Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 123

In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen, Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm are joined by a Power Platform Cloud Advocate April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam

Topics discussed in this session include:

• April’s currently role and focus areas as a Cloud Advocate
• Her experiences while starting her career in IT with her role models being for example Cathy Dew (Microsoft) and Laura Rodgers (IW Mentor)
• Discussion on the inclusiveness of the IT industry and in community efforts - we want everyone to feel welcome on getting involved!
• How to get started in the community - steps on getting involved in the community and growing your opportunities with the routes
• Power Platform and the different flavors of it - no-code, low-code, pro-code and more

Please remember to keep on providing us feedback on how we can help on this journey. We always welcome feedback on making the community more inclusive and diverse.

Covering also 24 articles from Microsoft and the Community.

This episode was recorded on Monday, April 19, 2021.

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Here are all the links and people mentioned in this recording. Thanks, everyone for your contributions to the community!\

Events

• May 25-27, 2021- Microsoft Build 2021
• August 9-11, 2021 - North American Collaboration Summit
  • Register with coupon code “PnP” for 25% off from the prize at https://nacs.ticketspice.com/nacs2021

Microsoft articles

• Streamline requests with new approval features in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft
• New frontline worker enhancements in Teams to communicate, digitize processes and stay secure - Microsoft
• Your questions from the Microsoft Ignite Ask the Experts sessions about Microsoft Teams…answered! - Stephen Rose (Microsoft) | @stephenlrose
• Announcing public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.12.1 - Microsoft
• Migrate messages from other chat platforms to Microsoft Teams with Microsoft Graph APIs - Microsoft
• Enhance app engagement with the Microsoft Teams Activity Feed API - Microsoft
• Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Copy/Move Files and Folders in SharePoint Online - Srinivas Varukala (Microsoft) | @svarukala
• Build quality Microsoft Teams apps with these best practices: Part 2 - Erin Bailie (Microsoft)
• Announcing data source environment variables - Casey Burke (Microsoft)
• AI Builder April 2021 update - Cedrick Bellarosa

Community articles

• Use Power Automate to automatically create SharePoint News Links from an RSS feed - Will Holland (ThreeWill) | @_WCHolland
• LearnTogether: Build Apps with Microsoft Graph 🦒 - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
• FAQ’s in a Document Card - Sam Colins (Coupled Technology) | @SamC148
• Microsoft 365 PnP Community Spotlight: Mikael Svenson - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese & Mikael Svenson (Microsoft) |  @MikaelSvenson
• Power Apps print function - Laura Rogers (IW Mentor) | @wonderlaura
• Crawled Properties Not Created From Site Columns in Modern Team Sites - Marc Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
• 8 top reasons to use Dataverse or SharePoint lists in the Power Platform - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
• Securing your Azure Functions with an existing Azure AD app - Elio Struyf (Struyf Consulting) | @eliostruyf
• Using OAuth On-Behalf-Of flow in a Node.js Azure Functions - Elio Struyf (Struyf Consulting) | @eliostruyf
• Filtering by a Date Range in Power Apps - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
• How to use React Hook Form together with Fluent UI React (aka Office UI Fabric React) - Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq) | @sergeev_srg
• Using the latest microsoft-graph-client in SPFx - Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | sebastienlevert
• Managing concurrent tenant-wide and site collection-scoped SharePoint Framework deployments - Danny Jessee (ManTech) | @dannyjessee
• SPFx & react-localization, an easy alternative? - Robin Agten (delaware) | @AgtenRobin

Additional resources

• Microsoft 365 Community Survey - Open for April 2021 - please let us know how we can help to help you!
• Power Platform Sample Gallery - for finding easily samples from the GitHub - contributions from the community are welcome!
• PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing to the community
• Want to ask a question or in general engage with the community - Add a note in the Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub at https://aka.ms/m365pnp/community
• Check out all the great community calls, SDKs, and tooling for Microsoft 365 from https://aka.ms/m365pnp

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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