How to create and send a Microsoft Teams Meeting from Microsoft Dataverse or Dynamics 365

At the time this WTF episode is published, the ability to create and send a Teams Meeting is not supported out-of-the-box in Microsoft Dataverse or Dynamics 365.

I came up with this solution back in 2019 and presented it at the Power Platform Saturday Sydney event in 2020. It has since been perfected and what you're seeing in this WTF episode is Version 2.0. So come along and learn with me on how you can create and send a Teams Meeting from Microsoft Dataverse or Dynamics 365 with Graph API and Power Automate.

Make sure you have some coffee or tea with you while you watch this as I do explain the mechanics of Microsoft Dataverse/Dynamics 365 and a Teams Meeting.

00:00 - Introduction
00:15 - Agenda
00:33 - Why the Teams connector can't be used
01:38 - The solution
02:06 - Prerequisites
03:17 - The anatomy of a Teams Meeting
05:03 - Understanding the Graph API Create Event request
06:08 - The cloud flow trigger
06:39 - Get Organiser record
07:21 - List Activity Party records
07:37 - Explanation of Activity Parties
08:32 - Understanding the Expand Query
11:24 - Filtering the Activity Parties
12:04 - Condition in the Filter an Array action
12:24 - Understanding the Activity Party Types
13:17 - Looping through the attendees
13:46 - Switch action
14:19 - Initialise variable for the attendees array
14:28 - Building the row for the attendees array
16:50 - Graph API Mailbox Settings request
18:26 - Graph API Create Event request
20:13 - What tripped me up
23:36 - Cloud flow in action
26:37 - Upcoming WTF episode

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[ScottDurow]

Another fantastic video thank you - love the stuff about time zones - always catches me out! Can’t wait until the next episode!

[AudrieGordon]

I LOVE this work around, and your clear explaination!

[chadalthaus]

This is so great, Elaiza! In the new remote world we live in, this should be a standard for all companies on Dynamics 365.

[developer]

Thank you very much for this very informative & invaluable video. Much appreciated.

[yonghaochen]

Great video thank you.. Can you give more details about how to create a custom Teams meeting activity table? How to add columns like required attendees ?

[adammaurer]

Is there an updated version of this video by chance? Seems the Create Event Application permission Type is now listed as "Not supported." Thank you