Adelaide Office 365 User Group November 2021 Meeting

The agenda for next month’s activities are:

• 3:00 PM – Login, Arrive, Relax, General chit-chat and networking!

• 3:15 PM – Welcome, Introductions, Australian Computer Society & Microsoft Ignite / Office 365 Recap – Daniel Brown

• 3:30 PM – Connect and engage people with Viva Connections, SharePoint news and Yammer communities – Dan Holme (MSFT)

To create an effective, hybrid workplace, organizations must build culture, align people, foster wellbeing, and drive innovative thinking by connecting and engaging people from wherever they work. Learn how Microsoft Viva Connections leverages your investments in Microsoft 365 to deliver an inclusive employee experience integrated into Microsoft Teams. This session will explore Viva Connections across web, desktop, and mobile, and the foundational capabilities of your SharePoint home site and news, and the conversations and announcements in your Yammer communities.

With a career spanning more than 25 years, Dan Holme, a graduate of Yale and Thunderbird, has earned a reputation as one of the world’s most respected consultants, authors, thought leaders, and experts on Microsoft technologies. Dan currently leads the product team innovating employee engagement capabilities integrating Yammer, Outlook, and Microsoft Teams. Previously, he led product marketing teams that launched new and reimagined products including SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, Microsoft Stream, SharePoint Syntex and Project Cortex. Dan brings a customer-centric perspective from two decades consulting Fortune 500 organizations, during which time he served as the Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC for the broadcast of the Olympics in Rio, Sochi, London, Vancouver, Beijing and Torino. Follow Dan to learn more.

• 4:15 PM – Building apps with the Microsoft Graph Toolkit - Cameron Dwyer (MVP)

The Microsoft Graph Toolkit is allowing Graph powered apps to be created incredibly quickly. The toolkit is the latest and most abstracted of the development technologies when working with Graph data. This session will take you on a lap of what the Graph Toolkit is, the components it contains, and how to use them. Importantly we will discuss the Graph Toolkit in context of the Graph SDK and Graph API to gain a clear understanding of when to use the Graph Toolkit and what it uniquely offers. Leave this session knowing what the Microsoft Graph is and how to write your first Graph powered web app using the Microsoft Graph Toolkit. Basic knowledge of HTML is all that's required to get the most from this session.

• WHAT WILL PARTICIPANTS LEARN/GAIN/DISCOVER IF THEY ATTEND?

• Learn how to use Graph data in web applications faster than ever before.

• Learn how to handle user login, authentication, and authorization in 3 lines of code!

• Learn how (and when) to combine the Graph Toolkit and Graph SDK in a single application

Cameron is the Chief Technology Officer at OnePlace Solution overseeing an award-winning Microsoft 365 product portfolio. More than 20 years’ experience as a developer solving complex challenges and running SaaS offerings at global scale. Combining strong business understanding and acumen with deep product knowledge and thought leadership around Microsoft 365. He has been awarded the title of Microsoft MVP in Office Development since 2017.

Who should attend? Developers, Solution Architects, Development Team Leads or anyone who likes to tinker with low-code technology.

• 5:15 PM – Q & A

• 5:30 PM – Meeting End/Close