Microsoft 365 Platform Call – 15th of March, 2022

Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - weekly community call recording from March 15th, is now available from the Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel at https://aka.ms/m365pnp/videos. 

Call Summary

Welcome to the weekly call focused on capabilities of the Microsoft 365 platform.   

• Celebrating Microsoft Teams Release Day - 5th Anniversary
• Register for the Microsoft 365 Developer Program and get a free E5 developer tenant with instant availability and other assets.  
• Get started with free training modules (74+) to accelerate learning Microsoft 365 platform capabilities. Now with new Viva Connections training!
• New Microsoft 365 Sample Solution Gallery with 1000+ samples from Microsoft and community that allow you to learn by example, expedite your development and appreciate what is possible.
• Sign up and participate in one of a growing number of events hosted by Sharing is Caring this month.   
• Tune into the weekly
  • Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast focused exclusively on Microsoft 365 dev topics – hosted by Jeremy Thake (Microsoft) and Paul Schaeflein (Addin365).
  • Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Videos, Podcasts focused on the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365 hosted by Vesa Juvonen and Waldek Mastykarz
• Teams Platform Updates - updated authenticate API to support external OAuth providers, and 4 new Step-by-Step (SBS) Guides released.   aka.ms/TeamsDevDocs
  • Documentation - Use external OAuth providers
  • Step-by-Step Guide - Build search based messaging extension
  • Step-by-Step Guide - Build action based messaging extension
  • Step-by-Step Guide - AAD SSO for tabs and messaging extension
  • Step-by-Step Guide - Build Teams connectors
• New series launched – Learn from the community.  This week’s article:  Learn from the community: Low code bot onboards members to Microsoft Teams channel.  Sign up to Share your story
• The great people, supportive organizations and solid work done in this community over the last month is recognized today!  Available now – the Microsoft 365 Platform Community (PnP) – March 2022 update.  A heartfelt thank you goes out to the community members, organizations and Microsoft employees who have contributed their time and talents to this community in the last month. 
• Hear about the latest 7 Microsoft 365 Platform related stories and view 3 great demos delivered by Microsoft presenters on the latest capabilities of the Microsoft 365 platform.

The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen.  Q&A takes place in chat throughout and live at end of the call.  

Microsoft 365 Platform News Flash

• A Community Celebration: Microsoft Teams 5 Year Anniversary – Microsoft
• Public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.15 – First release of the upcoming features – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
• Learn from the community: Low code bot onboards members to Microsoft Teams channel – Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs
• TLS certificate changes to Microsoft 365 services including Microsoft Teams – Parker Shelton (Microsoft)
• Viva Learning news and feature update – John Mighell (Microsoft)
• Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store - February 2022 – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
• “FastTrack’ing Viva, SharePoint, and OneDrive” :studio_microphone: – The Intrazone podcast – Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman

Actions

• Opt into PnP Recognition Program | https://aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition
• Register for Sharing is Caring Events:
  • 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 – Monday, April 10th, 9am PST
  • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – TBS soon
  • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – Monday, March 14th, 2pm PST
  • First Time Presenter – TBS soon
  • More than Code with VSCode – TBS soon
  • Maturity Model Practitioners – Tuesday, April 19th, 7am PST (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
• Request a Demo spot on the call – https://aka.ms/m365pnp/request/demo
• Download the recurrent invite for this call – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call
• Call attention to your great work by using the #PnPWeekly on Twitter.

Demos

• Fit and format Microsoft Lists for work and life –​ what’s new with Microsoft Lists?  Tour time!  Capabilities include visualizing list data with Board view, improved list editors and formatters, lookup fields in modern UX, a seamless experience on Android devices, easier to create custom list templates, find lists in the SharePoint app bar, list templates packaged with business applications/rules, 3 new “life focus” list templates with more to follow.  Join the MSA Preview.  
• Building Microsoft Graph Toolkit apps with SharePoint – and SPFx.  MGT is Framework agnostic.  Add Graph to your SPFx project by creating a new yo project, installing the mgt-spfx package (includes mgt library component that goes into your app catalog), and if using React, install the mgt-react component.  Ready to code!   Import the SharePointProvider from mgt-spfx (handles authentication and connection to SPFx library component).  Fast track SPFx projects with MGT components.   

Thank you for your creativity and work execution.   Samples are often showcased in Demos.

Topics

• Latest updates and news on the Microsoft 365 platform – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen – 7:53
• Monthly community contributors – 13:14
• D1:  Fit and format Microsoft Lists for work and life –​ Harini Saladi (Microsoft) | @HariniSaladi, Miceile Barrett (Microsoft) | @MSFTMiceile & Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman – 15:47
• D2:  Building Microsoft Graph Toolkit apps with SharePoint –​ Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | @sebastienlevert – 46:42

Resources

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

• D1:  Tools - Microsoft Lists Resource Center | aka.ms/MSLists

• D1:  App - Microsoft Lists – MSA Preview | https://lists.live.com/

• D1:  Android Private Preview – https://aka.ms/lists-android-signup (signup seems for be closed for now) 

• D1:  Samples - Sample Solution Gallery 

• D1:  Samples - SharePoint List Formatting Samples 

• D1:  Documentation - Use column formatting to customize SharePoint | aka.ms/spdocs-column-formatting

• D1:  See latest list samples in Sample Solution Gallery - Microsoft Adoption from

  • André Lage (Datalynx AG) | @aaclage
  • Chris Kent (DMI) | @theChrisKent
  • João Ferreira (Beezy) | @joao12ferreira
  • Tetsuya Kawahara | @techan_k

• D2:  Documentation - Build a SharePoint web part with the Microsoft Graph Toolkit | aka.ms/mgt/spfx

• D2:  Documentation - Microsoft Graph Toolkit: UI Components and Authentication Providers for Microsoft Graph | aka.ms/mgt/docs

• D2:  Documentation - Styling components in the Microsoft Graph Toolkit 

• D2:  Documentation - Microsoft Graph Toolkit caching 

• D2:  Documentation - Localizing the Microsoft Graph Toolkit components 

• D2:  MGT Playground - Microsoft Graph Toolkit: UI Components and Authentication Providers for Microsoft Graph | https://mgt.dev/

• D2:  Sebastien’s MGT Demos Repo - MGT Sandbox | aka.ms/mgt/sandbox

• D2:  MGT Demos Playlist - Microsoft Graph Toolkit – YouTube

• D2:  Issues – MGT Issus | aka.ms/mgt/issues

• D2:  Learn – Develop apps with the Microsoft Graph Toolkit | https://aka.ms/mgt/learn 

• Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 157 (March 14th) with US based, Microsoft 365 Extensibility Developer, MVP, and PnP team member focused on PnPjs project, Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting) | @jfj1997  | video | podcast

General resources

• Archives - Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Videos, Podcasts  
• PnP Teams Quickstart | aka.ms/pnp-teams-quickstart
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit v2.2 | https://aka.ms/teams-toolkit
• Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub | aka.ms/m365pnp/community 
• 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 (Avanade)| @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 Provisioning Service - Easily provision look book designs to any tenant in the world
• SharePoint Provisioning templates on Github
• PnP Provisioning Tenant Templates documentation
• SharePoint Page Transformation webcast series
• PnP Power Shell
• SharePoint Modernization Tools

Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites

• Power Apps monthly call – March 16th at 8:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall
• M365 General Dev call – March 17th at 7:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig
• Microsoft Identity Platform call – March 17th at 9:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar
• Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework call – March 24th at 7:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call
• Microsoft 365 platform call – March 22nd at 8:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call
• Office add-in monthly call – April 13th at 8:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall
• Adaptive Cards monthly call –April 14th at 9:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall

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 PnP team, Microsoft - 16h of March 2022