Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 197

Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 197

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 Belgium-based Senior Software Engineer on the ODSP team at Microsoft - Bert Jansen (Microsoft) | @O365Bert

Topics discussed in this session

  • Vesa and Bert are now in the same ODSP (OneDrive SharePoint) organization. There benefits of this latest organizational structuring for PnP, ISVs, Customers.
  • Recounting the beginnings of the open-source PnP program and the transition of Microsoft’s mentality to one of knowledge sharing.
  • The PnP Core SDK and PnP Framework libraries that work together hand-in-hand and the insane open-source product usage numbers.
  • Bert’s ChatGPT test and the surprising result.
  • What will be AI’s impact on developers - will it change everything, will it make developers irrelevant, can it help to reskill and make developers more productive?
  • A long way to go to embed this AI technology in products, but it’s super promising and a massive disrupter.
  • New job role - Prompt Engineer and a new wave of assistive tools for talking to AI – it’s all about rephrasing questions to get the most useful output.
  • Ideas for how AI can be a part of PnP projects – it’s datasets, training, and bots, oh my!

Also, we showcased 15 articles/videos published by Microsoft and the PnP Community in the last week.

This week

  • Bert – Microsoft 365 Assessment tool module for assessing usage of classic pages, add-ins, custom actions, etc.
  • Waldek – more work on Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy and CLI for Microsoft 365. Stay tuned for a possible announcement on February 15th about a cool thing planned for March.
  • Vesa – testing/prepping SPFx v1.17 (beta) and related Viva offerings to be released this quarter.

Agenda items

00:00 – Intro

03:13 – Interview

43:53 – Weekly Articles

1:05:07 – Closing

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This session was recorded on Thursday, February 9, 2023.

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