Episodes

Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 115 - 22nd of February 2021
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Tuesday Feb 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 Germany-based MVP, Product owner for the Valo Teamwork tool, and community contributor – Jarbas Horst – working for Finland-based Valo Intranet | @devjhorst. The discussion touches on role transition from developer to big picture manager, what suggests a successful day, evaluating feedback, the value of being an empathetic leader, proper onboarding, and the challenge of bringing people together in remote work times. The trio commented on the latest 14 articles/videos delivered last week by Microsoft and Community. This session was recorded on Monday, February 22, 2021.
- Video at Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel.
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:
- Microsoft Ignite 2021 - March 2–4, 2021 - Microsoft
Microsoft articles:
- Enhance productivity in Microsoft Teams with pop out apps and tabs - Microsoft
- Satin: Microsoft’s latest AI-powered audio codec for real-time communications - Microsoft
Community articles:
- Adding Custom Metadata Through a Content Pack in Learning Pathways - Emily Mancini (Sympraxis Consulting) | @EEMancini
- How to send Adaptive Cards with CLI Microsoft 365 - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- Speaking at SharePoint Klubi about Employee Onboarding in the Digital Era - Jarbas Horst (Valo Intranet) | @devjhorst
- Microsoft Graph SDK update with Darrel Miller - Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast | @m365devpodcast, Jeremy Thake (Microsoft), Paul Schaeflein (Addin365), and Darrel Miller (Microsoft)
- Get started with adaptive cards in Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
- Download Microsoft 365 usage reports using Microsoft Graph in Power Automate - Leon Armston (Intelogy) | @LeonArmston
- Using Doctor in GitHub Actions for your documentation - Elio Struyf (Valo Intranet) | @eliostruyf
- Certified! Microsoft 365 Developer Associate - Don Kirkham (GM Financial) | @DonKirkham
- Build Bots using Microsoft Teams Toolkit - Ayca Bas (Microsoft) | @aycabs
- Episode #142 - Creating Teams Tabs with Yo Teams v 3.x - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
- A simple workflow to create a To Do task from Microsoft Teams messages - Loryan Strant (Insync Technology) | @LoryanStrant
- Email overrides are not best practice - Robert Crane | @directorcia
Additional resources:
- Doctor - the static site generator for SharePoint - Tool from Elio Struyf on converting Markdown documentation to modern SharePoint pages
- 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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Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practice (PnP) - 23rd of February

Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 114 - 15th of February 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 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 UK-based Office Development MVP, MCT, MCM, focused on Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, mobile and AI/ML – Bill Ayers (Flow Simulation Ltd) | @SPDoctor. In this session Bill shares his tips on dealing with data overload, technology updates, event management and religious like enthusiasm. His advice - learn broadly, go deep as necessary to solve specific problem, avoid reacting to notifications, beware of same functionality, new name. Adopt latest technology when clear business reason is established. The group reviewed the latest 17 articles delivered last week by members in Microsoft and Community. The session was recorded on Monday, February 15, 2021.
- Video at Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel.
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:
- Track projects and share news in Teams with two new Power Apps - Microsoft
- Controlling app access on a specific SharePoint site collections is now available in Microsoft Graph - Microsoft
- New Microsoft Edge to replace Microsoft Edge Legacy with April’s Windows 10 Update Tuesday release - Microsoft
- Partner Solution Gallery - Microsoft
Community articles:
- Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Blazor Web Assembly and Microsoft Graph with Azure Functions - Fabian G. Williams (Microsoft)
- Announcing Microsoft Teams App Generator (Yo Teams) version 3 - Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices team
- Microsoft 365 PnP Hub at Microsoft Tech Community - Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices team
- How to create an improved Microsoft Teams Files approval process using Azure Logic Apps - Vesa Nopanen (Sulava) | @vesanopanen
- Use Node Version Manager to develop your SPFx apps - Toni Pohl (atwork) | @atwork
- Securely connect to Microsoft Graph from Teams tabs using SSO - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm
- What kind of apps can you build on Microsoft 365? - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm
- Use Microsoft Graph to create SharePoint items - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
- Use Microsoft Graph to Set Granular Permissions to SharePoint Online Sites for Azure AD Application - Srinivas Varukala (Microsoft) | @svarukala
- Modern SharePoint — How to get a blank page no header for easy reuse - Philip Worrell (Swisscom) | @Worrelpa
- How home-schooling in a pandemic is superior to workplace learning - Megan Strant (Insync Technology) | @MeganStrant
- A SharePoint Syntex & Microsoft Viva conversation with Chris McNulty - Sarah Haase | @sarahhaase, Antonio Maio | @AntonioMaio2, Mike Maadarani | @mikemaadarani and Chris McNulty (Microsoft) | @cmcnulty2000
- yo Teams, IoT and Azure Data with Wictor Wilén - Jeremy Thake (Microsoft) | @jthake, Paul Schaeflein (AddIn365) | @paulschaeflein and Wictor Wilen (Avanade) | @wictor
Additional resources:
- Doctor - the static site generator for SharePoint - Tool from Elio Struyf on converting Markdown documentation to modern SharePoint pages
- 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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Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practice (PnP) - 16th of February

Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 113 - 8th of February 2021
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Tuesday Feb 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 UK based MVP and Developer focused on Teams, Bots and Voice – Tom Morgan (Modality Systems) | @tomorgan.
Topics raised in today’s discussion include voice extensibility, Microsoft Teams – the OS for work, and the value of integrating communications into apps or business processes enabling users to take action without having jump from environment to environment. Viewing the Microsoft Graph as APIs organized by workload with the benefit of shared authentication and discussion and articles on the recent Microsoft Viva announcement. Additionally, discussed the impact of remote working, 25 articles from Microsoft and Community. The session was recorded on Monday, February 8, 2021.
This episode was recorded on Monday, February 8, 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:
- Introducing Microsoft Viva, the Employee Experience Platform in Microsoft Teams - Seth Patton (Microsoft) | @SethPat
- Microsoft Teams Release Processes - Why do I not see a feature but my colleague does? - Martin Rinas (Microsoft)
- Update information at the speed of type: Edit in grid view - Miceile Barrett (Microsoft) | @MSFTMiceile
- Microsoft 365 apps say farewell to Internet Explorer 11 and Windows 10 sunsets Microsoft Edge Legacy - Microsoft
- Designing SharePoint sites with beautiful headers - Cathy Dew (Microsoft) | @catpaint1
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: January 2021 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Microsoft Viva Connections helps everyone to stay engaged and informed - Seth Patton (Microsoft) | @SethPat
- Introducing Microsoft Viva Topics - Seth Patton (Microsoft) | @SethPat
- Microsoft Viva Insights helps people nurture wellbeing and be their best - Seth Patton (Microsoft) | @SethPat
- Announcing Microsoft Viva Learning private preview - Seth Patton (Microsoft) | @SethPat
- Use the shared JavaScript runtime to improve the UI experience of your Office Add-in - Microsoft
- Best practices and updates for bot lifecycle events in Microsoft Teams - Ojasvi Choudhary (Microsoft) | @Ojasvi
Community articles:
- Microsoft Viva repositioning tweet - Dion Hinchcliffe | @dhinchcliffe
- What is the M365 PnP Community Hub - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- thoughtstuff blog by Tom Morgan - Tom Morgan (Modality Systems) | @tomorgan
- Tom Morgan YouTube channel - Tom Morgan (Modality Systems) | @tomorgan
- The Massive Market Impact of Microsoft Viva - Josh Bersin | @Josh_Bersin
- Provision folder structure for Files tab in Teams - Joel Rodrigues (Storm Technology Ltd) | @JoelFMRodrigues
- How to build a weather web part for SharePoint using a list view formatting - João Ferreira (Beezy) | @joao12ferreira
- How I stay up to date on Microsoft cloud - Yannick Reekmans (Qubix365) | @YannickReekmans
- How to create a Content plan for your Social Media activities in a calendar view in SharePoint lists & automate all the boring work - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- SP Formatter: the big update - Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq) | @sergeev_srg
- Use GraphServiceClient with HttpClient in muti-thread apps - Alexey Sadomov (Valo Intranet) | @sadomovalex
- Knowledge Management Series - Introduction to Viva Topics - Kevin McDonnell (CPS) | @kevmcdonk
- SharePoint Online Branding - a Microsoft 365 Voice Discussion - Sarah Haase | @sarahhaase, Antonio Maio | @AntonioMaio2, Mike Maadarani | @mikemaadarani and Thomas Daly | @_tomdaly_
Additional resources:
- Doctor - the static site generator for SharePoint - Tool from Elio Struyf on converting Markdown documentation to modern SharePoint pages
- 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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Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practice (PnP) - 9th of February

Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 112 - 1st of February 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 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 Ed Everett, Principal Group Program Manager from Microsoft, leading the platform extensibility efforts for OneDrive and SharePoint areas.
The trio talk about continued integrations of infrastructure and app platform across Microsoft 365, including still tighter integration with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Graph, Power Platform, resource-based consent for app development, several SPFx updates, and more on forms customization.
Also discussed the impact of remote working, 1 event and 19 articles from Microsoft and Community, work updates from the hosts, and an invitation to tune into an New Microsoft 365 service announcement from Satya Nadella and Jared Spataro on Thursday, February 4th, 9:00 am EST.
This episode was recorded on Monday, February 1, 2021.
- Video at Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel.
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:
- Thursday, February 4th, 2021 - Reimage the Employee Experience
Microsoft articles:
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | January 2021 - Microsoft
- Welcome to WorkLab -- a site devoted to the future of work - Jeff Teper (Microsoft)
- WorkLab - Exploring the Science of Work and Ingenuity - Microsoft
- New Microsoft Lists adoption center - Andrea Lum (Microsoft)
- Microsoft Lists Adoption - Track information. Organize work. Customize for your team - Microsoft
- What’s Coming for Office Add-ins in 2021 - Tristan Davis (Microsoft)
Community articles:
- Build your personalized enterprise search experience with PnP Modern Search v4 solution - Microsoft 365 PnP Community | @m365pnp
- Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Batch requests with Power Automate custom connectors - Ayca Bas (Microsoft) | @Aycabs
- CLI for Microsoft 365 v3.5 - Microsoft 365 PnP Community | @m365pnp
- New version of the PnP PowerShell – Open-source cross-platform PowerShell module to manage Microsoft 365 - Microsoft 365 PnP Community | @m365pnp
- Office Add-in Development Community (PnP) – December 2020 update - Office Add-ins Community
- Convert Webparts to Functional Components (React Hooks) - Robert Pearmain (yorcloud)
- Support for channel moderation in Microsoft Graph - Jarbas Horst (Valo Intranet) | @devjhorst
- Live London Underground Line Status Solution Summary & Learnings From Converting To Azure Logic Apps - Leon Armston (Intelogy) | @LeonArmston
- SharePoint List Rules - Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @WonderLaura
- Different ways of consuming organizational data (i.e. SharePoint or MS Graph API or other) from SPFx web parts - Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq) | @sergeev_srg
- Export conversations from Microsoft Teams Channels with CLI for Microsoft 365 - Joseph Velliah | @josephvelliah
- MyAnalytics + Pomodoro = Microsoft 365 powered productivity - Loryan Strant (Insync Technology) | @LoryanStrant
- Microsoft Teams revised in-meeting experience — #179 - Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks, Inc) | @DanielGlenn, Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change) | @darrellaas
Additional resources:
- Doctor - the static site generator for SharePoint - Tool from Elio Struyf on converting Markdown documentation to modern SharePoint pages
- PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing to the 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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Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practice (PnP) - 2nd of February

Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 111 - 25th of January 2021
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Tuesday Jan 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 MVP, "Stickerpreneur", conference speaker, and engineering lead Elio Struyf (Valo Intranet) | @eliostruyf.
Their discussion focuses on building products on the Microsoft 365 platform, from a partner perspective. Angles explored - platform control, product ownership, communications, a marriage, importance of roadmap, areas for improvement, communications, and value. Considerations behind product development and distribution strategy including on-Prem, SAAS offering or delivery to customer to host in their own cloud with assistance from partners. Valo is effectively an ISV that delivers solutions like an SI.
14 articles and 2 events from Microsoft and PnP Community contributors are highlighted in this session recorded on Monday, January 25, 2021.
This episode was recorded on Monday, January 25, 2021.
- Video at Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel.
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:
- Friday, January 29th, 2021 - Power of the Cloud - Microsoft 365 Cloud Power User Virtual Conference
- Thursday, January 28th, 2021 - CollabDays Birmingham 2021
Microsoft articles:
- Notifications from Yammer communities are now available in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft
- 7 tips for safe online meetings and collaboration with Microsoft Teams - Microsoft
- “Making risk less risky” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman, Chris McNulty (Microsoft) | @cmcnulty2000, Martina Grom (atwork) | @magrom and Christophe Fiessinger (Microsoft) | @cfiessinger
- Guides and tools to design your Microsoft Teams app effectively - Microsoft
- Get the Microsoft Lists app for iOS - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
Community articles:
- Format an image column with preview in Microsoft Lists and SharePoint - João Ferreira (Beezy) | @joao12ferreira
- Testing out the new Power Automate/Flow commands in PnP.PowerShell + Bonus Script: Export all Flows using PnP.PowerShell - Leon Armston (Intelogy) | @LeonArmston
- Understanding why you at least must consider to go isolated - William van Strien (ASML) | @wvstrien
- Building a Microsoft Teams bot for AppSource: Posting an Adaptive Card carousel as a welcome message - Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Intranet) | @vrdmn
- Use multiple Node.js versions on your computer (and develop a SPFx webpart) - Toni Pohl (atwork) | @atwork
- Markdown Explained in Under 10 Minutes - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
- Episode #138 - Introducing the new PnP Framework v. 1.0.0 - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia
- Post a SharePoint news or page in Yammer - Juan Carlos González (Ricoh España) | @jcgm1978
- Organisational ownership of Microsoft 365 is not so straightforward - Loryan Strant (Insync Technology) | @jcgm1978
Additional resources:
- Doctor - the static site generator for SharePoint - Tool from Elio Struyf on converting Markdown documentation to modern SharePoint pages
- PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing to the 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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Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practice (PnP) - 26th of January