Microsoft 365 Platform Call -- 28th of December, 2021

Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - weekly community call recording from December 28th, 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.   

• Register for the Microsoft 365 Developer Program and get a free E5 developer tenant with instant availability and other assets.  For development usage only!
• Get started with free training modules to accelerate learning Microsoft 365 platform capabilities. Now with new Viva Connections training!
• Preview the Microsoft 365 Sample Solution Gallery with 640+ 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 during January-February.   Upcoming Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions for PnP Search and Open Discussions in January!   New class Viva Connections ACEs (Feb 2022)
• Join us for Viva Connections and SharePoint Framework community call, 30th of December @7:00 AM PT.  Three demos will be delivered - Building Viva Connection ACE extension or managing Planner Tasks, Viva Connections ACEs CardView Types in SharePoint Framework, and SharePoint Framework design patterns.
• Hear the summary of two recently published Microsoft 365 Platform related posts.
• Thank you for the 2021, we are looking forward on the 2022 together with you…
• Q&A / AMA / Discussion / Ad-hoc demos / and more...  Discussion and Resources referenced below 

The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen.  Discussion takes place throughout this call.   

Microsoft 365 Platform News Flash

• New features in Microsoft Graph Bookings APIs provide enhanced booking infrastructure
• Microsoft Graph Bookings APIs now available on the v1 endpoint

Actions

• Submit a Sample request to create a web part that replicates the on prem capability - Check Permissions. 
• Holiday Break Challenge!!! Choose and update an SPFx sample v1.7, v1.8, v1.9, earn a special Credly badge. 
• Opt into PnP Recognition Program | https://aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition
• Register for Sharing is Caring Events:
  • Ask me anything (AMA) PnP Search – Tuesday, January 11th, 9am PST
  • First Time Contributor Session – Tuesday, January 25th, 2pm PST
  • Community Docs Session – 2022 Sessions Coming Soon  
  • Power Platform Samples – First Time Contributor – Tuesday, January 18th, 1pm PST
  • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – Tuesday, February 8th, 2pm PST
  • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – Wednesday, January 26th, 7am PST
  • First Time Presenter – Wednesday, February 9th, 9am PST
  • More than Code with VSCode – Tuesday, February 15th, 2pm PST
  • Maturity Model Practitioners – Tuesday, January 18th, 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.

**Discussion and Resources referenced **in this session

• Developer tenant renewals and possibility of multi-geo and GCC dev tenants.
• Cloud adoption challenges/opportunities WW including supporting work related to personal data security in EU.  https://servicetrust.microsoft.com
• Global datacenters - Where your Microsoft 365 customer data is stored
• Updates on combining PnP Community calls – no changes at present.
• Microsoft 365 Developer call promotion (agenda, recordings, demos) on twitter @Microsoft365Dev and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/M365Dev. 
• Logic behind not provisioning Site Assets library when providing site?  Code at SharePoint Provisioning Service, In Script Samples Library see Ensure the Site Assets Library is created.  Plugs for Unified Sample Solution Gallery and PnP Recognition Program
• Microsoft Loop – previewed at Ignite, details to come in 2022.  Fluid Framework is behind Microsoft Loop.  See Fluid Framework Documentation and learn about connecting to the Azure Fluid Relay.  Post – Stay in sync with Microsoft Loop. 

Agenda 

• Latest updates and news on the Microsoft 365 platform – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen – 7:19
• Open discussion on any topics around Microsoft 365 – 9:37

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

• SharePoint Framework call – December 30th at 7:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call

• Microsoft 365 platform call – January 4that 8:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call

• M365 General Dev call – January 6th at 7:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig

• Office add-in monthly call – January 12that 8:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall

• Adaptive Cards monthly call –January 13that 9:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall

• Power Apps monthly call– January 19th at 8:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall

• Microsoft Identity Platform call – January 20th at 9:00 am PST | https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar 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 - 29th of December 2021