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Learn more about Office 365 Groups and Connectors
This three part series from Microsoft MVP Toni Pohl tells you everything you need to know about working with Groups and Connectors in Office 365.
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I have just come across a three part series from one of my fellow Microsoft MVP's Toni Pohl that is everything you might want to know about working with groups and connectors in Office 365 but might have been afraid to ask.
As you will see below he covers a lot of territory about this subject and these will make good bookmarks for reading now and to have as a reference later.
The series of in-depth articles appear over on the Microsoft MVP Award Program website and here is an outline of each one:
Part 1: Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors
This article is about data integration and shows how to send data in Office 365 groups from any other external system. There are many use cases for such a scenario, such as batch jobs and scripts, in-house systems as CRM or Enterprise Resource Systems, or even public services as Bing, Twitter, Trello, Wunderlist and more.
A brief history of Office 365 Groups
What are Office 365 Groups
Simplified Collaboration
What are Connectors?
The Concept
Working with Connectors
Adding a Connector
Emails
Integrate an RSS Feed using an anonymous connector
The Twitter Connector
Credentials
Confirmation
Adding tasks from Wunderlist
Connectors to go
Part 2: Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors
In this part we’ll concentrate on individual connectors, and how to send data from our own scripts or systems.
Adding Custom Connectors
Security aspects
See how it works behind the scenes
Check it out in the group
Connector Cards
Send messages to the Webhook Connector
Using CURL
Using PowerShell
Part 3: Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors
The last article of this series will demonstrate how to integrate Office 365 Connectors into your own application. A web application will allow users to configure the app to send data to any group.
Working with Connectors in your app
Playing in the sandbox
Create your application
Integrating a connector
See the user experience
Is this identical with an incoming Webhook?
Send messages from custom code
Final run
Go further
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