August 19th, 11:30 am

Download to your calendar: Intro to Dataverse for Teams: Extending Microsoft Teams with Apps, Flows, & Bots

Topic: Intro to Dataverse for Teams: Extending Microsoft Teams with Apps, Flows, & Bots
Location: via Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Paul Stork (MCSM, Microsoft MVP)
Cost: FREE

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Topic Details

Use of Microsoft Teams has exploded for many companies as a result of the global pandemic. For many organizations Teams has become the app that connects all their employees together. Power Platform apps, like Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents, provides a low-code platform for extending that functionality. But extending Teams with new apps, flows, and bots requires a place to store content. SharePoint is a possibility, but from a data point of view SharePoint has a lot of limitations since it isn’t an actual relational database. Dataverse, formerly known as CDS, provides relational data storage, rich data types, and enterprise-grade governance. But Dataverse has always been a premium feature requiring extra licensing.

This is where Microsoft Dataverse for Teams comes in. Using the Power Apps application inside Teams we can build and deploy apps using a custom version of Dataverse that is included in the Microsoft Teams license. This provides access to a real relational database and one-click solution deployment to the Teams app. In this talk we’ll take a look at what Dataverse for Teams and how it can be used in the Power Platform to extend the Teams application. We’ll cover the following points with slides and demos.

– What does the Teams License cover
– Differences between Dataverse (CDS) and Dataverse for Teams
– Creating Dataverse Relational Tables
– Building a Power App with Dataverse for Teams
– Integrating Dataverse for Teams with a Flow
– Accessing Dataverse for Teams from a Bot

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Speaker Details

Paul is the Owner/Principal Architect at Don’t Pa..Panic Consulting. He has been working in the information technology industry for over 30 years, and has played key roles in several enterprise SharePoint architectural design review, Intranet deployment, application development, and migration projects. he has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for the last 12 consecutive years and earned his Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters (MCSM) certification in 2013.

His core skills include architecting and customizing SharePoint environments both on-premises and in the cloud. He has significant experience leading SharePoint migration teams, troubleshooting infrastructure issues, and evaluating SharePoint environments for adherence to “Best Practices” and industry standards. His current focus is on Office 365 security, SharePoint online, and Microsoft Power Apps/Power Automate. He’s authored several books and is a frequent contributor to the Microsoft Power Platform forums.

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Sponsor Details

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Our sponsor, InfoWorks, Inc., is giving one lucky winner a $25 gift card & making a $200 donation to an approved charity in your honor!
You must be present to win.