Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 193
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 M365 Consultant, Content AI Specialist and Microsoft MVP (M365 Apps & Services) - Leon Armston (Intelogy) | @LeonArmston
Topics discussed in this session
- What is Syntex – why should I care?
- Where is Syntex going beyond content and Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
- Would you bet on the future sustainability of Syntex?
- How would you like to see Syntex evolve in context of other AI capabilities like OpenAI’s chatGPT?
- What is OpenAI and how does it extend Microsoft and Bing Search? What is ChatGPT?
- What usage scenarios and opportunities in AI exist for Partners?
- Differences in AI usage inside and outside the organization.
- AI lights up Viva Topics as part of Project Contex.
- For what company size is AI optimized?
- Importance of local datacenters for optimal AI and data control?
- Top cultural differences between UK and New Zealand?
- Timing around the delivery of AI capabilities, governance around their usage, and people’s readiness to adopt them?
Also, we showcased 23 articles/videos published by Microsoft and the PnP Community in the last week.
This week
- Leon – has a content/AI project going live now and working with Form Recognizer to capture information from technical drawings.
- Waldek – focused on March deliverables – no details, requiring alignment with teams across company. Enhancements to Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy – new release at month end, and to CLI for Microsoft 365.
- Vesa – planning, planning, locking on ODSP and Viva experiences to be delivered by June 2023. Rolling out Viva Home to targeted tenants this week.
Agenda items
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This session was recorded on Monday, January 16, 2023.
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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
- “Fast Fridays with Jeff Teper” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- 4 goal-setting trends for 2023 and how Microsoft Viva Goals can help - Vetri Vellore (Microsoft) | @vetri_vellore
- 10 years of Microsoft 365: More benefits at even better prices - Liat Ben-Zur (Microsoft) | @LiatBenZur
- How Microsoft Teams empowers your retail workers to do more with less - Nicole Herskowitz (Microsoft) | @nicolelamb
- Make Your Goals a Reality with OKRs and New Capabilities from Microsoft Viva Goals - Nirja Trivedi (Microsoft)
- Reach your learning goals with learning paths and collections - Andrea Lum (Microsoft)
- Bookable time coming soon to Outlook - Vikram Gupta (Microsoft)
- SharePoint Pages Microsoft Graph API is now available for public preview - Microsoft
- Learn how to create Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) for Microsoft Viva Connections and Viva Home - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @VesaJuvonen
- 20 New Independent Publisher Connectors in December 2022 - Amjed Ayoub (Microsoft)
- Get more done with Excel and Power Automate! - Ravon Lingard (Microsoft)
- Easily share devices between multiple frontline workers using Power Apps Shared Device Mode - Matt MacLaurin (Microsoft)
- Building SPFx solutions for Microsoft Teams - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @VesaJuvonen
- Automatic hosting of SPFx code in Microsoft 365 - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @VesaJuvonen
- How to use SPFx powered Microsoft Teams apps in Outlook and Office - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @VesaJuvonen
- Building Microsoft Viva extensibility with SPFx - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @VesaJuvonen
- Creating single part app page for SharePoint Online with SPFx - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @VesaJuvonen
Community articles
- 2 Approaches to filtering and selecting data from Microsoft Graph in Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
- Subscribe to Microsoft Graph using Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
- Episode 234 - Using Azure Key Vault from Power Automate - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com) | @PaoloPia
- How to create polls with multiple questions in Teams [Poll Tips] - Giuliano De Luca | @DeLucaGiulian
- Use 5 Unpopular Controls to Build a Power Apps Quiz App and Elevate Your UX - Shane Young (PowerApps911) | @shanescows
- JavaScript Modules 101 – Still need to bundle your browser code? - Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting) | @jfj1997 & Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German
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.
- M365 Twin Cities - January 21, 2023 - Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, USA
- Microsoft Power Automate Bootcamp - February 10-11, 2023 - London, UK
- AMS Sophia-Antipolis - February 7, 2023 - Biot, France
- Workplacedudes Summit - February 24, 2023 - Nieuwkoop, Netherlands
- Microsoft Dynamics ERP Finance & Supply Chain Community Summit - March 11, 2023 - Lisbon, Portugal
- Modern Workplace Conference Paris - March 27-29, 2023 - Paris, France
- Latinamerican Modern Workplace Conference - April 27-29, 2023 - Mexico City, Mexico
- M365 Conference - May 1-5, 2023 - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- CollabDays Poland 2023 - May 13, 2023 - Warsaw, Poland
- Techorama Belgium - May 15 - 17, 2023 - Antwerp, Belgium
- CollabDays Italy - May 20, 2023 - Milan, Italy
- European Collaboration Summit - May 22-24, 2023 - Duesseldorf, Germany
- CollabDays Netherlands - June 10, 2023 - Utrecht, Netherlands
- CollabDays Central Europe - June 17, 2023 - Zurich, Switzerland
- European Power Platform conference, June 20-22, 2023 - Dublin, Ireland
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 and Power Platform 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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