Friday Five: Visual Studio, Power Apps Advice!

by Contributed | Apr 30, 2021 | Technology

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Let’s Blast This Summer With Visual Studio 2022

Syed Shanu is a Microsoft MVP, a two-time C# MVP and two-time Code project MVP. Syed is also an author, blogger and speaker. He’s from Madurai, India, and works as Technical Lead in South Korea. With more than 10 Years of experience with Microsoft technologies, Syed is an active person in the community and always happy to share his knowledge on topics related to ASP.NET , MVC, ASP.NET Core, Web API, SQL Server, UWP, Azure, among others. You can see his contributions to MSDN and TechNet Wiki here. Follow him on Twitter @syedshanu3.   

How to change Azure Public IP SKU upgrade Basic to Standard

Robert Smit is a EMEA Cloud Solution Architect at Insight.de and is a current Microsoft MVP Cloud and Datacenter as of 2009. Robert has over 20 years experience in IT with experience in the educational, health-care and finance industries. Robert’s past IT experience in the trenches of IT gives him the knowledge and insight that allows him to communicate effectively with IT professionals. Follow him on Twitter at @clusterMVP

Creating a team and channel aware Power Apps

Vesku Nopanen is a Principal Consultant in Office 365 and Modern Work and passionate about Microsoft Teams. He helps and coaches customers to find benefits and value when adopting new tools, methods, ways or working and practices into daily work-life equation. He focuses especially on Microsoft Teams and how it can change organizations’ work. He lives in Turku, Finland. Follow him on Twitter: @Vesanopanen

Teams Real Simple with Pictures: Retention Policies on Private Channels

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.

Making Windows Terminal look awesome with oh-my-posh

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

Microsoft 365 Developer Community Call recording – 29th of April, 2021

by Contributed | Apr 30, 2021 | Technology

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Recording of the Microsoft 365 – General M365 development Special Interest Group (SIG) community call from April 29, 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.

Announcing the release of SharePoint Framework v1.12.1, check out the new Microsoft 365 Extensibility look book gallery, visit the Microsoft Teams samples gallery to get started with Microsoft Teams development, please complete the Microsoft 365 developer community survey, and register now for May trainings on Sharing-is-caring.  Open-source project activity is focused on prepping for May releases.   

Open-source project status:

Additionally, one new Teams sample delivered.  The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen.  Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call.

Actions:  

• Last week to complete the Microsoft 365 Developer Community Survey – https://aka.ms/m365pnp/survey


• Try the public beta of SPFx v1.12.1. 


• Reserve date – SharePoint Monthly community call – 11^th of May 8 AM PDT | https://aka.ms/sp-call


• Register for Sharing is Caring Events:
  
  
  
  • First Time Contributor Session – May 24^th (EMEA, APAC & US friendly times available)
  
  
  • Community Docs Session – April
  
  
  • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – May 13^th  
  
  
  • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – May 20^th
  
  
  • AMA (Ask Me Anything) – Power Platform Samples – May 5^th
  
  
  • AMA (Ask Me Anything) – Tech Community – May 11^th
  
  
  • First Time Presenter – May 25^th
  
  
  • More than Code with VS Code – May 27^th  
  
  
  • Maturity Model Practitioners – May 18^th
  
  
  • PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session – Register
  
  
  
  


• 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)

• Document manager sample app using messaging – Sathya Raveendran, Varaprasa…

Thank you for being part of the community and for helping others to succeed.  You are awesome!

Demos delivered in this session

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  Delegated and application permissions in the Microsoft Identity Platform – demystifies the identity model with a clearly delivered 100 level overview of app permissions – operation and terminology, i.e., delegation, requests, grants, consent, tokens, etc.    How app/services permission delegation works, how tokens are aligned to a machine or to a person. Is the app or person authorized to access resources?  How and when machines dynamically/statically request permissions and more.

  
  


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  Localization check inside SharePoint Framework projects – VS Code extension to increase your productivity – a VS Code and Node.js extension that keeps resources in sync by making sure all localization labels inside SharePoint Framework project files across organization are consistent.   The extension is automatically activated for your SPFx solutions and checks, whether localization resource files (en-us.js, nl-nl.js, etc.) follow the pattern, defined in the corresponding strings.d.ts. Prevents accidental or refactoring errors in SPFx solutions.

  
  


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  Using field lookups with list formatting – Field Type = “Lookup.”  Lookups get values from a list and have limited formatting options.  Of horse, this limitation does not deter Chris from showing crazy, crazier, craziest formatting options for lookups.   Approach = format the lookup column into which content from the list will flow.  Use advanced forEach property.   In this demo, Chris shows formatting capabilities available in a referenced sample.   

  
  

   

  
  

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

Topics covered in this call

• PnP .NET library updates – Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365bert – 6:59


• PnP PowerShell updates – Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365bert – 8:43


• yo Teams updates – Wictor Wilén (Avanade) | @wictor – 9:53


• Microsoft Graph Toolkit updates – Beth Pan (Microsoft) | @beth_panx – 11:10


• Microsoft Teams Samples – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen – 12:33


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  Demo:  Delegated and application permissions in the Microsoft Identity Platform – Philippe Signoret (Microsoft) | @psignoret – 14:48

  
  


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  Demo:  Localization check inside SharePoint Framework projects – VS Code extension to increase your productivity – Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq) | @sergeev_srg – 30:22

  
  


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  Demo:  Using field lookups with list formatting – Chris Kent (DMI) | @theChrisKent – 42:48 

  
  

Resources:

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

• Slides used in this ​community call


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  Blog – SPFx Check Locale – a nice option to check your localization consistency across SharePoint Framework solution 

  
  


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  VS Code Extension – SPFx Check Locale

  
  


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  Repo – Checks that your localization files match the schema inside mystrings.d.ts 

  
  


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  Repo – Multi-lookup fields and projected fields 

  
  


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  Demos – Other formatting demos from Chris 

  
  


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  Documentation – Create list relationships by using unique and lookup columns 

  
  


• PnP Weekly – Episode 124 with guest MVP from Sympraxis Consulting Emily Mancini |@EEMancini | video | podcast


• Microsoft 365 Extensibility look book gallery | aka.ms/m365/extensibility


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

General resources:

• Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub | aka.ms/m365pnp/community 


• Microsoft Graph Toolkit in Microsoft Learn | http://aka.ms/learn-mgt


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


• 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 – May 4^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/microsoftgraphcall


• SharePoint Framework call – May 6^th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call


• SharePoint monthly call – May 11^th at 8:00am PDT | https://aka.ms/sp-call


• Office add-in monthly call – May 12^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall


• M365 General Dev call – May 13^th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig


• Adaptive Cards monthly call – May 13^th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall


• Microsoft Teams monthly call – May 18^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/microsoftteamscommunitycall


• Power Apps monthly call – May 19^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall


• Microsoft Identity Platform – May 20^th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar 

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 – 30th of April 2021

Power Platform Fundamentals and next steps in your curriculum development

by Contributed | Apr 30, 2021 | Technology

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Millions of users are looking to you, the developers, to build engaging and unique application experiences by leveraging the wealth of data and intelligence made accessible through Microsoft technologies. If you’re a educator, student, business user, or beginning technical professional, this certification can accelerate your progress and give your career a boost, as you use your Microsoft skills to improve your team’s productivity.

No experience is necessary to train for any of the fundamentals, basic familiarity with computer technology, data analytics, cloud computing, and the internet. Think of a fundamentals certification as the first step in growing your skill set and advancing to other certifications.

Azure Course in a Box Resources

Curriculum resources 

• MSLearn for Educators Program

•Microsoft Learn Self-Study

LMS Integration

•MSLearn Catalog API

•MSLearn LTI Application

Hands on Learning 

•Microsoft Learn

•Azure for Students

•Microsoft Students Ambassadors

•Azure Devtools for Teaching

•Azure Lab Services (PAID)

•Github for EDU (PAID)

•LinkedInLearning (PAID)

Power Platform Fundamentals

Power Platform Fundamentals PL-900
Power Platform Fundamentals Learning Pathway Microsoft Learn

Ready for more advanced development 

If you feel your ready to take on the next challenge I would suggest you watch the session on demand Learn Together: Building Apps with Microsoft Graph | Channel 9 (msdn.com)

The Session covers:

• Why you should consider building apps with Microsoft Graph


• How to get started building apps using the Microsoft Graph Toolkit 


• What the top 5 features are to make your application stand out 

Quickly get started learning how to build these apps and stick around to connect with your developer community! 

• Graph Learn Challenge: aka.ms/challenge-graph
  
  
  
  • Enter the challenge for a chance to win prizes!
  
  
  • Complete learn modules and test your knowledge about Microsoft Graph
  
  
  
  


• Microsoft Graph docs: aka.ms/docs-graph
  
  
  
  • Overview documentation for Microsoft Graph with tutorials, reference docs, and more information to get started building apps with Graph
  
  
  
  


• Microsoft Graph Fundamentals learning path: aka.ms/learn-graph
  
  
  
  • New to Graph? Start your dev journey with an introductory Learning Path.
  
  
  
  


• Microsoft Graph Toolkit module: aka.ms/learn-mgt
  
  
  
  • Love how east the toolkit makes things? Learn more on Learn!
  
  
  
  

Additional Resources 

• Global M365 Dev Meetup.com dedicated meetup group for microsoft365 developers online engagement and events


• M365 Dev YouTube channel watch the latest tips and tricks for m365 development 

AzUpdate: New Azure VMs, Azure Monitor Updates, Cost Management Updates and more

by Contributed | Apr 30, 2021 | Technology

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A lot of news surrounding Azure Service updates this week. News the team will be covering includes Azure Monitor – Stateful and 1 minute frequency Log Alerts, New Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now in public preview, Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – April 2021, Microsoft acquires Kinvolk to accelerate container-optimized innovation and the Microsoft Learn module of the week.

Stateful and 1-miute frequency Log Alerts in Azure Monitor

Log alerts, one of the alert types that are supported in Azure Monitor, allow users to use a log analytics query to evaluate resources logs every set frequency followed by sharing an alert based on the results. Rules can trigger one or more actions using action groups. Two of the most requests features of log alerts are now available in public preview:
 

• Stateful log alerts – With this feature enabled, fired alerts should automatically resolve once the condition is no longer met. This is like the default behavior in metric alerts.


• 1-minute Frequency – With this feature enabled, the alert query will be evaluated every minute to check the condition. Reducing the overall time to fire of a log alert.

There are currently no additional charges for 1-minute log alerts while in preview. Pricing for features that are in preview will be announced in the future and a notice provided prior to start of billing. Using 1-minute frequency log alerts after the notice period, will be billed at the applicable rate. Stateful log alerts is planned to not incur additional charge when GA.
 

Visit log alerts in Azure Monitor to learn more.

New Azure VMs for general purpose & memory intensive workloads in public preview

The new in preview Dv5, Dsv5, Ddv5, Ddsv5, and Ev5, Edv5 series Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) are based on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. This custom processor can reach an all-core Turbo clock speed of up to 3.5GHz and features Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) and Intel® Deep Learning Boost. These new offerings deliver a better value proposition for general-purpose, and memory intensive workloads compared to the prior generation (e.g., increased scalability and an upgraded CPU class) including better price to performance.

Read the entire announcement here: Upgrade your infrastructure with the latest Dv5/Ev5 Azure VMs in preview
 

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates for April 2021

No organization wants a surprise when it comes to their cloud compute bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management and Billing can help.

 
Microsoft is always looking for ways to learn more about how Azure Cost Management and Billing can help better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less. Here are a few of the latest improvements and updates based on your feedback:
 

• Get retail prices in non-USD currencies.


• New date picker in the cost analysis preview.


• What’s new in Cost Management Labs.


• Deploy key design principles with enterprise-scale architecture.


• Empowering operators on their cloud migration journey.


• New ways to save money with Azure.


• New videos and learning opportunities.


• Documentation updates.

Microsoft acquires Kinvolk to accelerate container-optimized innovation

Microsoft is excited to bring the expertise of the Kinvolk team to Azure and having them become key contributors to the engineering development of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Arc, and future projects that will expand Azure’s hybrid container platform capabilities and increase Microsoft’s upstream open source contributions in the Kubernetes and container space.
 
Microsoft is also committed to maintaining and building upon Kinvolk’s open source culture. The Kinvolk team will continue to remain active in their existing open source projects and will be essential to driving further collaboration between Azure engineering teams and the larger open source container community.

Further information can be found here: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk

Community Events

• Patch and Switch – It has been a fortnight and Patch and Switch are back to share the stories they have amassed over the past two weeks.


• Hello World – Special guests, content challenges, upcoming events, and daily updates


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  Microsoft Australia Security Skills Bootcamp (free, online) 17-21 May  

  
  

MS Learn Module of the Week

Use Azure Lighthouse with your managed service business

Build strategies around security and compliance that enable you to authenticate and authorize your users, handle sensitive information, and enforce proper governance.
 

Modules include:

• Explore what Azure Lighthouse is


• Understand the features of Azure Lighthouse


• See how to use Azure Lighthouse for cross tenant management


• See how to use Azure Resource Manager templates


• Set up Security Center with Alerting


• Create a managed service offer on the Azure Marketplace

Learn more here: Use Azure Lighthouse with your managed service business

Let us know in the comments below if there are any news items you would like to see covered in the next show. Be sure to catch the next AzUpdate episode and join us in the live chat.