Champion Management Platform – Now Available!

by Contributed | Apr 2, 2021 | Technology

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We are happy to announce that the Champion Management Platform is now available! We’ve heard your feedback and love the Champion communities and work that you all are doing to drive and inspire usage of these solutions. With this first release of the Champion Management Platform we are bringing the ability to manage three core functions of a Champion program.

• Program Management: Manage the Champions in your organization by keeping a list of members, enabling the ability to signup new Champions, and providing an approval system to onboard new members into the Champion program who can be categorized by focus area and region.


• Leaderboard: Track campaigns across the champion group. You will be able to define the types of activities and point values. Champions will be able to see their ranking from a global perspective, based on people near them in location, as well as the focus area they have assigned.


• Digital Badge: Overlay a teamwork Champion badge over your profile image for display across the Microsoft 365 solutions. Showcasing this badge helps to identify Champions and provide a bit of recognition for their contributions to the role

We can not wait to hear what you think about this first release. Please provide feedback on how we can improve the experience here and keep inspiring your communities to achieve more!

Get the solution today!

Champion Management Platform – Solution Home

Microsoft 365 Developer Community Call recording – 1st of April, 2021

by Contributed | Apr 2, 2021 | Technology

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Recording of the Microsoft 365 – General M365 development Special Interest Group (SIG) community call from April 1, 2021.

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.

An update on SharePoint Framework v1.12.1 release plan.  Recent PnP project releases 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 in the works MSAL 2.0 provider and preview of OneDrive file components.  Delivered 1 new Microsoft Teams sample – the first SPFx Teams Meeting sample from the community!  Register now for March/April trainings on Sharing-is-caring.   Register to join fellow community members to watch the 2-hour livestream – Building Apps with Microsoft Graph, on the 14^th of April. The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen.  Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call

Actions:  

• Register to watch the Microsoft Graph livestream with your community at:  https://aka.ms/pnpwatchparty


• RSVP to attend – 2-hour livestream – Building Apps for with Microsoft Graph – 2 sessions – 2:00pm AEST (Asia Pacific Region) and 8:30am PDT (North America & Europe Regions) | https://aka.ms/learntogether-graph


• Complete the Developer Success Survey – https://aka.ms/developersuccess


• Join the M365 customer success platform panel – https://aka.ms/SuccessPanel


• Register for Sharing is Caring Events:
  
  
  
  • PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session – Register
  
  
  • Maturity Model Practitioners – April 20^th
  
  
  • More than Code with VSCode – April 14^th & 28^th
  
  
  • First Time Presenter – April 7^th & 21^st
  
  
  • PnP – AMA (Ask Me Anything) – CLI for Microsoft 365 Edition – April 13^th
  
  
  • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – April 8^th & 15^th
  
  
  • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – April 29^th
  
  
  • Community Docs Session – April
  
  
  • First Time Contributor Session – April 6^th & 27^th   (EMEA, APAC & US friendly times available)
  
  
  
  


• Download the recurrent invite for this call – http://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig


• Call attention to your great work by using the #PnPWeekly on Twitter.

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

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  Questionnaire Teams Meeting App – Nanddeep Nachan | @NanddeepNachan, Ravi Kulkarni, and Smita Nachan

  
  

It’s together time – Spring time!     

Demos delivered in this session

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  List group header formatting options – new list formatting options in JSON using use groupProps for Group header and footer formatters.  Conditional formatting – colors, counts, icons, for all list items now available for groups of list items.  Formatting capabilities in both list and gallery views.  There are new tokens for group headers and footers.   Copy and paste code chunks from docs.microsoft.com into Format View pane.    

  
  


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  Introduction to PnP Core SDK – Getting started – see how PnP Core works and how a mixture of APIs – Microsoft Graph GA and Beta, Rest, CSOM, Microsoft Teams, are called behind the scenes, transparent to developer.  Create basic .NET console application, add NuGet, PnP.Core and/or PnP.Core.Auth and Microsoft.Injection.Hosting packages, minimum code.  Add more code to get data.  Create list, add items, query the data, update data and delete list.  

  
  


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  Customer scenario – Microsoft Teams integration with external systems – appreciate the power of Teams to deliver a SSO personal app experience to consume and share data and analytics from an external data catalog in a Microsoft 365 environment.   This Proof-of-Concept solution includes search and message composition capabilities.  App created in yoTeams v3.0, .NET back-end, Security Vault, consuming Alation (data catalog) APIs   Uses Fluent and React Northstar library components for Teams.    

  
  

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

Topics covered in this call

• Updates from Microsoft 365 Engineering – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen – 7:23


• PnP.NET library updates – Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365bert – 9:06


• PnP PowerShell updates – Erwin van Hunen (Valo Intranet) | @erwinvanhunen – 11:08


• yo Teams updates – Wictor Wilén (Avanade) @wictor – 13:07


• Microsoft Graph Toolkit updates – Beth Pan (Microsoft) | @beth_panx – 14:23


• Microsoft Teams Samples – Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German – 16:17


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  Demo:  List group header formatting options – Naveed Ahmed (Microsoft) – 17:56

  
  


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  Demo:  Introduction to PnP Core SDK – Getting started – Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365Bert – 25:54

  
  


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  Demo:  Customer scenario – Microsoft Teams integration with external systems – Kathy (Qingyu) Xu (Pfizer) and Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia – 43:43

  
  

Resources:

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

• Slides used in this ​community call


• Documentation – Use view formatting to customize SharePoint 


• Repo – PnP Core SDK 


• Library – PnP Core SDK 


• Documentation – Getting started with the PnP Core SDK 


• Tech Community Blog – Getting started with PnP Core SDK 


• Documentation – Create your first Microsoft Teams app using the Yeoman generator 


• Documentation – Single sign-on (SSO) support for tabs 


• Documentation – Microsoft identity platform and OAuth 2.0 On-Behalf-Of flow 


• Library – Fluent UI – React Northstar 


• Templates & Components – Teams React UI Library 


• PnP Weekly – Episode 120 with guest MVP Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia | video | podcast


• Microsoft Teams Samples Gallery | aka.ms/teams-samples


• Viva Connections https://aka.ms/VivaConnections

General resources:

• SharePoint look book


• Yo Teams video training package


• .NET Standard 2.0 version of SharePoint Online CSOM API


• Microsoft 365 community (PnP) videos | aka.ms/m365pnp-videos


• Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code


• yo Teams | aka.ms/yoteams


• Video – Getting started using yo Teams | Wictor Wilén (Avanade)| @wictor


• Build a crisis management site to connect people and information


• Developer documentation | https://aka.ms/spdev-docs


• PnP Power Shell


• SharePoint Modernization Partner Guidance – Feedback welcome


• Solution – Building a modern search experiences with SharePoint Framework web parts


• Page transformation guidance


• Page transformation videos


• Modernization scanner


• Microsoft 365 developer program site – Need to become a Tenant Admin to test look book capabilities? Get a Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription (free tenant for 90 days)


• SharePoint Provisioning Service – Easily provision look book designs to any tenant in the world


• SharePoint Provisioning templates on Github


• PnP Provisioning Tenant Templates documentation


• SharePoint Page Transformation webcast series


• PnP Power Shell


• SharePoint Modernization Tools

Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites:

• Microsoft Graph call – April 6^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/microsoftgraphcall


• SharePoint Framework call – April 8^th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call


• Adaptive Cards monthly call – April 8^th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall


• SharePoint monthly call – April 13^th at 8:00am PDT | https://aka.ms/sp-call


• Office add-in monthly call – April 14^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall


• M365 General Dev call – April 15^th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig


• Microsoft Identity Platform – April 15^th at 9:00 am PDT |https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar 


• Microsoft Teams monthly call – April 20^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/microsoftteamscommunitycall


• Power Apps monthly call – April 21^st at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall

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.

“Sharing is caring”

Microsoft 365 PnP team, Microsoft – 2nd of April 2021

Native external sender callouts on email in Outlook

by Contributed | Apr 2, 2021 | Technology

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

Overview

We know that some of our customers leverage Exchange transport rules to prepend subject line or insert the message body to show the email is from external senders. This approach has a few limitations which we heard:

• You can end up with duplicate [External] tags in subject line if external users keep replying to the thread (some of our customers use customized solutions to remove the duplicates).


• Adding things to subject line breaks Outlook conversation threading, as the subject line is modified, so messages no longer “belong” to the same conversation.


• Changed subject (or message body) stays as a part of the message during reply or forward, which leads to confusion if the thread becomes internal.


• There can be localization issues, as transport rules have no knowledge of client language that end-users are using.


• Those additions might take a lot of space in the subject line, making it hard to preview the subject on smaller devices.

We have heard the feedback on this, and are working on providing a native experience to identify emails from senders outside your organizations (which can help protect against spam & phishing threats). This is achieved by presenting a new tag on emails called “External” (the string is localized based on your client language setting) and exposing related user interface at the top of your message reading view to see and verify the real sender’s email address.

To set this up

1. Exchange Online tenant admin will need to run the cmdlet Set-ExternalInOutlook to enable the new user interface for the whole tenant (this is available now); adding certain emails and domains to the allow list via the cmdlet is also possible.


2. Outlook on the web already supports this. Outlook Mobile (iOS & Android) and Outlook for Mac are rolling out this feature. Specific versions:
   
   
   
   • Outlook on the web: available now
   
   
   • Outlook for Windows: available in May 2020 (starting with Insider Fast)
   
   
   • Outlook mobile (iOS & Android): version 4.2111.0 and higher
   
   
   • Outlook for Mac: version 16.47 and higher
   
   
   
   

If you are using the prepend subject line transport rules currently to add an [EXTERNAL] tag in external email subject line: the new Outlook native callouts are adding a new MAPI property called IsExternalSender to the email item. Once all the (above listed) client versions you require have this functionality, to avoid emails being marked ‘External’ twice (once by new native functionality and once by the transport rule), please turn off the transport rule first before turning on Outlook native external sender callouts.

We are tracking this feature in Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70595. This feature can be enabled on the tenant level now.

Outlook on the web, Mac, and mobile will display an External tag in the message list. Outlook Desktop and OWA will show the sender’s email address at reading pane info bar. Outlook mobile and Outlook for Mac will only see an external tag on the message reading pane, and users will need to click the tag to see the real sender’s email address.

Outlook on the web view of External sender:

In Outlook for iOS, External sender user interface in the message list, External tag when reading chosen email and view of sender’s email address after tapping External label:

Once this feature is enabled via PowerShell, it might take 24-48 hours for your users to start seeing the External sender tag in email messages received from external sources (outside of your organization), providing their Outlook version supports it.

If enabling this, you might want to notify your users about the new feature and update your training and documentation, as appropriate.

Let us know here if you have any feedback!

The Outlook Team

Friday Five: Azure Communication Services, More!

by Contributed | Apr 2, 2021 | Technology

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

Learn Azure Communication Services Day 14 – Showing Video and Screen Share Content

Tom Morgan is a Microsoft Teams Platform developer and Microsoft MVP with more than 10 years of experience in the software development industry. For the last 8 years, Tom has worked at Modality Systems, with responsibility for delivery of the Modality Systems product portfolio. Tom is passionate about creating great software that people will find useful. He enjoys blogging and speaking about Microsoft Teams development, Office365, Bot Framework, Cognitive Services and AI, and the future of the communications industry. He blogs at thoughtstuff.co.uk and tweets at @tomorgan.

TestServer & ASP.NET Core 5: Fix “System.InvalidOperationException : Solution root could not be located using application root” with a custom Startup file

Anthony Giretti is a specialist in web technologies with 14 years of experience. He specializes in particular in Microsoft .NET and he is currently learning the Cloud Azure platform. He has twice received the Microsoft MVP award and he is also a certified Microsoft MCSD and Azure Fundamentals. Follow him on Twitter @anthonygiretti, and visit his blog for more on the C# 9 Series.

My first trip to Redmond, the 1997 Microsoft MVP Summit

Hal Hostetler is an Office Apps and Services MVP who has been in the MVP program since 1996. Now retired, Hal is a Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer and remains the regional engineer for Daystar Broadcasting and a senior consultant for Roland, Schorr, & Tower. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. For more on Hal, check out his Twitter @TVWizard

Getting started with Azure Bicep

Tobias Zimmergren is a Microsoft Azure MVP from Sweden. As the Head of Technical Operations at Rencore, Tobias designs and builds distributed cloud solutions. He is the co-founder and co-host of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast since 2019, and co-founder and organizer of Sweden SharePoint User Group from 2007 to 2017. For more, check out his blog, newsletter, and Twitter @zimmergren

Teams Real Simple with Pictures: An Approval process for List Items using Lists, Teams, Power Automate, Outlook and the new Approvals App

Chris Hoard is a Microsoft Certified Trainer Regional Lead (MCT RL), Educator (MCEd) and Teams MVP. With over 10 years of cloud computing experience, he is currently building an education practice for Vuzion (Tier 2 UK CSP). His focus areas are Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and entry-level Azure. Follow Chris on Twitter at @Microsoft365Pro and check out his blog here.