34 New Microsoft Teams features estimated for June
Coming soon after the Microsoft Teams roadmap was updated to reflect progress to date and future plans for the next few quarters, the Office 365 Roadmap was just...
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Weekly Update 27 April 2018 – Debug Teams apps locally with ngrok, GDPR, SwitchBot and a new Office 365 Endpoint Webservice
This week: Run your app in Teams, but debug locally using ngrok: hereâs how General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Microsoft looks to bots to make employees more...
Run your app in Teams, but debug locally using ngrok: here’s how
If you’ve done any Teams development, Bot Framework development, or any development that involves writing code that’s ultimately executed elsewhere then...
Writing Smarter Bots: adding AI-level natural language processing of text entities
Yesterday, I was doing some work writing a new Teams bot (details out soon). I needed to parse a fuzzy, natural language date time string, for example “in 3 days...
Weekly Update 21 April 2018 – Some fascinating data about how we collaborate, tools for .Net devs, and more on the PWA takeover
This week I downed my gardening tools and recorded the Weekly Update outside, still covered in clippings! New survey explores the changing landscape of teamwork Skype...
Weekly Update 15 April 2018 – Lync 2013 Software Development Kit moving to Extended Support: what does this mean for developers and should we worry?
This week I’m concentrating purely on the news around the Lync 2013 SDK moving from Mainstream to Extended Support, what that means for developers, looking back...
Microsoft Lync 2013 Software Development Kit moving from Mainstream Support to Extended Support April 20 – my thoughts
There are some interesting support milestones this month from Microsoft Support. On April 10th, Microsoft Lync 2013, Microsoft Lync Phone Edition, Microsoft...
Weekly Update 6 April 2018 – with a warning for Bot Framework State Service users, a cool Events template for Bots, faster Visual Studio, and another warning (for Skype for Business Online users)
This week: Are you still using Microsoft Bot Framework State Service? You need to read this and act today! EventsDialog by James Mann Load solutions faster with Visual...
Are you still using Microsoft Bot Framework State Service? You need to read this and act today!
If you’re still using the Microsoft Bot Framework State Service then hopefully you already know that it’s been depreciated, since December 2017. Now, in a...
Building a Killer Home Wi-Fi Solution with Ubiquiti UniFi : Part 2
Introduction This is a post about home Wi-Fi. Specifically, my home Wi-Fi. About a year ago I moved house. Ever since then Iâve wanted to up my game when it came to...
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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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