Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 182

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 Microsoft 365 Architect Martin Lingstuyl (I4-YOU Business Solutions) | @martinlingstuyl

Topics discussed in this session

• What’s the demand for Microsoft technologies in Netherlands today?
• How have work practices changed after the pandemic?
• How do you build a connection with remote team members?
• Martin’s career progression to becoming an M365 architect?
• How did Martin become an MVP and 3 tips to achieving MVP status?

Resources referenced during discussion

Waldek’s article on freeCodeCamp - How to Build Your First Microsoft 365 Application in 10 minutes

Also, we showcased 18 articles/videos published by Microsoft and the PnP Community in the last week.

This week

• Martin – working on a migration and on a large application with critical SharePoint integration.
• Waldek – Microsoft Ignite activities, prep for Microsoft Teams App Camp – October 20th, a 5th birthday celebration for CLI for Microsoft 365 and ideas for attracting more people to build on Microsoft 365.
• Vesa – work on promoting Microsoft Viva after the Viva Home announcement, one more beta for SPFx v1.16 to be followed with GA in short order and community coordination activities.

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This session was recorded on Monday, October 10, 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

• Your Guide to Microsoft Teams at Microsoft Ignite 2022 - Maria Figueroa (Microsoft)
• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: September 2022 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
• More options coming soon for the Viva Connections desktop experience - Ling Ma (Microsoft)
• Join us at Microsoft Teams App Camp on October 20, 2022 - Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German
• Link unfurling public preview in Outlook - Namrata Khubchandani (Microsoft)

Documentation updates

• Universal Actions for search based message extensions

Community articles

• Weekly Agenda - 10th of October 2022 week - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
• Star rating control in Adaptive Cards - Tomasz Poszytek | @TomaszPoszytek
• Series: How to build Power Apps that don’t look like Power Apps - auto-height textinput - Material Design part 3 - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
• How to Build Your First Microsoft 365 Application in 10 minutes - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm
• How to use React hooks with the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) - Andrew Connell (Voitanos) | @Andrewconnell
• Get notified for PnP updates from GitHub - Albert-Jan Schot (BLIS.digital) | @appieschot
• BatchMessageHandler in .NET - Marcin Wojciechowski (Valo Solutions) | @mgwojciech
• Introduction to the PDF function in Power Apps - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
• The Scope of Microsoft Search: Organization or Current Site? - Agnes Molnar (Search Explained) | @molnaragnes
• Teams calendar pop-out - Message Center Show Ep. 256 - Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks, Inc) | @DanielGlenn, Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change) | @darrellaas
• Episode #225 - Introducing the new PnP Provisioning Schema v202209 - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
• Powerful Platform Hub: What it is & How to use it - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
• Everything you need to build a Model-driven Power App - 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

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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