Microsoft 365 Developer Community Call recording – 3rd of March, 2022

Microsoft 365 Developer Community Call recording – 3rd of March, 2022

Call summary

One location the Microsoft 365 tenant – script samples gallery (140 scenarios and 198 scripts) now integrated into Sample Solution Gallery!  Sign up and attend an AMA and other events this month hosted by Sharing is Caring.  Power Platform Samples – First Time Contributor – Tuesday, March 8th, 2:00pm PT and AMA (Ask Me Anything) – PnPjs – Tuesday, March 15th, 9am PST.  Get the recognition you deserve, sign up for the PnP Recognition Program.  Join the Microsoft 365 platform call on 8th of March, @ 8 AM PT.  Recently refreshed the MGT playground!   To see current releases and latest updates/nightly builds, access the Repos via the links in table below.  There were 6 new/updated script, 3 Teams and 1Power Platform samples delivered this week.   

Open-source project status

(Bold indicates new this call)

ProjectCurrent VersionRelease/Status
PnP .NET Libraries - PnP Frameworkv1.8.0 GA with .NET 6.0 support addedPrepping v1.9
PnP .NET Libraries - PnP Core SDKv1.5.0 GA with .NET 6.0 support addedPrepping v1.6
PnP PowerShellv1.9.0 GARelease v1.10.0 imminent (next week?), In progress: V2 POC - .NET 6.0 based, Requires PowerShell 7.2
Yo teams - generator-teamsv3.5.0 GAv4.0.0-next
Yo teams - yoteams-build-corev1.6.0
Yo teams – yoteams-deployv1.1.0 GA
Yo teams - msteams-react-base-componentv3.1.1
Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT)v2.3.2 GAWorking on v3.0.0 - Aligning all Toolkit components to Fluent UI Web Components

While version releases are periodic, nightly releases are nightly!  Subscribe to nightly releases for the latest capabilities.

The host of this call was David Warner II (Catapult Systems) | @DavidWarnerII.   Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call.

Actions

  • Opt into PnP Recognition Program | https://aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition

  • Join us at the next Microsoft 365 platform call 8th of March @ 8 AM PT

    • Latest news from Microsoft engineering on Microsoft 365 topics
    • Demos: 
      • Yi Han & Vesa Juvonen - Managing your Viva Connections and SharePoint Framework solutions using the new Apps site in SharePoint Online 
      • Wajeed Shaikh - Building a bot for Microsoft Teams which detects user presence changes using Microsoft Graph
      • Sébastien Levert - Building Microsoft Graph Toolkit apps with Angular

  • Register for Sharing is Caring Events: 

    • AMA (Ask Me Anything) – PnPjs – Tuesday, March 15th, 9am PST
    • AMA (Ask me anything) - Viva ACE – Coming Soon
    • First Time Contributor Session – TBS soon
    • Community Docs Session – TBS soon
    • Power Platform Samples – First Time Contributor – Tuesday, March 8th, 2:00pm PT
    • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – TBS soon
    • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – Tuesday, March 15th, 2pm PST
    • First Time Presenter – TBS soon
    • More than Code with VSCode – TBS soon
    • Maturity Model Practitioners – TBS soon (every 3rd Tuesday of month, 7:00am PT)
    • Getting Started with Viva Connection ACEs (2-part session) – TBS soon
    • PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session – Register
    • PnP Buddy System – Request a Buddy

  • Download the recurrent invite for this call – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig

  • Call attention to your great work by using the #PnPWeekly on Twitter.

Microsoft Teams Development Samples

https://aka.ms/TeamsSampleBrowser

Microsoft Power Platform Samples

https://aka.ms/powerplatform-samples

*These latest samples should show on site shortly after this call

Script Samples

https://aka.ms/script-samples

2 New Scenarios and 4 Script Updates:

Article:  Getting started with PnP Script Samples – aka.ms/script-samples/getting-started

– Many thanks!

Demos

Updates on Independent Publisher Connectors & LibreBor Connector Demo – there are 72 Independent Publisher Connectors in production and 42 in the pipeline today!  LibreBor APIs retrieve company details from the Spanish Register.  Information such as acquisitions, incorporations, Directors, NIF (Tax Identification Number) validation and more.   This Preview LibreBor connector retrieves information from LibreBor APIs and makes it available in Logic Apps, Power Apps and Power Automate, in most regions with some exceptions.     

Migrating Cloud Flows using Flow & Apps migrator – deploying apps and flows to production?  Move canvas apps or cloud flows across Microsoft 365 tenants or sites using this migration tool that automatically converts exported flows and apps to be compatible with targeted environment.  As well, the tool helps you migrate SharePoint lists used as a dependency for your Apps and Flows, converts SharePoint List Forms customized with Power Apps and more.

Creating a To Do list for Microsoft Lists and SharePoint using View Formatting – expose Microsoft To Do (task list) capabilities and similar UI in Microsoft Lists and SharePoint.  Step through creating a list, tasks, and a To Do view.  Review view formatting code for groups, status, title, date, description/notes, tags, attachments, comments, favorites, item detail, edit form, update details, delete task.  Very soon the 500 lines of code in a template will be available in List Formatting repo.       

Thank you for your work. Samples are often showcased in Demos.    Request a Demo spot on the call https://aka.ms/m365pnp/request/demo

Topics

  • PnP .NET library updates - David Warner II (Catapult Systems) | @DavidWarnerII – 7:05
  • PnP PowerShell updates - David Warner II (Catapult Systems) | @DavidWarnerII – 7:31
  • yo Teams updates - Wictor Wilén (Microsoft) | @wictor – 8:13
  • Microsoft Graph Toolkit updates - Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | @sebastienlevert – 8:58
  • Microsoft Script Samples - Paul Bullock | @pkbullock – 2:43
  • Microsoft Teams Samples - Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German – 10:30
  • Microsoft Power Platform Samples - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam – 12:37
  • Demo 1:  Updates on Independent Publisher Connectors & LibreBor Connector Demo – Natalie Pienkowska (Microsoft) | @NataliePienkow1 & Marco Amoedo (KPMG) | @marcoamoedo & Mario Trueba (KPMG) | @MarioTrueba365 – 14:50
  • Demo 2:  Migrating Cloud Flows using Flow & Apps migrator – Denis Molodtsov (Point Alliance) | @Zerg00s – 27:19
  • Demo 3:  Creating a To Do list for Microsoft Lists and SharePoint using View Formatting – João Ferreira (Beezy) | @joao12ferreira – 36:15

Resources

Additional resources around the covered topics and links from the slides.

General resources

Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites

General Microsoft 365 Dev Special Interest Group 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, PowerApps, 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 to 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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