Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 179

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 Netherlands-based Global XR Technology and Metaverse Lead - Alexander Meijers (Avanade) | @ameijers.

Topics discussed in this session

• What is XR, MR, VR, metaverse, immersive technology, and the future of the XR Space?
• Career journey from SharePoint, Office 365, Azure, to large scale XR.
• What is the job of a metaverse technology lead? How does one get to be the metaverse technical lead in Avanade?
• RElationship between consumer and corporate adoption of XR and what are the business opportunities for XR?
• Comments on Microsoft HoloLens, AltspaceVR and Mesh for Teams.
• What are the challenges in building and evolving solutions for clients in the XR space?
• What is the one XR killer app for the enterprise office worker?
• Where does one start to learn more about XR?

Resources referenced during discussion

• Documentation - What is AltspaceVR
• Documentation - Microsoft Mesh (Preview) overview
• Article - Mesh for Microsoft Teams aims to make collaboration in the ‘metaverse’ personal and fun
• Article - Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years
• Learn - Mixed Reality Learn overview
• Learn - Get started with Mixed Reality
• Documentation - Mixed Reality Toolkit 3
• Community – Mixed Reality Tech Community
• Conference - GLOBAL XR CONFERENCE, NOVEMBER 3-4, 2022

Also, we showcased 14 articles/videos published by Microsoft and the PnP Community in the last week.

This week

• Waldek – it’s Microsoft Hack week. Creating a hack related to Microsoft Graph that we may get to chare publicly in foreseeable future.
• Vesa – catching up with friends at Power platform Conforence in Orlando, Florida.

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This session was recorded on Thursday, September 15, 2022.

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• 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

• Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store - August 2022 - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
• Priority Matrix improves user activation through Universal Actions for Adaptive Cards - Fabian Williams (Microsoft) | @fabianwilliams
• New cultural site template: Hispanic Heritage Month - Cathy Dew (Microsoft) | @catpaint1
• Power Fx: Introducing ParseJSON - Joris de Gruyter (Microsoft)
• Announcing the New Landing page for Microsoft Power Platform Communities - David Warner (Microsoft) | @DavidWarnerII

Community articles

• CLI for Microsoft 365 - how cool is that? - Configuring settings - Adam Wójcik (Hitachi Energy) | @Adam25858782
• How to generate an HTML table with the output of a SQL Server query and send it from Outlook by using Power Platform - Duvan Baena
• Unboxing the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) v1.15.2 release - Andrew Connell (Voitanos) | @Andrewconnell
• Getting notified of changes in guests accessing SharePoint - Martin Lingstuyl | @Martinlingstuy
• Video messages in Microsoft Teams Chat - Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks, Inc) | @DanielGlenn, Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change) | @darrellaas
• How we built the OnePlaceMail Outlook App on the Microsoft 365 Platform & Azure Cloud - Cameron Dwyer (OnePlace Solutions) | @CameronDwyer
• CloudDev Clarity | Episode 8 - Introducing Browser Native - Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting) | @jfj1997 & Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German
• Power Hour: Flow Excel Actions Generate Chart Report - Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @wonderlaura & Joelle Jobson (IW Mentor) | @Joelle_Shmoelle
• 5 Power Apps Best Practices for Early Makers - Shane Young (PowerApps911) | @shanescows

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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