Weekly Update 27 December 2020 – Picking the Best Bits of 2020
For the final update of 2020 I look back and pick out the best of previous Weekly Updates: the technology announcements I thought were most interesting, the posts...
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Weekly Update 20 December 2020: BF Composer 1.3, 80+ Teams Developer Samples, GA Graph Toolkit 2.0, Pop Out Apps in Teams!, SharePoint + Teams
This week: Bot Framework Compose 1.3.0 released, with features to make you more productive building bots Microsoft 365âs PnP Team have collated over 80 Microsoft...
Microsoft 365’s PnP Team have collated over 80 Microsoft Teams Developer Samples!
The Microsoft 365 Patterns & Practices (PnP) Team is a virtual team of Microsoft employees and community members focused on helping the community make the best...
Bot Framework Compose 1.3.0 released, with features to make you more productive building bots
The latest release of Bot Framework Composer is now available and brings a number of exciting new features. In fact, the December release of 1.3.0 is packed full: with...
Weekly Update 11 December 2020 – Create your own Family Video Room with ACS, New Graph calls to get ALL user chat
This week: How to: Create your own Family Video Room using Azure Communication Services without writing any code (if you donât want to) New in Microsoft Graph: API...
New in Microsoft Graph: API calls to get EVERYTHING a user sent in Chat, All Chats in Channels, and support for Apps in Chat
It’s been a busy week for adding new Microsoft Teams functionality to Microsoft Graph, and also for graduating beta functionality to 1.0. Here’s a roundup of...
How to: Create your own Family Video Room using Azure Communication Services without writing any code (if you don’t want to)
Introduction If we’ve learned one thing in 2020 (and I sincerely hope we come out of this year learning more than one thing about ourselves), it’s how to use...
Fixing a stuck Microsoft Teams “Loading Microsoft Teams” splash-screen
I had this problem on my laptop over the past few weeks. It took an unusually large amount of searching to find a good resolution, so I wanted to amplify the correct...
Weekly Update 4 December 2020: Build Teams Apps Together, Activity Feed API, Christmas Countdown, Apps in Meetings
This week: Join us to learn how to build Teams apps together! Announcing public preview of the Microsoft Teams Activity Feed API on Microsoft Graph How to: use OBS to...
How to: use OBS to create a Christmas Countdown and Snow Scene on your next video call
I was on a call this morning, and someone had a Christmas background. I’m not a HUGE fan of overt festivities (don’t get me wrong, I like it all, but...
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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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