This week we chat about intros as Al works out how to intro his new role and then we cover news on SharePoint functionality, a change in model for SPFX releases, new stuff for Viva and record numbers for Teams. And we laughed at Kevin's sunburnt head.

SharePoint/OneDrive

Immersive Reader in SharePoint - SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop April 2021

WhiteBoard moved into OneDrive  - Enable Microsoft Whiteboard for your organization - Office Support

WhiteBoard being upgraded in Teams - https://myteamsday.com/2021/04/28/teams-whiteboard/ 

SPFX

SharePoint Framework Public Previews - Release Candidates

CLI for Microsoft 365 3.9 Release with SPFx Public Preview Upgrade Support

SharePoint Framework 1.12.1 Released

Viva

Announcing Viva Learning public preview - Microsoft Tech Community

Microsoft Viva Insights: Home-tab – Vesa Nopanen – My Teams & Microsoft 365 Day 

Alexandria in Microsoft Viva Topics: from big data to big knowledge - Microsoft Research

Yammer and Viva Topics - https://twitter.com/kevmcdonk/status/1389256066781880323?s=20

Teams

145 million active users (that's 130 million "you're on mute" a day according to Jeremy Thake)

Other

M365 Dev Podcast - CLI in Containers with Garry Trinder (schaeflein.net)

LearnPixelArt 

Events

12 May - Teams Nation

• Viva insights - Al
• Microsoft Search - Kev
• https://teamsnation.rocks/register

14/15 May - SPS Philly

• Viva insights - Al
• M365 Philly Virtual 2021 (spsevents.org)

19 May - M365 S&C UG

• Syntex for compliance labelling - Kev
• Office Message Encryption - Patrick van Bemmelen
• May 2021 | Meetup

29 May - SPS Cologne

• Viva insights - Al
• Viva Topics - Kev
• SharePoint Saturday Cologne 2021 (spsevents.org)

Commsverse sep 15th and 16th - Commsverse - The Microsoft Teams Conference

South Coast Summit = 16th October South Coast Summit – A Microsoft Cloud Technology Conference