Microsoft 365 Platform Call -- 2nd of November, 2021 - Microsoft Ignite 2021 watch party

Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - weekly community call recording from November 2nd, 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.
• New Learning Path - Extend Microsoft Viva Connections - free training modules to accelerate learning Microsoft 365 platform capabilities.
• 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 November.   Upcoming Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions for 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 or Cast the latest episode of Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 141 (November 1st) with UK-based SharePoint developer and MVP at Storm Technology - Joel Rodrigues | @JoelFMRodrigues. | video | podcast
• Microsoft 365 Community (PnP) – October 2021 update is now available.
• Hear about this week’s top Microsoft 365 Platform related stories
• Ignite watch party:  Microsoft Ignite 2021 opening keynote – Satya Nadella (Microsoft) | @satyanadella.
• Event wrap – keynote highlights - favorite announcements shared by call viewers.

The host of this call was Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | sebastienlevert.  Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call   

Microsoft 365 Platform News Flash

• Learn how to extend Microsoft Viva Connections

• New Microsoft Teams features improve call and meeting quality

• Introducing Microsoft Teams Real-time Call Quality Analytics

• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | October 2021

• 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 – November 24th, December 15th
  • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – November 16th
  • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – November 30th  
  • First Time Presenter – TBS
  • More than Code with VSCode – November 9th  
  • Maturity Model Practitioners – November 16th  (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.

Microsoft Ignite 2021 announcements (and there will be more!)

• Blog post - Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021: Innovations coming to Microsoft Teams
• Blog post - Rich, secure content and collaboration for hybrid work – Ignite 2021 announcements
• Blog post - New Power Platform capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite
• Blog post - Microsoft Lists announcements - Ignite 2021 (Nov.2-4)
• Blog post - What’s new and coming to files experiences in Microsoft 365 at Microsoft Ignite
• Blog post - Announcing new Microsoft Viva partner integrations  
• Blog post - What’s new in Security and Compliance in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams – Ignite 2021 Announcements
• Blog post - Microsoft Graph @ Ignite 2021
• Blog post - Ignite 2021: Building apps for collaboration in a hybrid world

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

• Microsoft Identity Platform call – November 18th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar 

• SharePoint Framework call – November 4th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call

• Microsoft 365 platform call – November 9th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call

• Office add-in monthly call – November 10th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall

• M365 General Dev call – November 11th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig

• Adaptive Cards monthly call –November 11th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall

• Power Apps monthly call– November 17th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall 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 - 3rd of November 2021