Microsoft 365 Platform Call -- 19th of October, 2021
Vesa Juvonen- 7 minutes to read
- 20 Oct, 2021
Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - weekly community call recording from October 19th, 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.
- New to Microsoft 365 Platform development? Join the Microsoft 365 Developer Program today and get a free E5 developer tenant and other assets.
- Preview the Microsoft 365 Sample Solution Gallery with more than 600 samples from Microsoft and community that allow you to learn by example, expedite your development and appreciate what is possible.
- Sign up and attend one of a growing list of events hosted by Sharing is Caring in October/November. Upcoming Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions for PnP PowerShell, CLI for Microsoft 365 and for PnPjs.
- Tune into the weekly Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast focused exclusively on Microsoft 365 dev topics – hosted by Jeremy Thake (Microsoft) and Paul Schaeflein (Addin365).
- View PnP Weekly – Episode 139 (October 18th) with Switzerland based MVP and Head of Solutions at Datalynx AG - André Lage | @aaclage Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly is hosted by Vesa Juvonen and Waldek Mastykarz.
- Registration for Microsoft Ignite (Digital event) – November 2 - 4 is now open.
- Hear about this week’s top Microsoft 365 Platform related stories and view 2 demos from Microsoft presenters about working with the Microsoft 365 platform.
The host of this call was Brian T. Jackett (Microsoft) *| *@BrianTJackett. Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call.
Microsoft 365 Platform News Flash
- Developing real-time collaborative apps with Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and GitHub
- Manage your Microsoft Teams apps with the Developer Portal
- Microsoft Teams ISV app monetization capabilities now available in developer preview
- Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.13 Release Candidate
- Grow your skills and build collaborative solutions: Exam MS-600 Building Applications and Solutions ...
- Building great bots for Microsoft Teams with Azure Bot Framework Composer
- New Microsoft 365 and Teams solutions to empower frontline workers
- Viva Topics brings new integrations with Yammer
- Microsoft Ignite 2021 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Viva, Lists, Syntex, Stream, Visio and more
Actions
- Register today for Hacktoberfest 2021 – https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com
- Register for Microsoft Ignite (Digital event) - November 2-4, 2021- https://ignite.microsoft.com
- Opt in to PnP Recognition Program | https://aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition
- Register for Sharing is Caring Events:
- First Time Contributor Session – November 3rd (EMEA, APAC & US friendly times available)
- Community Docs Session – November 17th
- Power Platform Samples – First Time Contributor - October 27th Inaugural session
- PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – November 16th
- PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – November 30th
- Ask Me Anything (AMA) – PnP PowerShell – October 26th
- Ask Me Anything (AMA) - CLI for Microsoft 365 – November 9th
- Ask Me Anything (AMA) – PnPjs – November 16th
- First Time Presenter – TBS
- More than Code with VSCode – November 9th
- Maturity Model Practitioners – October 19th (every 3rd Tuesday of month, 7:00am PT)
- 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
Demos delivered in this session
Introduction to Universal Print – tools for better Print management. Get the lay-of-the-land - customer challenges, Universal Print solution and architecture. Technology requirements/licensing, Universal Print ecosystem and security + privacy details. Demos of Universal Print for IT Admins (register, share, manage) and for end users (discover, add printer, print). Create custom solutions on top of managed print services via the Graph API.
Latest on Microsoft Graph Data Connect (MGDC) – that allows you to extract Microsoft 365 data at scale for analytics and insights reporting. Understand availability of current and upcoming data sets - data artifacts, i.e., user profiles, messages, events, chats…, in Microsoft 365 data. See 3 different Solution Accelerators (assemblage of data sets that together deliver insights for a particular need. ARM templates enable you to create your own Solution Accelerator.
Thank you for your work. Samples are often showcased in Demos.
Topics
Topics covered in this call
- Latest updates and news on the Microsoft 365 platform – Brian T. Jackett (Microsoft) | @BrianTJackett – 5:20
- Demo 1: Introduction to Universal Print – Rachelle Cheung (Microsoft) – 10:36
- Demo 2: Latest on Microsoft Graph Data Connect – Nik Charlebois (Microsoft) | @NikCharlebois – 27:37
Resources
Additional resources around the covered topics and links from the slides.
D1: Article - Introducing the Universal Print PowerShell module
D1: Article - Universal Print Lunch & Learn series
D1: Documentation - Universal Print cloud printing API overview
D1: Demo - MS Build SK118 Add cloud-based printing to your application with Universal Print
D1: Feedback – Universal Print
D2: Solution Accelerator - ProjectStaffing application
D2: Solution Accelerator - Conversation Lineage
D2: Solution Accelerator - Watercooler application
D2: Solution Accelerator – ARMTemplates
PnP Weekly – Episode 139[ (October 18th) with Switzerland based MVP and Head of Solutions at ]Datalynx AGAndré Lage[ | @aaclage | ]video podcast
Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast focused exclusively on Microsoft 365 dev topics – hosted by Jeremy Thake (Microsoft) |
@jthake and Paul Schaeflein (Addin365) | pschaeflein
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– October 20th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall
- SharePoint Framework call – October 21st at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call
- Microsoft Identity Platform call – October 21st at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar
- Microsoft 365 platform call – October 26th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call
- M365 General Dev call – October 28th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig
- Office add-in monthly call – November 10th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall
- Adaptive Cards monthly call –November 11th at 9:00 am PDT | 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 - 20th of October 2021