Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 188

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, host – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen and Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm are joined by Finland based Modern Work Lead and Microsoft MVP Karoliina Kettukari (Meltlake) | @kettukari.

Topics discussed in this session

• Customer maturity level - we have the technologies, now how do we best utilize them?
• What is the need for a Governance plan?
• What are simple Teams capabilities that deliver big impact?
• Employee Champions network as a way to communicate success, adoption, activity.
• How are people working and collaborating today?
• Too many communications tools used for same purposes. Need to minimize context switching.
• Governance starts at the team level.
• What is the demand for Viva across Scandinavia?
• Where should Microsoft invest on Viva?
• Tips on becoming an MVP.
• What are the most exciting Viva Features?

Also, we showcased 23 articles/videos published by Microsoft and the PnP Community in the last week.

This week

• Karoliina – finishing up 2 presentations to be delivered at ESPC22 next week.
• Waldek – preparing CLI for Microsoft 365 v6.0 to go live at end of month Unveiling something exciting at ESPC22.
• Vesa – Prepping for ESPC22 keynote and community video work.

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This session was recorded on Monday, November 21, 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

• Introducing Sign Language View for Teams Meetings - Chris Sano (Microsoft), Elisabeth Jones (Microsoft)
• The Future of Employee Learning - Andrea Lum (Microsoft)
• November 2022 update of Power Automate for desktop - Yiannis Mavridis (Microsoft)
• New Process Advisor template enables deeper insight into bot conversation flows - Henry Jammes (Microsoft)
• Update: Release of Modern Learn page in Power Apps! - Zankar Desai (Microsoft)
• Announcing general availability of SharePoint Framework 1.16 – Enabling SPFx across Microsoft 365 platform - Microsoft
• Build a stock update notification bot using C# and Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio - Garry Trinder (Microsoft) | @garrytrinder
• App Compliance Automation Tool for Microsoft 365 is now in public preview - Sreekanth Thirthala Venkata (Microsoft)
• Security, governance and privacy built into Microsoft Graph Data Connect - Philip Li (Microsoft)

Community articles

• CLI for Microsoft 365 - how cool is that? - Permission commands - Adam Wójcik (Hitachi Energy) | @Adam25858782
• M365 Across App scenarios - Teams apps and SPFx - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
• Create a Table of Contents (TOC) on SharePoint Modern Pages - Keith Craigo (Applied Materials) | @KeithCraigo
• New Microsoft Syntex Freeform Document Processing Model & Syntex Model Renames - Leon Armston (Intelogy) | @LeonArmston
• SharePoint Online: Download files using JSON Formatting - Ganesh Sanap (Cognizant) | @GaneshSanap20
• Microsoft 365 – How to know which license I have assigned – non-admin user - Prasham Sabadra (Apexon) | @SabadraPrasham
• Create multi user real time apps in Power Apps - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
• Updating User Profile Properties with the Date no year Format - Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
• Public Preview of Power BI and Microsoft Graph Integration - Message Center Show Ep. 262 - Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks, Inc) | @DanielGlenn, Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change) | @darrellaas
• Power Apps Get User Manager - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
• 📄 How to create or migrate SharePoint pages with Microsoft Graph API - Giuliano De Luca | @DeLucaGiulian
• Power Hour: SharePoint Page Scheduling & Approvals - Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @WonderLaura & Joelle Jobson (IW Mentor)
• Stop making useless Groups in Power Apps! Containers for the win - 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.

• 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

• M365 Philly Virtual 2022 - December 15, Virtual

• M365 Saturday Ahmedabad - January 7, 2023 - Ahmedabad, India

• AMS Sophia-Antipolis - February 7, 2023 - Biot, France

• M365 Conference - May 1-5, 2023

• CollabDays Poland 2023 - May 13, 2023 - Warsaw, Poland

• CollabDays Netherlands - June 10, 2023 - Utrecht, Netherlands

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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