Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 231 - Lindsay Shelton
In this episode of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, host – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) and Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) are joined by Lindsay Shelton, Business Applications MVP.
In this episode
- Dealing with changes in the IT
- Preparing students for the future
- Is “it depends” an IT-only thing?
- How to become an MVP?
- Tips and trick to stay up to date
This week
- Lindsay – new blog post about role-level security
- Waldek – working on new features and docs for Dev Proxy, wrapping up work on new learn content for extending Copilot for Microsoft 365
- Vesa – bot-powered Viva Connections ACEs goes GA with documentation and guidance - and lot of other stuff in the pipeline
Agenda items
00:00 – Intro
02:54 – Interview with Lindsay
41:40 – Weekly articles
1:08:11 – Closing
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This session was recorded on Monday 8th of January. Session was published on Tuesday 9th of January, 2024.
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Microsoft articles
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2023 - Steven Stein (Microsoft)
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: December 2023 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft)
- Most widely used SharePoint Framework ISVs from the Store - December 2023 - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft)
- Get Your Complimentary Copy of the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Voice of the Employee Solutions - Mike Walsh (Microsoft)
- Introduction to new advance API features in Viva Connections Card Designer - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft)
- Custom encryption with customer owned keys now generally available - Richa Misra (Microsoft)
- Deprecation of entity-based contextual Outlook add-ins - Sam Ramon (Microsoft)
- Best practices for designing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint add-ins - Skylar Pan (Microsoft)
- New Microsoft 365 Certification framework creates a more streamlined process for ISVs - Tony Balkan (Microsoft)
- op 5 AppSource validation errors for Office Add-ins submissions – December 2023 - Elizabeth Samuel (Microsoft)
- Write simpler, faster code with the new Microsoft Graph Java SDK v6 - Maisa Rissi (Microsoft)
Community articles
As we recorded the previous and this episode close by, we wanted to focus on community assets in this one.
- SharePoint Embedded - overview and example scenarios - Andrew Connell (Voitanos)
- Automatically generate Flow, Workflow and Business Rule Documentation - Alex McLachlan (Ceox Services Ltd)
- SharePoint Add-in model retirement + other services unpacked - Andrew Connell (Voitanos)
- CLI for Microsoft 365 v7.3 - Martin Lingstuyl (I4-YOU)
- Announcing the retirement of yo teams - Wictor Wilen (Microsoft)
- Microsoft Copilot for Service Preview – First Look Admin (Copilot Maker) Experience Demo - Mahmoud Hassan (Avanade)
- Microsoft Copilot for Service Preview – Overview and First Look End User (Agent) Experience Demo - Mahmoud Hassan (Avanade)
- Demystifying Teams creation with resource specific consent (RSC) in Microsoft 365 - Markus Möller (Microsoft)
- SPFx Command Set Dialogs without DOM Manipulation using hTWOo React - Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting)
- Using JavaScript and Cloud Flows to download files from a SharePoint document library in Power Pages - Michel Mendes (Avanade)
- Discovery feed in Teams. Copilot in Viva Engage - #315 - Daniel Glenn & Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change)
Videos
- What’s a Prompt Catalog and how do you build one? | Copilot Chronicles - April Dunnam (Microsoft)
- Power Apps Select Multiple Items in A Gallery - Shane Young (PowerApps911)
- Benefits Of Sharepoint Embedded: An Overview With Examples - Andrew Connell (Voitanos)
- Episode #274 - Testing RateLimit headers using the Microsoft Dev Proxy - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys)
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.
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.
- M365 Saturday Ahmedabad - January 6, 2024 - Ahmedabad, India
- Intrateam Event Online Volume 9 – Aubout Modern Intranets and AI - January 17-18, 2024 - Virtual
- AMS Strasbourg 2024 - January 18, 2024 - Strasbourg, France
- Azure OpenAI & ChatGPT Fest 2024 - January 18 - 19, 2024 - Reston, Virginia, USA
- M365 Community Days Lagos 2024 - January 27, 2024 - Lagos, Nigeria
- AMS Luxembourg 2024 - January 30, 2024 - Luxembourg
- Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2024 - February 1-2, 2024 - Tallinn, Estonia
- Microsoft 365 Community Day Miami - February 2-3, 2024 - Miami, FL, USA
- M365 Community Days at Sea 2024 - February 4-11, 2024, Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas, USA
- M365 Saturday DC - A Community Day Event - February 10, 2024 - Reston, VA, USA
- M365 Revival - February 15, 2024 - Oslo, Norway
- M365 Community Day - Phoenix - January 13-14, 2024 - Tempe, AZ, USA
- YYC Microsoft Community Day - February 24-25, 2024 - Calgary, Canada
- Digital Workplace Conference New Zealand - February 26-28, 2024 - Christchurch, New Zealand
- CollabDays Utah - March 1-2, 2024 - Sandy, Utah, USA
- North American Cloud and Collaboration Summit - April 9-12, 2024 - Irving, TX, 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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