Episode 121 with Richard Moe on Microsoft Teams Extensibility—Office 365 Developer Podcast

Summary: 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 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 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.