Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 223

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 Luise Freese independent Power Platform and Microsoft 365 developer and consultant, and MVP.

In this episode

• How to overcome your ego and be a learn-it-all?
• Why you should consider working in the open?
• Overcome your fears and start contributing to the community with these simple steps

References

• Sharing is caring

This week

• Luise – customer workshops around generative AI
• Waldek – working on a new preview version of Microsoft 365 Developer Proxy…. and new Graph connectors content!
• Vesa – working on SPFx v1.18.1

Agenda items

00:00 – Intro

01:08 – Interview with Luise

35:58 – Weekly articles

55:49 – Closing

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This session was recorded on Monday 23rd of October. Session was published on Tuesday 24th of October, 2023.

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Microsoft articles

• Proactively monitoring a user’s meeting quality in Microsoft Teams admin center - Vaibhav Nitin Patil (Microsoft)
• Fall 2023 update: Introducing new icons, shapes, and templates in Microsoft Visio for the web - Meet Sanghvi (Microsoft)
• What’s New in Microsoft Viva | October 2023 - Michael Holste (Microsoft) | @Mike_Holste
• Introducing Microsoft Viva Amplify—now available worldwide! - Naomi Moneypenny (Microsoft) | @nmoneypenny
• Introducing AI-powered Skills in Microsoft Viva: A new way to understand and empower the workforce - John Mighell (Microsoft)
• OData property changes to Microsoft Graph callRecords change notifications - Matthew McGrath (Microsoft)
• Teams Toolkit update - October 2023 - John Miller (Microsoft) | @jmillerdev
• Build message extensions for Microsoft Teams and Copilot - Rabia Williams (Microsoft) | @williamsrabia
• Bring your app across Microsoft 365: Outlook extensions, meeting apps, and more - Nnamdi Onuorah (Microsoft) & Daniel Carrasco (Microsoft) | @danielserver
• Retirement of older SharePoint file services versions - Patrick Rodgers (Microsoft) | @mediocrebowler
• Power Platform Global AI Hack Wrap Up | Power Platform Developer Blog - Shavonna Jackson (Microsoft) | @shavonnajacksn & April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam

Community articles

• Chatbot component in powerapps using power virtual-agent - Anand Ragav (BE-terna Sweden) | @anandVragav
• Microsoft Lists: How to increase the columns available for calendar view formatting - Tetsuya Kawahara | @techan_k
• Easily debug Microsoft Graph .NET SDK requests - Waldek Mastykarz - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm
• Chris O’Brien: Building generative AI/ChatGPT on your data solutions - considerations, pitfalls and lessons learnt - Chris O’Brien (Content & Cloud) | @ChrisO_Brien
• Vardhaman Deshpande: Chat with your user directory using OpenAI functions and Microsoft Graph - Vardhaman Deshpande (Content+Cloud) | @vrdmn
• Creating Teams Meetings, install Teams Meeting App and use custom data (NodeJS) - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
• Introducing the Copilot Cheesewheel - Blog: Alex Pearce (Microsoft MVP) - Alex Pearce (Softcat plc) | @alex_pearce
• Changes to how you sideload an Outlook add-in manifest (as of Sep 2023) - Cameron Dwyer (OnePlace Solutions) | @CameronDwyer
• Microsoft Designer will make Teams announcements pop - #306 | 365 Message Center Show - Daniel Glenn (Creospark) | @DanielGlenn & Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change) | @darrellaas
• Waldek Mastykarz on X: “We’ve figured something out for #m365proxy and it’s pretty cool: use Chromium DevTools as the UI for #m365proxy - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm

Videos

• Power Platform News Rewind: Power Platform Conference October 2023 - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
• Episode #265 - Implementing a TextBox based ACE CardView with SPFx 1.18 - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
• Power Automate Copilot deep dive and the new UI - Shane Young (PowerApps911) | @ShanesCows
• New Teams Features - Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting) | @jfj1997, Derek Cash-Peterson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @spdcp, Marc Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc & Todd Klindt (Sympraxis Consulting) | @ToddKlindt

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 local markdown content using Java - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft)
• Remove Column Name from Group Header - Ganesh Sanap (Cognizant)
• Contoso Retail Dashboard - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys)
• Get disabled or inactive user accounts - Kasper Larsen (Fellowmind)
• Gantt Chart - Tetsuya Kawahara
• Ingest GitHub repositories and issues using .NET and C# - Jason Johnston (Microsoft)
• List and archives inactive Teams - Heinrich Krause & Nico De Cleyre (Roboest aan de Leie)
• Add or Update User Photo - Peter Paul Kirschner (Cubido Business Solutions GmbH)
• Ingest Microsoft 365 and Power Platform community samples using JavaScript and Node.js - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) & João Mendes (Silicon Reef)
• Get membership report of a site - Reshmee Auckloo
• Ingest local markdown content using PowerShell - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft)
• Ingest local markdown content using Python - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) & Anthony Shaw (Microsoft)
• Status Message Adaptive Card Extension - Aimery Thomas (Avanade)
• Ingest local markdown content using .NET and C# - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft)
• Ingest local markdown content using JavaScript and Node.js - Waldek Mastykarz (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.

• AMS Manila - October 24, 2023 - Manila, Philippines
• M365 Saturday Pune 2023 - October 28, 2023 - Pune, India
• CollabDays Barcelona 2023 - October 28, 2023 - Barcelona, Spain
• 365 EduCon - Chicago - October 30 - November 3, Chicago, IL, USA
• Community Days Mexico City 2023 - November 2-3, 2023 - Mexico City, Mexico
• Dynamics User Group Southeast Regional Meetup - November 8-9, 2023 - Atlanta, GA, USA
• M365 Twin Cities - November 11-12, 2023 - Brooklyn Partk, MN, USA
• Live 360 - November 12-18, 2023 - Orlando, FL, USA
• Microsoft Ignite 2023 - November 14-17, 2023 - Seattle, WA, USA
• AMS Aachen - November 16, 2023 - Aachen, Germany
• Power Of The Cloud - November 17-18, 2023 - Toronto, Canad
• YYC Microsoft Community Day - November 18-19, 2023 - Calgary, Canada
• DynUG Autumn Conference - November 21-22, 2023 - Oslo, Norway
• CollabDays Lisbon 2023 - November 25, 2023 - Lisbon, Portugal
• European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference 2023 - November 27-30 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
• M365 Community Days Lagos 2023 - December 9, 2023 - Lagos, Nigeria
• M365 Community Day - Phoenix - January 13-14, 2024 - Tempe, AZ, USA
• 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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