Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - 20th of December, 2022

Call summary

Welcome to our first of three Microsoft 365 Platform - Holiday season coffee and chat calls with Q&A, feedback, discussions, ad hoc demos and good community cheer!

• Perspectives from new and seasoned Microsoft employees shared by David Warner, Brian T Jackett, Fabian Williams and Bert Jansen.
• Q&A covering Microsoft’s approach to product deprecation, Graph.NET SDK v5, Microsoft 365 Assessment tool updates in 2023, File Picker v8.0 tenant configuration support, and biggest wishes call participants would like for Microsoft to deliver on in 2023?
• Ad hoc demos
  • Microsoft 365 Community page – aka.ms/m365/community (Microsoft 365 Community Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community)
  • Microsoft 365 Learn site – aka.ms/m365/dev/learn (12 learning paths)
  • Microsoft 365 sample gallery – aka.ms/m365/samples (filtering, personal page, linkage to GitHub)
  • Sharing Is Caring – aka.ms/sharing-is-caring (how it all started)
  • Microsoft Graph GitHub – github.com/microsoftgraph
  • Microsoft 365 Assessment tool - pnp.github.io/pnpassessment/
• Referenced documents
  • Documentation - Granting access using SharePoint App-Only
  • Article - OneDrive File Picker v8 now generally available!
  • Documentation - File picker v8
  • Samples – OneDrive File Picker v8 Samples

New this week

• Announcements
  • Platform call will take place each week during the holidays. The call is transforming to a coffee and chat format - Q&A and discussions for the next 2 weeks – December 27th and January 3rd. Please join as you are able. Happy holidays.
• News
  • Article – Top 5 AppSource validation errors for Office Add-ins submissions - Office Add-ins team
  • Article – 10 features to jumpstart your Microsoft Teams app development - Daniel Carrasco (Microsoft)
  • Article – Build bots to automate repetitive workflows using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code - Garry Trinder (Microsoft) | @garrytrinder
  • Article – Redefining Product Design and Development with Figma in Microsoft Teams – Niranjan Deo (Microsoft)
  • Article – Microsoft Teams Premium preview now available - Margi Desai (Microsoft)
  • Article – Feature Focus with Microsoft MVPs: S6-E5 | Microsoft Teams for EDU & Approvals in Teams – Stephen Rose (Microsoft)

The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen.

Agenda items

• 15:36 – Latest updates and news on the Microsoft 365 platform – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
• 17:17 – Questions, feedback, discussions – David Warner | @DavidWarnerII, Brian T Jackett | @BrianTJackett, Fabian Williams | @fabianwilliams, Bert Jansen | @O365bert and Vesa Juvonen |@vesajuvonen

Actions

• Please complete the Microsoft Graph Satisfaction Survey - aka.ms/graph-satisfaction-survey
• Opt into PnP Recognition Program – aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition
• Register for upcoming Sharing Is Caring events:
  • Power Platform Samples Contributor | Tuesday, January 10th, 10:30am PST | Register
  • First Time Contributor | Thursday, January 12th, 10am PT | 1pm ET | 7pm CET – Register
  • Maturity Model Practitioners | Tuesday, January 17th, 7am PST – Download reoccurring invite
  • Writing for the Web | Monday, January 23rd, 10am PT | 1pm ET | 7:00pm CET - Register
  • PnP SPFx Samples w/ NVM | Wednesday, January 25th, 9am PT | 12pm ET - Register
  • PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session | Register
  • PnP Buddy System | Request a Buddy
• Register for the Microsoft 365 Developer Program and get a free developer tenant
• Get started with free training modules covering Microsoft 365 platform capabilities.
• Visit the Microsoft 365 Unified Sample Solution Gallery with more than 1350 samples from Microsoft and community.
• Request a Demo spot on the call – aka.ms/m365pnp/request/demo
• Download the recurrent invite for this call – aka.ms/m365-dev-call

General resources

• Archives - Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Videos, Podcasts
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit | https://aka.ms/teams-toolkit
• 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 Platform Community (PnP) videos | aka.ms/m365/videos
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
• yo Teams | aka.ms/yoteams
• SPFx Developer documentation | https://aka.ms/spfx
• 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 with automatic renewal if used for dev purposes

Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites

• Power Platform monthly call | Wednesday, December 21, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall (monthly)
• Microsoft 365 General Dev call - | Thursday, December 22, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig (bi-weekly)
• Microsoft 365 platform call - (Coffee & chat with Community) | Tuesday, December 27, 8:00 am PT – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call (weekly)
• Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework call | Thursday, December 29, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call (bi-weekly)
• Microsoft 365 platform call - (Coffee & chat with Community) | Tuesday, January 3, 8:00 am PT – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call (weekly)
• Office add-in monthly call | Wednesday, January 11, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall (monthly)
• Microsoft Identity Platform call | Thursday, January 19, 9:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar (monthly)

Microsoft 365 Platform community call focuses on latest Microsoft 365 Platform updates and demos delivered by Microsoft presenters and takes place weekly on Tuesday. The alternating Special Interest Group community calls each Thursday focus on SharePoint Framework (client-side development/implementation) and Microsoft 365 Platform (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.) with demos commonly delivered by community members.

More details on the Microsoft 365 community from https://aka.ms/m365pnp.

You can download recurrent invite for this call from https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call. 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.

"Sharing is caring"

Microsoft 365 Platform Community team, Microsoft - 20th of December 2022