Team template capabilities were introduced to Microsoft Teams in the second half of 2020. Team templates enable organizations to have a common structure and needed apps on newly created teams, which helps users to see the familiar structure and discover information and conversations they need. An organization can also include certain needed apps, like bots… READ MORE
In this post, I’ll explain the process of using Microsoft Graph as a login process to allow users who have a Microsoft 365 account to login to a Laravel application, upon logging in a new user account would be created. In order to use this you will need a Microsoft 365 account and to register… READ MORE
We had our ways to resize images in SharePoint, but the Microsoft Graph APIs seem more suitable In the past I used SharePoint api to render images in different resolutions and it looked like that. The resolution param controls the different size and @Stefan Bauer has a nice article how to change the image renditions… READ MORE
Lately, I’ve been looking at improving at understanding some of the challenges of developers when it comes to Microsoft Graph development, especially in the OneDrive and SharePoint space, including the SharePoint Framework. When we are looking at the simplicity that provides the SharePoint Framework when it comes to using the Microsoft Graph, it looks amazing,… READ MORE
Intro Today I’d like to show you how I’ve was able to force reboot 197 devices to fix Windows Updates issue with just a few lines of code The issue Some users don’t have a habit to restart device from time to time… In our environment that behavior led to problem with installing Quality updates… READ MORE
In this post I’m going to show how to use a MSI with PowerShell on Azure Functions to generate oAuth access tokens for Graph API access. MSI Managed Service Identities (MSI) aka “Azure AD-managed identities” eliminate the need for developers having to manage credentials by providing an identity for the Azure resource in Azure AD… READ MORE
Microsoft Teams applications almost always need to call the Graph API, yet it’s not as easy as just calling a REST service. Most of the complexity has to do with getting an Azure AD access token, which is required on every Graph call to establish what, if anything, the caller is authorized to do. Getting… READ MORE
I am so proud of the Microsoft Graph Teams team 💛 It took a while, but the MS Graph Teams team released a new approach to manage Teams membership directly from a dedicated Graph teams API 😯 Background Currently, changes made to the team’s membership had to be made to the Microsoft 365 group backing… READ MORE
Introduction For a while, when using Graph API and PowerShell I have been using my own implementations of communicating with Graph API as outlined in the following posts: Getting started with Microsoft Graph and PowerShell Authenticating with Graph API Using a Device Code However, at Ignite 2019, it was announced there is a Graph API… READ MORE
This blog post is a step-by-step instruction on how to create a Bot from scratch using Microsoft Bot Framework v4, configure it to work with Microsoft Teams, and authenticate it to make Microsoft Graph requests.There are a lot of resources around bots, authentication in bots and Microsoft Teams (and I’ll list resources at the end… READ MORE
