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...
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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...
Azure Communication Services adds Recording, Direct Routing & more
At Build 2021, Microsoft announced new functionality for Azure Communication Services, their CPaaS offering which includes features available now and coming next month...
Developers can now build Microsoft Viva Connection cards
At Build 2021, Microsoft announced new ways for developers to extend Microsoft Viva. This new functionality comes with SPFx 1.13 – the latest release of...
There’s a new Developer Portal for Microsoft Teams!
Big news from Build 2021 for Microsoft Teams developers: there’s a new Developer Portal. This new portal is available at a brand new subdomain of...
Windows Terminal 1.9 – now with QUAKE MODE!
There’s a new version of Windows Terminal out in preview. Version 1.9 improves on the previous version from last month. There are a number of new features, but...
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.
My book on building applications for Microsoft Teams has everything you need to get started.
