Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 246 - Simon Doy
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 Simon Doy, owner and CTO at iThink 365, MVP.
In this episode
- Organizing work for knowledge workers
- Are intranets still a thing and do they have a future?
- How organizations deal with change in the collaboration space?
- Embracing change with empathy
- Journey towards MVP
- Tips if you’re considering presenting for the first time
- Tips for staying up to date on what’s new in Microsoft 365
References
This week
- Simon – Viva Connections interview with Vesa, preparing for M365 conference in the US, preparing for launching new products, new sprint planning
- Waldek – new release of Dev Proxy with exciting features, stay tuned for the release on Thu, Apr 25
- Vesa – preparing for launching Brand Central, preparing for the M365 conference
Agenda items
00:00 – Intro
01:49 – Interview
49:55 – Middle chat with Waldek and Vesa
54:39 – Articles
1:13:37 – Closing
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This session was recorded on Monday 22nd of April. Session was published on Tuesday 23rd of April, 2024.
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Microsoft articles
- Enabling your AI transformation journey with Microsoft Viva - Jared Spataro
- Microsoft OneNote now available on Apple Vision Pro - Greg MacEachern
- Microsoft at the European Collaboration Summit (ECS) 2024 (Wiesbaden, Germany) - Mark Kashman (Microsoft)
- Tell us your thoughts at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference and earn a $20 gift - Nicole Hill (Microsoft)
- Commercial preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 is now available - Elisabeth Jones (Microsoft)
- Introducing new personalized view option for Viva Connections - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft)
- Expand your app’s capabilities and reach on Microsoft Teams using API-based message extensions - Sukhmani Lamba (Microsoft) & Carter Gilliam (Microsoft)
- Microsoft Graph API for SharePoint Pages is now generally available - DC Padur (Microsoft)
- Announcing Fluid Framework 2.0 Preview - Kashif Qureshi (Microsoft)
- Announcing the Podcast Copilot with Azure OpenAI Service, .NET, and Power Platform Workshop - Gomolemo Mohapi (Microsoft)
- How Microsoft Power Platform is driving real-world impact—March customer success stories - Marek Lutz (Microsoft)
- Transforming digital processes with AI: A Power Automate Process Mining Case Study at Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) - Anjli Chaudhry (Microsoft)
Community articles
- New Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community coordination team members – April 2024 - Katerina Chernevskaya (Awara IT), Reshmee Auckloo (Pension Protection Fund), Dan Toft (Evobis ApS) & Kasper Larsen (Fellowmind)
- Empowering Secure Collaboration: Configuring SharePoint Sharing Tenant and Site Settings with PowerShell to prevent oversharing - Reshmee Auckloo (Pension Protection Fund)
- Enhancing Data Management with Microsoft Lists Forms and Form Formatting - João Ferreira (HANDS ON tek)
- Overcoming challenges when migrating SharePoint Online user profile properties - Laura Kokkarinen (Sulava)
- SharePoint Modern Forms, no Permissions Needed - Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @WonderLaura
Videos
- Meet the new Microsoft Planner: Meet the Makers and learn what’s coming next - Karuana Gatimu (Microsoft), Howard Crow (Microsoft) and Roberto Bojorquez (Microsoft)
- Power Automate Questions and Answers - Shane Young (PowerApps911)
- Page Layouts: Building great home pages - Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting), Derek Cash-Peterson (Sympraxis Consulting), Patrick Cash-Peterson (Sympraxis Consulting), Marc Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) & Todd Klindt (Sympraxis Consulting)
- SharePoint Brand Center and Custom fonts | Ep 329 - Darrell Webster (Rapid Circle) & Daniel Glenn (CollabFront)
- Quick And Simple Method To Identify the Permission Group In Sharepoint - Ami Diamond (DeePlan)
- Jeff Teper - Transforming Business Processes with SharePoint and Copilot - Daniel Anderson & Jeff Teper (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.
- 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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