Microsoft 365 Developer Community Call recording – 15th of April, 2021

Microsoft 365 Developer Community Call recording – 15th of April, 2021

by | Apr 16, 2021 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Recording of the Microsoft 365 – General M365 development Special Interest Group (SIG) community call from April 15, 2021.


 


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Call Summary


Latest news from Microsoft 365 engineering and updates on open-source projects: PnP .NET libraries, PnP PowerShell, modernization tooling, on yo Teams, on Microsoft Graph Toolkit, and on Microsoft Teams Samples.


 


The Microsoft 365 developer community survey is now open, visit the Microsoft Teams samples gallery to get started with Microsoft Teams development, preview the new Microsoft 365 Extensibility look book gallery, and register now for April trainings on Sharing-is-caring.  Recent PnP project updates include – PnP .NET Libraries – PnP Framework v1.4.0 and PnP Core SDK v1.1.0 and PnP PowerShell v1.5.0 (new commandlets for Microsoft Viva Connections and Syntex).   yo Teams generator-teams (apps generator) v3.0.3 GA and 3.1.0 Preview, yo teams-build-core (gulp tasks) v1.0.1 + v1.1.0 Preview, and msteams-react-base-component (React UI helpers) v3.1.0, have been released.   Microsoft Graph Toolkit try out the new OneDrive file components (Preview).   The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen.  Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call.


 


 


Actions:  


 



 


Microsoft Teams Development Samples:  (https://aka.ms/TeamsSampleBrowser)




  • Looking for Samples!  Please share your good work  




 


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It’s together time – Super comfy seats!     


 


Demos delivered in this session




  • SharePoint Content Type APIs in Microsoft Graph – Classic SharePoint APIs are now showing up in Microsoft Graph.   In this demo, step through beta API methods, properties and responses for creating a content type (CT), adding CT to list, adding a column, copying to default location, updating a CT, publishing a CT, and associating CT to a hub site.  API permission requirements are called out and differ slightly by API.    




  • Live London Underground Line Status Bot in Dataverse for Teams – the next stage in the evolution of the presenter’s Tube Status solution.  An interactive Tube bot in Power Virtual Agents, using Power Automate, and configuring your Azure environment for Azure API Management and Azure Functions.  Dataverse for Teams allows users to leverage Azure API Management service using a custom connector in Power Platform.   See solution architecture, execution triggers, rules, calls and more.   




  • Microsoft list formatting with header and footer settings – we are reminded that there are layers of formatting options for lists and that there is sample code for each layer.  Here we look at header and footer settings, for groups and entire list, beyond the vanilla capabilities delivered 2 weeks ago.   This session looks at Collapsed Simple formatting used for Q&A.  Uses groupProps, aggregates, hiding, tips on double nesting and more.      




Thank you for your work. Samples are often showcased in Demos.


 


Topics covered in this call



  • PnP .NET library updates – Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365bert – 6:51

  • PnP PowerShell updates – Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365bert – 9:26

  • yo Teams updates – Wictor Wilén (Avanade) @wictor – 10:42

  • Microsoft Graph Toolkit updates – Beth Pan (Microsoft) | @beth_panx – 12:16

  • Microsoft Teams Samples – Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German – 13:53


  • Demo:  SharePoint Content Type APIs in Microsoft Graph – Swapnil Shrivastava (Microsoft) – 16:07




  • Demo:  Live London Underground Line Status Bot in Dataverse for Teams – Leon Armston (Intelogy) | @LeonArmston – 25:18




  • Demo:  Microsoft list formatting with header and footer settings – Chris Kent (DMI) | @theChrisKent – 41:29


     




 


Resources:


Additional resources around the covered topics and links from the slides.



 


General resources:



 


Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites:


 



 


General Microsoft 365 Dev Special Interest Group bi-weekly calls are targeted at anyone who’s interested in the general Microsoft 365 development topics. This includes Microsoft Teams, Bots, Microsoft Graph, CSOM, REST, site provisioning, PnP PowerShell, PnP Sites Core, Site Designs, Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, Column Formatting, list formatting, etc. topics. More details on the Microsoft 365 community from http://aka.ms/m365pnp. We also welcome community demos, if you are interested in doing a live demo in these calls!


 


You can download recurrent invite from http://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig. Welcome and join in the discussion. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, feel free to provide your input as comments to this post as well. More details on the Microsoft 365 community and options to get involved are available from http://aka.ms/m365pnp.


 


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Microsoft 365 PnP team, Microsoft – 16th of April 2021

AzUpdate: 200TB Blob Storage Object Support, Log Analytic Workspace Update, 1st Anniversary and more

AzUpdate: 200TB Blob Storage Object Support, Log Analytic Workspace Update, 1st Anniversary and more

by | Apr 16, 2021 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

AzUpdate celebrates its first-year anniversary, and the team would like to thank all of you for supporting the show! News the team will be covering this week includes Log analytics workspace name uniqueness, Azure IoT Central new and updated features for March 2021, Surface Laptop 4 and Microsoft accessories announcements, Azure Blob storage supports objects up to 200 TB in size and our Microsoft Learn Module of the week.


 


 


Log analytics workspace name uniqueness is now per resource group


When a workspace name was used by one customer or user in the same organization, it couldn’t be used again by others as Azure Monitor log analytics workspace name uniqueness was maintained within the subscription.


 



 


Microsoft has changed the way they enforce workspace name uniqueness and it’s now maintained inside of the resource group context and allows use of the same workspace name in deployments across multiple environments for consistency.


 


Workspace uniqueness is maintained as follow:



  • Workspace ID – global uniqueness remained unchanged.

  • Workspace resource ID – global uniqueness.

  • Workspace name – per resource group


 


Learn More


 


Azure IoT Central new and updated features for March 2021


Filter jobs results on reported properties


IoT Central now supports filtering on reported properties in the jobs results grid which lets you view a subset of devices based device state for a current running job or a completed job and helps you view job metrics in production scenarios.
 



 


Export device lifecycle and device template events


New data export capabilities allow you export device lifecycle events and device template events. Export these new types of data and get notified when devices are registered or deleted, or when device templates are published or deleted. You can use filters and enrichments and export to the existing destinations. To learn more,  see Export data from Azure IoT Central.


 


Application usage monitoring improvements


IoT Central metrics provided through Azure Monitor can now improve the ability to monitor and diagnose the health and usage of your IoT Central application and the devices connected to it. With the new set of metrics made available this month, it’s now easier to monitor and troubleshoot provisioned devices, device data usage, telemetry messages, commands, and more. For a complete list of available platform metrics, see Supported metrics with Azure Monitor.


 


IoT Central documentation improvements


Documentation content updates, including new overview articles for administrators and operators, and added more content about multi-component device models including a refresh of the Create and connect a client application tutorials.


 


New Surface Laptop 4 and Productivity Peripherals


Microsoft announced this week the latest forth generation Surface Laptop sporting your choice of a New Quad Core 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors and Intel® Iris® Xe graphics or a Custom AMD Ryzen™ Microsoft Surface® Edition processor with 8 CPU cores. Models include either 13.5” or 15” PixelSense displays


 



 
Microsoft also introduced the Surface Headphones 2+ carring over all of the features from the existing Surface Headphones customers; 13 levels of active noise cancellation, innovative earcup dials, an advanced 8-microphone system for incredible voice clarity, 18.5 hours of music listening time or up to 15 hours of voice calling time, and the all-day comfort to help you through the day’s virtual meetings.


 


More information on the plethora of devices that were announced can be found here: Introducing Surface Laptop 4 and new accessories for enhanced meeting experiences


 


Azure Blob storage supports objects up to 200 TB in size


Workloads that utilize larger file sizes such as backups, media, and seismic analysis can now utilize Azure Blob storage and ADLS Gen2 without breaking these large files into separate blobs. Each blob is made up of up to 50,000 blocks.  Each block can now be 4GBin size for a total of 200 TB per blob or ADLS Gen2 file.


 



 


Learn more


 


Community Events



  • Global Azure 2021 – April 15th to 17th, communities around the world are organizing localized live streams for everyone around the world to join and learn about Azure from the best-in-class community leaders.

  • Hello World – Special guests, content challenges, upcoming events, and daily updates.

  • Patch and Switch – It has been a fortnight and Patch and Switch are back to share the stories they have amassed over the past two weeks.


 


MS Learn Module of the Week


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Architect storage infrastructure in Azure


Learn how to architect storage solutions for your applications in Azure.
 




Modules include:


 



  • Choose a data storage approach in Azure

  • Create an Azure Storage account

  • Upload, download, and manage data with Azure Storage Explorer

  • Connect an app to Azure Storage

  • Make you application storage highly available with read-access geo-redundant storage

  • Secure your Azure Storage account

  • Store and share files in your app with Azure Files

  • Choose the right disk storage for your virtual machine workload

  • Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot your Azure storage


 


Learn more here: Architect storage infrastructure in Azure


 



 


 


Let us know in the comments below if there are any news items you would like to see covered in the next show. Be sure to catch the next AzUpdate episode and join us in the live chat.

Surface commercial apps for the new Surface Laptop 4

Surface commercial apps for the new Surface Laptop 4

by | Apr 16, 2021 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Surface tools that assist IT admins with core security, management, and diagnostic tasks are now updated with support for the latest enterprise devices. These IT tools include: 



  • Surface Enterprise Management Mode. Allows you to secure and manage firmware settings within your organization. Notably, customers can now use Surface Enterprise Management Mode to enable and disable hardware components and UEFI in Surface Laptop 4 along with support for simultaneous multithreading and improved MSI signing across all devices.

  • Surface Diagnostic Tool for Business. Eases the support experience through Surface Diagnostics. Provides a full suite of diagnostic tests and software repairs to quickly investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, and firmware issues with Surface devices. This latest update lets you quickly determine if the SSD was replaced from the original inbox SSD.

  • Surface Data Eraser. With the all new and improved Surface Data Eraser, we re–engineered how the tool works to provide a seamless experience to help you secure your devices through erasure.

  • Surface Deployment Accelerator. Support for building your own Surface images for Surface Laptop 4 will be available soon.


 


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Built-in support


In addition, the latest versions of Surface Brightness Control and Surface Asset Tag already have built-in support for Surface Laptop 4.


 


Download


You can download these and other tools from Surface Tools for IT, available on the Microsoft Download Center. Surface Laptop 4 and Surface Headphones 2+”  are available for purchase now. 


 


 

Azure Sphere OS version 21.04 is now available for evaluation

by | Apr 15, 2021 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

 


Azure Sphere OS version 21.04 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed. The retail evaluation period provides 14 days for backwards compatibility testing. During this time, please verify that your applications and devices operate properly with this release before it is deployed broadly via the Retail feed. The Retail feed will continue to deliver OS version 21.03 until we publish 21.04 in two weeks. For more information on retail evaluation see our blog post, The most important testing you’ll do: Azure Sphere Retail Evaluation.


 


This evaluation release includes an OS update only; it does not include an updated SDK.


 


Notes about this release


 



  • Areas of special focus for compatibility testing with 21.04 should include apps and functionality utilizing:

    • Any wolfSSL calls, as it has been upgraded to version 4.7.

    • Wi-Fi connectivity as the background scanning process had been upgraded.





  • 21.04 includes updates to mitigate against the following CEVs:

    • CVE-2021-28460

    • CVE-2021-22876

    • CVE-2021-22890





  • RF tools version 21.01 is compatible with OS version 21.04.


 


For more information on Azure Sphere OS feeds and setting up an evaluation device group, see Azure Sphere OS feeds and Set up devices for OS evaluation.


 


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