Episodes

Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 95 - 7th of September 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Tomasz Poszytek, an independent consultant and MVP from Poland. They talk about Thomasz's background and how we crew to be an independent consultant running his own business. Key tips from him for anyone who might be looking into doing the same. Discussions on the business automation and the different tools which we have had around these processes in past. Touching the challenge of the licensing models from Microsoft and how that has been simplified from the past... but could be further simplified in future. Thomasz also talks about this experiences on being a project manager and how he decided to rather be a consultant. In this episode, 21 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 7, 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 | August 2020 | Microsoft
- Microsoft Lists in Microsoft Teams is now generally available | Ansuman Acharya (Microsoft)
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: August 2020 | Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Announcing the public preview of Microsoft Graph change notifications delivery via Azure Event Hubs | Vincent Biret (Microsoft) | @baywet
- Office Scripts now enabled by default – Preview | Petra Ronald (Microsoft)
- Adaptive Cards community call – August 2020 | Microsoft 365 Team
- Run a flow when a SharePoint column is modified | Harysh Menon (Microsoft)
Community articles:
- CLI for Microsoft 365 v3 | Microsoft 365 PnP
- New Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices (PnP) team members | Microsoft 365 PnP
- Tomasz Poszytek YouTube Channel | Tomasz Poszytek | @TomaszPoszytek
- Adaptive Cards in Outlook - Ultimate Guide | Tomasz Poszytek | @TomaszPoszytek
- Episode #113 - SharePoint Online Taxonomy API via Microsoft Graph | Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia
- Episode #114 - Managing To-Do Tasks with Microsoft Graph | Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia
- Serve and debug Teams SPFx app from localhost | Marcin Wojciechowski (Valo Intranet) | @mgwojciech
- New Microsoft 365 Groups governance content | Loryan Strant (Insync Technology) | @LoryanStrant
- Microsoft Teams messaging extensions using SPFx: Getting the message data with Microsoft Graph | Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Intranet)
- Use SPFx for Task Modules in Teams Messaging Extensions and access Microsoft Graph | Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
- Live London Underground Line Status – SharePoint View Formatting & Power Automate | Leon Armston (Intelogy) | @LeonArmston
- Microsoft Teams Meetings — leaving a strong impression | Megan Strant (Insync Technology) | @MeganStrant
- Power Platform Hack4Good Poland – WE DID IT! | Michał Guzowski (Developico.com) | @michaelguzowski
- How to present your video and content side by side in a Microsoft Teams meeting | Matt Wade (jumpto365) | @thatmattwade
Additional resources:
- PnP Virtual Conference on - September 2020 - summary and recordings - Free conference for you around Microsoft 365 topics, delivered by MPVs and Microsoft employees
- 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 - 8th of September 2020

Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 94 - 31st of August 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by. by Phil Worrell (Swisscom) – Community Evangelist based in Switzerland. The trio discusses the significance of the datacenter and cloud adoption in Switzerland, embracing the new work reality, and REgarding 365 - a WW community of MVPs delivering opinions, interviews, conferences, blog posts, weekly talk show and support on everything Microsoft 365. Waldek and the PnP CLI team are gearing up to ship v3.0 of PnP CLI for Microsoft 365 this weekend. In this episode, 17 recently released articles from Microsoft and the PnP Community are highlighted.
Action: Register - Free Virtual Conference on Microsoft 365 topics on September 1st | aka.ms/PnPVirtualConference
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, August 31, 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:
- Agile IT management of your SharePoint-powered intelligent intranet | Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – August 2020 | Microsoft
- .NET update on Azure breaking SharePoint provider hosted app parts (add-ins) | Microsoft
- SharePoint provider hosted add-ins stop working in Safari 13.1 browser | Microsoft
Community articles:
- REgarding 365 YouTube channel - REgarding 365
- Chat using Tags in Microsoft Teams | Darrell Webster (Datacom) | @DarrellaaS
- Microsoft Lists, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive — Changes in Microsoft 365 | Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks, Inc) | @DanielGlenn
- Staying on top of Microsoft 365 changes (an organizational perspective) | Sarah Haase (U.S. Bank) | @sarahhaase
- CLI for Microsoft 365 - Releases 2.13 and upcoming 3.0 - PnP Team
- Add a task to Microsoft To Do from a message in Microsoft Teams, with Linked Resources | Yannick Reekmans (Qubix365) | @yannickreekmans
- SharePoint event receiver to Azure storage queue | Joel Rodrigues (Storm Technology Ltd) | @JoelFMRodrigues
- Power Apps & SharePoint: Dynamically get the site URL from lists used in an App (and make your app Flows easily reusable) | Michel Mendes (Storm Technology Ltd) | @michelcarlo
- A Microsoft Teams Messaging Extension with Authentication and access to Microsoft Graph - V - The action based variant | Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
- How we can extend Microsoft Teams with Custom Apps - The Non-Technical Explanation | Laura Kokkarinen (Sulava) | @laurakokkarinen
- #12 If you don’t use PnPjs you miss out | Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore) | @waldekm
- Flow when a SharePoint Column is Updated | Laura Rodgers | @WonderLaura
- Microsoft 365 Maturity Model | Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
Additional resources:
- PnP Virtual Conference on 1st of September - Free conference for you around Microsoft 365 topics, delivered by MPVs and Microsoft employees
- 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 - 1st of September 2020

Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 93 - 24th of August 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Ayça Baş, Cloud Advocate from Microsoft concentrating on Microsoft 365 extensibility based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. After working as a Premier Field Engineer on many cloud migrations - Microsoft Teams leveraging Microsoft Graph on Azure deployments, Ayça's developer advocate focus now is on content development, blogging and events/speaking, in which her real-world customer/developer engagement experiences form a solid foundation for her practical communications to the Microsoft 365 developer community. In this episode, 14 recently released articles from Microsoft and the PnP Community are highlighted.
Action: Register - Free Virtual Conference on Microsoft 365 topics on September 1st | aka.ms/PnPVirtualConference
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, August 24, 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:
- Microsoft Teams Devices for Shared Spaces July and August Update | Microsoft
- Four new ways to simplify your work with Microsoft Teams and Power Automate | Microsoft
- “Figuring it out with Bob” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast | Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- The new & improved Microsoft Graph To Do APIs are now in Public Preview | Microsoft
- What’s new for change notifications and change tracking in Microsoft Graph – August 2020 | Vincent Biret (Microsoft) | @baywet
- Microsoft Graph APIs for Taxonomy in beta endpoint | Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
Community articles:
- Quick Bites for Developers blog | Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs
- Caveats when working with the CLI and certificate login | Velin Georgiev (Pramerica) | @VelinGeorgiev
- How to effectively manage SharePoint news – Part 1 | João Ferreira (Beezy) | @Joao12Ferreira
- M365 Developer Associate certification prep tips | Elnur Babayev (Volvo IT) | @elnurnb
- Adding Guests using the Graphs ending up as Members | Albert-Jan Schot (Portiva) | @appieschot
- Share Lists and List items to Microsoft Teams | João Ferreira (Beezy) | @Joao12Ferreira
- JOPX on Microsoft Business Applications, Analytics and Azure Cloud | Joris Poelmans (RealDolmen) | @jopxtwits
- Create "All Users" Groups and Distribution Lists in Office 365 and Azure AD | Todd Klindt (Sympraxis Consulting) | @ToddKlindt
Additional resources:
- Microsoft Teams sample gallery - access easily Microsoft Teams samples created and shared by Microsoft and community - find what you are looking for
- PnP Virtual Conference on 1st of September - Free conference for you around Microsoft 365 topics, delivered by MPVs and Microsoft employees
- PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing in the community
- Quick Bites for Developers blog - Events - Ayça's blog listing latest events and agendas.
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 - 25th of August 2020

Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 92 - 17th of August 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Yannick Reekmans – MVP, Microsoft 365 Solution Architect and developer at Qubix. Topics raised during this session: Customers’ shifting priorities, Microsoft’s shifting product capabilities, and Partner monetization opportunities. Discussion on purpose-built apps vs delivering experiences, Teams vs SharePoint extensibility, value-add vs branded UI and strategies for Customer migration to cloud and for staying up-to-date on latest technologies. Fundamental approach - lead with Teams and add SharePoint for news and Intranet. In this episode, 19 recently released articles from Microsoft and the PnP Community are highlighted.
Action: Register - Free Virtual Conference on Microsoft 365 topics on September 1st | aka.ms/PnPVirtualConference
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, August 17, 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:
- New capabilities for Teams Management | July 2020 | Microsoft
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: July 2020 | Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- The intelligent intranet | Microsoft
- The New Employee Onboarding hub – Improving the new hire experience | Matt Wolodarsky (Microsoft) | @mwolodarsky
- Inform and engage students and staff with SharePoint site templates for Education | Debjani Mitra (Microsoft) | @debjanimi
- Let your users skip sign-in with Single Sign-On support for Microsoft Teams tabs | Microsoft
- Frictionless app development and enablement with the new Teams App Submission API | Microsoft
- MSAL.js 2.0 is now generally available with support for authorization code flow | Microsoft
- Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.11: Extend more of Microsoft Teams, and publish to AppSource | Microsoft
Community articles:
- Microsoft Graph People Search Web Part | Yannick Reekmans (Qubix) | @YannickReekmans
- Using MSAL.js 2.0 in SharePoint Framework (SPFx) | Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
- Simplifying Proactive Messaging in Microsoft Teams with Microsoft Graph's new API permissions | Jarbas Horst (Valo Intranet) | @devjhorst
- Microsoft Teams Personal Tab Integration with Graph API using Single Sign-On | Ejaz Hussain (Content and Code) | @EjazHussain_
- Showing the correct DateTime value from UTC value in an SPFx webpart | Ramin Prasad Meenavalli (Infineon Technologies) | @ram_meenavalli
- Build your Microsoft 365 client app in Blazor with the PnP Core SDK preview | Yannick Plenevaux (PVX Solutions) | @yp_code
- Adding support for theme variants in SPFx web parts | Hugo Bernier (Tahoe Ninjas) | @bernierh
- Authentication in Teams tabs using Microsoft Graph Toolkit | Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs
- Demystifying Microsoft Lists | Mark Rackley (PAIT Group) | @mrackley
- Episode #111 - Reading metadata/fields of SPO files using Microsoft Graph | Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
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 SharePoint/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 - 18th of August 2020

Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 91 - 13th of July 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by D'arce Hess (CloudWay) – US based MVP and Information Architect to discuss the importance of information architecture and the human side of IT. Success is defined by people, not by technology. There is a need to manage the disconnects between decision makers, IT and information users. Tips for how include: Get end-users in room to define actual requirements, keep refining how to engage and support users, embrace Evergreen mode, manage IT’s fears, make decisions based on analytics and not on emotions. There are opportunities for surfacing actionable data more readily. Are customers transitioning to Teams as their intranet? Teams is the platform for collaboration pared with SharePoint for content discoverability. Additionally, in this episode, 15 recently released articles from Microsoft and the PnP Community are highlighted.
What’s happening this week? The release of SPFx v.1.11, that will be followed by a CLI update and SPFx v1.11 web part/extensions showing up in AppSource.
Note: The PnP Weekly team is taking a break for 4 weeks. The next episode (Season 4) of PnP Weekly (Episode 92) will be delivered on August 11th.
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, July 13, 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:
- Re-imagine meeting room experiences with Teams-enabled devices for shared spaces - Microsoft Teams team
- How to get the most from Together mode - Jaron Lanier (Microsoft)
- Introducing Microsoft Teams displays - Microsoft Teams team
- Evolve your intelligent intranet to transform employee communications and digital experiences - Brad McCabe (Microsoft)
- On-demand training sessions for SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Yammer, and Stream – 2020-H2 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- A Lap around Microsoft Graph Toolkit Day 14 – Using Microsoft Graph Toolkit with Angular - Cameron Dwyer (OnePlace Solutions) | @CameronDwyer
- A Lap around Microsoft Graph Toolkit Day 15 – Microsoft Graph Toolkit Resources, Roadmap, and Next Steps - Beth Pan (Microsoft) | @beth_panx
- Updated content recommendations on your Microsoft 365 Developer Program dashboard - Microsoft 365 Team
- Get notified of presence changes – the Microsoft Graph presence subscription API is now available in public preview - Ananya Mishra (Microsoft)
Community articles:
- React Timeline web part sample - Nanddeep Nachan | @nanddeepnachan & Ravi Kulkarni
- Basic Security Setup for Microsoft 365 – @M365CommDocs - Liam Cleary (Rencore) | @helloitsliam
- Finding SharePoint 2010 Workflows in SharePoint Online - Todd Klindt (Sympraxis Consulting) | @ToddKlindt
- Microsoft Search Q&A - Veerasekar Meiyappan (Cognizant Technology Solutions UK) | @spsamples
- Microsoft Graph + Power Automate = M365 data with no code! - Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs
- SharePoint Client Browser (SPCB) - Bram de Jager (delaware Netherlands) | @bramdejager
Additional resources:
- The intelligent intranet - A 4-stage approach to getting your teams connected online, now, with Microsoft 365
- 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 SharePoint/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 - 14th of July 2020