Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 146 - Derek Cash-Peterson (Sympraxis Consulting)

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 Reykjavik, Iceland-based Consultant and MVP, Derek Cash-Peterson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @spdcp. 

Topics discussed in this session:

• How Derek came to be based in Reykjavik, Iceland
• The one-week anniversary of becoming an Office Developer MVP and how to become an MVP. 
• Latest focus on ACEs and Teams samples development
• Career progression from educator to developer, technical project manager, architect…
• Thoughts on server-side and client-side development, Viva Connections, and Azure functions.   
• About selecting the right tool for the job.  “Appropriate customization”
• Strategy for positioning Viva to customers who want Viva, but not sure what it is.
• Tips for those considering a career in consulting.
• A glimpse at what Waldek and Vesa have on their plates to calendar year end – thinking, experimenting, updates to CLI, releasing SPFx v1.14 Beta and more, always more.  
• 1, 300 registered attendees were at the European Collaboration Summit last week!
• One more episode of Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly in 2021 – releasing on 14^th^ of December.

We also covered 13 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, December 6, 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

• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | November 2021 - Microsoft
• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: November 2021 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
• The journey to Viva Topics adoption success: Implement - Matt Wolodarsky (Microsoft) | @mwolodarsky
• Let’s decode: Single Sign On (SSO) in Microsoft Teams Tabs - Rabia Williams (Microsoft) | rabwill
• Developing enterprise-ready Microsoft Teams apps with Teams ToolKit v3.0 - Tomomi Imura (Microsoft) | @girlie_mac

Community articles

• Creating a video portal in SharePoint with JSON formatted document library - Anand Ragav (Ericsson) | @AnandVRagav
• Dataverse search: the good, the bad and the ugly - Joris Poelmans (Inetum-Realdolmen) | @jopxtwits
• Become part of your presentation with Presenter Modes in Microsoft Teams - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
• How to update field values in SharePoint using Microsoft Graph - Eli H. Schei (Point Taken AS) | @acupof_dev
• Testing an Azure Function using delegated access with Postman - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
• Extract All Table Data (Rows) In A Form Using SharePoint Syntex - Leon Armston (Intelogy) | @LeonArmston
• Episode #183 - Extending Microsoft Viva Connections Desktop with SPFx - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia
• 📽️️How to create a video library view with List Formatting in SharePoint - Giuliano De Luca | @delucagiulian

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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