Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 177
Vesa Juvonen- 4 minutes to read
- 05 Sep, 2022
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 Kevin McDonnell, Head of Practice Modern Workplace at CPS, Microsoft MVP (Office Apps & Services) | @kevmcdonk
Topics discussed in this session
- The role of a Practice Lead
- How to stay up to date on everything?
- What is the top noise in the UK these days?
- Microsoft Viva adoption - how the many elements of Microsoft Viva and the single “all-in” Viva license are driving adoption.
- How Viva Insights is garnering remote employee sentiment and Viva Engage is driving remote connections.
- The challenge - how to humanize asynchronous communications/working in a way that also satisfies an individual’s need for social interaction/connection.
- The human need for timely, personal relevant social reactions.
Resources referenced during discussion
- Viva Explorers – https://www.vivaexplorers.com/
- Book - https://tonyfadell.com/the-book/
- Event September 22nd - Empowering Your Workforce in Economic Uncertainty - Satya Nadella, https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-viva/event
- Podcast Series - GreyHatBeardPrincess Podcast | @greyhatbeard
- Documentation - Introduction to Microsoft Viva Goals
Also, we showcased 17 articles/videos published by Microsoft and the PnP Community in the last week.
Action requested
Thinking like a Principal Software Engineer, should we have the capability (related to Power Apps article discussed in this session) to auto-generate code for Microsoft Teams apps, SharePoint Framework applications, etc.? Will you relate to us a scenario for integrating SPFx and Power Apps? In what cases would you think about writing Power Apps components for SPFx? Please get back to us.
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This session was recorded on Monday, September 5, 2022.
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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
- Driving adoption of Microsoft Viva at Microsoft - Shin-Yi Lim
- “Datacenters - Think globally, act locally” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman, Chris McNulty (Microsoft) | @cmcnulty2000, Sean Emam (Microsoft) & Jon Farmer (Microsoft)
- Introducing Microsoft Teams App Camp - Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German
- Public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.16 – First release of upcoming features - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
- Account linking with Microsoft Teams single sign-on - Aditya Challapally (Microsoft)
- Microsoft retires Basic Authentication in Exchange Online - Seth Patton (Microsoft) | @SethPat
- How to use Actionable Messages in Outlook with Power Automate - Yeiner Lopez (Microsoft)
- Extend modern commands with custom pages and geospatial mapping - Alfredo Cerritos (Microsoft)
Community articles
- Series: Build Power Apps that don’t look like Power Apps - Material Design part 2 - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
- Deploy static web sites with Power Platform - Duvan Baena
- Extend Teams apps to M365 with SSO the right way - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
- Unboxing the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) v1.15.2 release - Andrew Connell (Voitanos) | @Andrewconnell
- Introducing Adoption Score - Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks, Inc) | @DanielGlenn, Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change) | @darrellaas
- Customize list forms with SharePoint Framework form customizers - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm
- Episode #220 - Using the Search Verticals Web Part of PnP Modern Search - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com) | @PaoloPia
- Power Apps import Excel to SharePoint list or any data source with Power Automate - Shane Young (PowerApps911) | @shanescows
- Power Hour: Power Apps Creator Kit - Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @wonderlaura
Additional resources
- 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
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