Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 215
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 London-based Europe Workplace Value Realization Lead and Microsoft MVP - Zoe Wilson (Avanade) | @SharePoint_Zoe
PnP Weekly is now on summer holiday until end of August. Enjoy your summer/winter for the next 2 months. We will return with Episode 216.
Topics discussed in this session
- How Zoe’s role differs from a delivery consultant’s role.
- Talk of value realization and business process optimization.
- Tips for staying up to date on products.
- How do you/Avanade come up with an offering for customers?
- IT vs Business Decision making.
- Favorite productivity hack you can do on Microsoft 365?
- Community work and specifically about the Viva Explorer program.
- What is special about Viva and what Viva modules would you recommend to a customer?
- What is the one thing we should fix at Microsoft?
- Tips for people to get started on presenting at events. Mentorships and sponsorships.
- Tips to women considering/building a career in IT?
- How should customers prepare for Copilot and generative AI?
Referenced during conversation
- Viva Explorers - https://www.vivaexplorers.com/
- Video - Momentum building example!
There were 22 articles or videos covered within this episode produced by Microsoft and community members.
This week
- Zoe – leading Workplace Value Realization + Copilot and Generative AI perspectives for Avanade = spending much time advocating with clients and educating colleagues on preparing for these topics.
- Waldek – reviewing a bunch of cool apps submitted during HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack that ended June 15th.
- Vesa – back from vacation, catching up on things and reviewing Hacks, national holiday – Midsummer on Friday.
Agenda items
00:00 – Intro
01:58 – Interview
47:54 – Articles
1:19:27 – Closing
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This session was recorded on Monday 19th of June and released on 20th of June, 2023.
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Microsoft articles
- Now in public preview: Collaborative notes in Microsoft Teams Meetings - Alexis Johnston (Microsoft)
- How ISVs are driving customer retention by enabling unique experiences in Microsoft Teams - Evan Westenberger (Microsoft)
- What’s New for Microsoft Teams Rooms and Teams Meetings at InfoComm 2023 - Matt Taylor (Microsoft)
- Microsoft Viva Pulse available for public preview - Tranissa Creme (Microsoft)
- “The SharePoint experience” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Deploying Microsoft Viva Connections internally at Microsoft - Keith Boyd (Microsoft)
- 24 New Verified, 29 New Independent Publisher and 37 Updated Connectors available - Amjed Ayoub (Microsoft)
- Run Your Enterprise on Power Platform with New Enterprise Application Templates - Ryan Cunningham (Microsoft) | @rc_says
- Announcing General Availability for Power Platform Customer-managed key (CMK) - Paul Liew (Microsoft)
- Fluid Framework 2.0 Alpha is now available - Kashif Qureshi (Microsoft) & Nick Simons (Microsoft)
- What’s new for Office Add-ins: Announcements from Build 2023 - Microsoft
- Announcing Microsoft Graph Toolkit v3.0 release candidate - Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | @sebastienlevert
Videos
- Get A First Look At Power Automate Copilot! - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
- Say Goodbye to Emails: Simplify TPS Reports with Teams Adaptive Cards - Shane Young (PowerApps911) | @ShanesCows
- 🤖 How to use AI in Power Apps aka Copilot - Giuliano De Luca | @delucagiulian
- Episode #251 - Microsoft Teams Toolkit v5.0 from Zero to Hero: Part 2 - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
Community articles
- Use Viva Connections Toolkit for VS Code to boost your productivity with SharePoint Framework projects - Adam Wójcik (Hitachi Energy) | @Adam25858782
- CLI for Microsoft 365 and PnP Powershell VS Code extensions - Adam Wójcik (Hitachi Energy) | @Adam25858782
- TGIWE 02 – Another Friday – finally, a new article - Stefan Bauer (N8D) | @StfBauer
- Configuring the CLI for Microsoft 365 in Azure Functions - Martin Lingstuyl (I4-YOU Business Solutions) | @martinlingstuyl
- Microsoft Search Roadmap Updates – June 2023 - Oleg Petryk (Search Explained)
- Performance of the Graph API, REST API and Web Services with SharePoint and Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
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 more.
- European Power Platform conference, June 20-22, 2023 - Dublin, Ireland
- Commsverse 2023 - June 21-22, 2023 - Surrey, United Kingdom
- Dynamics 365 Bootcamp CX Summit - June 23-24, 2023 - Brussels, Belgium
- CollabDays Zagreb - July 1, 2023 - Zagreb, Croatio
- 365 EduCon Seattle – August 21-25, 2023 - Seattle, WA, USA
- Metaverse One 2023 - September 20, 2023 - Virtual
- South Coast Summit 2023 - October 13-14, 2023 - Farnborough, United Kingdom
- Microsoft Ignite 2023 - November 15-16, 2023
- CollabDays Lisbon 2023 - November 25, 2023 - Lisbon, Portugal
- European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference 2023 - November 27-30 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
- AMS Aachen - November 16, 2023 - Aachen, Germany
- European Cloud Summit - December 4-6, 2023 - Wiesbaden, Germany
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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