Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - 3rd of January, 2023

Call summary

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

• Q&A topics
  • Does Microsoft 365 Dev Program also include an Azure Subscription?
  • Why are Power Pages so expensive?
  • How to reset developer tenant?
  • If new to ALM, do I start with Azure DevOps or GitHub?
  • Can we access OneDrive sync reports via an API?
  • Are we able to link solution from AppSource to the Sample Solution Gallery?
  • What is Viva Home?
  • Adaptive Card Designer and modifying ACE Quick View samples.
  • Is there an API to push out OneDrive shortcuts to users?
  • Will Windows File Explorer evolve to show additional columns found in SharePoint libraries?
  • Reading the SharePoint crawl log,
  • When to use “Add to OneDrive” versus Syncing the SharePoint Library.
  • When should we transition to the “new Stream”?
  • Extensibility of Viva ACE with Power Cards (will we have Power Cards driven ACE cards)?
  • What is the future of SharePoint subsites?
• Ad hoc demos
  • Site – Microsoft 365 Samples Solution Gallery – aka.ms/m365/samples
  • Site – Create Adaptive Card Extensions (ACE) for Microsoft Viva Connections
  • Site – Microsoft AppSource
  • Site – Microsoft Adoption
  • Site – Adaptive Card Designer
  • Site – Microsoft 365 Developer Tenant and example content
  • Site – Viva Connections Adaptive Card Extension Quick View samples
  • Site – Adaptive Card Designer host (spfx-controls)
  • Site – SharePoint Look Book
• Referenced documents
  • Article - What’s new in Viva Connections
  • Documentation - Current features and upcoming roadmap for Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint)
  • Documentation - Set up and launch Viva Connections
  • Documentation - Change your SharePoint domain name

New this week

• Announcements
  • Microsoft 365 Sample Solution Gallery has 1440 samples now! aka.ms/m365/samples
• News
  • Article – What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2022 – Holly Lehman (Microsoft) | @Lehman__Holly
  • Article – Feature Focus with Microsoft MVPs: S6-6 - Microsoft 365 Dynamic Groups & Viva Insights – Stephen Rose (Microsoft) | @stephenlrose
  • Article – SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: December 2022 – Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman

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

Agenda items

• 07:45 – Latest updates and news on the Microsoft 365 platform – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
• 09:47 – Questions, feedback, discussions Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen and David Warner (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII and PnP Community participants

Actions

• 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

• Microsoft 365 General Dev call - | Thursday, January 5, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig (bi-weekly)
• Microsoft 365 platform call - | Tuesday, January 10, 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)
• Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework call | Thursday, January 12, 7:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call (bi-weekly)
• Power Platform monthly call | Wednesday, January 18, 8:00 am PT - https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall (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.

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Microsoft 365 Platform Community team, Microsoft - 3rd of January 2023