Microsoft 365 Community / Microsoft Teams App Templates

In this 11-minute Developer/Citizen Developer-focused demo, Kiran Thomas unveils new capabilities that enable Ask Away to work efficiently during meetings. Crowdsource questions for your next Q&A, collect questions live or in chat during meetings, upvote on questions and stack rank responses in real-time. During demo, create a session, ask/answer questions, end session, view asked/answered questions from other sessions presented in pick list. V2.0 is due to release in Q1 of 2021 calendar year. This PnP Community demo is taken from the General Microsoft 365 Development Special Interest Group (SIG) - Bi-weekly sync call recorded on February 4, 2021.

Demo Presenter: Kiran Thomas (Microsoft) | @NotKiran

Supporting document:
• Document: Ask Away | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/samples/app-templates#ask-away

Learn more:
• Learn more about the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community at: http://aka.ms/m365pnp
• Visit the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community YouTube channel: https://aka.ms/m365pnp-videos

In this 15-minute Site Admin focused demo, Nidhi Sharma shows a New Employee Onboarding (NEO) – a out-of-box solution based on customer input, and a collaboration between the SharePoint team’s new employee onboarding hub template in look book (including cost-effective content back-end and lists), and Microsoft Teams NEO app front-end. Onboarding is broken into a series of User Flows – that organize, remind, update, prompt, track, route, close tasks to efficiently deliver a structured and complete onboarding experience – day 1 to 90+.This PnP Community demo is taken from the General Microsoft 365 Development Special Interest Group (SIG) - Bi-weekly sync call recorded on October 15, 2020.

Demo Presenter: Nidhi Sharma (Microsoft) | @nidsonbirdie

Supporting materials:
• Documentation - App Templates for Microsoft Teams | https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/platform/samples/app-templates?WT.mc_id=m365-15744-cxa
• New employee onboarding Microsoft Teams app template in Github - https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-newemployeeonboarding
• Look book template - New Employee Onboarding Hub - Connect, Engage, Inform | https://lookbook.microsoft.com/details/75e60a32-9849-4ed4-b83e-b2b08983ad19?WT.mc_id=m365-15744-cxa
Learn more:
• Learn more about the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community at: http://aka.ms/m365pnp
• Visit the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community YouTube channel: https://aka.ms/m365pnp-videos

In this 10-minute Citizen Developer-focused demo, Kiran Thomas cites how the Contact Group Lookup Microsoft Teams app template provides a way to easily surface and interact with members of Outlook groups (Distribution Lists) in Teams. Create a group(s) in Outlook, install app template, and then add group(s) to the app. Using the app – quickly view and chat with members, see their status on Teams, and even start a group chat with multiple members of the Contact Group. This PnP Community demo is taken from the General Microsoft 365 Development Special Interest Group (SIG) - Bi-weekly sync call recorded on October 29, 2020.

Demo Presenter: Kiran Thomas (Microsoft) | @NotKiran

Supporting materials:
• Document - Contact Group Lookup | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/samples/app-templates#contact-group-lookup-
• Repo - Contact Group Lookup App Template | https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-app-contactgrouplookup

Learn more:
• Learn more about the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community at: http://aka.ms/m365pnp
• Visit the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community YouTube channel: https://aka.ms/m365pnp-videos

In this 20-minute Site Admin focused demo, Pawan Gulati shows capabilities of this recently released app template built on Power Apps, Power Automate and SharePoint. Seamless Teams integration is a given. The template actually includes 3 apps – Building Admin, Building Security, and Building Access. Additionally, user activity is summarized in a Power BI dashboard. Step through creating a facility access request and approval, creating occupancy thresholds, defining eligibility questions and other configuration options. This PnP Community demo is taken from the General Microsoft 365 Development Special Interest Group (SIG) - Bi-weekly sync call recorded on October 1, 2020.

Demo Presenter: Pawan Gulati (Microsoft) | @pawangulati

Supporting materials:
• Documentation - App Templates for Microsoft Teams | https://aka.ms/TeamsAppTemplates
• Repo - Building Access App Template | http://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-buildingaccess

Learn more:
• Learn more about the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community at: http://aka.ms/m365pnp
• Visit the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community YouTube channel: https://aka.ms/m365pnp-videos

In this 11-minute Site Owner-focused demo, Kiran Thomas shows a Power App-based Microsoft Teams app that provides a simple workflow where staff can check-in with a photo, location, and other details directly from within Microsoft Teams. The solution brings together capabilities of Teams, PowerApps, Adaptive Cards, Microsoft Power Automate, and of the user’s mobile device. Staff can receive reminders; supervisors can see check-in details as occur or in a roll-up report. This PnP Community call demo is taken from the General Microsoft 365 Development Special Interest Group (SIG) - Bi-weekly sync call recorded on September 3, 2020.

Demo Presenter: Kiran Thomas (Microsoft) | @NotKiran

Supporting materials:
• Documentation - Staff Check-ins | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/samples/app-templates#staff-check-ins-
• Repo - Staff Check-ins App Template | https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-staffcheckins

Learn more:
• Learn more about the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community at: http://aka.ms/m365pnp
• Visit the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community YouTube channel: https://aka.ms/m365pnp-videos

In this 13-minute Maker and Developer focused demo, Kiran Thomas – acquaints us with the targeted communications Microsoft Teams app template called Company Communicator. App templates are low-code / no-code (Samples) that work out-of-box, are customizable, well documented, and meet Microsoft’s security and privacy standards. Kiran authors a message and covers 3 post options – to a Teams’ General channel, as chat to an individual or to entire organization. This app template is posted in GitHub along with 28 other templates. This PnP Community demo is taken from the General Microsoft 365 Development Special Interest Group (SIG) - Bi-weekly sync call recorded on July 23, 2020.

Demo Presenter: Kiran Thomas (Microsoft) | @NotKiran

Supporting materials:
• Company Communicator | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/samples/app-templates#company-communicator
• App Templates for Microsoft Teams | http://aka.ms/TeamsAppTemplates
• Company Communicator App Template | https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-company-communicator-app

Learn more:
• Learn more about the SharePoint developer community at: http://aka.ms/m365pnp
• Visit the SharePoint PnP Developer Community YouTube channel: https://aka.ms/spdev-videos

In this 15-minute Maker focused demo, Kiran Thomas introduces viewers to Microsoft Teams App Templates (PnP Samples) – Low-code/No-code out-of-box plug-and-play apps that can be configured and extended. Three of the 26 available templates are highlighted: Company Communicator, FAQ Plus, and Icebreaker. Quick look at the Teams App Templates Catalog/Documentation. This PnP Community demo is taken from the General Microsoft 365 Development Special Interest Group (SIG) - Bi-weekly sync call recorded on July 9, 2020.

Demo Presenter(s): Kiran Thomas (Microsoft) | @notkiran

Supporting materials:
• App Templates for Microsoft Teams | www.aka.ms/teamsapptemplates
Learn more:
• Learn more about the SharePoint developer community at: http://aka.ms/m365pnp
• Visit the SharePoint PnP Developer Community YouTube channel: https://aka.ms/spdev-videos