Episodes

Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 90 - 6th of July 2020
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Dan Wahlin – MVP and now Microsoft employee as a Microsoft 365 Cloud Developer Advocate on the new Microsoft 365 Cloud Developer Advocate team. What is a Cloud Developer Advocate? The bridge between customers & partners and Microsoft 365 & Azure teams. The role advocates for customers, creates learning plans beyond "Hello World" basics, code samples, videos... Dan will focus largely on Fluid Framework. Do you have what it takes to be a Cloud Developer Advocate? If you can admit you don't know it all and are not afraid of putting yourself out there as speaker, writer, sample developer and community participant, then you might have the right stuff. Additionally, in this episode, 17 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, July 6, 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 | June 2020 - Microsoft Teams team
- Introducing new OneDrive features to share and collaborate across work and life - Seth Patton (Microsoft) | @SethPat
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: June 2020 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft)
- A Lap around Microsoft Graph Toolkit Day 12 – Success Stories of Microsoft Graph Enabled Apps - Baldwin Ng (Microsoft) | @baldwin_ng
- Duration of change tracking tokens for identity and education resources - Vincent Biret (Microsoft) | @baywet
- Announcing a simplified API for Office Scripts - Microsoft 365 Ecosystem Team
- Breaking changes for Microsoft Teams beta APIs – permissions for installing personal apps, removing unused properties from code snippets - Nick Kramer (Microsoft)
- A Lap around Microsoft Graph Toolkit Day 13 – Using Microsoft Graph Toolkit with React - Fabio Franzini | @franzinifabio
- Office 365 CLI available in Azure Cloud Shell - Microsoft 365 PnP Team
Community articles:
- Convert Modern SharePoint Page Banner Images to Base-64 using PowerShell - Chris Kent (DMI) | @thechriskent
- Can I convert a Publishing page to the modern experience? - Paul Bullock (Capa Creative) | @pkbullock
- Beginner’s Guide to Using the Classic Azure DevOps Build Process - Caroline Sosebee (ThreeWill)
- Have you seen the SharePoint Look Book - Laura Rodgers (IW Mentor) | @wonderlaura
- CSOM for .NET Standard with SharePoint App-only principal - Elnur Babayev (Volvo Group IT) | @elnurnb
- A Microsoft Teams Messaging Extension with Authentication and access to Microsoft Graph I - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
- How to build a simple custom Property Pane using Typescript for SPFx - Jenkins NS (JPOWER4) | @jenkinsns
- Microsoft Graph Toolkit: reusable web components to access M365 data - Ayca Bas (Microsoft) | @aycabs
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 PnP Team - 7th of July 2020

Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 89 - 29th of June 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Paul Bullock - SharePoint Architect and MVP with CaPa Creative located in the UK. Paul is a major contributor to PnP modernization tooling effort which leads to this call's discussion focus. So why would you share your code as open-source? When's a good time to start contributing? How do you get plugged into the PnP community? This session is a great place to start. PnP is not just code, it's structure, infrastructure, policy, adoption strategies, recognition, networking, the human-side of IT. Open-source is great way to learn from and work with people who are introverts, extroverts, people located near and far with various organization affiliations, customer projects and technical skills that share common passions and a relationship to the PnP community. Additionally, in this episode, 17 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, June 29, 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:
- .NET Standard version of SharePoint Online CSOM APIs | Microsoft
- Video training package for Microsoft Teams Yeoman generator | Microsoft 365 PnP Teams
- Announcing SharePoint Starter Kit v2 | Microsoft 365 PnP Teams
- A Lap around Microsoft Graph Toolkit Day 10 – Microsoft Graph Toolkit Teams Provider | Simon Ågren (Sogeti) | @agrenpoint
- A Lap around Microsoft Graph Toolkit Day 11 – Microsoft Graph Toolkit Proxy Provider | Ashish Trivedi (Avanade) | @_AshishTrivedi
- Announcing the general availability of Microsoft Graph Identity Protection APIs |Microsoft
- Office 365 CLI v2.11 | Microsoft 365 PnP Teams
Community articles:
- Updates on the Microsoft 365 Community Docs - June 2020 | Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- SharePoint Framework Summer 2020 Wish List | Andrew Connell (Voitanos) | @andrewconnell
- Overview Of Microsoft Graph Open Extensions And Schema Extensions | Jayakumar Balasubramaniam (Hubfly) | @jayakumrB
- Microsoft Teams App Yeoman Generator – Split ngrok & serve | Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
- Using .NET Standard CSOM and MSAL.NET for App-Only auth in SharePoint Online | Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Intranet) | @vrdmn
- Episode #107 - Creating Teams Tab with Yo Teams | Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
- Implementing Microsoft Teams Authentication Flow for Tabs | Ramin Ahmadi (Content and Code) | @raminahmadi1986
- Publisher verification of Azure AD apps | Chris Johnson (Hyperfish) | @c_f_johnson
- SharePoint Migration Tool, Wow! | Pieter Veenstra (Hybrit Services) | @PieterVeenstra
- How to configure the new Useful Links Web Part in SharePoint Online | Tracy van der Schyff | @tracyvds
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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SharePoint Team, Microsoft - 30th of June 2020

Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 88 - 22nd of June 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by – Andrew Connell (A.C.) - MVP, Instructor, owner of Voitanos located in Florida, US. Topics included: Andrew’s “Mastering SharePoint Framework” course – a 2-year endeavor that is content complete – well almost. Waiting on SPFx v1.11 release. Andrew shares his honest opinions on SPFx – capabilities, reliability, completeness, engineering communications, need for functional consistency across apps and tools that encompass more just SharePoint now. Discussed using library components or npm packages, and UX components - using Office UI Fabric or Fluent Fabric. Additionally, in this episode, 18 recently released articles from Microsoft and the PnP Community are highlighted.
This week, SharePoint engineering and the PnP community are busy. CSOM .NET Standard is slated to ship, along with a Yo Teams video series – 8 videos, and SharePoint Starter Kit V2. This month, Andrew and others have made many updates to bring SharePoint Framework Dev docs to current. And finally, a priority area of focus is on the creation of Microsoft Teams reference samples, guidance/Starter kit and a dashboard/me experience!
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, June 22, 2020.
These videos and podcasts are published each week and are intended to be roughly 45 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:
- CSOM NuGet | Microsoft
- A Lap around Microsoft Graph Toolkit Day 9 – Microsoft Graph Toolkit SharePoint Provider | Hugo Bernier (Tahoe Ninjas) | @bernierh
- Microsoft Graph Toolkit adds Presence, Templating for the Login component, a React wrapper preview, and more! | Elise Yang (Microsoft) | @elisenyang
- Use Office UI Fabric React components in your SharePoint client-side web part | Microsoft
- FAQ Fabric and Stardust to Fluent UI | Microsoft
- Build for Microsoft Teams using SharePoint Framework | Microsoft
- Advancing Microsoft Teams on Azure—operating at pandemic scale | Microsoft
Community articles:
- Using the Microsoft Search API (preview) to query SharePoint content | Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Intranet) | @vrdmn
- Merge PDF files in SharePoint using an Azure Function | Joel Rodrigues (Storm Technology) | @JoelFMRodrigues
- Office 365 CLI v2.11.0 | PnP community
- Making SPFx Web Parts Searchable – Lessons Learned | Thomas Daly (SoHo Dragon) | @_tomdaly_
- Embed facial recognition into SharePoint | Nanddeep Nachan | @NanddeepNachan
- SharePoint Framework fast serve now supports library components | Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq) | @sergeev_srg
- Provision Azure AD users and assign them licenses using PnP Tenant templates | Gautam Sheth (Valo Intranet) | @gautamdsheth
- Configure your Azure AD application with Integration assistant | Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore) | @waldekm
- Twitch Stream 6: Working with the Property Pane in SharePoint Framework Web Parts | Rob Windsor (PAIT Group) | @robwindsor
- Episode #106 - Introduction to Yo Teams | Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
- Site Sensitivity and the documents within | Joanne Klein | @JoanneCKlein
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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SharePoint Team, Microsoft - 23rd of June 2020

Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 87 - 15th of June 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by - John Liu, Consultant, Microsoft Power Automate expert and owner of PowerStudios in Sydney, Australia. Topics Discussed: Will Microsoft take my business idea? Deploying Flows in the enterprise? Using Flows as an orchestrator. Bundling Flows into Solutions? What is John's attraction to Power Automate? How he evolved from On-Prem to Cloud to Power Automate and about moving from SharePoint workflows to Power Automate. Key advice: To be a successful entrepreneur, live in a country with no snow! This week: There is a high probability the CSOM .NET Standard will be released and finishing up a Blog post on SharePoint Starter Kit v2. Additionally, in this episode, 15 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, June 15, 2020.
These videos and podcasts are published each week and are intended to be roughly 45 minutes in length, but often extend to 60 minutes or 75 minutes as is the case in this episode. 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 (or older #SPDevWeekly). 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:
- Script Lab now supports Outlook! | Microsoft
- Building Microsoft Teams Apps with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Extensions | Microsoft
- Embedding modern SharePoint pages in Microsoft Teams as personal apps (preview) | Microsoft
Community articles:
- How to provision SharePoint list and resources with only standard Microsoft Flow using ExecuteSiteScriptAction | John Liu (PowerStudio) | @johnnliu
- Doctor Flow Power Platform BPM Toolkit | Serge Luca | @sergeluca
- New CodeTour Option for SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Upgrades in the Office 365 CLI | Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- Get All content types from ContentTypeHub using SharePoint Rest API v2.1 using JavaScript | Harsha Vardhini (Split~Vision) | @harshagracy
- Apply Team theme to SPFx web part | Marcin Wojciechowski (Valo Intranet) | @mgwojciech
- Deploy SPFx solutions on multiple sites using GitHub Actions and Office 365 CLI | Aakash Bhardwaj (HCL Technologies) | @aakash_316
- Find all pages utilizing the Microsoft 365 Learning Pahtways web part | Sébastien Levert (Valo Intranet) | @sebastienlevert
- The easiest way to store user settings of your Microsoft 365 app | Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore) | @waldekm
- How to make Microsoft Graph request using PnP and Office 365 CLI | David Ramalho (Storm Technology) | @DavRamalho
- How to call Microsoft Graph API from PowerShell to get Microsoft Teams details? | Kislay Sinha (CGI) | @sinhakislay
- Problem with threads count grow when use OfficeDevPnP AuthenticationManager | Alexey Sadomov (Valo Intranet) | @sadomovalex
- How to effectively delete node_modules on Windows | Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq) | @sergeev_srg
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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SharePoint Team, Microsoft - 16th of June 2020

Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
PnP Weekly - Episode 86 - 8th of June 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by this week are 2 members of the PnP Team and MVPs - Paolo Pialorsi, Consultant and owner PiaSys, Brescia, Italy, and David Warner, Principal Consultant with Catapult Systems, Los Angeles, US. The discussion topic for the day: How does the PnP team get so much done? It seems like we do a lot because our work in done in the open. Yes, sharing with the PnP Community is indeed a conscious priority after family. Discussion takeaways: Caring requires contributors to be consistent, to communicate, to be good time managers, to not be self-critical or perfectionists, to be willing to distribute the load, and to find ways to share in a way that benefits your employer, your client and your community at the same time. “Shipped is better than perfect”, and any size contribution is a welcome contribution. Sharing is caring. Additionally, in this episode, 15 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, June 8, 2020.
These videos and podcasts are published each week and are intended to be roughly 45 minutes in length, but often extend to 60 minutes. 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 (or older #SPDevWeekly). 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: May 2020 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- New SharePoint feature: Multilingual publishing for pages and news posts – DC Padur (Microsoft) | @dcpadur
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | May 2020 – Microsoft Teams
- A Lap around Microsoft Graph Toolkit Day 8 – Microsoft Graph Toolkit Recap at Build 2020 & What’s in Season 2 – Beth Pan (Microsoft) | @beth_panx
Community articles:
- Office 365 CLI v2.10 – Microsoft 365 PnP Team
- Testing user preferred language of SharePoint site with PnP PowerShell – Paul Bullock (Capa Creative) | @pkbullock
- Tip: for customizing on Modern Site shared with B2B guests, use SPFx and not PowerApps – William van Strien (ASML) | @wvstrien
- Deploying SPFx using Office 365 cli, custom AAD App and Azure Pipelines – Anatoly Mironov (Bool by Sigma) | @mirontoli
- How To Create/ Generate QRcode In SPFx Web Part - Harsha Vardhini (Split~Vision) | @harshagracy
- Modern SharePoint Page Breadcrumbs Fix – Bo George (ThreeWill) | @bo_george
- Setup WSL2 for SPFx development – Joel Rodrigues (Storm Technology) | @JoelFMRodrigues
- Better Sharing is Better Caring – Knowledge Sharing for Developers – Mike Homol (ThreeWill) | @homol
- SharePoint Framework, webpack 4 and tree shaking – Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq) | @sergeev_srg
- Being inclusive across Microsoft 365 – Joanne Klein | @JoanneCKlein
- Sharing is Caring initiatives – David Warner (Catapult Systems) | @DavidWarnerII & Hugo Bernier (Tahoe Ninjas) | @bernierh
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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SharePoint Team, Microsoft - 9th of June 2020