Episodes

Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 100 - 12th of October 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
In this weekly discussion of the latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen, Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm, are joined by Sébastien Levert | @sebastienlevert - Office Apps and Services MVP and head of product at Valo Intranet. In this milestone Episode 100, Sébastien (Séb) interviews Vesa and Waldek asking questions submitted by community members covering the full gambit of why, what, how.
Obversely, Séb was asked why his team uses SPFx for Microsoft Teams development to which he responded: SPFx developers are now all Teams developers and for simplicity. SPFx Teams tabs, Graph, Authentication… it’s all connected which means faster time to market! 17 recently released articles from Microsoft and the PnP Community are highlighted as well.
As always, if you need help on an issue, want to share a discovery, or just want to say: “Job well done”, please reach out to Vesa, to Waldek or to your PnP Community.
This episode was recorded on Monday, October 12, 2020.
- 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:
- European SharePoint Conference (ESPC20) – upcoming online training event | Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Microsoft.Identity.Web is now generally available! | Microsoft
- Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp | Ayca Bas (Microsoft) | @aycabs, Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German & Rabia Williams (Microsoft) | @williamsrabia
Community articles:
- Should I stay or should I go…Bookmarks vs Promoted Results | Bill Baer (Microsoft) | @williambaer
- Making the most of Answers in Microsoft Search | Bill Baer (Microsoft) | @williambaer
- A preview on PnP Framework just shipped | Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @o365bert
- Cross Platform PnP PowerShell Released | Erwin van Hunen (Valo Intranet) | @erwinvanhunen
- The power of PnP Core SDK running on a Raspberry Pi | Paul Bullock (Capa Creative) | @pkbullock
- Game Changer - Cross Platform PnP Framework and PowerShell Preview Releases | Pete Skelly (ThreeWill) | @pskelly
- Beginners Guide to MS Teams Development #2: Bots | Tomomi Imura (Microsoft) | @girlie_mac
- SharePoint Framework Five "W"s & 1 "H" Answered - Overview | Andrew Connell (Voitanos) | @andrewconnell
- Microsoft Lists for Teams 10 Minute Overview | April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
- MSIgnite Analysis — Employee Engagement with Yammer, SharePoint, Teams and Stream | Darrell as a Service | @DarrellaaS, Sarah Haase (U.S. Bank) | @SarahHaase, and Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks, Inc) | @DanielGlenn
- Teams governance != M365 governance | Loryan Strant (Insync Technology) | @LoryanStrant
- Get all Teams a User is Part of using PowerShell PnP | Veronique Lengelle (CPS Solutions) | @veronicageek
- Episode #119 - Microsoft Teams Extensibility (from a developer's viewpoint) | Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
- Hacktoberfest®
Additional resources:
- PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing in 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 to 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 Practices Team - 13th of October 2020

Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 99 - 2nd of October 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen, Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm, are joined by Christina Wheeler | @cwheeler76, a long time Office Apps and Services MVP and principal solutions architect for US-based Canviz. The discussion ranged from avoiding work burn-out and server management (go cloud!) to architecting solutions that draw upon capabilities across Microsoft 365 to Drone FAA 107 certification and of course many laughs between topics. This episode was recorded on Friday, October 2, 2020.
As always, if you need help on an issue, want to share a discovery, or just want to say: “Job well done”, please reach out to Vesa, to Waldek or to your PnP Community.
This episode was recorded on Friday, October 2, 2020.
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 2020 | Microsoft
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: September 2020 | Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- General Availability - SharePoint Syntex | Chris McNulty (Microsoft) | @cmcnulty2000
- Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamps | Microsoft
- Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp | Ayca Bas (Microsoft) | @aycabs, Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German & Rabia Williams (Microsoft) | @williamsrabia
- Open Excel from your web page and embed your Office Add-in | Microsoft
- Microsoft Teams Chalk Talks - Do more with apps in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft
Community articles:
- Quick Tip: Avoid limitations when reading SharePoint list items using Microsoft Graph | Jarbas Horst (Valo Intranet) | @devjhorst
- Part 1 – Easily enable SharePoint spaces | Joel Rodrigues (Storm Technology) | @JoelFMRodrigues
- Design Review: Page layout and typography of communication sites | Stefan Bauer (N8D) | @StfBauer
- Episode #118 - Using MSAL.NET to access Microsoft Graph - Part 2 | Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
- Search and modern multilingual pages in SharePoint Online | Mikael Svenson (Microsoft) | @mikaelsvenson
- Happy to announce that Chandani Prajapati supports now the PnP/SPFx generator in all angular related matters | Chandani Prajapati | @Chandani_SPD
- Beginners Guide to MS Teams Development #1: Tabs | Tomomi Imura (Microsoft) | @girlie_mac
- Prepare: Microsoft Teams meeting recordings are shifting to OneDrive and SharePoint | Darrell as a Service | @DarrellaaS
- Are hubs the new SharePoint site collection? | Sarah Haase | @sarahhaase
Additional resources:
- PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing in the community
- Checkout 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 to 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 Practices Team - 6th of October 2020

Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 98 - 28th of September 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Vesa Nopanen - principle consultant at Finland-based Sulava and MVP for Office Apps and Services focusing on Microsoft Teams. The group delves into why Teams is a passion for Vesa, as well as into topics like working asynchronously, guiding customers to Teams adoption, how digital transformation has been accelerated by the pandemic, a partner’s responsibility to show value in customers context and more. Additionally, 17 recently released articles from Microsoft and the PnP Community are highlighted - many post Ignite summaries and an announcement on the newest Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft 365.
As always, if you need help on an issue, want to share a discovery, or just want to say: “Job well done”, please reach out to Vesa, to Waldek or to your PnP Community.
This episode was recorded on Monday, September 28, 2020.
- 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:
- What's New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Ignite 2020 | Microsoft
- Creating customized meetings experiences with apps in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft
- Innovations for workplace communications and employee engagement in Microsoft 365 | Dan Holme (Microsoft) | @danholme
- The home site app for Microsoft Teams | Tejas Mehta (Microsoft) | @tpmehta
- Announcing SharePoint Syntex | Seth Patton (Microsoft) | @SethPat
- What’s new for Microsoft Search – Ignite 2020 Edition | Bill Baer (Microsoft) | @williambaer
- Ignite 2020: The emergence of Microsoft Graph services | Microsoft
- Security and Compliance controls in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams - Roundup for Sep 2020 | Sesha Mani (Microsoft) | @SeshaManiS
Community articles:
- My last week at Rencore | Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore) | @waldekm
- Teams news summary of Microsoft Ignite | Vesa Nopanen (Sulava) | @vesanopanen
- TeamsFest | October 2020 | Chris Hoard (Vuzion) | @Microsoft365Pro
- Create Power Apps in Teams - New, easy database | Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @WonderLaura
- MS Ignite and Microsoft Lists announcements | Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @WonderLaura
- Custom Help Link - External Sharing in Microsoft 365 | Joanne Klein | @JoanneCKlein
- I was wrong about Microsoft Teams | Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore) | @waldekm
- Microsoft Teams: What Happens When… - Top 10 Things to Look Out for When Using Microsoft Teams | Veronique Lengelle (TSG) | @veronicageek
- Modern Workplace and Microsoft Teams online conference
Additional resources:
- PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing in the community
- Checkout 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 to 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 Practices Team - 29th of September 2020

Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 97 - 21st of September 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by US based Julie Turner who is Partner/CTO with Sympraxis Consulting, Microsoft Office Apps and Services MVP, co-maintainer of PnPjs project, co-developer of Learning Pathways and… This episode focuses squarely on the benefits of a committed community - together creating better practices, future proofing, sharing pride of ownership, learning and teaching. In this co-creative world with limited resources, let Microsoft build the products, fill platform bugs and expose APIs and while the community focuses on building the SDKs, extending the platform and driving deployments. 14 recently released articles from Microsoft and the PnP Community are highlighted as well in this episode.
As always, if you need help on an issue, want to share a discovery, or just want to say: “Job well done”, please reach out to Vesa, to Waldek or to your PnP Community.
This episode was recorded on Monday, September 21, 2020.
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 2020 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Planner, Stream, Visio and Lists | Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Your Guide to Microsoft Teams @ Ignite 2020 | Microsoft
- The Microsoft Virtual Event Playbook and Community are here! | Karuana Gatimu (Microsoft) | @Karuana
- Buckle up and get ready for Ignite 2020! | Microsoft
- Getting started with the Microsoft Graph Toolkit | Microsoft
- Microsoft 365 learning pathways | Microsoft
- Microsoft Search vs PnP Modern Search - a clash of titans! | Mikael Svenson (Microsoft) | @mikaelsvenson
Community articles:
- Updated version of CLI for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft 365 PnP crew
- New maintainer for CLI for Microsoft 365 - Mark Powney (Valo Intranet) | @mpowney
- Implement Microsoft Graph app-only calls the easy way using Azure Logic Apps and Azure Managed Identity | Garry Trinder | @garrytrinder
- Episode #116 - Latest news about Microsoft Teams APIs in Microsoft Graph | Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia
- 5 ways to use AI to supercharge your content in Microsoft 365 | Chris O'Brien (Content and Code) | @ChrisO_Brien
- How to identify whether SPFx web part is running in web browser or in Teams client | Alexey Sadomov (Valo Intranet) | @sadomovalex
- Flow Matching file name in Library | Laura Rodgers (IW Mentor) | @wonderlaur
Additional resources:
- PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing in the community
- SharePoint look book template - Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways
- Repo and overview video - Microsoft 365 learning pathways
If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions to 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 Practices Team - 22nd of September 2020

Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 96 - 14th of September 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Yannick Plenevaux (PVX Solutions) - Microsoft 365 Solution Architect, practice owner and MVP based in Belgium. The trio discuss starting a consulting practice, MVP and community membership credibility, the benefactors (community, customers, consultants and employers) of open source work. IP protection and why employers and employees embrace open source community participation. Finally, Yannick as a core member of the PnP Core SDK project, comments on a recent post on the subject. In this episode, 12 recently released articles from Microsoft and the PnP Community are highlighted.
As always, if you need help on an issue, want to share a discovery, or just want to say: “Job well done”, please reach out to Vesa, to Waldek or to your PnP Community.
This episode was recorded on Monday, September 14, 2020.
- Video at Microsoft 365 & SharePoint 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:
- “Makers make magic” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast | Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Fluid Framework is now open source | Microsoft
Community articles:
- PnP Virtual Conference – September 2020 – Summary and Recordings | Microsoft
- Fluid Framework opensource with Dan Wahlin | Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast | @m365devpodcast
- How to set the modern document library view to tiles mode programatically | Jonas Bjerke Hansen (Evobis ApS) | @jbjerkehansen
- CLI for Microsoft 365 v3.1 | CLI for Microsoft 365 | @climicrosoft365
- Getting Started with the PnP Core SDK | Microsoft 365 PnP
- Storman: An Old Workhorse that’s Still Valuable | Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- Extract Microsoft Teams team as a PnP Template | Gautam Sheth (Valo Intranet) | @gautamdsheth
- Microsoft Lists round-robin with Mark Kashman | Sarah Haase (U.S. Bank) | @SarahHaase
- Create a SharePoint list using Power Automate | Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
- If you use #MicrosoftTeams at work, do you use any applications from the marketplace? | Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore) | @waldekm
Additional resources:
- PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing in the community
If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions to 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 Practices Team - 15th of September 2020