Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 241 - Rick van Rousselt
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 Rick van Rousselt Advantive, MVP.
In this episode
- What’s the sentiment about the AI in the market
- What are some common scenarios to use AI with
- Are we moving away from rich UIs in favor of chats
- Scenarios and challenges of building custom chat-like experiences on organizational information
- Tips for starting AI conversations with organizations
- How organizations prepare for Copilot adoption
References
- Experimental Microsoft 365 learn module with Dev Proxy
- Contoso Real Estate reference JavaScript on Azure app
- Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community calls
This week
- Rick – Getting back to work after being away for a week
- Waldek – Demoing Graph connector Teams notifications with Dev Proxy, experimenting with learn modules, testing the resilience of the Contoso Real Estate JavaScript app
- Vesa – Catching up with work after being away for a week. Releasing a new preview version of SPFx shortly
Agenda items
00:00 – Intro
01:10 – Interview
01:10 – Articles
01:10 – Closing
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This session was recorded on Monday 18th of March. Session was published on Tuesday 19th of March, 2024.
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Microsoft articles
- Bringing Copilot to more customers worldwide—across life and work - Divya Kumar (Microsoft)
- Microsoft 365 Community Conference event guide: Keynote, AMA, sessions, and more - Mark Kashman (Microsoft)
- Behind the Scenes: Talking AI and Copilot with Microsoft Customer Support Engineers - Ross Smith (Microsoft)
- Invest in Tech: Supercharge your frontline with AI - Zoe Hawtof (Microsoft)
- Upcoming preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 - TJ Devine (Microsoft)
- What’s new in Viva Insights - March 2024 - Zach Miners (Microsoft)
- Maximizing your role as a Viva Gint Administrator - Kathryn Bowen (Microsoft)
- Action required: ensure your Microsoft Teams apps are ready for upcoming domain changes - Chris Yanasak (Microsoft)
- Maximize your Office Add-in success with free Microsoft Partner programs - Steve Jin (Microsoft)
- March 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop - Yiannis Mavridis (Microsoft)
- Introducing Power Fx in desktop flows: Empowering Makers with low-code capabilities - James Papadimitriou (Microsoft)
- Introducing inline actions - Tasha Scott (Microsoft)
- Investing in Your Success - Corey Kropp (Microsoft)
Community articles
- Allowing arbitrary custom scripting in SharePoint Online, or not? – that is the question! (aka Stealing your data since 2001!) - Mikael Svenson (Microsoft)
- Copilot Productivity Tip – Teams Meeting Insights - Mikael Svenson (Microsoft)
- Copilot Productivity Tip – Teams Chat Catchup - Mikael Svenson (Microsoft)
- Enhancing your Power App: Filter a Gallery by Year - Laura Rogers (IWMentor)
- Create a Microsoft 365 Copilot plugin: Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot’s knowledge - Vardhaman Deshpande (Advania)
- I just made my first contribution to an open-source project “sp-dev-fx-webparts” - Harsh Bhavsar (Infosys)
- Using CLI for Microsoft 365 in TypeScript Azure Functions - Elio Struyf (Struyf Consulting)
- Multitenant Azure Function Using MS Graph API - Sudharsan Kesavanarayanan (NTT)
- Power Automate flows and recently created SharePoint Online sites - Giacomo Pozzoni (Stena Group IT)
Videos
- Automated Time Blocking Plan with AI and Power Automate - April Dunnam (Microsoft)
- “Working with React” - preview from the “Mastering the SPFx” course - Andrew Connell (Voitanos)
- Upgrade Your Replies: Better Customer Outcomes using AI in Power Apps - Shane Young (PowerApps911)
- At Microsoft in Redmond - Loop, Teams, OneDrive, Viva Engage and Connections | Ep 325 - Darrell Webster (Rapid Circle) & Daniel Glenn (CollabFront)
- Episode #282 - Extending Microsoft Copilot in Microsoft 365 with custom Plugins - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys)
- Enhancing Your Power App: Easy Steps to Filter a Gallery by Year - Laura Rogers (IWMentor) & Joelle Jobson (IW Mentor)
- The Best Microsoft Copilot Tips For Prompts - Steve Corey (Videotec)
- Microsoft Loop Page Templates- how to create and use them - Daniel Anderson
- How to change the shape of images in SharePoint Pages? - Ami Diamond (DeePlan)
- SharePoint and Community - with Vesa Juvonen , Enea Licaj & Ami Diamond - Ami Diamond (DeePlan), Enea Licaj (novaCapta GmbH) & Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft)
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.
- 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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