Ask the Expert: Extend Viva Connections

Microsoft Viva Connections offers organizations a unique opportunity to bring the most relevant information to their employees' fingertips and keep them informed. In this session, we answered questions about how our partners can benefit from Viva Connections, what are some of the most popular extensibility scenarios, how developers can use their existing skills to extend Viva Connections with custom components and how to get started developing for Viva Connections. Jump to: 00:00 - Opening 01:34 - What is Viva Connections? 03:22 - What can you do with extending Viva Connections? 04:57 - What developer skills are necessary? 08:40 - What frameworks can I use for desktop? 11:30 - What is the value of extending Viva Connections? 14:29 - What are some examples of cool things customers have built with this? 18:17 - What sort of apps can be built? Is there a marketplace? 20:57 - Where can developers learn more from others in the community? 24:00 - What is your top tip for someone new? 26:53 - Closing thoughts This is a recording from the live session on January 11, 2022. Presenters: • Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm • Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen Supporting materials: • Learn module - Extend Microsoft Viva Connections with application customizers | https://aka.ms/m365/dev/learn/connections • Tools - Viva Connections Toolkit (SPFx 1.13) | https://aka.ms/spfx • Extending Microsoft Viva Connections documentation | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/viva/overview-viva-connections Learn more: • Join on the Microsoft 365 Developer community at: http://aka.ms/m365pnp • Access Microsoft 365 developer samples from community and from Microsoft from https://aka.ms/m365/samples