Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 173

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 UK based Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft - Garry Trinder | @garrytrinder.

Topics discussed in this session

• On becoming a consultant at Microsoft
• Why take an active role in Community?
• Thoughts on educational content development and delivery methods given the breadth of learning styles and knowledge levels, not to mention the cultural influences. As well, remaining enthusiastic and genuinely interested in educating at all levels.
• How overcoming the challenge of getting people connected to the organization when teams are operating remotely and worldwide.
• Tips for people wanting to get involved in open-source community-work in Microsoft 365.
• Flashback to Microsoft DevCast with Jeff Teper and Satya Nadella from 1993 - https://youtu.be/8bSCIUAeLis?t=7226

Also, we showcased 22 articles/videos published by Microsoft and the PnP Community in the last week.

This week

• Waldek – Planning and addressing a question: Why would/should a developer care about building on Microsoft 365? Stay tuned!
• Vesa – Wrapping up loose ends and gearing up for a most remote vacation.
• Garry - Planning and learning other aspects of his role.

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, July 4, 2022.

• Video at Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel.
• Podcast 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

• From Viva Sales to new Office experiences—here’s what’s new in Microsoft 365 - Jared Spataro (Microsoft) | @jared_spataro
• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | June 2022 - Holly Lehman (Microsoft) | @Lehman__Holly
• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: June 2022 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
• Announcing the general availability of idle session timeout for Microsoft 365 web apps - Namit Gupta (Microsoft)
• Viva Learning SharePoint updates - Andrea Lum (Microsoft)
• OneDrive File Picker v8 now generally available! - Microsoft
• Introducing apps in Microsoft Teams Voice over IP (VoIP) calls - Manasi Sharma (Microsoft) & Kartik Datwani (Microsoft)
• Changes to Microsoft 365 Apps usage reports API in Microsoft Graph - Microsoft
• New Microsoft 365 Platform Community (PnP) team members – June 2022 - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
• We shipped version 1.7.0 of the PnP Core SDK! - Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365Bert
• Microsoft Lists Calendar Color Coding with View Formatting - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam

Community articles

• How to build a color-contrast-ratio checker for improved accessibility in Power Apps - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
• What is a Microsoft 365 Developer, and how to get started - Eli Schei (Point Taken AS) | @acupof_dev
• m365pnp/spfx Docker image - Microsoft 365 Platform Community (PnP)
• Use FluidFramework in a Microsoft Teams app - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
• How to add custom code via private Azure DevOps artifact feeds to your projects and build pipelines - Laura Kokkarinen (Sulava) | @LauraKokkarinen
• What’s new? Unboxing the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) v1.15 - Andrew Connell (Voitanos) | @andrewconnell
• The Return of Hillbilly Tabs - Mark Rackley (Avanade) | @mrackley
• How to upgrade your SPFx project to the latest version, and how to fix/avoid common issues - Eli Schei (Point Taken AS) | @acupof_dev
• Building beautiful buttons in Canvas Apps part 1 - neumorphic buttons - Kristine Kolodziejski (Computacenter) | @kristinekk94
• Episode #211 - Using the PnP TeamPicker control in SPFx solutions - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
• Power Apps Search Pane - Shane Young (PowerApps911) | @ShanesCows

Additional resources

• Release Notes for PnPjs v3.4.1
• PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing to the community
• Check out all the great community calls, SDKs, and tooling for Microsoft 365 from https://aka.ms/m365/community

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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