Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 186

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/India based Microsoft Principal Product Manager - DC Padur | @dcpadur.

Topics discussed in this session

• What is the role of a Principal Product Manager on the SharePoint team?
• Explaining the PM’s focus on the what, why and success measurement as opposed to the how and when.
• The importance of investing in accessibility.
• How did DC get into Microsoft as a developer?
• The value of personal networking.
• How complexity and speed of execution necessitates an awareness of what other teams are doing.
• Who owns code quality and testing at Microsoft?
• How is Microsoft supporting DC’s working remotely in India and side benefits of being in India?
• How does DC deal with time zone differences and prioritizing which meetings to take?
• Tips for working asynchronously on a Worldwide team.

Also, we showcased 16 articles/videos published by Microsoft and the PnP Community in the last week.

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This session was recorded on Monday, November 7, 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

• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | October 2022 - Holly Lehman (Microsoft) | @Lehman__Holly
• Answering 6 Common Microsoft Teams Phone Questions - Daniela Chocron (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Teams performance improves with framework upgrade - Jeff Chen (Microsoft)
• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: October 2022 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
• Announcing the new SharePoint Pages API in Microsoft Graph - Microsoft
• Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.16 release candidate - Microsoft
• Customizing F5 debugging in Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code - Tomomi Imura (Microsoft) | @girlie_mac
• Breaking changes for the Microsoft Graph Insights API - Microsoft

Community articles

• Registering SharePoint Framework list form customizers with CSOM and PowerShell - Rob Windsor | @robwindsor
• Microsoft 365 : Major Update – SharePoint and OneDrive deploying hard block for IE11 in January 2023 for all users - Prasham Sabadra | @SabadraPrasham
• Sign Language View in Teams meetings - Message Center Show Ep. 260 - Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks, Inc) | @DanielGlenn, Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change) | @darrellaas
• Episode #229 - Extending Azure AD objects with Microsoft Graph and Schema Extensions - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
• Power Apps and Automate Solutions and Environment Variables for SharePoint - Shane Young (PowerApps911) | @shanescows
• ⚙️How to use Actionable Messages in Outlook with Power Automate - Giuliano De Luca | @DeLucaGiulian
• Error Handling in Power Automate flows | Try Catch Scope Action - Reza Dorrani (Microsoft) | @rezadorrani
• Power Hour: SharePoint page scheduling & private drafts - Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @WonderLaura & Joelle Jobson (IW Mentor)

Upcoming events

Here are the upcoming events from the centralized Community Days site where you can find in-person, hybrid and online events for Microsoft 365 and mroe.

• DYNUG Autum Conference - November 8-9, Oslo, Norway

• Tech Summit Nigeria 2022 - November 9-10, Lagos, Nigeria

• M365 Chicago - November 11-12, Online

• Viva Explorers Community Day - UK - November 12, Manchester, United Kingdom

• aMS Germany Microsoft Community Event 2022 - November 11-15, Aachen, Germany

• Global AI Developer Days - Toronto - November 16-17, Toronto, Canada

• M365 Saturday Coimbatore 2022 - November 19, Coimbatore, India

• Collab Days Lisbon 2022 - November 26, Lisbon, Portugal

• ​​​​​​​European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference 2022 - November 28 - December 1st, 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark

• M365 Saturday Bangalore - December 3, Bengaluru, India

• Microsoft 365 Conference - December 6-8, Las Vegas, NV, USA

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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