Episodes

Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
SharePoint Dev Weekly - Episode 70 - 11th of February 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
In this session of SharePoint Dev Weekly, hosts - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), and typically a special guest from the SharePoint PnP Community, discuss the latest news and topics around SharePoint development.
In this episode, Vesa and Waldek are joined by Sébastien “Seb” Levert, Product Lead and MVP managing product strategy at Valo Intranet in Montreal, Canada. The conversation focused on the convergence of portals and collaboration platforms. Teams is becoming the primary work environment through which LOB apps, communications, BOTs, SharePoint, etc., are being accessed. Valo follows a Teams First development approach. The challenge is creating the tailored/personalized landing page in Teams without the same controls that are available in SharePoint. Other trends discussed – clickable BOT actions, Teams left nav, building personal apps using SPFx, enterprise provisioning and “proper snow.”
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, February 10, 2020.
- Video at SharePoint Dev YouTube channel.
These videos and podcasts are published each week and are intended to be roughly 30-45 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 #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 / PnP articles:
- SharePoint Saturday - Cairo | @SPSCairo
- CollabDays
- SharePoint “Next steps” 📢 moves people to the latest collaboration experiences | Mark Kashman (Microsoft)
- “Designing your intranet” 🎙 The Intrazone podcast | Mark Kashman (Microsoft), Susan Hanley, Melissa Torres (Microsoft), Matt Wolodarsky (Microsoft)
- Realize the value of an intelligent intranet in your organization | Matt Wolodarsky (Microsoft)
- New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – January 2020 | Microsoft
Community articles:
- Set Tiles View as Default View in a List | João Mendes (Isobar Switzerland)
- Enable Organization assets on SharePoint Online | David Ramalho (Storm Technology)
- Easily convert PnP TaxonomyPicker selection to update value | Joel Rodrigues (Storm Technologies)
- SPFx: Using React hooks to globally share service scope between components | Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Intranet)
- GitHub - SPFX Service Scopes Hooks | Garry Trinder (CPS)
- Episode #87 - Consuming SharePoint Online using CSOM, MSAL, and OAuth | Paolo Pilalorsi (PiaSys)
- How to use the Service Pattern in SharePoint Framework React solutions | Laura Kokkarinen (Sulava)
- Projecting your teamwork in Office 365 | Joanne Klein
If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions to SharePoint 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 - 11th of February 2020

Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
SharePoint Dev Weekly - Episode 69 - 4th of February 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
In this session of SharePoint Dev Weekly, hosts - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), and typically a special guest from the SharePoint PnP Community, discuss the latest news and topics around SharePoint development.
In this episode, Vesa and Waldek are joined by Agnes Molnar, owner of Search Explained based in Budapest, delivering consulting and training services worldwide. In addition to drawing attention to the recent advancements being delivered by the SharePoint Community and Microsoft, Vesa, Waldek and Agnes' discussion this week centered on why search is again cool. Albeit, with all the new capabilities including AI and auto tagging, the group agrees - humans will not be replaced anytime soon by computers lacking our human experiences, associations, intentions or essence necessary for defining how we shape, interpret and share knowledge with others. And by the way, metadata is not going away either! Humans remain needed and necessary for curating content and metadata, in addition to teaching computers how find stuff for us more effectively. Cool!
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, February 3, 2020. Find the video of this session at SharePoint Dev YouTube channel.
These videos and podcasts are published each week and are intended to be roughly 30-45 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 #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 / PnP articles:
- Salt Lake M365 Friday | #SPSUtah
- SharePoint Saturday - Chennai 2020 | @spschennai
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: January 2020 | Mark Kashman (Microsoft)
- PnP Modern Search solution | PnP Community
- Getting started on using custom search result page in SharePoint Online | Microsoft
- Intelligent Intranet Accelerator Workshop Locations In 2020 | Brad McCabe (Microsoft)
- Announcing PnPjs 2.0 JavaScript libraries | Microsoft
- Impact on Authentication from SameSite changes in Chrome | Microsoft Identity Development
- Microsoft Graph PowerShell Preview – Now on PowerShell Gallery | Darrel Miller (Microsoft)
- Office 365 CLI v2.6 | PnP Community
- @pnp/spfx
- We've made some changes to our social channels | @microsoft365dev
Community articles:
- Reusable Target Audience wrapper based on SharePoint groups for custom SPFx webparts | Rabia Williams (Engage Squared)
- Peculiarity with Hub sites - SPFx Header displayed state of associated site is initial preserved | William van Strien (ASML)
- Generate PDF Document In SPFx | Madhan Thurai
- Episode #86 - Discovering Joined Teams using Microsoft Graph | Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com)
- Custom Search in SPO using Out-of-the-Box features and Open Source Webparts! | Veronique Lengelle (TSG)
- SP Usage docs move to Microsoft 365 community | Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting)
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If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions to SharePoint 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 - 4th of February 2020

Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
SharePoint Dev Weekly - Episode 68 - 28th of January 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
In this session of SharePoint Dev Weekly, hosts - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), and typically a special guest from the SharePoint PnP Community, discuss the latest news and topics around SharePoint development.
In this episode, Vesa and Waldek are joined by Erwin van Hunen – Lead architect at Valo Intranet. In addition to drawing attention to the recent advancements being delivered by the SharePoint Community and Microsoft, Vesa, Waldek and Erwin’s discussion this week focused on Erwin’s pioneering work on and evolution of PnP Provisioning and PowerShell, the shaping of a tenant templating engine - PnP .Net Core SDK, .NET frameworks, and tools - CLI and PowerShell.
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, January 27, 2020.
- Video at SharePoint Dev YouTube channel
These videos and podcasts are published each week and they are intended to be roughly 30-45 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 #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 Saturday - St Louis 2020 | #M365SatSTL
- Meetings Capture application demo in Microsoft Teams | Jeremy Thake (Microsoft)
- Microsoft 365 and Graph Code Sample - Meeting Capture | Microsoft
- Community demo – Building Office Add-Ins using SharePoint Framework | Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft)
Community articles:
- Use a CLI to get an access token for your AAD Protected Web API | Paul Schaeflein (AddIn365)
- Quick Tip: Getting [HTTP]:500 when approving permissions in the API Management page | Jarbas Horst (Valo Intranet)
- Automate your CI/CD workflow using Office 365 CLI GitHub Actions | Office 365 CLI
- PnP ListPicker Control For SPFx | Nanddeep Nachan
- Episode #85 - Building Teams Personal Apps with SPFx v1.10.0 | Paolo Pialorsi (Piasys.com)
- SharePoint SPFx extension – Advanced copy and move | Joel Rodrigues (Storm Technologies Ltd)
- Retrieving thumbnails/previews for SharePoint files and pages via Microsoft Graph API’s | Mikael Svenson (Microsoft)
- Using Cypress for end to end testing your SharePoint solutions | Elio Struyf (Valo Intranet)
If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions to SharePoint 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 - 28th of January 2020

Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
SharePoint Dev Weekly - Episode 67 - 21st of January 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
In this session of SharePoint Dev Weekly, hosts - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), and typically a special guest from the SharePoint PnP Community, discuss the latest news and topics around SharePoint development.
In this episode Vesa and Waldek are joined by Yannick Plenevaux – Microsoft 365 Solutions Architect, new MVP and owner of PVX Solutions, Belgium. In addition to drawing attention to the recent advancements being delivered by the SharePoint Community and Microsoft, Vesa, Waldek and Yannick’s discussion this week focused on:
- Founding a company – administrative duties, hiring a first employee, defining organizational direction, social media bubble, and the ongoing benefits of PnP community engagement.
- Approach to blogging – curiosity followed by discovering, experimenting, documenting and finally sharing. Develop an understanding of the topic well enough to teach it to others. Ask questions when get stuck.
- This week’s focus – In addition to their day jobs, Yannick is working on the third installment in a series of Graph related blog posts, Waldek is focused on still more CLI commands and Vesa is recording a series of updated SPFx/Teams tutorials.
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 Community.
This episode was recorded on Monday, January 20, 2020.
- Video at SharePoint Dev YouTube channel
These videos and podcasts are published each week and they are intended to be roughly 30-45 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 #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:
- Exam MS-600: Building Applications and Solutions with Microsoft 365 Core Services (beta)
- Creating single sign-on add-ins for Office has never been easier
- “One part solution, two parts inspiration” 🎙 The Intrazone podcast | Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | Chris McNulty (Microsoft)
- Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030
- Office 365 Saturday - San Diego | SPSSD2020
Community articles:
- Reporting and deleting orphaned SharePoint redirect sites | Albert-Jan Schot (Portiva)
- [Office 365 Sparx] Use the ForceLocale parameter to debug localizations in SPFx | Sébastien Levert (Valo Intranet)
- Add SharePoint site to Teams Personal App | Aakash Bhardwaj (HCL Technologies)
- SharePoint Framework v1.10: Build MS Teams Personal App | Nanddeep Nachan
- Creating a Microsoft Teams app: how easy is it? | Robert Schouten (Wortell)
- Create Microsoft Teams manifest manually for Personal app powered by SPFx | Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Intranet)
- Episode #84 - Presence API in Microsoft Graph (beta) | Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com)
Yannick's blog:
- YP Code blog | Yannick Plenevaux (PVX Solutions)
If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions to SharePoint 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 - 21st of January 2020

Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
SharePoint Dev Weekly - Episode 66 - 14th of January 2020
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
In this session of SharePoint Dev Weekly, hosts - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), and typically a special guest from the SharePoint PnP Community, discuss the latest news and topics around SharePoint development.
In this episode Vesa and Waldek are joined by Hugo Bernier – Director of Consulting Services at Point Alliance in Toronto. Hugo is an old friend and contributor to the PnP community and now a MVP who has delivered many code samples and reusable controls to-date (SharePoint Framework Samples repository) with more to come in 2020.
In addition to drawing attention to the latest advancements being delivered by the SharePoint Community and Microsoft, Vesa, Waldek and Hugo’s discussion this week focused on solution development tips and tricks.
- Acquisition model for components – reuse, buy, build
- Do what is supportable
- Build accessible and usable solutions
- Give people room to make and fix mistakes
- Manage risk and delivery through iterative development practices
- Embrace the ½ hour rule
- In the first week, create a contract between developers defining what each will be delivering
- Know the evil consultant – one who has crossed over to the anti-PnP side
Regarding the SharePoint Framework Samples repository: If you are looking for an opportunity to contribute, find an older sample in the repository and use the Office 365 CLI to upgrade and submit the newly upgraded sample to the repository. Thanks. Need help? Please reach out to Hugo, Vesa or Waldek.
This episode was recorded on Monday, January 13, 2020.
- Video at SharePoint Dev YouTube channel.
These videos and podcasts are published each week and they are intended to be roughly 30-45 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 #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:
- Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.10 – extending SharePoint Framework across Microsoft 365
- SharePoint Framework v1.10 release notes
- Using Microsoft Graph APIs in your solution
- SharePoint Development Community (PnP) – January 2020 update
Community articles:
- SharePoint Framework Client-Side Web Part Samples | PnP Community
- SharePoint Framework Client-Side Extension Samples | PnP Community
- Explore Microsoft Graph Subscriptions – Part II: Azure Function’d like a Pro | Yannick Plenevaux (PVX Solutions)
- Hide SharePoint list from Site Contents | David Ramalho (Storm Technology Ltd)
- An Outlook Add-in with SharePoint Framework (SPFx) – Introduction | Markus Möller (Avanade)
- SPFx Optimized Package Bundling – Chunk Names – Part 1 – Custom Bundle Names | David Warner (Catapult Systems)
- Using Microsoft Graph Presence API on SharePoint Framework | Matti Paukkonen (Innofactor)
- Filtering SharePoint list items by current logged-in user in SPFx webparts | Ram Prasad (Infineon Technologies)
- Adding Partner Custom Content to Microsoft Learning Pathways Portals | Paul Bullock (Capa Creative)
- Microsoft 365 learning pathways | Microsoft
- Episode #83 - Preallocated space for SPFx extension placeholders | Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com)
If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions to SharePoint 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 - 14th of January 2020