Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 136 - Thomas Vochten (The Cronos Group)

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 Belgium-based MVP and Technology Evangelist from The Cronos Group - Thomas Vochten | @ThomasVochten.

Topics discussed in this session include: 

• What is the Technical Evangelist role and how does one work into the role?
• Teaching ITPros about the Developer tools and methods.
• What is the main concern for companies in the Microsoft cloud today? 
• The Partner’s role in driving user adoption / change management.
• Tip:  Don’t throw everything at the customer at the same time!

We also covered 11 articles by Microsoft and the community from the last week. 

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This session was recorded in front of web cams in totally audience free rooms on Monday, September 27, 2021.

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

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

Microsoft articles

• Viva Connections public preview is now available! - Brad McCabe (Microsoft)
• Overview: Viva Connections (Preview) - Microsoft
• Set up and launch Viva Connections (Preview) - Microsoft

Community articles

• Collabdays - Belgium & Netherlands 2021 - Saturday, October 23 2021
• Parse CSV through Code in Power Automate Custom Connection - John Liu (Flow Studio) | @johnnliu
• SharePoint Custom List Templates - Laura Rogers (WI Mentor) | @wonderlaura
• How to use the Microsoft Graph SDK Chaos Handler to Simulate Graph API Errors - Cameron Dwyer (OnePlace Solutions) | @CameronDwyer
• PnP Modern Search Filters web part - Agnes Molnar (Search Explained) | @molnaragnes
• Using Font Awesome Icons In PowerApps - Siddharth Vaghasia | @siddh_me
• Getting started with the Microsoft Teams Framework (TeamsFx) - Thomas Gölles (Solvion) | @thomyg
• Adaptive Scope Retention Policy | A Walk-Thru - Joanne C Klein | @JoanneCKlein

Additional resources

• Microsoft 365 Unified Sample Gallery (preview) - https://aka.ms/m365/samples 
• 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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