Episodes

Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 140 – 25th of October 2021
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Tuesday Oct 26, 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 Sweden based MVP and Chief Technical Architect at Advania - Simon Ågren | @agrenpoint. Simon was last on PnP Weekly exactly 100 episodes ago.
Topics discussed in this session include:
- Simon’s role as Chief Technical Architect focusing on Modern Work in the Knowledge Factory within Advania.
- Top of mind with customers right now – Microsoft Viva and maximizing value of Microsoft 365 product investments - a strategy conversation.
- How you can use the Microsoft 365 Maturity Model with customers to measure their success/progress.
- Change the place you work and change the way you work - hybrid, remote, asynchronous. Microsoft Teams’ evolution and a transitioning corporate culture – meeting dynamics, remote synchronous vs asynchronous work, decision empowerment, knowledge sharing, and embracing a diversity of workstyles.
- Simon’s latest important contribution to the Microsoft Graph Toolkit. It all started with a blog post and a commitment to single sign-on in Teams.
- Why Simon contributes to open source? It’s a desire to learn, share, simplify, participate. Mutual positive experiences as with working with the Microsoft Graph Team.
We also covered 15 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 web cams in totally audience free rooms on Monday, October 25, 2021.
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 your Microsoft Teams apps with the Developer Portal - Karthig Balendran (Microsoft) | @KarthigBalendr1
- Developing real-time collaborative apps with Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and GitHub - Dan Wahlin (Microsoft) | @DanWahlin
- Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.13 – Extending Microsoft Viva Connections - Microsoft
Community articles:
- Customizing Lists best practices [guest blog and video] - Norm Young (UnlimitedViz) | @stormin_30
- How 3 makers, 2 devs and a princess came together to save kittens for a hackathon - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- CLI for Microsoft 365 v4.1 - Garry Trinder (Microsoft) | @garrytrinder
- Connecting to SharePoint Online to On-Premises Databases with SharePoint Framework - Simon Doy (iThink365) | @simondoy
- Azure Cloud Shell issue when using CLI for Microsoft 365 - Workaround - Arjun Menon (Tata Consultancy Services) | @arjunumenon
- Connect Modern SharePoint Web Parts - Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @WonderLaura
- Sparsely Populated SharePoint Complex Columns and Power BI - Mark Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- Simple Teams Tab Single-Sign-On with Microsoft Graph - Wictor Wilen (Microsoft) | @wictor
- Microsoft Graph PowerShell – Backticks vs. Splatting vs. Class Objects - Liam Cleary | @helloitsliam
- Microsoft Graph PowerShell Filtering Working and Failures - Liam Cleary | @helloitsliam
- Episode #177 - Data Binding in SharePoint Framework ACEs - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
- How to Build a Pretty Power Apps People Picker with Office365 Users - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
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.
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Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 139 – 18th of October 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 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 Switzerland based MVP and Head of Solutions at Datalynx AG - André Lage | @aaclage.
Topics discussed in this session include:
- André's commitment to open source and community.
- Delivering samples and a control for the latest Microsoft Graph Toolkit.
- The importance of being an informed contributor and of having an appreciation for the needs of developer, business and end user audiences before building.
- Microsoft needs to continue to let us know where community members can help, to define boundaries in which contributors can create, and to generate lots of training and documentation!
- Tips to others: learn, ask questions, share and mentor or find a mentor.
We also covered 15 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 web cams in totally audience free rooms on Monday, October 18, 2021.
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 Topics brings new integrations with Yammer - Chris McNulty (Microsoft) | @cmcnulty2000
- Building great bots for Microsoft Teams with Azure Bot Framework Composer - Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German
- Grow your skills and build collaborative solutions: Exam MS-600 Building Applications and Solutions ... - Sathya Raveendran (Microsoft) | @findmesathya
- Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.13 Release Candidate - Microsoft
- Microsoft Teams ISV app monetization capabilities now available in developer preview - James Skay (Microsoft) | @JamesSkay
- “Visualize Lists with Power BI” :studio_microphone: – The Intrazone podcast - Amanda Rivera & Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
Community articles:
- Running a Power App as Edge Extension - Albert-Jan Schot (BLISS.digital) | @appieschot
- Sending e-mails with Microsoft Graph using .NET - Tobias Zimmergren (Rencore) | @zimmergren
- PnPjs v2.10 - Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting) | @jfj1997 & Patrick Rodgers (Microsoft) | @mediocrebowler
- Getting the working hours/time zones for other users using Microsoft Graph API - Michel Mendes (Storm Technology Ltd) | @michelcarlo
- Create an event page with SharePoint and Lists - Anand Ragav | @anandVragav
- Creating Microsoft Teams Meetings in ASP.NET Core using Microsoft Graph Application Permissions Part... - Damien Bod | @damien_bod
- Using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell for Security Alerts - Liam Cleary | @helloitsliam
- Clean Up Unwanted Site Columns from Content Types and Lists/Libraries - Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- 7 reasons to use child flows in Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
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.
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Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 138 – 11th of October 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 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 Germany-based Office Apps and Services MVP, consultant, developer Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese and Belgium-based SharePoint/Power Platform developer at Qubix, Carmen Ysewijn | @CarmenYsewij.
Topics discussed in this session include:
- ProvisionGenie – an open-source Microsoft Teams app created by Luise and Carmen. What is it, how to set it up, integration, build/release challenges, documentation, roadmap - perhaps a provisioning genie for ProvisionGenie?
- Why open source and MIT license?
- Rationale for keeping a Learning Diary.
- Top tips for women looking at a career in IT.
We also covered 12 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 web cams in totally audience free rooms on Monday, October 11, 2021.
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:
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: September 2021 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Manage your apps with the Developer Portal for Microsoft Teams - Microsoft
- New ways for Cloud Storage Partners to integrate their services with Microsoft Teams and Office - Ben Summers (Microsoft)
- Breaking changes to the settings endpoint in the Microsoft Graph eDiscovery API (beta) - Marshal Hagen (Microsoft)
- settings resource type (eDiscovery) - docs.microsoft.com
- Developing Real-Time Collaborative Apps - Microsoft
Community articles:
- Meeting feedback with Microsoft Teams Meeting App - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
- How to Get the Microsoft 365 Connected User with PnP PowerShell - Todd Klindt (Sympraxis Consulting) | @ToddKlindt
- Viva Learning preview moving to general availability - Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks, Inc) | @DanielGlenn, Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change) | @darrellaas
- Script: Connecting to Microsoft 365 Using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell - Liam Cleary | @helloitsliam
- Add a Location Column to a Site Content Type - Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- Quick Chart: SharePoint/Microsoft List Data - Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @WonderLaura
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.
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Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 137 – 4th of October 2021
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Tuesday Oct 05, 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 Canada-based MVP and Consultant from Technologia - Serge Tremblay | @Sergepoint.
Topics discussed in this session include:
- So you want to be a cloud consultant in the "cloudiverse"? Here are 3 tips.
- The importance of being end user focused.
- How stay up-to-date on the latest technology.
- Hear how a customer new to Microsoft 365 went from zero to website rollout in 5 days.
- Positioning SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and Viva Connections.
We also covered 14 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 web cams in totally audience free rooms on Monday, October 4, 2021.
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 | September 2021 - Microsoft
- Announcing general availability of Microsoft Graph Export API for Microsoft Teams messages - Microsoft
- Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast - Latest Microsoft Graph SDKs with Maisa Rissi and Darrel Miller - Paul Schaeflein (Addin365) | @paulschaeflein
- Office Add-in Samples - September 2021 update - David Chesnut (Microsoft) | @davidchesnut
Community articles:
- ProvisionGenie - an open-source provisioning engine for Microsoft Teams - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese & Carmen Ysewijn | @CarmenYsewijn
- Guidance On How To Use React DataTable Webpart - Chandani Prajapati | @Chandani_SPD
- Get Permission Report for SharePoint Online or OneDrive File using CLI for Microsoft 365 - Arjun Menon
- Looking at Things in Profile - Simon Hudson (Cloud2) | @SimonJHudson
- Grant Permissions to All Communication Sites Associated with a Hub Site - Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting LLC) | @sympmarc
- Running a Power App as Edge Extension - Albert-Jan Schot (Portiva) | @appieschot
- Call Azure AD secured Azure function from Logic App or another function with Managed Identity - Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq) | @sergeev_srg
- Create Conditional Access Policies using Microsoft Graph PowerShell - Liam Cleary (Rencore) | @helloitsliam
- Execute JavaScript / TypeScript / Excel Formulas from Power Automate - Mark Rackley (PAIT Group) | @mrackley
- Calculate travel distance using Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
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 Sep 28, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 136 – 27nd of September 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 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 Belgium-based MVP and Technology Evangelist from The Cronos Group - Thomas Vochten | @ThomasVochten.
Topics discussed in this session include:
- What is the Technical Evangelist role and how does one work into the role?
- Teaching ITPros about the Developer tools and methods.
- What is the main concern for companies in the Microsoft cloud today?
- The Partner’s role in driving user adoption / change management.
- Tip: Don’t throw everything at the customer at the same time!
We also covered 11 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 web cams in totally audience free rooms on Monday, September 27, 2021.
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 public preview is now available! - Brad McCabe (Microsoft)
- Overview: Viva Connections (Preview) - Microsoft
- Set up and launch Viva Connections (Preview) - Microsoft
Community articles:
- Collabdays - Belgium & Netherlands 2021 - Saturday, October 23 2021
- Parse CSV through Code in Power Automate Custom Connection - John Liu (Flow Studio) | @johnnliu
- SharePoint Custom List Templates - Laura Rogers (WI Mentor) | @wonderlaura
- How to use the Microsoft Graph SDK Chaos Handler to Simulate Graph API Errors - Cameron Dwyer (OnePlace Solutions) | @CameronDwyer
- PnP Modern Search Filters web part - Agnes Molnar (Search Explained) | @molnaragnes
- Using Font Awesome Icons In PowerApps - Siddharth Vaghasia | @siddh_me
- Getting started with the Microsoft Teams Framework (TeamsFx) - Thomas Gölles (Solvion) | @thomyg
- Adaptive Scope Retention Policy | A Walk-Thru - Joanne C Klein | @JoanneCKlein
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!"