Episodes

Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 145 – 29th of November 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 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 Bristol, England, United Kingdom-based Senior Program Manager Rabeb Othmani | @Rabeb_Othmani, on the Microsoft Graph Dev-X team.
Topics discussed in this session:
- Rabeb’s role in the Microsoft Graph team, about working remotely, and career development before joining team - Mixed Radio, Xamarin, Tree shaking.
- Work on Graph Explorer and Kyota – a SDK generator to help developers generate tailored SDKs
- Thoughts for women and for men working with women in IT that include allyships, avoiding positive discrimination, giving and receiving guidance, education, unintentional microaggressions, celebrating differences, respecting other’s experiences and more.
We also covered 7 articles or videos by Microsoft and the community from the last week.
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 in front of a non-audience on Friday, November 26, 2021. Enjoy the show.
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:
- The journey to Viva Topics adoption success: Initiate - Matt Wolodarsky (Microsoft) | @mwolodarsky
Community articles:
- Monitor and Notify M365 health using CLI for Microsoft 365 - Arjun Menon (Tata Consultancy Services) | @arjunumenon
- Create an event page with SharePoint, SharePoint Spaces and formatted Lists - Anand Ragav (Ericsson) | @AnandVRagav
- M365 Dev Podcast - Microsoft News: November 2021 - Jeremy Thake (Microsoft) | @jthake & Paul Schaeflein (AddIn365) | @paulschaeflein
- Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK 1.9.0 Released - Liam Cleary | @helloitsliam
- Episode #182 - Navigation in Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia
- Learn how to use Microsoft Loop with me - Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change) | @darrellaas
Additional resources:
- Extend Microsoft Viva Connections - Microsoft Learn
- Consume a multi-tenant API within a set of Microsoft Viva Connections Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs... solution in GitHub
- Microsoft 365 Unified Sample Gallery (preview) - https://aka.ms/m365/samples
- 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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Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 144 – 22nd of November 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 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 Atlanta, US-based Senior Program Manager on the Viva Connections Platform team - Catherine Chuaga.
Topics discussed in this session:
- Delivering impact as voice of the developer ecosystem focused on moving the Viva Connections Partner Experience to the next level.
- Unlearning things from past jobs and geographic locations to grow in a new role and country.
- Strategy for approaching Product Experience Reviews within Microsoft
- The thrill of joining Microsoft and the exhilaration of controlled drowning.
- 4 Tips for woman looking at starting, advancing, transitioning to a career in IT.
We also covered 18 articles or videos by Microsoft and the community from the last week.
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 in front of a non-audience on Monday, November 22, 2021. Enjoy the show.
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:
- Go developers can now access Microsoft Graph with streamlined authentication and more - Vincent Biret (Microsoft) | @baywet
- Announcing Teams JS SDK v2 in public preview: Extend Teams apps across Microsoft 365 - Zakiullah Khan (Microsoft)
- Guidance for implementing partner offerings for Viva Connections with ACEs and custom APIs - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
- Developing real-time collaborative apps with Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and GitHub - Dan Wahlin (Microsoft) | @DanWahlin
- Microsoft Teams development: All you need to know - Rabia Williams (Microsoft) | @williamsrabia
- The journey to Viva Topics adoption success: Intro - Matt Wolodarsky (Microsoft) | @mwolodarsky
- Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store (October 2021) - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
- Submit your OneDrive and SharePoint ideas to the Microsoft Feedback portal - Cathy Dew (Microsoft) | @catpaint1
Community articles:
- Quick SharePoint Approvals using list formatting JSON to set field values - Michel Mendes (Storm Technology) | @michelcarlo
- Upload files to SharePoint with JavaScript using Microsoft Graph and Microsoft Authentication Librar... - Eli H. Schei (Point Taken AS) | @acupof_dev
- Using Collapsible Sections with User Experience in Mind - Emily Mancini (Sympraxis Consulting) | @EEMancini
- Interactively authenticate Microsoft Graph .NET SDK with Azure Identity library - Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Solutions) | @vrdmn
- Update SharePoint User Profiles based on Azure Group Membership - Octavie van Haaften (Rapid Circle) | @eivatco
- Connect to Microsoft Graph PowerShell using an App Registration - Liam Cleary | @helloitsliam
- Create recursive flows in Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
- Speaking at the European Collaboration Summit 2021 - Infuse AI into your Power Platform solutions - Chris O'Brien (Content+Cloud) | @ChrisO_Brien
- Episode #181 - Creating forms with Adaptive Card Extensions in SPFx - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia
- Installing and Using the Microsoft Lists Desktop App - Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks) | @DanielGlenn
Additional resources:
- Extend Microsoft Viva Connections - Microsoft Learn
- Consume a multi-tenant API within a set of Microsoft Viva Connections Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs... solution in GitHub
- Microsoft 365 Unified Sample Gallery (preview) - https://aka.ms/m365/samples
- 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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Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 143 – 15th of November 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 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 Nairobi, Kenya-based Program Manager at Microsoft - Roina Ochieng | @roinochieng, who works in the Microsoft Graph team focusing on the SDKs and tooling.
Topics discussed in this session:
- Working for a large globally dispersed company with a growth mindset.
- Thoughts on changes to how we work - delivering impact vs activities.
- Importance of local community engagement and events.
- Being a woman in tech in sub-Saharan Africa
- How might outsiders want to engage with regional communities? In Africa, understand problem led innovation.
- What’s coming in Graph SDK work? Project Kiota and low friction tooling that helps people integrate with Microsoft 365 more easily.
We also covered 12 articles or videos by Microsoft and the community from the last week.
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 in front of a non-audience on Monday, November 15, 2021. Enjoy the show.
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:
- Viva Connections mobile and new partner integrations are now generally available - Michael Holste (Microsoft) | @Mike_Holste
- Microsoft Tech Community Live: Microsoft Viva Edition - Microsoft
Community articles:
- New Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices (PnP) team members – November 2021 - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
- Matching the logged in user in a canvas app with a person column in SharePoint - Carmen Ysewijn (Qubix) | @CarmenYsewijn
- Collaborating on a Loop: Preparing for Microsoft Loop and the collaborative canvas - Rebecca Jackson (Avanade) | @RebeccaJLJ
- Cleaning Up Content Types Orphaned from the Content Type Hub - Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- Building a Microsoft Teams Bot: Deep linking to a Teams message from an Adaptive Card button - Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Solutions) | @vrdmn
- Using the Graph Explorer to help Execute Graph PowerShell Commands - Liam Cleary | @helloitsliam
- How to Setup Teams & Microsoft 365 for Streamlined Knowledge Sharing Sessions (aka Lunch & Learn or ... - Cameron Dwyer (OnePlace Solutions) | @CameronDwyer
- Building a partner offering with Azure AD secured multi-tenant APIs and Viva Connections Adaptive Ca...- Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia
- Episode #180 - Consuming 3rd Party APIs in SPFx ACEs - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia
- November 2021 DIWUG Meetup
Additional resources:
- Extend Microsoft Viva Connections - Microsoft Learn
- Consume a multi-tenant API within a set of Microsoft Viva Connections Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs... solution in GitHub
- Microsoft 365 Unified Sample Gallery (preview) - https://aka.ms/m365/samples
- 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.
"Sharing is caring!"

Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 142 – 8th of November 2021
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Tuesday Nov 09, 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 New York, US / Porto, Portugal-based Program Manager at Microsoft - Natalie Pienkowska | @ NataliePienkow1.
Topics discussed in this session –
- How Natalie got involved in community, in Microsoft, and in community work at Microsoft.
- Learn about Natalie’s Power Platform Connectors program and how you your work can be in products used by organizations Worldwide.
- The necessity of a “workcation” in Porto, Portugal – flexibility in a hybrid going asynchronous work world.
- 3 solid tips for woman in IT.
- Evolution of the external connectors program that now includes Credly badges.
We also covered 15 articles or videos by Microsoft and the community from the last week.
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 in front of a non-audience on Monday, November 8, 2021. Enjoy the show.
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:
- Microsoft Ignite 2021 - Book of News - Microsoft
- Rich, secure content and collaboration for hybrid work – Ignite 2021 announcements - Jeff Teper (Microsoft) | @jeffteper
- Announcing new Microsoft Viva partner integrations - Geeta Ramakrishnan
- Stay in the flow of work with new collaborative apps for Microsoft Teams - Nicole Herskowitz (Microsoft) | @nicolelamb
- Ignite 2021: Building apps for collaboration in a hybrid world - Ben Summers (Microsoft) | @bensum365
- Microsoft 365 Developer Program launches new instant sandbox with Teams sample data pack - Michael Aldridge
- Power Platform News Rewind Microsoft Ignite 2021 - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
- New Microsoft 365 hybrid work and collaboration experiences to save you time - Omar Shahine (Microsoft) | @OmarShahine
Community articles:
- Displaying User Photos in Modern Lists and Libraries – Modern Settings - Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- SharePoint Site Scripts and Site Designs in Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
- Working with MSAL and multiple Azure AD accounts in a React SPA - Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Solutions) | @vrdmn
- Configure Postman to be easily used with any Azure AD protected API (SharePoint, Graph, custom etc.) - Sergei Sergeev | @sergeev_srg
- Episode #179 - Consuming Microsoft Graph data in SPFx ACEs - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia
- How to create custom site templates in SharePoint - Giuliano De Luca | @delucagiulian
- How to use Microsoft Loop components early in Microsoft Teams - Darrell Webster (WM Reply) | @DarrellaaS
Additional resources:
- Microsoft 365 Unified Sample Gallery (preview) - https://aka.ms/m365/samples
- 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.
"Sharing is caring!"

Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 141 – 1st of November 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 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 UK-based SharePoint developer and MVP at Storm Technology - Joel Rodrigues | @JoelFMRodrigues.
Topics discussed in this session –
- Cultural differences experienced in career transition from Portugal to UK
- How Joel became an MVP
- Joel’s PnP focus - PnP Controls and PnPjs.
- Why contribute?
- How to juggle day-to-day work and community work?
- Embracing and maintaining different code styles across a project.
- Upon submitting code to community, start thinking about scale from day one.
- Microsoft vs Community owned tools.
- Joel's recent focus – Azure functions, authentication and PnP Provision engine work.
- Samples vs blueprints
We also covered 13 articles by Microsoft and the community from the last week.
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 in front of no audience on Monday, November 1, 2021. Enjoy the show.
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:
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | October 2021 - Microsoft
- Preview of Feedback for Microsoft Teams now available - Alex Olsen (Microsoft)
- How the Microsoft 365 App Compliance program helps enable a secure Teams app ecosystem - John Gruszczyk (Microsoft)
- New Microsoft Teams features improve call and meeting quality - Robert Aichner (Microsoft)
- Your Guide to Microsoft Teams at Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 - Microsoft
- Microsoft Ignite 2021 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Viva, Lists, Syntex, Stream, Visio and more - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: October 2021 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Learn how to extend Microsoft Viva Connections - Rabia Williams (Microsoft) | @williamsrabia
- OData property changes to Microsoft 365 usage reports API in Microsoft Graph - Microsoft Graph team
Community articles:
- It’s finally here! Developers can now charge money for Microsoft Teams apps in the App Store - Tom Morgan (Modality) | @tomorgan
- Managing Microsoft Teams using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell - Liam Cleary | @helloitsliam
- spfx-fast-serve with SPFx 1.13 support - Sergei Sergeev | @sergeev_srg
- Working with MSAL and multiple Azure AD accounts in a React SPA - Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Solutions) | @vrdmn
Additional resources:
- Microsoft 365 Unified Sample Gallery (preview) - https://aka.ms/m365/samples
- 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.
"Sharing is caring!"