Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 189
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 UK based Microsoft 365 Apps & Services MVP Brett Lonsdale (Lightning Tools) | @brettlonsdale.
Topics discussed in this session
- Offerings from Lightning Tools and sister company NLightning.
- How challenges became products at Lightning Tools and criteria defining a viable offering?
- Opportunities and challenges for ISVs based on their business model.
- Why not hosting apps can an appealing alternative?
- How do you find customers and use of AppSource.
- How did you get to be an MVP?
- A win win story for community outreach resulting from a partnership between National Museum of Computing and Collab Days leaders.
- How you build on how Microsoft is evolving products. Opportunity, threat?
- What are the most exciting deliveries coming from Microsoft in the last 6 months?
- Waldeck’s top 3 tips for successful open-source projects.
- Special guest appearance by Mr. Loki
- Referenced during discussion
Also, we showcased 14 articles/videos published by Microsoft and the PnP Community in the last week.
This week
- Brett – Lightning Tools booth and networking at ESPC22.
- Waldek – Releasing CLI for Microsoft 365 v6.0 last week of November, supporting activities but not attending ESPC22 and prioritizing what to complete before holidays.
- **Vesa ** – Fully engaged with keynote and networking at ESPC22.
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This session was recorded on Monday, November 25, 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
- Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store - October 2022 - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
- “Add to OneDrive” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast - Gaia Carini, Katy Erlandson and Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Outlook REST API v2.0 & Beta deprecation update - Microsoft
- Using scripts for Microsoft Bookings calendar and mailbox - Altamish Ahmad (Microsoft)
- 7 New Verified Connectors and 7 Updates released in October 2022 - Amjed Ayoub (Microsoft)
- Power Platform Developers tool – October update - Kartik Kanakasabesan (Microsoft) | @kkanakas
Community articles
- Microsoft 365 Platform Community (PnP) - November 2022 update - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
- Season of Gitting 2022 - M365 Platform Community - Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community
- Building a custom Microsoft Teams tab: Show a native loading indicator - Vardhaman Deshpande | @vrdmn
- News Items in Microsoft Search - Agnes Molnar (Search Explained) | @molnaragnes
- Using custom certificates when debugging SPFx Solutions - Martin Lingstuyl (I4-YOU) | @martinlingstuyl
- Episode #231 - What’s new in SharePoint Framework 1.16 - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
- You can create a Calendar View with Model-driven Apps - Who knew? - Shane Young (PowerApps911) | @shanescows & Juan Sebastian (PowerApps911)
- 🎙️ How to use the new webinar experience in Microsoft Teams - Giuliano De Luca | @DeLucaGiulian
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.
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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