Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 187

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 Velencia, Spain based SharePoint and Cloud Solution Architect and Microsoft MVP Luis Máñez (ClearPeople) | @luismanez.

Topics discussed in this session

• Luis’ role as Chief Architect for ClearPeople and the organization’s Atlas digital workspace solution.
• Weighing your personal preference for product vs consulting project work?
• Impact of incorporating community contributions in a commercial product and how open-source may influence how the product is built?
• How have digital workspace products evolved in last 15 years?
• Is there still room for partner solutions with all of the Microsoft capabilities being rolled out?
• Tell us about your recent SPFx sample for API generation using Kiota.
• Why you spend time coordinating Community Meet-ups and what is the role of in-person events today?
• What are your recommendations to others wanting to be an MVP.
• Referenced during discussion
  • Sample - React Kiota Custom API Client
  • Article - Using Microsoft Kiota tool to generate Atlas API SDKs
  • Article - Using a Kiota client for your API in a SharePoint framework solution

Also, we showcased 13 articles/videos published by Microsoft and the PnP Community in the last week.

This week

• Luis – merging PRs on PnP samples, traveling to Madrid on Friday to speak about Kiota,
• Waldek – co-presenting at 30 Days of Microsoft Graph Challenge, working on a new tool to help everyone work with Microsoft Graph, celebrating the 5th birthday for CLI for Microsoft 365 on Thursday, SBC Samples work, etc.
• Vesa SPFx v1.16 GA is released this week

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This session was recorded on Monday, November 14, 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

• 16 New Independent Publisher Connectors in October 2022 - Amjed Ayoub (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Teams Toolklit for Visual Studio Code v5.1.2 - Microsoft

Community articles

• PnP Core SDK v1.8 - Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @o365bert
• Working with Adaptive cards as Dynamic data - Nathalie Leenders (Chemours) | @NathLeenders
• Sort an array by dates in Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
• Generate Word Document Template Using Power Automate - Ramprakash Duraisamy (Bosch) | @rampprakashd
• PnPjs 3.9.0 release - Microsoft 365 PnPjs | @m365pnpjs
• How to copy views in SharePoint - Martin Lingstuyl (I4-YOU) | @martinlingstuyl
• Microsoft Teams Paging on Video Gallery - Message Center Show Ep. 261 - Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks, Inc) | @DanielGlenn, Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change) | @darrellaas
• CLI for Microsoft 365 extension - Adam Wójcik (Hitachi Energy) | @Adam25858782
• Library Components with Service Locator pattern in Viva Connections Adaptive Card extension - Part 2 - Akshay Koul | @TechAkki
• Episode 230 - Choosing the right extensibility model for Azure AD - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
• Paste a screenshot into SharePoint Rich Text with Power Apps - Shane Young (PowerApps911) | @shanescows

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.

• 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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