9 Office at Build 2017—announcing new opportunities for developers by Kirk Koenigsbauer New Insights APIs and the discontinuation of the Office Graph GQL APIs by Office Dev Your guide to SharePoint at Microsoft Build 2017 by Office Dev Your guide to Teams and Office Add-ins at Microsoft Build 2017 by Office Dev Your guide to Microsoft Graph at Microsoft Build 2017 by Office Dev Your guide to Office at Build 2017 by Office Dev Build integrated user experiences with new capabilities of SharePoint and OneDrive by Office Dev Deliver more powerful add-ins to Office with new opportunities via AppSource and the Office Store by Office Dev Create more engaging conversations with new Actionable Messages updates announced at Microsoft Build by Office Dev New opportunities with Microsoft Teams announced for developers at Build by Office Dev What’s new for Microsoft Graph developers at Build 2017 by Office Dev Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS is available on iTunes or search for it at “Office 365 Developer Podcast” or add directly with the RSS feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast. 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 128 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega has an open chat with Yina Arenas about the behind the scenes preparation for the Build conference.   Show notes New Graph Explorer Build 2017 on Channel 9 Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS is available on iTunes or search for it at “Office 365 Developer Podcast” or add directly with the RSS feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast. About Yina Arenas Yina Arenas is a principal program manager at Microsoft and lead for Microsoft Graph. She’s taking Office and Microsoft APIs from legacy and disjointed technologies to a new, unified API world. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband and their three energetic boys and actively leads and participates in activities that grow, retain and empower women in technology. Find her on Twitter: @yina_arenas.   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 127 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with Michael Zlatkovsky and Bhargav Krishna about the new Script Lab Office add-in.   Weekly updates SharePoint Patterns and Practices – April 2017 Release by the PnP team SharePoint PnP Webcast – Managing the “modern” experiences in SharePoint Online by the PnP team Using Azure Functions with the Microsoft Graph and BING Translator API’s by Jeremy Thake Using Chrome Profiles to manage multiple identities by Jeremy Thake SharePoint time, is not your time, is not their time by Julie Turner How to generate SharePoint Framework bundles for multiple tenants by Wictor Wilen Show notes Script Lab, a Microsoft Garage Project Script Lab in Office Store Script-Lab on GitHub Office JS Snippets on GitHub E-Book: “Building Office Add-ins using Office.js” Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS is available on iTunes or search for it at “Office 365 Developer Podcast” or add directly with the RSS feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast. About Michael Zlatkovsky I’m a developer on the Office Extensibility Team at Microsoft, working on the Office.js APIs and the tooling that surrounds them. I love API design work and feel fortunate to have played a part in the rebirth of the Office 2016 wave of Office.js APIs. In my spare time, I have been writing a book about Office.js key concepts, which has been a fun way of expanding upon my answers on StackOverflow. The book is available in e-book form at leanpub.com/buildingofficeaddins. About Bhargav Krishna I have been a web developer at Microsoft since 2013. I currently work for Microsoft Teams and love cutting edge tech, learning new frameworks, tools, platforms etc. Outside of work, I am an avid gamer and you can find me online with @wrathofzombies on Xbox, GitHub, Twitter and Facebook. 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 126 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates catch up with Andrew Salamatov on Outlook extensibility.   Weekly updates Changes to Planner Task API by Office Dev SharePoint Patterns & Practices – April 2017 release by PnP Team SharePoint PnP Webcast – Provisioning with PnP PowerShell and Azure WebJobs by PnP Team Throttling coming for Outlook API’s and Outlook-related APIs in Microsoft Graph by Jason Johnston Outlook for iOS: OnePlaceMail, the First Add-in after Microsoft Launch Partners by Yahoo Finance Migrate SharePoint JavaScript customizations to SharePoint Framework – reference functions from script files by Rencore Alternative to innerHTML in SharePoint Framework web parts by Stefan Bauer Show notes Getting Started with Outlook add-ins Getting Started with Add-ins Framework7 Outlook Mobile Design Guidelines Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS is available on iTunes or search for it at “Office 365 Developer Podcast” or add directly with the RSS feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast. About Andrew Salamatov Andrew is a senior program manager at Microsoft, having worked there for six years. At Microsoft, Andrew worked on the Exchange team his entire career. Starting on Exchange Web Services, Andrew designed notifications protocol and throttling. Later, he moved on to working on mail apps. 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, a popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, Texas, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond, Washington. 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 125 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with Bill Bliss about Microsoft Teams extensibility.   Weekly updates Validating your Office add-in manifest just got easier—Introducing the Office add-in validator by the Office Dev team SharePoint PnP webcast—SharePoint Framework and organizational considerations b the PnP Team New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online March 2017 by Vesa Juvonen Correctly reference images in SharePoint Framework solutions by Waldek Mastykarz Avoid errors editing SharePoint Framework project configuration with Visual Studio Code intelligence by Waldek Mastykarz Writing unit tests for your SharePoint Framework components by Elio Struyf Calling a custom webhook trigger in an Azure Logic app by Elio Struyf Consuming an Azure AD secured web API from your web app / native app by Elio Struyf Using cloud services to automate a business process by Paul Shaeflein An intro to Power BI for the Office 365 developer by Chris O’Brien Show notes Microsoft Teams Developer docs Bot development Tab development Creating deep links to tabs Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS is available on iTunes or search for it at “Office 365 Developer Podcast” or add directly with the RSS feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast. About Bill Bliss Bill Bliss is a Partner Platform architect for Microsoft Teams, a founding member of the Microsoft Teams product. He focuses on the Microsoft Teams developer platform and its integration with Bot Framework. He rejoined Microsoft in late 2013, after a nearly 10-year absence, to work on the iOS and Android versions of the MSN applications (News, Sports, Finance, Food & Drink, and Health & Fitness). He also worked on the DMX startup group (the predecessor of the Microsoft Teams effort) and was the PM architect for MSN. Immediately before rejoining Microsoft, he was VP of Product Management in VMware’s End-User Computing (EUC) Division, responsible for product management of Horizon Application Manager and the core Horizon platform. Bill joined VMware in 2011 after serving as VP and GM of Myspace, Inc.’s Search and Recommendations team, where his team built three new service platforms. He also he served as the business owner for News Corp.’s $900M advertising contract with Google. He’s been a part of two start-ups: Gomez, Inc. (now a division of Compuware), where he was VP of Emerging Technologies, and Klir Technologies, where he was CTO. Before Klir, he was an SVP at Expedia, Inc., responsible for Expedia.com and Hotels.com product management, product roadmap, and business analytics. Prior to Expedia, Bill worked over 16 years at Microsoft in a variety of senior technology and management roles from 1987 to 2003. As general manager of the Natural User Interface group, he worked on advanced search and user interface technology for Windows, building on his experience as general manager of MSN Search. Under his tenure, MSN Search launched in 1998; by 2002 it had grown to over 100 million queries per day, more than $100M in annual revenue, and 34 international markets in 13 languages. Prior to MSN Search, he was a founding member of the team that designed and built the first two versions of Microsoft Outlook, and holds nine U.S. patents related to Microsoft Outlook. He earned a BS in Computer Science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.   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, Texas, 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.