Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast

Jeremy Thake catches up with Andrew Connell to talk through all the M365 agents news from Ignite 2024. Jeremy answered the questions Andrew had from watching the developers guide session and other key breakouts from the conference.   Developers guide to building your own agents Announcing our End of Year Sale 2024 - All You Need to Know

In this episode Jeremy Thake talks to Sebastien Levert. The podcast focuses on the evolution and development of tools within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, particularly around agent building and Copilot Studio. The discussion highlights the distinction between low-code/no-code solutions for makers and pro-code tools for developers. Key tools such as Agent Builder and Teams Toolkit are explored, emphasizing their respective strengths: Agent Builder's accessibility for information workers versus Teams Toolkit's power and flexibility for professional developers. They discuss how developers can leverage Visual Studio Code, adaptive cards, and GitHub integration for building robust, scalable agents. A recurring theme is enabling seamless collaboration between makers and developers, with a focus on governance, scalability, and customization, particularly for enterprise-grade agents. The conversation also delves into advancements in API integration, such as using OpenAPI files and the emerging TypeSpec language to streamline the creation of APIs and plugins. Graph connectors and Power Platform connectors are highlighted as critical components for data access and processing within agents. To watch their Ignite breakout with all the demos discussed watch Developers guide to building your own agents To find out more please visit https://aka.ms/extendcopilotm365 

Jeremy Thake catches up with Andrew Connell to talk through the latest updates you can work with now in Declarative agents inside of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Jeremy walks through the renamed elements and all the options for building Declarative agents.   M365 Copilot Dev Center https://aka.ms/m365copilotdev 

In this episode Jeremy Thake catches up with Andrew Connell to talk about SharePoint Embedded. Microsoft official pages: SharePoint Embedded Overview | Microsoft Learn SharePoint Embedded – Microsoft Adoption   Andrew's deep dive articles: SharePoint Embedded - overview and example scenarios Zero to Hero: Complete Tutorial on Building SharePoint Embedded Apps

In this episode Jeremy Thake talks to Joey Glocke about Custom engine copilots in Microsoft 365. Joey was on the show this time last year to talk about Teams AI Library. In this show he talks about how this has evolved with all the announcements from Build 2024. He talks to how these show up in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot. He is shares how these are different from Declarative copilots that Sebastien Levert discussed in the last episode.

In this episode Jeremy Thake talks to Sebastien Levert about Declarative copilots. They talk about the user experience, how you can build them in both Teams toolkit and Copilot Studio, the moving parts of them including graph connectors, plugins and instructions...plus much more! Right now these are in private preview with public preview coming very soon... Show notes https://aka.ms/m365copilotdev Declarative copilots for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn https://aka.ms/copilotecosystem 

This episode Jeremy Thake and Andrew Connell catch up to discuss all the Copilot extensibility news from the Microsoft Build 2024 conference in May. Andrew asked some great questions about Graph Connectors, Plugins, Declarative copilots and Custom engine copilots. Show notes Build 2024 - Session catalog (microsoft.com) The Microsoft 365 Full-Stack Developer's Recap to Build 2024 (voitanos.io)

In this episode, Jeremy Thake talks to Abram Jackson about all the news from Microsoft Build 2024. Abram talks about the new API Plugins and Declarative copilots building on top of our AI Platform in Copilot for Microsoft 365. Abram also talks about Custom engine copilots and handing off to them from Copilot for Microsoft 365. He gives some great guidance on how the Sydney orchestrator works when working with plugins in Copilot for Microsoft 365. Blog post on all the announcements Developer guide to enhancing Copilot for Microsoft 365 session by Jeremy Thake and Barnam Bora Reach 320M+ users in flow of work building your own copilot for Teams Developer deep dive on building plugins for Microsoft Copilot Build Microsoft Copilot extensions with Copilot Studio  

The Microsoft 365 Developer podcast is rebooting ... again! Check out this first episode to find out the future of the show with a new special guest! Links for this week: Build Conference 2024 Developers guide to customizing Microsoft Copilot with Jeremy Thake and Barnam Bora Tuesday, May 21 | 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time SharePoint Embedded FREE 9-Day Email Course: Microsoft Teams AppDev OnRamp FREE bi-weekly newsletter: The Full-Stack Developer’s Microsoft 365 Playbook Microsoft Teams AppDev Accelerator   Jeremy Thake LinkedIn • 𝕏 • Threads Andrew Connell Founder, Voitanos • YouTube • LinkedIn • 𝕏 • Threads  

This week Paul Schaeflein and Jeremy Thake talks to the Dev Tunnels team.  For more info check out What is dev tunnels? - Microsoft dev tunnels | Microsoft Learn As discussed in the show, please feel free to provide feedback here https://github.com/microsoft/dev-tunnels 

This week Jeremy Thake talks to Joey Glocke from the Microsoft Teams Platform product group. Joey talks about the publicly available Teams AI Library. Joey talks about how you can get started enabling ChatGPT scenarios now in Microsoft Teams which will pave the way for extending M365 Copilot in the future! Harness the power of AI: Extend Copilot and beyond (microsoft.com) Build 2023 session. Teams AI library - Teams | Microsoft Learn Microsoft Teams Dev Center | AI GitHub - microsoft/teams-ai: SDK focused on building AI based applications and extensions for Microsoft Teams.

Julie Turner joined Paul to discuss her session from the European Collaboration summit discussing concepts for building React components. Links from the show: https://julieturner.net HTWOO European Collaboration Summit Sessions Microsoft News How to prepare for Microsoft 365 Copilot https://aka.ms/M365DevTAP Announcing Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET 4.54.0, with General Availability of Managed Identity APIs New Microsoft Graph APIs for managing Microsoft Teams webinars Community Links Microsoft 365 Developer News from Microsoft Build 2023

Jeremy catches up with Reid Carlberg and Marc Windle about Syntex Repository Services. They discuss this new offering currently in Private Preview that was announced at Build 2023 in May.   The official announcement Introducing Syntex repository services: Microsoft 365 superpowers for your app To learn more, please visit the Syntex repository services preview page and sign up.

Paul Schaeflein talks to Gavin Barron, Principal Software Engineer, about his work on Microsoft Graph Toolkit. He introduces these web components for those new to it and talks about what they've been focused on lately! Gavin talks about v3 targets coming soon to Preview.

While at the European Collaboration Summit in Dusseldorf, Paul sat down with Garry Trinder and Waldek Mastykarz to discuss the latest release of the Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy.   https://aka.ms/graph/proxy https://aka.ms/hack-together-teams

Jeremy Thake got to talk to John Miller from the team behind Teams Toolkit. John talked about the new v5 release that was announced mid May 2023. There are some great new features he discusses around: Flexible and composable automation, Visual Studio dev tunnels support, Outlook Add-in/SharePoint framework support, and Github Codespaces support.   Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code 5 now available (microsoft.com) Issues · OfficeDev/TeamsFx · GitHub

In this weeks episode Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein talk to Dan Wahlin about his newly published Microsoft Cloud sample that integrates Open AI Chat GPT, Azure Communication Services (ACS) and Microsoft Graph REST APIs. See more about Microsoft Cloud here https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-cloud Sample : https://aka.ms/openai-acs-msgraph https://github.com/microsoft/microsoftcloud   Great article by Bea Stollnitz - How GPT models work  

This week Ayca Bas and Jeremy Thake talk to Johan Scedin Jigland from Preciofishbone to talk about their product Omnia Intranet.   Find more about them here Omnia Intranet will empower your workforce | Omnia

Jeremy Thake talks to Ahmad Mozaffar about his hackathon winning project called Magic Note.  Magic Note is an AI-powered application that allows your to plan your day smoothly and quickly without the need to open different apps like the calendar and the To-Do app and insert each of your items one by one. The app will have a simple text input where you can write all what you want to do for the next day (event, task, or a meeting with someone), after you submit your note, Magic Note with the help of AI and Microsoft Graph will understand the content and build a plan for you to review and make sure it aligns with what in your mind. Once you feel good and make the edits, submit the plan and Magic Note will add all the resources (events, meetings, and to-do tasks) and add them for you with one click. https://github.com/aksoftware98/hack-together23 (Hackathon project) https://ahmadmozaffar.net (Official Website)  https://twitter.com/AhmadMozaffar99 (Twitter) https://github.com/aksoftware98 (GitHub)    Show notes   Microsoft Build   Introducing Copilot in SharePoint and new OneDrive experiences | Microsoft 365 Blog   SharePoint in the AI Era: Introducing Copilot in SharePoint & 10 more innovations for creators - Microsoft Community Hub   Experience the New OneDrive: Fast, Organized, and Personalized - Microsoft Community Hub   Microsoft Lists: Easier, Better, Faster, Stronger - Microsoft Community Hub   Enhanced Video in Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Community Hub   New era in content management and security in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams - Microsoft Community Hub   https://www.nango.dev/blog/why-is-oauth-still-hard

This week Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein spoke to Jennifer Lu, a Principal Product Manager on the Outlook team. Jennifer talked about the announcements from last weeks webinar and answered all the follow up questions Jeremy and Paul and our audience had. Read more and watch the webinar here Build once, deploy efficiently, connect across Microsoft 365

This week Ayca Bas and Jeremy Thake talk to Hrvoje Bagaric about Syskit's journey on the Microsoft 365 platform. Visit their web site to read more Microsoft 365 governance, security, and reporting | SysKit Point

Stefan Bauer joins Paul to discuss web user interfaces and accessibility. Stefan also covers the Htwoo UI library and how it helps developers to meet accessibility guidelines. Links from the show: About hTWOo UI Microsoft News Build once, deploy efficiently, connect across Microsoft 365 Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot - your copilot for work Viva Connections Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now in preview Microsoft Graph .NET SDK v5 is now generally available New capabilities available in Microsoft Graph To Do APIs

Ayca Bas talks to Cameron Dwyer about the journey that OnePlace Solutions has had building products on Microsoft 365. Go try their product at Email & document management solutions for SharePoint / Office 365 (oneplacesolutions.com)

In this episode Ayca Bas and Jeremy Thake talk to Guillaume Meyer from nBold. He shares their story to shipping their collaboration enhancement processes to our Microsoft 365 customers.   Check them out here nBold - The Collaboration Process Technology

Paul Schaeflein catches up with Vincent Biret and Rabeb Othmani to talk about the Microsoft Graph SDKs and the new SDK generator called Kiota.

  In this episode Jeremy Thake and Ayca Bas talk to Louis Beaudoin-Allaire about ShareGate and their latest governance SaaS offerings. ShareGate is a software tool that helps organizations manage, migrate, and secure their SharePoint and Microsoft 365 content. It provides an easy-to-use platform for managing and optimizing content, automating migrations, and ensuring data security. ShareGate is designed to help organizations simplify and streamline their digital workplace operations, saving time and reducing risk.   Louis Beaudoin Allaire is a software engineer with expertise in developing cloud-based solutions and a strong background in Microsoft technologies. He has experience in Azure, SharePoint, and Microsoft Graph. Louis is a dedicated problem solver and has a passion for helping organizations transform their digital workplace. 

In this podcast, Jeremy Thake talks to Waldek Mastykarz and Sebastien Levert about the Graph Developer Proxy. The Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy is a new tool that provides a local proxy for the Microsoft Graph API. It allows developers to test and debug Microsoft Graph API calls in a local environment, without having to make real API calls. This tool provides an easy and efficient way for developers to test their Microsoft Graph integrations and improve their productivity during the development process. The Graph Developer Proxy is currently in a community preview stage and is available for free. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/introducing-the-microsoft-graph-developer-proxy-community-preview/  Sebastien Levert is a software engineer with experience in developing cloud-based solutions and a strong background in Microsoft technologies. He is an expert in Microsoft Graph API, Azure and SharePoint. Sebastien has a passion for innovation and enjoys helping customers achieve their digital transformation goals. He is currently working as a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. Waldek Mastykarz is a highly skilled technical consultant and speaker with extensive experience in Microsoft technologies, including SharePoint and Office 365. He is an expert in solutions architecture, custom development, and search solutions. Waldek is a dedicated problem solver and has a passion for helping organizations transform their digital workplace. He is currently a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. In the intro Jeremy and Paul talked about the new Microsoft Teams Streamdeck plug-in , Teams Premium and our new podcast artwork!

Jeremy Thake talks to Rob D'Oria from Kudzu Software about bringing the product to market in the last 18 months on top of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft's on-premises products. Kudzu's patented middleware converts old forms and new mockups into modern form experiences...in a few clicks!   Go try Kudzu at https://www.kudzusoftware.com/ 

Jeremy Thake talks to Ashima Mathur and Juan Balmori Labra about the new Outlook for Windows. Ashima talks about the future of Outlook on Windows and Juan talks about what this means for Outlook development. Fill out the form to engage with the team https://aka.ms/DevNewOutlook Read more The new Outlook for Windows helps you be more productive and in control of your inbox (office.com)

Jeremy Thake and Ayca Bas meet with Matthias Einig. Matthias is the CEO of Rencore and long time Microsoft MVP. Matthias shares how they brought Rencore Governance to market and lessons learnt through their journey. Check out their product at https://www.rencore.com/ 

Jeremy Thake and Ayca Bas talk to Tobias Viehweger on how they built Yasoon. Tobias talks about their journey on integrating tasks from Microsoft 365 with tasks in Atlassian Jira.

Jeremy Thake and Ayca Bas interview John Peluso, the Chief Product Officer at AvePoint to discuss their journey building MyHub on top of Microsoft 365.   Check out MyHub on Appsource.

Ayca Bas and Jeremy Thake talk to David Bowman, Product Director from Content + Cloud, about their Intranet product Fresh that is built on top of Microsoft 365 developer platform.   Follow David Bowman on LinkedIn.

The second interview in a series of podcasts talking to leaders from companies building products on top of Microsoft 365. Ayca Bas joins Jeremy Thake to interview them every other week on the show. In this episode, Erik Ralston talks about how they have built Soundbite.ai in Microsoft Teams apps! Erik shares their journey of building a next generation short-from communication app alongside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Check out their products at Soundbite Next-Generation Short-Form Communications  Follow Erik Ralston (@ErikRalston) / Twitter

Jeremy Thake talks to Ben Summers about all the Ignite 2022 Microsoft 365 Developer platform announcements.   Links: Ignite 2022: Transforming collaboration with low and pro code dev tools - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog Want to embed Microsoft Teams in your app? Here’s how - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog Scale access to Microsoft 365 data with Microsoft Graph Data Connect - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog Boost your Microsoft Teams app experience with new link unfurling capabilities   - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog App Compliance Automation Tool for Microsoft 365 launching in public preview - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog Ignite 2022: Highlights for Microsoft Teams app builders - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

In this episode Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein about Viva Connections and adaptive card extensions (ACE).

We are introducing a new series of podcasts talking to leaders from companies building products on top of Microsoft 365. Ayca Bas will be joining Jeremy Thake to interview them every other week on the show. First up is Martin Seifert from OfficeAtWork to talk about how they have built Office add-ins, Teams apps and much more! Martin shares their journey from building Server products to our cloud services. Check out their products at officeatwork — creating value by simplifying work

Alex returns to the show to discuss the updates to SPFx in the last year. Microsoft News New features in Microsoft Graph To Do APIs and retirement of the Tasks (Beta) API Updates on controlling app specific access on specific SharePoint sites (Sites.Selected) What's new for Microsoft Graph connectors, August 2022 Update

In this episode Jeremy talks to Alicia Lu about the new features of the Teams JS SDK v2.0 updates that allow you to build your apps across multiple Microsoft 365 surfaces like Outlook, Office.com and Microsoft Teams. Links from the show: Extend Teams apps across Microsoft 365 (preview) - Teams Build collaborative apps with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 services Microsoft Teams JS SDK v2 is now generally available - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog GitHub - OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-library-js: JavaScript library for use by Microsoft Teams apps GitHub - OfficeDev/TeamsFx: Developer tools for building Teams apps https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-lu/ Microsoft News Microsoft Ignite Join us at the first Microsoft Power Platform Conference Sept 20-22 Introducing the Azure Developer CLI (azd): A faster way to build apps for the cloud Restricted access to Microsoft Teams data via EWS starts September 30, 2022 - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog Community Links What's new? Unboxing the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) v1.15 My experiences and an approach to implementing Power Platform Dev Ops with the Power Platform Toolchain: Introduction

Jeremy talks to Pierce Boggan to talk about the Microsoft Teams Toolkit. Pierce talks about why this toolkit is important for Microsoft 365 developers. He explains how they built apps and bots for Microsoft Teams to help run their team. Pierce Boggan on Twitter Microsoft Teams Toolkit docs Build apps with the Teams Toolkit and Visual Studio Code Create a new Teams app using Teams Toolkit

In this episode, Jeremy Thake talks to Merill Fernando about the work he has done around PowerShell and Azure AD and Microsoft Graph. He talks about the amazing Graph X-ray tool that is super helpful for Identity and Intune developers out there! Links from the show: merill.net Merill Fernando • 🇦🇺 • 🇱🇰 (@merill) / Twitter GitHub - microsoft/azureadexporter: PowerShell module to export a local copy of all Azure Active Directory configuration settings and objects. Graph PowerShell Conversion Analyzer - merill.net PSAzureMigratorAdvisor powershell module Mapping document from Azure AD PowerShell to Microsoft Graph Powershell SDK Graph X-Ray (merill.net) Graph Permissions Explorer - merill.net GitHub - msgraph/powershell: Share your own Graph PowerShell samples in the Discussions tab. Microsoft News Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.15 - with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Microsoft Teams JS SDK v2 is now generally available Application permissions for Bookings APIs in Microsoft Graph now available Upcoming billing changes for Microsoft Graph APIs for Teams messages

Jeremy Thake speaks to David de Mattheu about all the latest announcements in Azure Communication Services, including a new bulk mail service! Links from the show: https://aka.ms/acs Microsoft Build 2022: Azure Communication Services updates to build faster and reach further Azure Communication Services on Microsoft Q&A

Darrel Miller returns to chat his work as an API Architect at Microsoft.   Links from the show: Microsoft API Guidelines https://aka.ms/graphfeedback

Altamish Ahmad joins Jeremy and Paul to discuss the Bookings API now on Microsoft Graph. Links from the show: Microsoft Graph Bookings APIs now available on the v1 endpoint Use the Microsoft Bookings API in Microsoft Graph Beta - Use the Microsoft Bookings API in Microsoft Graph New features in Microsoft Graph Bookings APIs provide enhanced booking infrastructure Microsoft Bookings Microsoft News Publish your app in the Microsoft Teams App Store Inside the making of the Azure SDK management libraries Community Links Save data to app personal folder

Ed Averett joins Jeremy and Paul to discuss the extensibility story for SharePoint, OneDrive and Viva Connections. Community Links NEW CONTROL - Adaptive Card Host https://github.com/pnp/AdaptiveCards-Templates Building Proxy Provider for SharePoint Framework and Microsoft Graph Toolkit (@sergeev_srg) Jarbas Horst: Graph API News: APIs for managing shared channels now available in Microsoft Graph (@devjhorst) How to Figure Out What Microsoft Graph Permissions You Need (@12Knocksinna)

Recently podcast-retired Andrew Connell joins pals Jeremy and Paul to catch up. And some of it is recorded! AC shares his thoughts on development topics. Links from the show: Voitanos YouTube Voitanos blog MS Cloudshow Archive AC on Twitter Microsoft News Microsoft Graph API support for new content type sync enhancements Get inspired with Microsoft 365 apps at Microsoft Tech Days PSReadLine 2.2 GA Announcing PowerShell Crescendo General Availability (GA) Community Links How to Create Your First Teams Bot and Deploy it to Azure (@LauraKokkarinen)

Jeremy Thake catches up with Tom Morgan about Microsoft Teams development "plus". Tom talks about Azure Communication Services, Power Platform and the fusion of devs around the platform. Links from the show: Tom's blog @tomorgan Microsoft News Teams JS SDK v2 Public Preview Update: Teams Apps in Office.com & Office App for Windows Integrating real-time Microsoft Graph notifications (GitHub) Integrating real-time Microsoft Graph notifications (video) The End of the REST API for On-Premises Mailboxes Preview Community Links Debugging Teams App Locally with Teams Toolkit (@girlie_mac) Introduction to Adaptive Card Studio VS Code extension (@TimCadenbach) Integrate ngrok into ASP.NET Core startup and automatically update your webhook URLs

Fabian Williams joins Jeremy and Paul to talk about Universal Actions and updates to Adaptive Cards. Links from the show: bot-sequential-flow-adaptive-cards Teams Catering Bot Adaptive card with request for approval is also sent to the approver’s email User attribution for bots messages Up-to-date cards Microsoft News Microsoft Graph Fundamentals for Beginners Announcing new permissions for Teams chats and tags APIs Microsoft Graph Mailbag - Search DriveItems for Only Files Finding Permissions with Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Breaking changes in the Microsoft Graph Tasks API (beta) Community Links Keeping up to date with the Microsoft Graph changelog (@LoryanStrant) SharePoint Framework v1.14 - What's in the latest Update of SPFx? (@andrewconnell)

Juan Balmori returns to the podcast, speaking with Jeremy about developing add-ins for Office Online. Microsoft News Microsoft Graph Data Connect: Deploying Azure Synapse Analytics (@NikCharlebois) Combining Microsoft Graph Data Connect data sets in Azure Synapse Analytics (@NikCharlebois) Announcing PWA Studio, the VS Code extension for building Progressive Web Apps! (@Justinwillis96) Community Links Using the Azure Load Testing service (@zimmergren) SharePoint Syntex AI - my top 5 real-world tips (@ChrisO_Brien)

Christophe Humbert joins Jeremy and Paul to talk about his Property Pane Portal project and the help he has received from the M365 Dev Community.   Links from the show: inPerson helps you manage your flexible office hours and look up your team members' current location Overview of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Microsoft News Advance performance approaches to deliver high quality experiences in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Tech Community Advancing service resilience in Azure Active Directory with its backup authentication service The learnings, pitfalls, and compromises of Microsoft’s expedition to the cloud Community Links Building fast, offline-capable Microsoft 365 web applications