Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 155 - Ayça Baş

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 Dubai based, Senior Cloud Advocate, Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs

Topics discussed in this session:

• How does one get to be a Microsoft Cloud Advocate?  
• On being an intern and becoming a Learn Student Ambassador in the Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors program.
• About the “Learn from the Community” initiative – highlighting project results delivered by Student Ambassadors, MVPs, ISVs using Microsoft 365 to addressing real-world problems.
• Tips for women who want to pursue a degree and career in high tech – communities are essential.
• Career progression in Microsoft and passion for customers, mentoring, electronics, and Microsoft 365 with Azure Cognitive Services.

We also covered 19 articles published by Microsoft and the PnP Community over the last week. 

This week

• Waldek – is focused on defining improvements for next version of CLI for Microsoft 365 shipping at end of March, improving developer experience for developers building Teams apps in Angular, and on planning a new online event (May) for developers developing apps for Microsoft 365.     
• Vesa – is working as the switchboard for many things and prepping SPFx v1.15 beta.  

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 28, 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 | February 2022 - Microsoft
• Best practices for successful large meetings in Microsoft Teams - Siunie Sutjahjo (Microsoft)
• Learn from the community: Microsoft AI MVP designs a Microsoft Teams bot to centralize tools for emp… - Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs
• Syntex product updates – February 2022 - Chris McNulty (Microsoft) | @cmcnulty2000

Community articles

• CLI for Microsoft 365 v5.0 - Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm
• How to create a custom connector for your own Azure hosted API - Luise Freese | @LuiseFreese
• Getting started testing your Microsoft 365 CLI contributions - Martin Lingstuyl (I4-YOU Business Solutions B.V.) | @martinlingstuyl
• New Document Card View For Libraries With A SharePoint Syntex Model Applied - Leon Armston (Intelogy) | @LeonArmston
• Apply a DevOps process to your SPFx project (Part 2) - Michaël Maillot (onepoint) | @michael_maillot
• CSS Keyframe Animations in SharePoint Framework - Stefan Bauer (N8D) | @StfBauer
• Cancel Flow Run instead of Terminate in the middle of an apply to each in Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
• SPFx Basics: Initializing components - constructor vs. onInit() - Andrew Connell (Voitanos) | @andrewconnell
• How to enable DevTools for Microsoft Teams desktop client - Alexey Sadomov (Valo Solutions) | @sadomovalex
• SharePoint Content Management: Distributed vs. Centralized - Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
• Using a SharePoint Calculated Column with Retention in Microsoft 365 - Joanne C Klein | @JoanneCKlein
• Monthly blogging series on SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Lists and Windows 11 - João Ferreira (Beezy) | @Joao12Ferreira
• Episode #194 - Managing Site Columns and Fields in SharePoint Online via Microsoft Graph - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
• Power Automate: HTML Table Formatting Made Easy - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
• SPFx Basics: Initializing components - constructor vs. onInit() - Andrew Connell (Voitanos) | @andrewconnell

Additional resources

• Demo - Learn from the Community – Introduction to new weekly initiative – Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs.  New project application form - https://aka.ms/share-your-story
• Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors program
• Adafruit
• 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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