Help me find the Team’s email address on the UI (not the channel’s)

By Chris Schultz in Teams 0 Comment

When you create a Microsoft Team, the Team has an email address associated with it. However, there is no way to see this email address from within Teams.

Note: There are Channel email addresses that you can view, but these are different.

Microsoft Teams should show the Team email address on the UI – like it does in Outlook.

Figure: Team Channels have an email address that can be viewed from Teams ✔️
Figure: Missing – The Team also have an email address, but this cannot be seen ❌
Figure: This is useful – you can see the Team email address in Outlook | Left nav | Groups | Team name

Help me deploy the right Azure resources from GitHub Actions

By Piers Sinclair in GitHub 0 Comment

There have been awesome improvements to the GitHub Actions “New Workflow” screen as per the blog: Getting started with GitHub Actions just got easier!

Suggestion #1 – Give love to Azure’s Static Site offerings

When adding a GitHub action for a Gatsby GitHub project, in “Deployment” it prompts to “Deploy Node.js to Azure Web App” even though it should suggest these 2 resources:

  • “Azure Static Web Apps”
  • “Static website hosting in Azure Storage”
Figure: Bad example – This repo is a Gatsby app but it doesn’t suggest any static Azure solutions

Suggestion #2 – Give love to Azure Bot Framework

When adding a GitHub action for an Azure Bot Framework GitHub Project, in “Deployment” it prompts to “Deploy .NET Core app to an Azure Web App”, it should also suggest resources like

  • “Azure Bot Service”
  • “Language Understanding (LUIS)”
Figure: Bad example – This repo contains Azure Bot Framework code but it doesn’t suggest resources for Azure Bot Framework and LUIS

Help me have a consistent experience between the Windows version and the Teams version

By Warwick Leahy in Microsoft Whiteboard 0 Comment

This is the history from Microsoft:  

Some background on the tech stack and roadmap:

  • The first Whiteboard app we released was a Windows (UWP) app on an Azure back end. This is still the form factor with the richest feature set.
  • We later added the web app (Web + Teams) which we are gradually evolving. The web canvas will eventually be the single canvas that powers all apps.
  • In parallel, we are moving the back end to ODSP (OneDrive/SharePoint). This is the right platform to handle the required scale, compliance, and sharing capabilities.
  • At the end of this transition period all clients (Teams, Web, Windows, iOS, Android, Surface Hub) will run on a single version of the web canvas to support collab scenarios across all devices.

That transition is complex because we need to build up capabilities on the web app to the level of the Windows client (and beyond), while transitioning the back end, and while also supporting cross-device collaboration sessions across different app versions (e.g. Windows and web) and back-ends.

Help me see who has been changing the signature

By Adam Cogan in CodeTwo 0 Comment

1. It is good to see “Last edited by:” in the new version of CodeTwo. It would be even better if that was a column (next to Status), so you could sort on it and see the most recently updated signature.

2. The “Last edited on:” should include the time in words. Eg. “10 hours ago”. A cool library does this for you https://momentjs.com 

3. See arrow – I’d like to see “History”… who has been editing. Maybe you could even right click and choose ‘Revert’.

Figure: History of changes is needed

4. Outlook right pane – add an ‘Info’ icon on the right pane

Figure: An “info” icon could show us the last 5 people to edit the signature