Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 236 - Ralph Rivas
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 Ralph Rivas Cap Gemini/Sogeti, Microsoft MVP.
In this episode
- How organizations can support their employees in their journey to become an MVP
- How organizations benefit from having employees who are an MVP
- Journey to low-code as a pro-code dev
- Automated deployments on the Power Platform
- Bringing organizations along with automated deployments
References
- Microsoft Super Bowl ad on Copilot
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\
This week
- Ralph – preparing presentations and workshops on Copilot and gen AI, preparing for the MVP Summit, preparing for conferences
- Waldek – experimenting with offline development on M365
- Vesa – preparing for a bit of vacation, MVP Summit, conferences
Agenda items
00:00 – Intro
01:51 – Interview
44:09 – Weekly articles
1:11:14 – Closing
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This session was recorded on Monday 5th of February. Session was published on Tuesday 6th of February, 2024.
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Microsoft articles
- Delivering Copilot for everyone - Yusuf Mehdi (Microsoft)
- “On the minds of OneDrive admins” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast - Mark Kashman (Microsoft)
- Network Analytics available now in Viva Engage - Giovy Webb (Microsoft)
- How SharedTree supercharges and simplifies Fluid Framework 2.0 - Nick Simons (Microsoft)
- Microsoft Mesh: Now available for creating innovative multi-user 3D experiences for the workplace - Tyler Adams (Microsoft) & Desirée Lockwood (Microsoft)
- Microsoft Graph Java SDK v6, now generally available, helps you write simpler, faster and more accurate code - Maisa Rissi (Microsoft)
- Microsoft Graph Toolkit v4.0 is now generally available - Sébastien Levert (Microsoft)
- SharePoint now supports delegated Sites.Selected authentication - Patrick Rodgers (Microsoft)
- How Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether inspired AI-powered solutions for real-world use cases - Elaiza Benitez (Microsoft)
- Building new apps and tables with Maker Copilot is now available in 8 languages worldwide - Frank Lan (Microsoft)
- Custom processing for invoice and document field types generally available - Gwenael Bego (Microsoft)
Community articles
- Viva Connections Toolkit v2.5.0 release - Adam Wójcik (Hitachi Energy)
- How to change the background color of cards in the Board View - Tetsuya Kawahara
- Force populate a “Microsoft Entra ID”-based Team in Power Platform - Yannick Reekmans (Qubix)
- Building a ‘My Tools’ Web Part for SharePoint: Using SPfx and PnPjs - Eli H. Schei (Point Taken AS)
- 🎯 Microsoft 365 Chat (Copilot for Microsoft 365) as Natural Language Code Platform - Mahmoud Hassan (Avanade)
- Localize Teams app manifest.json - Guido Zambarda (Pialorsi Sistemi Srl)
- How to Add an Image to a Image column in Microsoft Lists using Power Automate - João Ferreira (Appspace) | @Joao12Ferreira
- 4 benefits of starting your DLM journey today - Martin Lingstuyl (I4-YOU)
- How to show Documents tagged with Managed Metadata in a DetailsList – SPFx - Sudharsan Kesavanarayanan (NTT Ltd Singapore)
- When to create child flows in Power Automate? - Pieter Veenstra (Vantage 365)
Videos
- Episode #278 - Examples of using Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Microsoft PowerPoint - Paolo Pialorsi
- Power Apps Interview Questions, Answers, and Jobs - Shane Young (PowerApps911)
- How to set the date in a SharePoint column with List Column Formatting JSON - Giuliano De Luca (CGI)
- Site & List Templates - - Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting), Derek Cash-Peterson (Sympraxis Consulting), Patrick Cash-Peterson (Sympraxis Consulting), Marc Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) & Todd Klindt (Sympraxis Consulting)
- Create articles in Viva Engage. Microsoft Copilot UI updates | Ep 321 - Daniel Glenn & Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change)
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 Revival - February 15, 2024 - Oslo, Norway
- M365 Community Day - Phoenix - February 17-18, 2024 - Tempe, AZ, USA
- Teams Nation - February 21, 2024 - Online
- Global Power Platform Bootcamp 2024 a Coruna - February 23, 2024 - Coruna, Spain
- YYC Microsoft Community Day - February 24-25, 2024 - Calgary, Canada
- Digital Workplace Conference New Zealadn - February 26-28, 2024 - Christchurch, New Zealand
- Exchange Summit - February 29, 2024 - Würzburg, Germany
- Knoxville Microsoft 365 Community Day - February 29 - March 1, 2024 - Friendsville, USA
- CollabDays Utah - March 1-2, 2024 - Sandy, Utah, USA
- Canadian Power Platform Summit - March 15-16, 2024 - Vancouver, Canada
- Modern Workpalce Conference Paris 2024 - March 18-19, 2024 - Paris, France
- AMS Lausanne 2024 - April 5, 2024 - Lausanne, Switzerland
- M365 Community Days NJ - April 6-7, 2024 - New Jersey, USA
- North American Cloud and Collaboration Summit - April 9-12, 2024 - Irving, TX, USA
- CollabDays Poland 2024 - April 11-12, 2024 - Wassaw, Poland
- Modern Endpoint Management Summit 2024 EMEA Edition - April 17-19, 2024 - Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
- D365UG Sverige - April 17, 2024 - Stockholm, Sverige
- ColorCloud - April 18 - 19, 2024 - Hamburg, Germany
- CollabDays Utah - April 19-20, 2024 - Utah, USA
- MN M365 12th Bi-annual Spring Workshop Day - April 19-20, 2024 - Edina, MN, USA
- Comms VNext - April 23-25, 2024 - Denver, CO, USA
- Dynaway CONNECT - April 23-25, 2024 - Greenviile, USA
- AMS Papeete - April 25, 2024 - Tahiti, French Polyseia
- BizApps-Palooza - April 26-27, 2024 - Toronto, Canada
- D365 Summit 2024 - April 26-27, 2024 - Lisbon, Portugal
- AMS Noumea - April 30, 2024 - Nouméa, New Caledonia
- DynamicsCon LIVE - May 14-16, 2024 - Denver, CO, USA
- DynamicsMinds 2024 - May 27-29, 2024 - Portorož, Slovenia
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
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