PnP Weekly

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen and Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm, are joined by Finland-based software architect and Office Developer MVP Laura Kokkarinen (Sulava) | @LauraKokkarinen.  Discussion Laura’s day to day work as a solution area architect, detailed blog posts, building bots on Microsoft Teams, importance of in-person events, three tips for how to become an MVP, and Finnish Lake ringed seals.    Microsoft and PnP Community delivered 13 articles/videos in the last week!  This session was recorded on Monday, May 9, 2022.

References

• See the full blog post for this episode in the Microsoft 365 Platform Community blog at https://aka.ms/m365pnp/blog

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen and Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm, are joined by Belgium based Consultant, Office Developer MVP Elio Struyf (Struyf Consulting) | @eliostruyf.  Elio’s latest work building VS Code extensions/tooling for Rapid API.   The open-source extension that prompted an interview and job offer, recent recognition as a GitHub Star, and tips to young people considering a career in Development.  Microsoft and PnP Community delivered 17 articles/videos in the last week!  This session was recorded on Monday, May 2, 2022.

References

• See the full blog post for this episode in the Microsoft 365 Platform Community blog at https://aka.ms/m365pnp/blog

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen, Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm are joined by Oslo, Norway based Principal Product Manager, Mikael Svenson (Microsoft) | @mikaelsvenson.

Focus on Mikael's background as an MVP and moving to Microsoft as a Principal Product Manager with his day-to-day work and focus on Enterprise Search (Microsoft Search). Covering also 17 articles from Microsoft community in the last week!  This session was recorded on Tuesday, April 25, 2022.

References:

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen, Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm are joined by Stockholm, Sweden based Principal Program Manager, Wictor Wilén (Microsoft) | @wictor.

Wictor's new role as Principal Program Manager in Microsoft People Services organization with updated focus on the profile improvements across the Microsoft 365. Covering also 17 articles from Microsoft community in the last week!

This session was recorded on Tuesday, April 19, 2022.

References:

• See the full blog post for this episode at https://aka.ms/m365pnp/community/blog

Summary

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen and Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm, are joined by California, US based Power Platform Community Program Manager, David Warner (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII.  Bringing the Microsoft 365 PnP digital Recognition (Credly) program from idea to reality, growing the mental mindset of the Sharing is Caring program, and three recommendations for anyone wanting to get started in the Microsoft 365 Platform Community.  Covering also 9 articles from Microsoft and Community. This session was recorded on Monday, April 11, 2022.

References

• See the full blog post for this episode at https://aka.ms/m365pnp/community/blog

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen and Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm, are joined by Bangalore, India based MVP, Arjun Menon (Tata Consultancy Services) | @arjunumenon.  Arjun shares his experiences from first Fork to maintainer of CLI for Microsoft 365, recent recognition as MVP, and thoughts on his first MVP Summit.    The group discusses importance of community and contributing, and the degree to which Teams connects people.    Microsoft and PnP Community delivered 17 articles in the last week!  This session was recorded on Monday, April 4, 2022.

References:

• See the full blog post for this episode at https://aka.ms/m365pnp/community/blog

Summary:

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen and Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm, are joined by are joined by Vienna, Austria based Office Development MVP - Stefan Bauer (N8D) | @StfBauer.  The trio discusses building apps and pages with human semantics and accessibility in mind by design and development experts working together.  Learn about Stefan Bauer’s company, design approach and his extensible open-source design tools – hTWOo.    Microsoft and PnP Community delivered 13 articles in the last week! This session was recorded on Monday, March 28, 2022.

References:

• See the full blog post for this episode at https://aka.ms/m365pnp/community/blog

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen, Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm are joined by US based, member of the Customer Engineering Team focused on developer enablement and on PnPjs project, Patrick Rodgers (Microsoft) | @mediocrebowler. 

Topics discussed in this session:

• Patrick’s 10-year career journey at Microsoft and how he got involved in the Microsoft 365 Platform Community (PnP).

We also covered 15 articles published by Microsoft and the PnP Community over the last week. 

This week:   

• Waldek – Finalizing the work around POC on how improve developer experience around building Teams apps with Angular, finalizing work with Alex on a cmdlet to evaluate SPFx dependency issues and recommend fixes, cool PRs for CLI for Microsoft 365 and on other ways to improve the developer experience.   

Please remember to keep on providing us feedback on how we can help on this journey. We always welcome feedback on making the community more inclusive and diverse.

This session was recorded on Monday, March 21, 2022.   Enjoy the show. 

• Video at Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel

These videos and podcasts are published each week and are intended to be roughly 45 - 60 minutes in length.  Please do give us feedback on this video and podcast series and also do let us know if you have done something cool/useful so that we can cover that in the next weekly summary! The easiest way to let us know is to share your work on Twitter and add the hashtag #PnPWeekly. We are always on the lookout for refreshingly new content. “Sharing is caring!” 

Here are all the links and people mentioned in this recording. Thanks, everyone for your contributions to the community!

Microsoft articles:

• Elevating hybrid experiences with Microsoft Teams Rooms and Teams devices - Microsoft

Community articles:

• How to get started deploying Azure resources using Bicep - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese

Additional resources:

• Documentation – PnPjs v2 – v3 Transition Guide

If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions for Microsoft 365 engineering or visitors – please let us know. We will do our best to address your requests or questions.

"Sharing is caring!" 

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen, Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm are joined by US based, Microsoft 365 Extensibility Developer, MVP, and PnP team member focused on PnPjs project, Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting) | @jfj1997 

Topics discussed in this session:

• What is PnPjs and why is it useful? 

We also covered 19 articles published by Microsoft and the PnP Community over the last week. 

This week:   

• Waldek – working through CLI for Microsoft 365 PRs, 1st draft of cmdlet to evaluate SPFx dependencies, thinking about ways to help community members build apps on Microsoft 365 and for Angular Devs to build Teams apps.    

Please remember to keep on providing us feedback on how we can help on this journey. We always welcome feedback on making the community more inclusive and diverse.

This session was recorded on Monday, March 14, 2022.   Enjoy the show. 

• Video at Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel.

These videos and podcasts are published each week and are intended to be roughly 45 - 60 minutes in length.  Please do give us feedback on this video and podcast series and also do let us know if you have done something cool/useful so that we can cover that in the next weekly summary! The easiest way to let us know is to share your work on Twitter and add the hashtag #PnPWeekly. We are always on the lookout for refreshingly new content. “Sharing is caring!” 

Here are all the links and people mentioned in this recording. Thanks, everyone for your contributions to the community!

Microsoft articles:

• TLS certificate changes to Microsoft 365 services including Microsoft - Parker Shelton (Microsoft)

Community articles:

• PnP PowerShell to manage list designs and create lists/libraries using list designs - Reshmee Auckloo (Pension Protection Fund) | @reshmeeauckloo

Additional resources:

• Documentation – PnPjs v2 – v3 Transition Guide

If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions for Microsoft 365 engineering or visitors – please let us know. We will do our best to address your requests or questions.

"Sharing is caring!" 

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen, Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm are joined by Portugal based, technologist, author, MVP Office Dev and Windows Insider, João Ferreira (Beezy) | @Joao12Ferreira.

Topics discussed in this session:

• Comments on authoring 1 blog post a day through the entire month of February.   

We also covered 14 articles published by Microsoft and the PnP Community over the last week. 

This week:   

• Waldek – is working with Alex Terentiev (Microsoft) | @alexaterentiev, to build a command to validate an SPFx project set up, tips on improving Teams app developer experience using Angular.

Please remember to keep on providing us feedback on how we can help on this journey. We always welcome feedback on making the community more inclusive and diverse.

This session was recorded on Monday, March 7, 2022.   Enjoy the show. 

• Video at Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel.

These videos and podcasts are published each week and are intended to be roughly 45 - 60 minutes in length.  Please do give us feedback on this video and podcast series and also do let us know if you have done something cool/useful so that we can cover that in the next weekly summary! The easiest way to let us know is to share your work on Twitter and add the hashtag #PnPWeekly. We are always on the lookout for refreshingly new content. “Sharing is caring!” 

Here are all the links and people mentioned in this recording. Thanks, everyone for your contributions to the community!

Microsoft articles:

• Manage and expand your Viva Connections Feed to create a culture of connectivity - Graham Kent (Microsoft) | @grahamismyname

Community articles:

• Assigning a built-in role to the group at resource group scope level using PowerShell scripts - Shrusti Shah (Rapid Circle) 

Additional resources:

• Microsoft 365 Unified Sample Gallery (preview) - https://aka.ms/m365/samples 

If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions for Microsoft 365 engineering or visitors – please let us know. We will do our best to address your requests or questions.

"Sharing is caring!"