SelectedTech Podcast

In this episode Thommy talks us through some best practices for your Development or Demo tenant. He shares his tips to make sure your development tenant stays clean and healthy. Including demo's on how to make sure you have demo content and can provide cool demos!

Full show notes at: https://www.selectedtech.show/12tips-tricks-officedevtenant

The Bot Framework Composer is a new tool from Microsoft helping developers in creating bots with the help of a graphical interface. So tune in to see us creating a Chuck Norris joke bot within minutes.

Full show notes at: https://www.selectedtech.show/11the-botframework-composer/

In Episode 10 Stephan, Appie and Rick talk about the FAQ Plus App Template from Microsoft. According to the Git repository the bot template is about: “FAQ Plus bot is a friendly Q&A bot that brings a human in the loop when it is unable to help.”

Full show notes at:

https://www.selectedtech.show/10deploying-the-faq-plus-app/

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Episode 9 is all about using Hugo and Azure Static websites. Appie walks us through how he used Hugo for his own blog and how we use it here for serving this website. Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. It’s written in Go (aka Golang) and developed by bep, spf13 and friends. We talk about how Hugo is used to create a static website on your local machine and how to test it during the content creation process. The source of the site is then commited to a Github repository. From there Azure Pipelines take over to publish the generated html file to an Azure Static webiste, et voila, new content is published on our page.

Shownotes of episode 9: https://www.selectedtech.show/09building-an-azure-static-website/

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In episode 8 of our SelectedTech podcast/webinar series, Stephan talks on how he created a new version of the Bot Framework webpart that is available in [Code samples and developer content targeted towards SharePoint Framework client-side web parts.](https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-fx-webparts/tree/master/samples/react-bot-framework). This webpart is built in React and enables you to have the bot framework chat window in a modern SharePoint Page

In episode 7 of our SelectedTech podcast/webinar series, we try to add secured SharePoint data as a data source to our knowledge base. It takes some additional steps then described in the Microsoft documentation but we finally get it working.

Shownotes of episode 7

Add a secured SharePoint data source to your knowledge base

Updates from SelectedTech

We are happy to announce that there are new options to follow our podcast! You can reach us now on Facebook on Twitter. Or you can follow our podcast at [http://podcast.selectedtech.show/]http://podcast.selectedtech.show/ and sync it with Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Overcast and some other services.

In episode 6 of our SelectedTech podcast/webinar series, Albert-Jan introduces his concept of updating the QnAMaker knowledge base with data from SharePoint. To make this as easy as possible he used Microsoft Flow already a couple of times at customer demonstrate the use case of bots updated that way. Talking about Flow at this particular time means we also spend some minutes on the latest license news for PowerApps and Flow. 

Jussi's Post on Flow Licensing and the upcoming Licensing change: https://jussiroine.com/2019/01/the-comprehensive-licensing-guide-to-microsoft-flow-and-powerapps/
 
 
Microsoft Cloud Show 312: http://www.microsoftcloudshow.com/podcast/Episodes/312-inspire-tidbits-and-big-cloud-wins
 
Rob Windsor's Blog: 
https://www.paitgroup.com/blog/an-office-365-users-guide-to-powerapps-and-flow-licensing-october-2019-edition
 
Difference between PowerApps inside of Office365 and outside
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/pricing-billing-skus & https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-licensing-options-for-powerapps-and-flow/ 

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The SelectedTech Webinar 005 is a special episode. We got a chance to catch up with Anna Chu from Microsoft. We talked about the upcoming Ignite conference and why you should be in Orlando in November.

At Ignite you learn innovative ways to build solutions and migrate and manage your infrastructure. Connect with over 25,000 individuals focused on software development, security, architecture, and IT. Explore new hands-on experiences that will help you innovate in areas such as security, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure and development.

Interesting for us was that Anna right in the beginning of the interview made a statement that this year the developer community is back in the focus of the Ignite program team. Over the last couple of years, it seemed like Ignite was more an IT Pro targeted kind of event. Looking forward to seeing more dev content on the agenda.

Anna is the Community Lead for Ignite and Ignite The Tour at Microsoft. If you need guidance or a few hints on how to submit content for Ignite this year, you may find some insights between the lines in the interview as well.

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The SelectedTech Podcast 004 is about how to use Postman to talk to the QnA maker API. Postman streamlines the development process and captures a single source of truth about your APIs while also simplifying collaboration across your teams and organisations.

QnA Maker is a cloud-based API service that creates a conversational, question and answer layer over your data. QnA Maker enables you to create a knowledge-base(KB) from your semi-structured content such as Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) URLs, product manuals, support documents and custom questions and answers. The QnA Maker service answers your users’ natural language questions by matching it with the best possible answer from the QnAs in your Knowledge base.

QnA Maker offers a REST API that allows you to automate operations with your Knowledge base. In order to use this API in Postman, Stephan created a collection you can import in your own tooling. Check out his blog post to get all the details and links.

If you already work with Postman here two additional resources from the Microsoft Graph Developer Blog. First, Day 13 from the 30 DaysMSGraph series, “Postman to make Microsoft Graph calls”. This blog post explains how to configure your environment to connect to Microsoft Graph with one click. And as a second, “Announcing Microsoft Graph Postman Collections” again from the Graph Developer Blog written by Jeremy Thake.

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 The SelectedTech Podcast 003 about using CI/CD with your bot and Azure DevOps is now available. We recorded the session on July 4th 2019. Check it out and leave a comment or send a tweet or message if you have any questions.

In this episode Stephan demos how to create a build and release pipeline within Azure DevOps. We discuss the two different configurations for build and release and talk about how to reuse your config for different target systems. The goal is to switch your target environment with Azure DevOps and to be able to deploy your bot to different Azure tenants just by clicking through the release pipeline.

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