Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Development Community call - 22nd of June, 2023

Call summary

Welcome to the bi-weekly call focused on Microsoft 365 platform development topics. In this call, we focus on Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Graph, Power Platform, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists with topics ranging from development tools to list and column formatting, to site design and provisioning, and more.

Demos

• Create and Publish your first Power Virtual Agent in less than 15 mins – start with getting PVA, create a new chatbot, step through what’s provisioned out-of-the-box. Create a topic and trigger phases, add actions, define options and conditions, name variables, test and debug bot in chat window in real-time. Add an image and text to a message. Add a flow, define inputs/outputs. Publish the PVA to selected environment - Teams for today. Share bot for internal review. Conversation at aka.ms/June22-Demo1
• Trimming SharePoint file versions to reduce Storage costs – What is SharePoint storage?, How is usage calculated?, What does it cost?, How do I minimize the SharePoint Storage consumption? Proactive - reduce number versions saved from 500 to 50 (Retention policy). Reactive - use script – to calculate potential storage reduction and the File version Trimmer. See code for calculating storage used in site collection and call to DeleteVersions function. Use the PowerShell Remove-PnPFileVersion function. Conversation at aka.ms/June22-Demo2
• Using ChatGPT (or your favorite AI) to speed up PowerShell Development – what is AI?, how can AI help me write better code?, what 2 tools are used by the speaker and for what purpose? GitHub Copilot - $10/month. ChatGPT - Chat with it, know that it compliments GitHub Copilot - $20 a month. Speaker prompts both assistants for information and refines results. Interesting usage research referenced. Conversation at aka.ms/June22-Demo3

The host of this call was Vesa Juvonenhttps://twitter.com/DavidWarnerII (Microsoft) | @VesaJuvonen. Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call.

Agenda items

00:00 – Intro - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @VesaJuvonen

06:10 – PnP .NET library updates - Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365bert

07:58 – PnP PowerShell updates - Gautam Sheth (Staffbase) | @gautamdsheth

09:25 – yo Teams updates - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @VesaJuvonen

10:04 – Microsoft Teams Toolkit updates - John Miller (Microsoft) | @jmillerdev

11:04 – Microsoft Graph Toolkit updates – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @VesaJuvonen

11:49 – Independent Publisher Connectors - Jocelyn Panchal (Microsoft) @JocelynP_PM

13:16 – Microsoft Script Samples - Paul Bullock | @pkbullock

15:14 – Microsoft Teams Samples - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @VesaJuvonen

15:46 – Microsoft Power Platform Samples - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @VesaJuvonen

16:15 – Together mode picture

17:21 – Demo - Create and Publish your first Power Virtual Agent in less than 15 mins – Samir Daoudi (LogiSam) | @daoudi_samir

34:25 – Demo - Trimming SharePoint file versions to reduce Storage costs – Kasper Bo Larsen (Fellowmind) | @kasperbolarsen

44:00 – Demo - Using ChatGPT (or your favorite AI) to speed up PowerShell Development – Todd Klindt (Sympraxis Consulting) | @ToddKlindt

56:06 – Closing

Together Mode

Thank you everyone for joining the call today. Great seeing many familiar faces.

Activities & Actions

• Agenda set for next Microsoft 365 & Power Platform weekly call - Tuesday, June 27th, 8:00 am PT.
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  • Bob German – Microsoft Teams App Camp New Adventure!
  • Sébastien Levert - Introduction to new Microsoft Graph Toolkit Search Components
  • Paolo Pialorsi - Securely consuming Azure Functions from Microsoft 365 solutions powered by SPFx
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Demo references

• Create and Publish your first Power Virtual Agent in less than 15 mins
  • Get PVA – Intelligent Virtual Agents and Bots
• Trimming SharePoint file versions to reduce Storage costs
  • Article - Deleting File Versions to reduce the SharePoint Storage Consumption
  • Script sample - File Version Trimmer
  • Script sample - Sample on a report showing how much SharePoint Storage you can save by trimming document versions once the site is no longer active
  • Documentation - Remove-PnPFileVersion
• Using ChatGPT (or your favorite AI) to speed up PowerShell Development
  • Tool - Your AI pair programmer (GitHub Copilot)
  • Article - Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness

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Open-source project status

General resources

• Script Samples - Getting started with PnP Script Samples – aka.ms/script-samples/getting-started
• Samples - Power Platform Samples | aka.ms/powerplatform-samples
• Microsoft 365 tenant – Script Samples Gallery | aka.ms/script-samples
• Microsoft Teams Samples Gallery | aka.ms/teams-samples
• Microsoft 365 Extensibility look book gallery | aka.ms/m365/extensibility
• Archives - Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Videos, Podcasts
• PnP Teams Quickstart | aka.ms/pnp-teams-quickstart
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit v3.x | https://aka.ms/teams-toolkit
• Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Community Blog | aka.ms/m365pnp/blog
• Microsoft Graph Toolkit in Microsoft Learn | https://aka.ms/learn-mgt
• Viva Connections https://aka.ms/VivaConnections
• SharePoint look book
• Yo Teams video training package
• .NET Standard 2.0 version of SharePoint Online CSOM API
• Microsoft 365 community (PnP) videos | aka.ms/m365pnp-videos
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
• yo Teams | aka.ms/yoteams
• Video - Getting started using yo Teams | Wictor Wilén (Microsoft)| @wictor
• Build a crisis management site to connect people and information
• Developer documentation | https://aka.ms/spdev-docs
• PnP Power Shell
• SharePoint Modernization Partner Guidance - Feedback welcome
• Solution - Building a modern search experiences with SharePoint Framework web parts
• Page transformation guidance
• Page transformation videos
• Modernization scanner
• Microsoft 365 developer program site - Need to become a Tenant Admin to test look book capabilities? Get a Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription (free tenant for 90 days)
• SharePoint Page Transformation webcast series
• PnP PowerShell
• SharePoint Modernization Tools
• Join our official Discord Server – aka.ms/community/discord

Recurrent call invites

• Microsoft 365 platform call | weekly - Tuesday, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call (Note: This call will be on holiday from Tuesday July 4th through Tuesday August 15th)
• Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Dev call | bi-weekly - Thursday, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig
• Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework call | bi-weekly - Thursday, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call
• Office add-in call | monthly - 2nd Wednesday, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall
• Power Platform call | monthly - 3rd Wednesday, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall

About

Microsoft 365 Development Community bi-weekly calls are targeted at anyone who’s interested in the general Microsoft 365 development topics. This includes Microsoft Teams, Bots, Microsoft Graph, CSOM, REST, site provisioning, PnP PowerShell, PnP Sites Core, Site Designs, Power Automate, Power Apps, Column Formatting, List formatting, etc. topics. More details on the Microsoft 365 community from https://aka.ms/m365pnp. We also welcome community demos, if you are interested in doing a live demo in these calls!

You can download recurrent invite from https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig. Welcome and join in the discussion. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, feel free to provide your input as comments below this post as well. More details on the Microsoft 365 community and options to get involved are available from https://aka.ms/m365pnp.

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Microsoft 365 Community (PnP) team, Microsoft - 22nd of June 2023