Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 126 - 10th of May 2021

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 Rhode Island, US-based, MVP, professional archer, blogger and presenter specializing in UI/UX, information architecture and user adoption at TrnDigital, D'arce Hess | @ DarceHess.   Topics discussed in this session include:  The path to IT and on becoming an MVP, reflections on UX/UI changes over the years and designing custom experiences that addresses business processes.  In post pandemic times, organizations will be circling back to optimize Microsoft Teams experiences while vendors will continue efforts to land the right extensibility stories.   Microsoft Viva – with great power comes great responsibility and ideas about prepping for Viva.   Finally, thoughts on women in IT and on using what we learn in school in the field.   Microsoft and the Community delivered 18 articles in this last week.  

 

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This episode was recorded on Monday, May 10, 2021.

 

• Video at Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel

 

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

Events:

• May 25-27, 2021- Microsoft Build 2021
• August 9-11, 2021 - North American Collaboration Summit
  • Register with coupon code "PnP" for 25% off from the prize at https://nacs.ticketspice.com/nacs2021

 

Microsoft articles:

• Use SharePoint's new site templates today! - Nicole Woon (Microsoft) |  @NovelNicole and Holland Kaviani (Microsoft)
• New ways to use Microsoft Whiteboard for Education - Ian Mikutel (Microsoft) | @ianmikutel
• Understanding the Office Add-ins runtime - Microsoft
• Application permissions support for assignments API in Microsoft Graph now available - Microsoft
• SharePoint Syntex Updates - April 2021 - Chris McNulty (Microsoft) | @cmcnulty2000

 

Community articles:

• SharePoint App Catalog Development Tips - Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting) | @jfj1997
• Upgrade your SharePoint Framework (SPFx) projects to v1.12.1 with CLI for Microsoft 365 - Yves Habersaat (Sword Group) | @yhabersaat
• Adding custom formatting to all list views - Don Kirkham (GM Financial) | @DonKirkham
• Get Started with the New SharePoint App Bar - Matt Jimison (DMI) | @mjimison
• How to update an AdaptiveCard with a Teams Messaging Extension - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0 
• React Groups and Teams - Alison Collins 
• spfx-fast-serve 2.0: new architecture, better extensibility, support of the latest SPFx - Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq) | @sergeev_srg
• Restrict SharePoint list item attachments by file type using a custom form - Michel Mendes (Storm Technology) | @michelcarlo
• Organization Chart web part - João Mendes (Storm Technology) | @joaojmendes
• Episode #153​ - Batching with Microsoft Graph SDK for .NET - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
• SharePoint Framework What's New 1.12.1 [Teams - Web Part APIs] - Giuliano De Luca | @delucagiulian
• Save Microsoft Forms Attachments to SharePoint with Power Automate - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
• Access files offline in Teams mobile - Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks Inc) |  @DanielGlenn & Darrel Webster (WM Reply) | @DarrellaaS

 

Additional resources:

• Power Platform Sample Gallery - for finding easily samples from the GitHub - contributions from the community are welcome!
• PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing to the community
• Want to ask a question or in general engage with the community - Add a note in the Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub at https://aka.ms/m365pnp/community
• Check out all the great community calls, SDKs, and tooling for Microsoft 365 from https://aka.ms/m365pnp

 

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.

 

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