Elaine is an engineer at Microsoft, passionate about helping people use leading edge technology to solve business problems. She enjoys sharing her passion at local meetups, domestic and international technical conferences.

She also does incredible work as a 2020 Superstar of STEM and an investor and activator at SheEO.

We were lucky to have on our show discussing her work as a mentor as well as an educator. We also had fun doing a quick rapid fire round withe extremely nerdy questions. Intrigued? Have a listen and enjoy this episode.

Rabia gives us an overview of the latest in Microsoft Teams app development using Microsoft Teams Toolkit. Today, the toolkit covers capabilities like tabs, bots, and messaging extensions. Find out all resources, tools, guides and production ready app templates in the link below.

• https://aka.ms/teams-doco

Quick tips

Speaking of Teams, we discussed the options available to debug network activity in Teams. Below are the three ways you can analyse Teams network and debug logs:

Check the local log file locations

• macOS: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams
• Windows: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams

Install Fiddler Everywhere

Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, Telerik’s Fiddler Everywhere can intercept your machine’s network traffic, to analyse each individual request.

Use the Ctrl-Shift-Alt-1 keystroke

On Windows, pressing Ctrl-Shift-Alt-1 will produce a series of log files in your Teams Downloads folder. The equivalent keystroke on macOS is Ctrl-Shift-Option 1. Note that this only works in some parts of the Teams UI.

John Liu, MVP, founder @ Flow Studio App, joins us to discuss the Power Platform, and Microsoft Flow platforms. We talk broadly about the story behind Power Automate, and the need to migrate legacy SharePoint 2010 Workflows over to the Power platform.

Cameron Dwyer, MVP, and CTO of One Place Solutions, joins us to discuss Office Add-ins. We talk about the history of Add-in development, the changes in technology from client-side to cloud-first, and the relevance of Add-ins for user-centric solution design.

Conference season is upon us, and with many of the large events online, Cameron takes us through his upcoming events including:

• Microsoft Ignite 2020 - Table talk: How do Security professionals sleep at night
• Australian / New Zealand Global Developer Bootcamps
• European SharePoint and Azure Conference

Mark Powney and Rabia Williams discuss developing for the Microsoft 365 cloud.

Today’s episode looks in to the concept of web components, what they are, and how you might find them useful for your next project.

We also discuss some of ideas raised in Microsoft’s user voice community sites, including:

• Allow us to develop custom modern forms with custom edit experience
• SPFx Extensions: Application Customizer - Additional Placeholders Requested
• SPFx Key/Value Pair Properties that support Read/Write
• and Microsoft Teams - Add the /me command as Skype or the old IRC

Subscribe to the podcast if you want to keep yourself up to date with cloud development topics like SPFx, Microsoft Teams development, Azure, PowerApps and PowerAutomate.

Two Microsoft 365 developers Mark Powney and Rabia Williams from Australia discuss the open source PnP Search Web Parts project. They go in to detail - how the project benefits the community - for developers, consultants, and other professionals designing search-based solutions for various Microsoft 365 work loads.

Two Microsoft365 developers Mark Powney and Rabia Williams from Australia come together on the first episode of their new podcast 365 days of cloud, where they talk about Azure Static Web Apps in deep and then look into the recent news and announcements in the Microsoft 365 world that has got them excited. Subscribe to the podcast if you want to keep yourself up to date with cloud development topics like SPFx, Microsoft Teams development, Azure, PowerApps and PowerAutomate.