Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 238 - Brett Lonsdale
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 Brett Lonsdale founder and CEO of Lightning Tools, MVP.
In this episode
- How being a part of the community helps us build experience and improve our skills
- Why you should have a mentor
- Dealing with competition and changes in the ecosystem
- Overcoming the fear of approaching things with beginner’s mind
References
This week
- Brett – involved with ECS, working on the conference magazine, preparing CollabDays Bletchley Park
- Waldek – preparing new releases of Dev Proxy and CLI for Microsoft 365
- Vesa – catching up after being away, planning for SPFx and preparations for the MVP Summit
Agenda items
00:00 – Intro
01:22 – Interview
43:00 – Articles
56:23 – Closing
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This session was recorded on Monday 26th of February. Session was published on Tuesday 27th of February, 2024.
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Microsoft articles
- Making our generative AI products safer for consumers - Sumit Chauhan (Microsoft)
- Prompt Like a Pro: Stay on top of your chats with Copilot in Teams - Luca Valadares (Microsoft)
- Introducing a new community hub for Content Management - Rob Nunez (Microsoft)
- Join the Microsoft advanced content management Advocates Initiative! - Sandra Perez (Microsoft)
- SharePoint Premium translation – now generally available! - Jolene Tam (Microsoft)
- What’s new in Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio 17.9 - Yu Zhang (Microsoft)
- Final reminder: Outlook REST API v2.0 and beta endpoints decommissioning - Luberth Morera (Microsoft)
- Breaking changes in Microsoft Bookings Graph APIs (beta) - Purva Ekatpure (Microsoft)
- February 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop - Yiannis Mavridis (Microsoft)
- Announcing preview for blocking unmanaged customizations - Swati Madhukar (Microsoft)
- Copilot now helps users draft text input in canvas apps - Jordan Chodak (Microsoft)
- SharePoint Framework 7 years from GA anniversary
Community articles
- Preparing for Model-Driven Apps Dark Mode - Icons - Alex McLachlan (Ceox Services Ltd)
- Resource Specific Consent - Using delegated Sites.Selected - Martin Lingstuyl (I4-YOU)
- How to fix Pi-hole blocking Azure OpenAI calls - Thomy Gölles (Solvion)
- How to hide the unassigned items bucket from the board view in Microsoft Lists - João Ferreira (Appspace) | @Joao12Ferreira
- Translating Documents With SharePoint Premium Document Translation - Leon Armston (Intelogy)
- PnPjs 3.23.0 release
Videos
- Hands on with Copilot in Excel - VBA, Pivot Charts, & Formulas - Shane Young (PowerApps911)
- Episode #280 - Examples of using Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Microsoft Excel - Paolo Pialorsi
- Teams Templates - Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting), Derek Cash-Peterson (Sympraxis Consulting), Patrick Cash-Peterson (Sympraxis Consulting), Marc Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) & Todd Klindt (Sympraxis Consulting)
- Create a Multilingual Copilot in Just 5 Minutes with Copilot Studio - April Dunnam (Microsoft)
- 🖼️ How to create an image gallery in SharePoint using List Column Formatting - Giuliano De Luca
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.
- 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
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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