Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 124

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 MVP, PnP Team member, and Architect at US-based Sympraxis Consulting Emily Mancini |@EEMancini.   Topics discussed in this session include:  Sharing is Caring engagement model, Aligning and addressing the client’s business needs with capabilities of owned technologies, i.e., Microsoft 365 for making changes with the business and not to the business!   Conscious/unconscious usage of the Microsoft 365 Maturity Model for business ROI maximization.   Ideas for increasing diversity in IT personnel, Imposter Syndrome, Tech vs Outcome and Teams or Yammer.   

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 23 articles from Microsoft and the Community.

This episode was recorded on Monday, April 26, 2021.

• Video at Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel
• Podcast format at https://pnpweekly.podbean.com.

These videos and podcasts are published each week and are intended to be roughly 45 - 60 minutes in length.  Please do give us feedback on this video and podcast series and also do let us know if you have done something cool/useful so that we can cover that in the next weekly summary! The easiest way to let us know is to share your work on Twitter and add the hashtag #PnPWeekly. We are always on the lookout for refreshingly new content. “Sharing is caring!"    Here are all the links and people mentioned in this recording. Thanks, everyone for your contributions to the community!

Events

• April 26-28, 2021 - Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2021
• 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

• Announcing Viva Learning public preview - John Mighell (Microsoft)
• Build and ship software better with GitHub and Microsoft Teams - Microsoft
• Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2021 - free, online training event - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
• iPad support now available in Microsoft Lists for iOS - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
• Build quality Microsoft Teams apps with these best practices: Part 3 - Microsoft
• Utilize change notification APIs for Microsoft Teams messages - Microsoft

Community articles

• Teams - an adoption idea? Transfer your group chat emails to Teams with Power Automate - Damien Bird (Aberdeen City Council) | @DamoBird365
• Microsoft 365 PnP Community Spotlight: Wictor Wilén - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese & Wictor Wilén (Avanade) | @wictor
• What I (as a non dev) learned as I created my first Power App - Michael Roth (IT-P Information Technology-Partner GmbH) | @Gezeitenbrand
• Learn to debug your Power Apps - Michael Roth (IT-P Information Technology-Partner GmbH) | @Gezeitenbrand
• Export Power Apps and Power Automate user licenses - Yves Habersaat (Sword Group) | @yhabersaat
• How to beautify your Power Apps - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
• Intro to Power Apps Components and Custom Functions - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
• Microsoft 365 Developer - Tips & Tricks playlist - Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German, Dan Wahlin (Microsoft) | @DanWahlin, April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam and Ayca Bas (Microsoft) | @aycabs​
• Episode #151​ - Paging Data with Microsoft Graph SDK for .NET - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
• Power Apps Forms - Updates, Unsaved & Submit Confirmation - Reza Dorrani (Catapult Systems) | rdorrani
• Actually, It’s Already In The SharePoint PageContext! - Tips by Bits | @TipsByBits
• Implement Carousel in SPFx web part using react-slick - Prasham Sabadra | @SabadraPrasham
• Monitoring Microsoft 365 using Raspberry Pi and M365 CLI - Anatoly Mironov (Bool by Sigma) | @mirontoli
• Building Modern SharePoint Pages with Quick Links - Sam Collins (Coupled Technology) | @SamC148
• Adding Conditional Formatting for a List Form Header with JSON - Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
• SharePoint Syntex - teaching AI to extract contents of structured documents with Form Processing - Chris O’Brien (Content+Cloud) | @ChrisO_Brien\
• Would you ever use SharePoint Online without Microsoft Teams? - Sarah Haase | @sarahhaase, Antonio Maio | @AntonioMaio2 and Mike Maadarani | @mikemaadarani

Additional resources

• Maturity Model for Microsoft 365
• 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.  

“Sharing is caring!”