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Weekly Update 18 June 2021 – New Whiteboard, Assignments API, Custom Question Answering, Visual Studio & more
This week: Meet the new Microsoft Whiteboard designed for Hybrid Work Assignments API for Microsoft Graph is now generally available How To Using Natural...
Weekly Update 11 June 2021 – Building with PowerPlatform, Teams Soundboard, Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, Graph Essentials VS Code Extension
This week: How to: build a COVID-19 Employee Reporting Solution using Microsoftâs Power Platform How to: create a Microsoft Teams Soundboard using...
Cool Tool of the Week: Microsoft Graph Essentials VS Code Extension
I don’t think this is going to become a regular weekly feature, but I did want to draw attention to a great new VS Code Extension I’ve just come...
How to: create a Microsoft Teams Soundboard using OBS
I’m old, so I have fond memories of chatting in IRC. Like many people I used mIRC and like many people it was heavily customised. mIRC had a superb plugin...
Weekly Update 4 June 2021 – Together Mode Scenes, Meeting API detail, Change Notification Update, Universal Actions in Adaptive Cards
This week: Create your own Microsoft Teams Together Mode scenes! Four new features to build richer apps for Microsoft Teams meetings Change notifications...
Create your own Microsoft Teams Together Mode scenes!
Is the coffee shop layout just too boring for how your co-workers like to meet up? Or maybe you’re a corporation who wants everyone to feel like they’re...
How to: build a COVID-19 Employee Reporting Solution using Microsoft’s Power Platform
Recently, as part of a presentation for my employer Modality, I demoed creating a COVID-19 reporting experience using Microsoft’s Power Platform. You can watch...
Weekly Update 30 May 2021
This week I look at the Microsoft Build 2021 announcements affecting Microsoft Teams Platform developers (and some others that are interesting): Thereâs a new...
There’s a new Microsoft Teams Toolkit out for Visual Studio developers
At Build 2021, Microsoft announced an updated version of the Microsoft Teams Toolkit – version 2.0. Right now, it looks like this is only available for...
About Me
Hi, I'm Tom. I'm a Microsoft 365 Developer & Architect. I empower developers, architects, and organizations to achive more with Microsoft 365 by creating applications and services with technologies like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Graph, Adaptive Cards, and Office Add-Ins.
I'm passionate about creating great software that people will find useful and I want to help you do the same. This is my blog, you can find more about me, speaking engagements, code sample and more on my main site.
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