Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 221
In this episode 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 Sarah Haase Principal Product Manager, U.S. Bank.
In this episode
- Folders or metadata?
- The importance of data classification to support findability
- How culture influences collaboration and adoption
- Innovation games
- Viva Engage as a vehicle to drive traffic to organizational information
- How to reason over the different tools on Microsoft 365?
- Can you force adoption?
- How to drive adoption at scale?
References
This week
- Sarah – planning the next M365 Twin Cities event
- Waldek – presenting what’s new in Microsoft 365 Developer Proxy and talking about Microsoft Graph connector
- Vesa – preparing for going to the office… 6000km away
Agenda items
00:00 – Intro
01:57 – Interview with Sarah
39:44 – Articles
1:10:42 – Closing
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This session was recorded on Tuesday 3rd of October and Friday 6th of October. Session was published on 10th of October, 2023.
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Microsoft articles
- Announcing general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac - Anupam Pattnaik (Microsoft)
- Enable the new Microsoft Teams for your organization today! - Shaloo Singh (Microsoft)
- Unveiling the Next Generation of OneDrive - Jason Moore (Microsoft) | @jasmo
- What is People Science? - Jaime Gonzales (Microsoft)
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: September 2023 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Support update for Business Connectivity Services in Microsoft 365 - Troy Starr (Microsoft)
- Building immersive experiences with Microsoft Mesh - Tyler Adams (Microsoft)
- Microsoft 365 Developer Program instant sandbox service is restored - Kelly Bowen-McCombs (Microsoft)
- Find what you need with Microsoft Graph connectors - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm & Majesty Uwagerikpe (Microsoft)
- A developer’s guide to open source LLMs and generative AI - Gwen Davis (Microsoft)
- As a tenant-level admin, enable your makers with Developer Environments - Mankirat Kaur Bajwa (Microsoft)
Community articles
- CLI for Microsoft 365 v7 - Martin Lingstuyl (I4-YOU) | @martinlingstuyl
- Using Teams Toolkit in WSL - Don Kirkham (DMI) | @DonKirkham
- Get the expiration date of application secrets and certificates in Entra - Toni Pohl (atwork) | @atwork
- Creating Colored Folders in SharePoint Online and OneDrive - Ganesh Sanap (Cognizant) | @GaneshSanap20
- Microsoft 365 Audit Logs - Office 365 Management APIs - Search and list like a Pro - Tom Wechsler (Wechsler Information Solution) | @tomvideo2brain
- Easily handle long-running operations using middleware in the Microsoft Graph JavaScript SDK - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm & Majesty Uwagerikpe (Microsoft)
- Creating Teams Meetings and install Teams Meeting App with Microsoft Graph - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
Videos
- Episode #264 - Building Search Adaptive Card Extensions with SPFx 1.18 - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
- How to use organization announcements in Microsoft Viva Connections - Giuliano De Luca | @delucagiulian
- Beware of the SharePoint SE 23H2 Feature Update SharePoint Framework Developers! - Andrew Connell (Voitanos) | @andrewconnell
Samples
Check out all cool samples from community and from Microsoft. You can access all of them from the Unified Microsoft 365 & Power Platform sample gallery at https://aka.ms/community/samples. Here’s a list of new samples from past week 🚀
- Ingest Microsoft 365 and Power Platform community samples using JavaScript and Node.js - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft)
- Ingest local markdown content using .NET and C# - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft)
- Ingest local markdown content using JavaScript and Node.js - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft)
- Simulate creating a Microsoft Graph connector - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft)
- SPFx Middleware API Pattern - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys)
- Creation of SharePoint Online sites from CSV - Kshitiz Kalra
- Backup all custom formatting on a site - Dan Toft
- Person Hover Card - Niket Jain
- Copying files between different SharePoint libraries with custom metadata - Reshmee Auckloo
- Add an alternate language to SharePoint Online Site - Kshitiz Kalra
- Text StartsWith Calling Codes - Chris Kent (Takeda)
- Gantt Chart list formatting - Tetsuya Kawahara | @techan_k
- Conversation Bot using Bot Framework v4 - Microsoft
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.
- Knoxville M365 Community Day – October 13, 2023 – Knoxville, TN, USA
- South Coast Summit 2023 - October 13-14, 2023 - Farnborough, United Kingdom
- MN M365 IITH Bi-Annual Fall Workshop Day - October 13-14, 2023 - Edina, MN, USA
- Collaboration Hero - October 17-19, 2023 - Online
- AMS KL - October 19, 2023 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- AMS Singapore - October 21, 2023 - Manila, Philippines
- CollabDays Belgium 2023 - October 21, 2023 - Brussels, Belgium
- CollabDays New England 2023 - October 21-22, 2023 - Burlington, MA, USA
- AMS Manila - October 24, 2023 - Manila, Philippines
- CollabDays Barcelona 2023 - October 28, 2023 - Barcelona, Spain
- Community Days Mexico City 2023 - November 2-3, 2023 - Mexico City, Mexico
- M365 Twin Cities - November 11-12, 2023 - Brooklyn Partk, MN, USA
- Live 360 - November 12-18, 2023 - Orlando, FL, USA
- YYC Microsoft Community Day - November 18-19, 2023 - Calgary, Canada
- DynUG Autumn Conference - November 21-22, 2023 - Oslo, Norway
- 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
- European Cloud Summit - December 4-6, 2023 - Wiesbaden, Germany
- Microsoft 365 Conference - April 30, May 1 & 2, 2023 - Orlando, FL, USA
- European Collaboration Summit - May 14-16, 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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