Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 144 - Catherine Chuaga (Microsoft)

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 Atlanta, US-based Senior Program Manager on the Viva Connections Platform team - Catherine Chuaga. 

Topics discussed in this session:

• Delivering impact as voice of the developer ecosystem focused on moving the Viva Connections Partner Experience to the next level
• Unlearning things from past jobs and geographic locations to grow in a new role and country. 
• Strategy for approaching Product Experience Reviews within Microsoft
• The thrill of joining Microsoft and the exhilaration of controlled drowning.
• 4 Tips for woman looking at starting, advancing, transitioning to a career in IT.

We also covered 18 articles or videos by Microsoft and the community from the last week.

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This session was recorded in front of a non-audience on Monday, November 22, 2021.   Enjoy the show. 

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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

• Go developers can now access Microsoft Graph with streamlined authentication and more - Vincent Biret (Microsoft) | @baywet
• Announcing Teams JS SDK v2 in public preview: Extend Teams apps across Microsoft 365 - Zakiullah Khan (Microsoft)
• Guidance for implementing partner offerings for Viva Connections with ACEs and custom APIs - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
• Developing real-time collaborative apps with Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and GitHub - Dan Wahlin (Microsoft) | @DanWahlin
• Microsoft Teams development: All you need to know - Rabia Williams (Microsoft) | rabwill
• The journey to Viva Topics adoption success: Intro - Matt Wolodarsky (Microsoft) | @mwolodarsky
• Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store (October 2021) - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
• Submit your OneDrive and SharePoint ideas to the Microsoft Feedback portal - Cathy Dew (Microsoft) | @catpaint1

Community articles

• Quick SharePoint Approvals using list formatting JSON to set field values - Michel Mendes (Storm Technology) | @michelcarlo
• Upload files to SharePoint with JavaScript using Microsoft Graph and Microsoft Authentication Librar... - Eli H. Schei (Point Taken AS) | @acupof_dev
• Using Collapsible Sections with User Experience in Mind - Emily Mancini (Sympraxis Consulting) | @EEMancini
• Interactively authenticate Microsoft Graph .NET SDK with Azure Identity library - Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Solutions) | @vrdmn
• Update SharePoint User Profiles based on Azure Group Membership - Octavie van Haaften (Rapid Circle) | @eivatco
• Connect to Microsoft Graph PowerShell using an App Registration - Liam Cleary | @helloitsliam
• Create recursive flows in Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
• Speaking at the European Collaboration Summit 2021 - Infuse AI into your Power Platform solutions - Chris O’Brien (Content+Cloud) | @ChrisO_Brien
• Episode #181 - Creating forms with Adaptive Card Extensions in SPFx - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia
• Installing and Using the Microsoft Lists Desktop App - Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks) | @DanielGlenn

Additional resources

• Extend Microsoft Viva Connections - Microsoft Learn
• Consume a multi-tenant API within a set of Microsoft Viva Connections Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs... solution in GitHub
• 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

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