365 Days of Cloud

Microsoft Graph with Sébastien Levert In this episode, Sébastien Levert provides some insight in to the inner workings of the Microsoft Graph API, plus his role bringing the perspective of the Microsoft partner community to the product teams involved in the development of APIs. We discussed many areas of the Microsoft Graph ecosystem, including a couple of particularly noteworthy references: Microsoft Graph changelog Microsoft 365 Platform community calls (including Microsoft Graph) Subscribe to the podcast if you want to keep yourself up to date with cloud development topics like SPFx, Microsoft Teams development, Azure, PowerApps and PowerAutomate.

Azure Active Directory In this, our first episode of 2021, Mark takes us through some of the key concepts of working with Azure Active Directory. We discuss B2B identities (otherwise known as guest accounts), and B2C Azure Active Directory instances. We also discussed AAD App Registrations: difference between delegate permissions and application permissions authenticating as an app principal with client secrets, or client certificates Subscribe to the podcast if you want to keep yourself up to date with cloud development topics like SPFx, Microsoft Teams development, Azure, PowerApps and PowerAutomate.

Business Process Automation with Chris O’Connor Chris O’Connor joins us to discuss the world of business process automation. While Chris is a developer at heart, he’s always looking to provide direct business value. His experience extends back to the early days, and we spoke about his life developing VB, distributed COM, 3-tiered architectures, and the early days of business process automation and management. Fast-forward to today, the same concepts apply, but the tools are vastly different. We also discussed the modern developer tool set. Chris described the comparative features of SharePoint Framework solutions with Power Platform and Dynamics component framework. With this, our last episode of 2020, we wish all of our listeners, and contributors, the best of seasons greetings. Catch you in the new year! Subscribe to the podcast if you want to keep yourself up to date with cloud development topics like SPFx, Microsoft Teams development, Azure, PowerApps and PowerAutomate.

Microsoft Teams Incoming Webhooks Mark Powney and Rabia Williams discuss developing apps for Microsoft Teams. Today’s episode looks into the Microsoft Teams connector, Incoming webhooks which provide a simple way for apps to share content or send updates into a teams channel. We also discuss the announcement of public preview of Microsoft Teams Activity Feed API on Microsoft Graph. Do register for the upcoming event on 16 DEC, Learn together for developers who wants to get started with building apps for Teams. It is a free two-hour livestream event for developers by developers. Subscribe to the podcast if you want to keep yourself up to date with cloud development topics like SPFx, Microsoft Teams development, Azure, PowerApps and PowerAutomate.

Women in Tech with Elaine van Bergen Elaine is an engineer at Microsoft, passionate about helping people use leading edge technology to solve business problems. She enjoys sharing her passion at local meetups, domestic and international technical conferences. She also does incredible work as a 2020 Superstar of STEM and an investor and activator at SheEO. We were lucky to have on our show discussing her work as a mentor as well as an educator. We also had fun doing a quick rapid fire round withe extremely nerdy questions. Intrigued? Have a listen and enjoy this episode.

Microsoft Teams Toolkit Rabia gives us an overview of the latest in Microsoft Teams app development using Microsoft Teams Toolkit. Today, the toolkit covers capabilities like tabs, bots, and messaging extensions. Find out all resources, tools, guides and production ready app templates in the link below. https://aka.ms/teams-doco Quick tips Speaking of Teams, we discussed the options available to debug network activity in Teams. Below are the three ways you can analyse Teams network and debug logs: Check the local log file locations macOS: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams Windows: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams Install Fiddler Everywhere Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, Telerik’s Fiddler Everywhere can intercept your machine’s network traffic, to analyse each individual request. Use the Ctrl-Shift-Alt-1 keystroke On Windows, pressing Ctrl-Shift-Alt-1 will produce a series of log files in your Teams Downloads folder. The equivalent keystroke on macOS is Ctrl-Shift-Option 1. Note that this only works in some parts of the Teams UI.

Power Platform with John Liu John Liu, MVP, founder @ Flow Studio App, joins us to discuss the Power Platform, and Microsoft Flow platforms. We talk broadly about the story behind Power Automate, and the need to migrate legacy SharePoint 2010 Workflows over to the Power platform.

Office Add-ins with Cameron Dwyer Cameron Dwyer, MVP, and CTO of One Place Solutions, joins us to discuss Office Add-ins. We talk about the history of Add-in development, the changes in technology from client-side to cloud-first, and the relevance of Add-ins for user-centric solution design. Conference season is upon us, and with many of the large events online, Cameron takes us through his upcoming events including: Microsoft Ignite 2020 - Table talk: How do Security professionals sleep at night Australian / New Zealand Global Developer Bootcamps European SharePoint and Azure Conference

Web components Mark Powney and Rabia Williams discuss developing for the Microsoft 365 cloud. Today’s episode looks in to the concept of web components, what they are, and how you might find them useful for your next project. We also discuss some of ideas raised in Microsoft’s user voice community sites, including: Allow us to develop custom modern forms with custom edit experience SPFx Extensions: Application Customizer - Additional Placeholders Requested SPFx Key/Value Pair Properties that support Read/Write and Microsoft Teams - Add the /me command as Skype or the old IRC Subscribe to the podcast if you want to keep yourself up to date with cloud development topics like SPFx, Microsoft Teams development, Azure, PowerApps and PowerAutomate.

PnP Search Web Parts Two Microsoft 365 developers Mark Powney and Rabia Williams from Australia discuss the open source PnP Search Web Parts project. They go in to detail - how the project benefits the community - for developers, consultants, and other professionals designing search-based solutions for various Microsoft 365 work loads.