Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast

In Episode 127 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with Michael Zlatkovsky and Bhargav Krishna about the new Script Lab Office add-in.

• SharePoint Patterns and Practices – April 2017 Release by the PnP team

• Script Lab, a Microsoft Garage Project

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I’m a developer on the Office Extensibility Team at Microsoft, working on the Office.js APIs and the tooling that surrounds them. I love API design work and feel fortunate to have played a part in the rebirth of the Office 2016 wave of Office.js APIs. In my spare time, I have been writing a book about Office.js key concepts, which has been a fun way of expanding upon my answers on StackOverflow. The book is available in e-book form at leanpub.com/buildingofficeaddins.

I have been a web developer at Microsoft since 2013. I currently work for Microsoft Teams and love cutting edge tech, learning new frameworks, tools, platforms etc. Outside of work, I am an avid gamer and you can find me online with @wrathofzombies on Xbox, GitHub, Twitter and Facebook.

Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.

A civil engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a developer evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.

In Episode 126 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates catch up with Andrew Salamatov on Outlook extensibility.

• Changes to Planner Task API by Office Dev

• Getting Started with Outlook add-ins

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Andrew is a senior program manager at Microsoft, having worked there for six years. At Microsoft, Andrew worked on the Exchange team his entire career. Starting on Exchange Web Services, Andrew designed notifications protocol and throttling. Later, he moved on to working on mail apps.

Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft Cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, a popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, Texas, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond, Washington. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.

A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .Net development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.

In Episode 125 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with Bill Bliss about Microsoft Teams extensibility.

• Validating your Office add-in manifest just got easier—Introducing the Office add-in validator by the Office Dev team

• Microsoft Teams Developer docs

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Bill Bliss is a Partner Platform architect for Microsoft Teams, a founding member of the Microsoft Teams product. He focuses on the Microsoft Teams developer platform and its integration with Bot Framework. He rejoined Microsoft in late 2013, after a nearly 10-year absence, to work on the iOS and Android versions of the MSN applications (News, Sports, Finance, Food & Drink, and Health & Fitness). He also worked on the DMX startup group (the predecessor of the Microsoft Teams effort) and was the PM architect for MSN. Immediately before rejoining Microsoft, he was VP of Product Management in VMware’s End-User Computing (EUC) Division, responsible for product management of Horizon Application Manager and the core Horizon platform. Bill joined VMware in 2011 after serving as VP and GM of Myspace, Inc.’s Search and Recommendations team, where his team built three new service platforms. He also he served as the business owner for News Corp.’s $900M advertising contract with Google. He’s been a part of two start-ups: Gomez, Inc. (now a division of Compuware), where he was VP of Emerging Technologies, and Klir Technologies, where he was CTO. Before Klir, he was an SVP at Expedia, Inc., responsible for Expedia.com and Hotels.com product management, product roadmap, and business analytics. Prior to Expedia, Bill worked over 16 years at Microsoft in a variety of senior technology and management roles from 1987 to 2003. As general manager of the Natural User Interface group, he worked on advanced search and user interface technology for Windows, building on his experience as general manager of MSN Search. Under his tenure, MSN Search launched in 1998; by 2002 it had grown to over 100 million queries per day, more than $100M in annual revenue, and 34 international markets in 13 languages. Prior to MSN Search, he was a founding member of the team that designed and built the first two versions of Microsoft Outlook, and holds nine U.S. patents related to Microsoft Outlook. He earned a BS in Computer Science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, Texas, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.

A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.

In Episode 124 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates discuss the resources available for getting started with Office 365 Development.

• SharePoint PnP webcast—what is the SharePoint PnP JavaScript core library? by  the PnP team

• Modern JavaScript for ancient web developers

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Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.

A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.

In episode 123 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk to Jakob Nielsen about the Excel Bot.

• Office Developer Program. NEW value, FREE perks! by the Office Dev team

• Excel Bot GitHub Repo

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Jakob Nielsen is a principal designer for the Microsoft Office team working on Excel and Office for professional developers and makers. In his 20+ years at Microsoft, he has worked with enterprise customers and partners in Microsoft Consulting Services and on the Dynamics and SharePoint products.

Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.

A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.

In episode 122 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates to Jeff Sakowicz about new Microsoft Graph features such as webhooks, delta queries and extensions.

• Microsoft Teams rolls out to Office 365 customers worldwide by Kirk Koenigsbauer

• Microsoft Graph Documentation

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Jeff Sakowicz is a program manager on the Microsoft Graph API team within the Cloud and Enterprise division in Redmond. His focus is on various platform capabilities like Delta Query, Webhooks, Hybrid, and the consent and permissions framework along with various Identity/Directory APIs. In his career at Microsoft, he has had a number of roles in the identity, collaboration and cloud productivity spaces. Before working on Microsoft Graph Jeff was on the Azure Active Directory PM team and previous to that he was a Support Escalation Engineer on the Cloud Identity team in Charlotte, NC.

Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.

A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.

In episode 121 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates are joined by Richard Moe, the Developer Community Program Manager for Microsoft Teams to discuss the launch of Microsoft Teams and the developer story with it.

• Microsoft’s Slack competitor, Teams, to be generally available March 14 by Mary Jo Foley

• Microsoft Teams Developer Documentation

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Richard heads up the Microsoft Teams Extensibility developer community, where he helps champion and support partners building to extend Microsoft Teams via rich Tabs and Bots. His route to this role took a circuitous path, most recently as a Evangelist on DX supporting ISVs and before that helping launch the Microsoft Studios game portfolio launch on Windows. In fact, the majority of his career has been in the games industry, from Facebook to mobile games, as engineer, designer and everything in between.

Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.

A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.