Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 152 - Hugo Bernier

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 Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect and MVP Alum, Hugo Bernier (Microsoft) | @bernierh. 

Topics discussed in this session:

• Hugo’s Day job as a Cloud Solution Architect – focusing on Power Platform adoption - effectively teaching customers how to take advantage of products they already own in context of their existing IT infrastructure.   
• Hugo’s Night job - working on community initiatives like Sharing is Caring events and on Samples repositories – testing, organizing, tagging SPFx extension and web part samples. 
• Working with customers to fine tune their governance models.  Three tiers of governance.  IT led (Mission critical), IT supported (Infrastructure support), and Personal Productivity initiatives (no support).
• Rationale for building solutions with Power Platform vs C#.   The question – are we building infrastructure capabilities once that will support many projects or building a local app? 
• Latest focus – Dev containers (Docker).   Creating remote containers in VSCode that allow developers to open cloud-based samples in the environment they were built.  Use of Dev Containers / Codespaces will be demoed during the February 10th SPFx Community call.

We also covered 22 articles published by Microsoft and the PnP Community over the last week. 

This week

• Waldek – focused on making it easier for Angular developers to build/modify LOB apps for (also) use in Teams.
• Vesa – SPFx v1.14 updates to product, documentation, tutorials for upcoming release.
• Hugo – hack-a-thon with large government customer, gearing up for Microsoft 365 Conference, April 5-7th, Las Vegas.

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.

This session was recorded on Monday, February 7, 2022.   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 | January 2022 - Microsoft
• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: January 2022 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
• Microsoft Graph Data Connect: Deploying Azure Synapse Analytics - Nik Charlebois (Microsoft) | @NikCharlebois
• Combining Microsoft Graph Data Connect data sets in Azure Synapse Analytics - Nik Charlebois (Microsoft) | @NikCharlebois
• Learn from the community: Microsoft Teams and Moodle online learning solution - Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs
• Breaking changes to the Microsoft Graph API for eDiscovery (beta) - Microsoft
• Breaking changes to the addToReviewSet action in the Microsoft Graph API for eDiscovery (beta) - Microsoft
• Microsoft Graph Toolkit v2.3.2 release notes - Sébastien Levert (Microsoft) | @sebastienlevert

Community articles

• M365 Dev Podcast - Office Add-Ins with Juan Balmori - Jeremy Thake (Microsoft) | @jthake & Paul Schaeflein (AddIn365) | @paulschaeflein & Juan Balmori (Microsoft) | @juaneloBalmori
• How to call and show Graph API data in SPFx Adaptive Card Extensions(ACEs) - Siddharth Vaghasia | @siddh_me
• Don’t pay more for SharePoint Storage than you have to :) - Kasper Bo Larsen (Fellowmind) | @kasperbolarsen
• Microsoft Forms as a Tab in Teams using graph API in Power Automate - Shrusti Shah (Rapid Circle)
• Working with the Microsoft Graph communications API in a Microsoft Teams meeting app - Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Solutions) | @vrdmn
• Free SharePoint Site Design Training in February - Laura Rodgers (IW Mentor) | @WonderLaura
• Shuffle an array with Power Automate - Albert-Jan Schot (BLISS.digital) | @appieschot
• SharePoint Syntex AI - my top 5 real-world tips - Chris O’Brien (Content+Cloud) | @ChrisO_Brien
• Building Proxy Provider for SharePoint Framework and Microsoft Graph Toolkit - Sergei Sergeev | @sergeev_srg
• Mea culpa - always install gulp-cli globally, not gulp - Andrew Connell (Voitanos) | @andrewconnell
• Migrating a Planner board to a List - Loryan Strant (Rapid Circle) | @LoryanStrant
• :thumbs_up::thumbs_down:How to add like and dislike buttons in Microsoft/SharePoint Lists [YouTube u… - Giuliano De Luca | @DeLucaGiulian
• Episode #192 - Working with SharePoint Online Libraries and Files via Microsoft Graph - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
• Power Apps User Personalization Color Blind Mode #UI - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam

Additional resources

• Documentation - Opening a sample using a development container 
• 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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