Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 204

Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 204

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 Sweden-based Microsoft MVP and CTO at Rencore - Erwin van Hunen | @erwinvanhunen

Topics discussed in this session

  • Erwin’s involvement with PnP efforts since 2014 – PnP PowerShell creator, maintainer, nurturer.
  • His new role as CTO at Rencore and his latest musical work.
  • Why did Erwin create PnP PowerShell and hand it to the community?
  • Reviewing the latest release of PnP PowerShell v2 (v2.1.1) – what’s changed, why drop PowerShell 5 support, how install the latest PowerShell.
  • How is PnP PowerShell more than just a tool?
  • Where will PnP PowerShell go in the next 3 years.
  • What are the advantages delivered by open-source projects over out-of-box? Does quality suffer?
  • What are the 5 things that make PnP PowerShell and CLI for Microsoft 365 so successful?
  • How to not let the product you created and that people depend, not overwhelm you?
  • Product vs Project Management

Also, we showcased 29 articles/videos published by Microsoft and the community in the last week.

This week

  • Erwin – onboarding himself as CTO - learning and communicating with his new team.
  • Waldek – retrospective on Virtual Hack Together process and winners, shipped Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy and CLI for Microsoft 365 last week, new ideas for these products this week. Also, starting to prepare things for Microsoft Build.
  • Vesa – releasing SPFx v1.17 (GA) on April 4th (Tuesday) and more.

Agenda items

00:00 – Intro

02:08 – Interview

49:44 – Weekly Articles

1:15:14 – Closing

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This session was recorded on Monday, April 3, 2023.

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