This blog highlights all the other new features we\u2019ve delivered \u2013 features that, when combined with our AI and Copilot capabilities, promise to make the Microsoft 365 platform an even more powerful place to build a new generation of collaborative apps. So here it is, everything else that we\u2019re delivering for Teams apps and the Microsoft 365 platform at Build 2023!<\/p>\n
Developer experience<\/h2>\n
We have worked hard to make Teams Toolkit<\/strong> the \u201cgolden path\u201d for developers building collaborative apps and soon, plugins for the Microsoft 365 Copilot. We\u2019re excited that Teams Toolkit v5 is now Generally Available for Visual Studio Code. Updates include built-in tunneling for debugging your bots, support for building Outlook add-ins, SharePoint Framework, and samples that run in GitHub Codespaces. To learn more, read the full blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition to the Teams Toolkit, we\u2019ve updated the Microsoft Graph Toolkit<\/strong><\/a> and made updates to our .NET<\/strong><\/a> and Go<\/strong><\/a> SDKs. We\u2019re happy to announce that Microsoft Kiota<\/strong><\/a>, our code generator for REST HTTP APIs described by OpenAPI, is now available as an extension for Visual Studio Code. Finally, we\u2019re introducing the Microsoft Graph developer proxy<\/strong><\/a> designed to help developers build resilient and performant apps. Keep an eye out for even more updates coming soon.<\/p>\n In the dev portal, we are expanding the set of actionable app insights<\/strong> available to developers including app usage and performance analytics to help you fine-tune users\u2019 engagement with your app. We have also made a number of enhancements <\/strong>to the app management process so that it\u2019s easier to import, update and enhance apps, as well as test and validate them prior to publication.<\/p>\n For developers interested in helping us shape the future of new products, we’re announcing the launch of the Microsoft 365 Developer Technology Adoption Program<\/strong> (TAP).\u00a0 The Microsoft 365 Developer TAP is an evolution of the Microsoft Graph TAP, which has existed for the past five years as an invite-only program.\u00a0Participants get an early view into our roadmap and help us assess and validate upcoming features and enhancements before they’re generally available. It\u2019s also great way to engage directly with Microsoft 365 product groups.\u00a0To learn more about how you can participate, follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n Finally, if you find yourself intrigued by the announcements at Build- including the ones further down in this blog \u2013 we\u2019<\/span>re<\/span> running a <\/span><\/span>global Teams <\/span>hackathon<\/span><\/span><\/a> from<\/span> June<\/span> 1-15<\/span><\/span>. Now let\u2019s get to the rest of the news.<\/p>\n We\u2019re also continuing to extend specific Teams capabilities to other familiar Microsoft services like Outlook and the Microsoft 365 app.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Message extensions<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0are the starting point for plugin development and Copilot extensibility.\u00a0 And message extensions built with or upgraded to the Teams 2.0 JS SDK and 1.13 (or higher) manifest are now generally available in Outlook on web, Windows, and Android.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In addition, <\/span>personal tabs<\/span><\/b> built with these same tools are also generally available in Outlook and the Microsoft 365 app on web, Windows, and Android.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The result is that in addition to appearing in the Teams app store, new message extension and personal tab apps will start appearing contextually across the Outlook and Microsoft 365 app stores, significantly increasing their visibility and availability to hundreds of millions of Microsoft end-users.<\/span><\/p>\n Developers can now use the previously mentioned 1.13 manifest<\/strong> for Teams apps with Outlook add-ins. Instead of using the traditional XML manifest for Outlook add-ins, developers can now use or convert to the same JSON manifest that Teams apps use, or to consolidate your app\u2019s experiences into a single project. The new manifest streamlines manifest maintenance, app validation and publication. In time we\u2019ll add support for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps, so stay tuned for more updates.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve also got news about Adaptive Cards, which serve as the simple, powerful UX for Message Extensions and plugins for Copilot. For starters, we\u2019re pleased to announce the June 2023 public preview of Adaptive Card-based Loop components – <\/strong>portable pieces of content that stay in sync across Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams and Outlook. When schema.org <\/strong>\u2013 based <\/strong>link unfurling<\/strong><\/a> is enabled for your Adaptive Cards moves into general availability, even users who do not have your Message extension app installed can see a preview of its UX. It\u2019s a great way to increase awareness and adoption of your app. As a final note \u2013 Message extensions for DoD environments<\/strong> are now generally available.<\/p>\n We\u2019re excited to announce that the Live Share SDK<\/strong><\/a> is now generally available. With the Live Share SDK, developers can now transform Teams apps into collaborative multi-user experiences without writing any dedicated back-end code. With Live Share, your users can co-watch, co-create, and co-edit during meetings.<\/p>\n Avid is using Live Share to bring real-time collaboration for video editing in Teams meetings<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019re offering other refinements to the meeting experience, too.\u00a0 For example, there\u2019s a new event pipeline that allows developers to subscribe to real-time meeting events like users joining or leaving a meeting. We\u2019ve also exposed an <\/span>app icon indicator<\/span><\/b> so that developers can badge their app icon to nudge users when there\u2019s relevant activity during a meeting. The ability to <\/span>show your meeting tab experience to anonymous users<\/span><\/b> is also now generally available. Users can also <\/span>add Teams apps to meetings organized in Outlook, <\/span><\/b>making them available for attendees when joining on Teams.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Collaborative stage view<\/span><\/b><\/a>, now generally available, allows users to interact with rich shared content and chat with other collaborators in a new Teams window.\u00a0 And with the addition of <\/span>Share to Meeting<\/span><\/b>, you can bring your web app content directly to users through Adaptive Cards in chats or channels.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to Message Extensions, bots are front-and-center in our emerging AI story. We<\/span> a<\/span>re pleased to announce the <\/span>public <\/span>preview<\/span> of<\/span> a <\/span>new <\/span><\/span>Teams AI library<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>, available in <\/span><\/span>Teams<\/span> Toolkit<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>We built this<\/span> library from the ground up <\/span>with GPT-based common language models and user intent engines<\/span>. <\/span>As a result, b<\/span>uilding AI-powered Teams apps <\/span>is now <\/span>easier, more compliant, and consistently usable than ever before.<\/span> There\u2019s other bot news too<\/span>. Developer<\/span>s<\/span> can now <\/span><\/span>edit\/<\/span>delete<\/span> messages<\/span><\/span> in <\/span>user:bot<\/span> chats<\/span>, bots can now <\/span><\/span>send in-meeting notifications<\/span><\/span> to specific users, <\/span>and response to community feedback, <\/span>we\u2019re<\/span> offering <\/span><\/span>resource-specific consent for bots<\/span><\/span> \u2013 which will <\/span>allow apps to <\/span>forward<\/span> all messages to a bot.<\/span> A<\/span>nd as is the case with Message Extensions,<\/span> <\/span>bots<\/span> for DoD environments<\/span><\/span> are now generally available.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Making it easy for partners and customers to distribute and manage apps is core to ecosystem success. So, our app management and distribution capabilities continue to evolve and expand. We\u2019re pleased to announce that App Geo-Filtering<\/strong> is now generally available, enabling developers to target their apps at specific countries or regions through Partner Center.<\/p>\n We\u2019re also announcing the general availability of our SaaS License Tracking and Management<\/strong><\/a> capabilities in Teams Admin Center (TAC). We build these capabilities to help customers assign, use and track SaaS licenses for apps purchased through the Teams store, and to help ISVs offset the cost of developing their own license management and enforcement systems. We\u2019ve also enabled app auto-upgrade<\/strong><\/a> so that users only need to approve an update once to update an app in all their chats, channels, and meetings.<\/p>\n Finally, contextual app discovery<\/strong> is now generally available, meaning that users working in a Tab, Bot, and Message extension context find other available, similar apps. There\u2019s no additional work here for developers\u2019 apps to participate in this experience.<\/p>\n As we\u2019ve highlighted, building a Teams message <\/strong>extension<\/strong> or a<\/span> Microsoft Graph Connector<\/strong> is the first step towards participation in our Copilot extensibility story. We\u2019ve got a number of examples of partners who\u2019ve started taking that that step<\/span>, and whose <\/span>apps will <\/span>integrate with Copilot as the<\/span> service becomes available to their <\/span>customers<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0Here are some highlights:<\/span><\/p>\n Aisera<\/strong> is making task management in Teams easier by adding the ability to decipher and act on multiple tasks through natural language.<\/p>\n Box <\/strong>and DocuSign<\/strong> will use the power of Microsoft Graph connectors<\/strong> to help Teams users discover and learn about external content through AI and Copilot.<\/p>\n Decisions<\/strong> will empower meeting organizers and attendees in Teams to create topics and meeting content using natural language.<\/p>\n Moveworks <\/strong>is using message extensions<\/strong> to help users streamline workflows. Examples include the ability to search their Teams chats and insert them into emails or start a bot from within an email.<\/p>\n ServiceNow<\/strong> will help employees find answers in Teams and act on them quickly by leveraging message extension<\/strong> integration into ServiceNow\u2019s AI search.<\/p>\n Zoho: <\/strong>Zoho Desk leverages its message extension<\/strong> to integrate with Copilot, enabling desk agents to quickly triage customer issues, accelerate query resolution & enhance customer experience without leaving the flow of their work.<\/p>\n Zoho Desk’s message extension working with the Microsoft 365 Copilot<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n In addition to the great work, we\u2019re seeing from the partners listed above, we\u2019re also looking forward to seeing how new partnerships with companies like Adept <\/strong>will foster ecosystem innovation in new areas like action-generation AI models.<\/p>\n Today, we\u2019re happy to announce the private preview of Microsoft Syntex <\/strong>repository services, a faster way to build file and document focused apps.\u00a0 Syntex repository services make it easy for every developer, ISV, and enterprise, to include Microsoft 365 file and document capabilities in every app they build.\u00a0 The result is that your app can do critical things like audit file-level activity or run global e-discovery queries, while your customers can apply retention policies, use sensitivity labels, and more.<\/p>\n Syntex repository services are fully headless. There is no user experience layer, it is fully API driven using Microsoft Graph APIs. To learn more about Syntex repository services and find out how to join the private preview, read the full details on the Microsoft Tech Community<\/a> Blog.<\/p>\n We understand that Syntex users will often require custom at-scale analytics \u2013 to answer questions about topics like information oversharing or content capacity. So, we\u2019re pleased to announce that OneDrive and SharePoint datasets are now available in Microsoft Graph Data Connect for exactly this purpose. We even have new templates to help you get started. Public preview for these new datasets starts in July 2023.<\/p>\n We\u2019re pleased to announce that you can now bring all your Microsoft 365 data into Microsoft Fabric using Microsoft Graph Data Connect (MGDC). With this new feature, you can manage your Microsoft 365 data alongside your other data sources with a suite of analytical experiences that work together seamlessly to transform your data. We\u2019re also continuing to add new datasets to MGDC, including the OneDrive and SharePoint datasets mentioned in the Syntex section, above. The full list is here: Datasets, regions, and sinks supported by Microsoft Graph Data Connect<\/a>. We are also removing cross-geography data access limitations for tenants with multi-geo capabilities, and adding support for Azure-managed VNet integration Runtime through Mapping Data Flows in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics. And to enable additional security for data flow between Azure and Microsoft 365 services to the customer\u2019s designated storage account.<\/p>\n Teams Embedded Chat APIs <\/strong>are now generally available on Microsoft Graph. They\u2019re ideal for organizations building custom applications to connect with external users who don\u2019t use Teams. They offer chat controls, reduced latency, and scalability enhancements that ensure a smooth collaboration experience for all users.<\/p>\n Virtual Appointments APIs<\/strong><\/a> are also generally available on Microsoft Graph. These APIs help you programmatically create and manage Teams virtual appointments and enable external clients to join virtual appointments from desktop and mobile browsers without the need to download or install the Microsoft Teams application. Teams Premium<\/a> customers can configure custom lobby<\/a> experiences and access usage reports<\/a> for organizational analytics.<\/p>\n We are also excited to share that developers will soon be able to use Azure Communication Services for programmable and ad hoc access between a custom application and Microsoft Teams users.<\/strong> For example, Azure Communication Services call automation<\/a> APIs will enable user extensibility into Microsoft Teams<\/a> in preview next month, allowing users, like a customer service agent on a customer call to invite subject matter experts using Teams into their workflow for faster service resolution. In addition, Azure Communication Services interoperability into Microsoft Teams<\/a> will not just include customer and business connectivity for scheduled Teams meetings, but support for ad hoc calling. Meaning customers that request help or connection through a business\u2019 application or website can be routed directly in real-time to a Teams-based user, Teams call queue or a Teams auto attendant.<\/p>\n As we work to unify the Outlook experience into a single web codebase, we are offering a <\/span>public preview of the Outlook for Windows client<\/span><\/b>. Because it\u2019s web-based, the new client will not support VSTO and COM add-ins. To help you manage app migration we have a list of <\/span>critical scenarios<\/span><\/a> we support and are working to identify other legacy features we need to consider supporting as the code base consolidation continues.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019re releasing a new <\/span>Outlook Mailbox 1.13 JavaScript API<\/span><\/b><\/a> requirement set. We\u2019ve got a host of rich capabilities that allow you to attach sensitivity labels to further align your app\u2019s compliance with your users\u2019 information management and governance requirements Prepend-on-send allows you to prepend content on send \u2013 for example disclaimers \u2013 and delay email delivery times to help your users keep communications within working hours and across time zones.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nTeams platform capabilities<\/h2>\n
Message extensions and more<\/h2>\n
Meetings and collaboration<\/h2>\n
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App distribution and management<\/h2>\n
Teams partner app highlights<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nSyntex<\/h2>\n
Repository services<\/h2>\n
Datasets for Analytics<\/h2>\n
Microsoft Graph<\/h2>\n
Microsoft Graph Data Connect<\/h2>\n
APIs for connecting Teams users with external users<\/h2>\n
Outlook, Word, and Excel<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n