Episodes

Tuesday May 04, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 125 - 3rd of May 2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Tuesday May 04, 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 Business Applications MVP, Flow Pro Show co-host, NLightning co-founder and Technical Evangelist at SharePoint ISV Lightning Tools Sandy Ussia | @SandyU.
Topics discussed in this session include: The appeal of Power Apps and Power Automate - enabling Power Users especially in resource constrained smaller businesses, whether or not Power Apps is the epitome or fulfillment of “Good-enough IT”, Sandy 2.0, and Lightning Tools’ business in COVID times. Microsoft and the Community delivered 22 articles in this last week. This session was recorded on Monday, May 3, 2021.
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.
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!
Events:
- May 4, 2021 - Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS) - Digital Event
- 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:
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2021 - Microsoft
- Skype for Business Online retires July 31, 2021 – here’s what to expect - Microsoft
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: April 2021 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Microsoft Lists: Five free virtual workshops, May 10-14, 2021 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.12.1 – Extending more of Microsoft Teams - SharePoint team | @SharePoint
- Learn how to develop apps with the Microsoft Graph Toolkit - Microsoft
- Updates to Organizational Theming in Microsoft 365 admin center - Maha Alam (Microsoft)
Community articles:
- Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Create engaging apps with the Microsoft Teams Activity Feed API - Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | @sebastienlevert
- How to Set Up Tailwind CSS in a SharePoint Framework Project - Ari Gunawan (DevStack) | @arigunawan3023
- Power Platform MS Forms Quiz with dynamic Leader Board created using Power Automate and HTTP Trigger - Damien Bird (Aberdeen City Council) | @DamoBird365
- How to get Source Code files for Power Apps Canvas apps - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- CLI for Microsoft 365 v3.9 - Garry Trinder (CPS) | @garrytrinder
- Power Virtual Agents bot setting the Out Of Office - Vesa Nopanen (Sulava) | @vesanopanen
- Office Add-in Developer Community (PnP) – March 2021 update - David Chesnut (Microsoft) | @msdavech
- Teams - an adoption idea? Transfer your group chat emails to Teams with Power Automate - Damien Bird (Aberdeen City Council) | @DamoBird365
- SPFx Check Locale - a nice option to check your localization consistency across SharePoint Framework... - Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq) | @sergeev_srg
- SharePoint Framework v1.12.1 - What’s in the latest Update of SPFx? - Andrew Connell (Voitanos) | @andrewconnell
- Power Platform Rewind April 2021 - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
- Episode #152 - Managing SharePoint Online Data with Microsoft Graph SDK for .NET - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
- Flow Pro Show - Sandy Ussia (LightningTools) |@SandyU & Daniel Laskewitz (Sogeti) | @laskewitz
- Azure Cloud Shell now available in Microsoft 365 - Robert Crane (CIAOPS) | @directorcia
- Bulk-create Planner tasks with dates using Microsoft Power Automate - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm
Additional resources:
- Maturity Model for Microsoft 365
- 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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Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 124 - 26th of April 2021
Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
Tuesday Apr 27, 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 MVP, PnP Team member, and Architect at US-based Sympraxis Consulting Emily Mancini |@EEMancini. Topics discussed in this session include: Sharing is Caring engagement model, Aligning and addressing the client’s business needs with capabilities of owned technologies, i.e., Microsoft 365 for making changes with the business and not to the business! Conscious/unconscious usage of the Microsoft 365 Maturity Model for business ROI maximization. Ideas for increasing diversity in IT personnel, Imposter Syndrome, Tech vs Outcome and Teams or Yammer. Covering also 23 articles from Microsoft and the Community. This episode was recorded on Monday, April 26, 2021.
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.
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!
Events:
- April 26-28, 2021 - Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2021
- 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:
- Announcing Viva Learning public preview - John Mighell (Microsoft)
- Build and ship software better with GitHub and Microsoft Teams - Microsoft
- Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2021 - free, online training event - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- iPad support now available in Microsoft Lists for iOS - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Build quality Microsoft Teams apps with these best practices: Part 3 - Microsoft
- Utilize change notification APIs for Microsoft Teams messages - Microsoft
Community articles:
- Teams - an adoption idea? Transfer your group chat emails to Teams with Power Automate - Damien Bird (Aberdeen City Council) | @DamoBird365
- Microsoft 365 PnP Community Spotlight: Wictor Wilén - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese & Wictor Wilén (Avanade) | @wictor
- What I (as a non dev) learned as I created my first Power App - Michael Roth (IT-P Information Technology-Partner GmbH) | @Gezeitenbrand
- Learn to debug your Power Apps - Michael Roth (IT-P Information Technology-Partner GmbH) | @Gezeitenbrand
- Export Power Apps and Power Automate user licenses - Yves Habersaat (Sword Group) | @yhabersaat
- How to beautify your Power Apps - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- Intro to Power Apps Components and Custom Functions - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
- Microsoft 365 Developer - Tips & Tricks playlist - Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German, Dan Wahlin (Microsoft) | @DanWahlin, April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam and Ayca Bas (Microsoft) | @aycabs
- Episode #151 - Paging Data with Microsoft Graph SDK for .NET - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
- Power Apps Forms - Updates, Unsaved & Submit Confirmation - Reza Dorrani (Catapult Systems) | @RezaDorrani
- Actually, It’s Already In The SharePoint PageContext! - Tips by Bits | @TipsByBits
- Implement Carousel in SPFx web part using react-slick - Prasham Sabadra | @SabadraPrasham
- Monitoring Microsoft 365 using Raspberry Pi and M365 CLI - Anatoly Mironov (Bool by Sigma) | @mirontoli
- Building Modern SharePoint Pages with Quick Links - Sam Collins (Coupled Technology) | @SamC148
- Adding Conditional Formatting for a List Form Header with JSON - Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- SharePoint Syntex - teaching AI to extract contents of structured documents with Form Processing - Chris O'Brien (Content+Cloud) | @ChrisO_Brien
- Would you ever use SharePoint Online without Microsoft Teams? - Sarah Haase | @sarahhaase, Antonio Maio | @AntonioMaio2 and Mike Maadarani | @mikemaadarani
Additional resources:
- Maturity Model for Microsoft 365
- Microsoft 365 Community Survey - Open for April 2021 - please let us know how we can help to help you!
- 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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Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 123 - 19th of April 2021
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Thursday Apr 22, 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 a Power Platform Cloud Advocate April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
Topics discussed in this session include:
- April's currently role and focus areas as a Cloud Advocate
- Her experiences while starting her career in IT with her role models being for example Cathy Dew (Microsoft) and Laura Rodgers (IW Mentor)
- Discussion on the inclusiveness of the IT industry and in community efforts - we want everyone to feel welcome on getting involved!
- How to get started in the community - steps on getting involved in the community and growing your opportunities with the routes
- Power Platform and the different flavors of it - no-code, low-code, pro-code and more
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.
Covering also 24 articles from Microsoft and the Community.
This episode was recorded on Monday, April 19, 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!
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:
- Streamline requests with new approval features in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft
- New frontline worker enhancements in Teams to communicate, digitize processes and stay secure - Microsoft
- Your questions from the Microsoft Ignite Ask the Experts sessions about Microsoft Teams…answered! - Stephen Rose (Microsoft) | @stephenlrose
- Announcing public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.12.1 - Microsoft
- Migrate messages from other chat platforms to Microsoft Teams with Microsoft Graph APIs - Microsoft
- Enhance app engagement with the Microsoft Teams Activity Feed API - Microsoft
- Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Copy/Move Files and Folders in SharePoint Online - Srinivas Varukala (Microsoft) | @svarukala
- Build quality Microsoft Teams apps with these best practices: Part 2 - Erin Bailie (Microsoft)
- Announcing data source environment variables - Casey Burke (Microsoft)
- AI Builder April 2021 update - Cedrick Bellarosa
Community articles:
- Use Power Automate to automatically create SharePoint News Links from an RSS feed - Will Holland (ThreeWill) | @_WCHolland
- LearnTogether: Build Apps with Microsoft Graph 🦒 - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- FAQ's in a Document Card - Sam Colins (Coupled Technology) | @SamC148
- Microsoft 365 PnP Community Spotlight: Mikael Svenson - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese & Mikael Svenson (Microsoft) | @MikaelSvenson
- Power Apps print function - Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @wonderlaura
- Crawled Properties Not Created From Site Columns in Modern Team Sites - Marc Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- 8 top reasons to use Dataverse or SharePoint lists in the Power Platform - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
- Securing your Azure Functions with an existing Azure AD app - Elio Struyf (Struyf Consulting) | @eliostruy
- Using OAuth On-Behalf-Of flow in a Node.js Azure Functions - Elio Struyf (Struyf Consulting) | @eliostruy
- Filtering by a Date Range in Power Apps - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
- How to use React Hook Form together with Fluent UI React (aka Office UI Fabric React) - Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq) | @sergeev_srg
- Using the latest microsoft-graph-client in SPFx - Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | @sebastienlevert
- Managing concurrent tenant-wide and site collection-scoped SharePoint Framework deployments - Danny Jessee (ManTech) | @dannyjessee
- SPFx & react-localization, an easy alternative? - Robin Agten (delaware) | @AgtenRobin
Additional resources:
- Microsoft 365 Community Survey - Open for April 2021 - please let us know how we can help to help you!
- 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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Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 122 - 12th of April 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 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 a Partner at the US-based consultancy PAIT Group and Microsoft 365 MVP Mark Rackley | @mrackley.
Topics discussed in this session include: Hillbilly tabs, North American Collaboration Summit, how the transition from on-Prem to Cloud along with a talented PnP community has impacted the need to customize applications. Hiring based on who’s available, managing the pace of change and customer expectations, deployment planning, and the business unit customer’s interest in Microsoft Viva experience. Microsoft and the Community delivered 20 articles in this last week.
This episode was recorded on Monday, April 12, 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!
Events:
- April 14, 2021 - Building Apps with Microsoft Graph
- 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:
- Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android | April 2021 Updates - Microsoft
- New feature request experience for Microsoft Graph and Office Platform - Microsoft
- Build quality Microsoft Teams apps with these best practices: Part 1 - Microsoft
Community articles:
- Introduction to tokens - Lee Ford (Symity Ltd) | @lee_ford
- How to get any site collection users with their roles using PnP PowerShell? - Chandani Prajapati | @Chandani_SPD
- How to show profile picture in Person column in SharePoint list/library? - Chandani Prajapati | @Chandani_SPD
- Microsoft 365 PnP Community Spotlight: Albert-Jan Schot - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- Microsoft Graph Fundamentals learning path – Module 3 - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- 'LearnTogether Building apps with Microsoft Graph' event - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- Microsoft Graph Learn Together Event – Join Our APAC Watch Party - Cameron Dwyer (OnePlace Solutions) | @camerondwyer
- Power Apps: source code editing for Canvas Apps - Django Lohn (InSpark) | @lohndjango
- Change your own profile picture as a Guest in Microsoft Teams - Yannick Reekmans (Qubix) | @yannickreekmans
- Improving the Page Properties web part - Mike Homol (ThreeWill) | @homol
- Microsoft Graph Fundamentals learning path – Module 2 - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- Options for obtaining an access token with Azure application to application authentication - Anoop Tatti (Content+Cloud) | @anooptells
- Power Apps Data Sources Explained - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
- SharePoint List Form - Form Editor - Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @WonderLaura
- Upgrading the PnP Modern Search Web Parts from v3 to v4: Where are they? - Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- How to build a SharePoint glossary page using view formatting and connected list Web Parts - Michel Mendes (Storm Technology Ltd) | @michelcarl
- Change your background for a Teams meeting on mobile - Darrell Webster (WM Reply) | @DarrellaaS
Additional resources:
- 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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Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 121 - 6th of April 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 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 Canadian based Senior Program Manager from Microsoft Graph team Nik Charlebois | @NikCharlebois.
Topics discussed in this session include Nik's career development in Canada from being a customer, then moving to Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer and also on his recent role change on moving to the Microsoft Graph team. They focus on his current responsibilities on driving usage for Microsoft Graph data connect, which helps on accessing information in Microsoft 365. They also talk about Microsoft 365 DSC open-source work which Nik has been driving for a long time to be able to have desired state configuration for Microsoft 365 tenants.
The trio also covered 25 articles from last week published by Microsoft and Community.
This episode was recorded on Tuesday, April 6, 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!
Events:
- April 14, 2021 - Building Apps with Microsoft Graph
- May 25-27, 2021- Microsoft Build 2021
Microsoft articles:
- Install Viva Connections today - Mike Holste (Microsoft) | @Mike_Holste
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | February and March 2021 - Microsoft
- What’s new for Teams phones | March 2021 - Microsoft
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: March 2021 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Get Microsoft Graph change notifications delivered through Azure Event Hubs - Microsoft
- Accelerate your app adoption with MSAL for Node.js - Microsoft
- What’s new for admins in Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise - Microsoft
- Microsoft Graph Fundamentals now on Microsoft Learn - Rabia Williams (Microsoft) | @williamsrabia
- Power Platform Rewind March 2021 - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
Community articles:
- Microsoft Graph Fundamentals learning path – Module 1 - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- Microsoft Graph Fundamentals learning path – Module 2 - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- SPFx Image Editor Sample - Playing with Canvas - Peter Paul Kirschner (cubido) | @petkir_at
- CLI for Microsoft 365 v3.8 - Garry Trinder (CPS) | @garrytrinder
- Copy a list - with list items - to another site - Will Holland (ThreeWill) | @_WCHolland
- Add Developer PowerShell and Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio to Windows Terminal - Yannick Reekmans (Qubix)
- How to create and Install the Viva Connections application from macOS - João Ferreira (Beezy)
- How to create the Viva Connections desktop application using PnP PowerShell - João Ferreira (Beezy)
- Create Viva Connections App Using PnP PowerShell (Publish-PnPCompanyApp) - Leon Armston (Intelogy) | @LeonArmston
- Microsoft Teams | SharePoint Permissions: 7 Things to consider - Tracy van der Schyff | @tracyvds
- Sharepoint Tips And Tricks - Ishai Sagi (Extelligent Design) | @ishaisagi
- Inside the Viva Connections desktop app, or BYO Viva app - Wictor Wilén (Avanade) | @wictor
- Dear Microsoft: Determining Solution Usage in Your Tenant Shouldn’t Be Like This - Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- Many running flows in Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
- Microsoft 365 connectivity testing tool - Robert Crane | @directorcia
- Microsoft Graph Essentials extension released for VSCode - Elio Struyf (Struyf Consulting) | @eliostruyf
Additional resources:
- 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!"