Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 158

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen, Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm are joined by US-based, member of the Customer Engineering Team focused on developer enablement and on PnPjs project, Patrick Rodgers (Microsoft) | @mediocrebowler.

Topics discussed in this session

• Patrick’s 10-year career journey at Microsoft and how got involved in PnP Community.
• Why is PnPjs so successful? What drives behavioral change and the probability of success?
• How is PnPjs V3.0 (V6.0) optimized?
• V3 theme or approach - “What do we put in the library vs what do we enable others to build.”
• How is the perception of opensource changing?
• Can others join the PnPjs project team? You bet - start by resolving an issue, define and own a capability, work with Julie @jfj1997 and Patrick @mediocrebowler.

We also covered 15 articles published by Microsoft and the PnP Community over the last week.

This week

• Waldek – Finalizing the work around POC on how improve developer experience around building Teams apps with Angular, finalizing work with Alex on a cmdlet to evaluate SPFx dependency issues and recommend fixes, cool PRs for CLI for Microsoft 365 and on other ways to improve the developer experience.  
• Vesa – catch up week while much of engineering is engaged in “Fix, Hack & Learn week.”   

Please remember to keep on providing us feedback on how we can help on this journey. We always welcome feedback on making the community more inclusive and diverse.

This session was recorded on Monday, March 21, 2022. Enjoy the show.  

• Video at Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel.
• Podcast format at https://pnpweekly.podbean.com.

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Here are all the links and people mentioned in this recording. Thanks, everyone for your contributions to the community!

Microsoft articles

• Elevating hybrid experiences with Microsoft Teams Rooms and Teams devices - Microsoft
• Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels is rolling out to public preview - Microsoft
• VillageMD designs a “legal OS” using SharePoint, Lists and Power BI - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
• Learn from the community: Low code bot onboards members to Microsoft Teams channel - Ay�a Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs
• Power Automate Powered Busy Light for Outlook Calendar - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam

Community articles

• How to get started deploying Azure resources using Bicep - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
• Assign a built-in role to a user at resource and Resource Group scope using ARM template - Shrusti Shah (Rapid Circle)
• Limit app permissions to a specific mailbox - Albert-Jan Schot (BLISS.digital) | @appieschot
• PCF-MGT-Sample - Srinivas Varukala (Microsoft) | @svarukala
• Getting Started with HTWOO-REACT - Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting) | @jfj1997
• Incentivising Microsoft Teams contributions with Power Automate - Robert Crane (CIAOPS) | @directorcia
• Real-world Planner use cases - Microsoft 365 Voice - Sarah Haase | @sarahhaase, Antonio Maio | @AntonioMaio2 and Mike Maadarani | @mikemaadarani
• Introducing Portal Apps in Power Apps - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
• Failure to Launch Your Information Governance Program - Joanne C Klein | @JoanneCKlein
• Episode #197 - Overview of Approvals in Microsoft Teams - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia

Additional resources

• Documentation PnPjs v2 - v3 Transition Guide
• Documentation - Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 – Introduction
• Microsoft 365 Maturity Model on Twitter @M365Maturity
• Microsoft 365 Unified Sample Gallery (preview) - https://aka.ms/m365/samples 
• PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing to the community
• Want to ask a question or in general engage with the community - Add a note in the Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub at https://aka.ms/m365pnp/community
• Check out all the great community calls, SDKs, and tooling for Microsoft 365 from https://aka.ms/m365pnp

If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions for Microsoft 365 engineering or visitors – please let us know. We will do our best to address your requests or questions.

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