Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 156 - João Ferreira

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 Portugal based, technologist, author, MVP Office Dev and Windows Insider, João Ferreira (Beezy) | @Joao12Ferreira.

Topics discussed in this session:

• Comments on authoring 1 blog post a day through the entire month of February.   
• Thoughts on the Microsoft 365 Platform – extending or bending capabilities?   
• What do in Technical Lead Role at Beezy?  
• About publishing Hands-On books for Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Lists and Microsoft Teams
• Articles and audiences for João’s 4 blogs found at https://handsontek.net/  
• What is the one thing Microsoft could offer to make SharePoint better?  Thoughts on Viva Connections?
• Why share knowledge for free in samples and blogs?    

We also covered 14 articles published by Microsoft and the PnP Community over the last week. 

This week

• Waldek – is working with Alex Terentiev (Microsoft) | @alexaterentiev, to build a command to validate an SPFx project set-up, tips on improving Teams app developer experience using Angular.
• Vesa – meetings, meetings and meetings + SPFx v1.15 preview release. 
• João – investigating tech opportunities, prepping View Formatting samples and documentation to share with PnP Community.

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, March 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

• Manage and expand your Viva Connections Feed to create a culture of connectivity - Graham Kent (Microsoft) | @grahamismyname
• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: February 2022 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
• Microsoft 365 Conference – OneDrive, SharePoint, and Viva keynotes, sessions, and workshops - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
• Learn from the community: Low-code Q&A bot for Microsoft Teams helps communities provide better onbo… - Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs

Community articles

• Assigning a built-in role to the group at resource group scope level using PowerShell scripts - Shrusti Shah (Rapid Circle) 
• Build Your First SharePoint Adaptive Card Extension – That You’ll Actually Use! - Mark Rackley (Avanade) | @mrackley
• Restrict calls from SPFx in(side) Azure Functions - Markus Möller (Avanade) | @Moeller2_0
• Microsoft Teams + Home Assistant + Graph = take your presence to the next level - Loryan Strant (Rapid Cricle) | @LoryanStrant
• Keeping up to date with the Microsoft Graph changelog - Loryan Strant (Rapid Cricle) | @LoryanStrant
• Dear Microsoft: Please Fix the Search & Intelligence Center, Which Gives Us Only Minimal Insights - Marc Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
• Multi-lingual Term Sets in Search? - Agnes Molnar (Search Explained) | @molnaragnes
• Developing SPFx solutions using containers - Introduction - Don Kirkham (DMI) | @DonKirkham
• Power Of Audience Targeting With Dynamic Groups In SPO - Paul Bullock (CaPa Creative Ltd) | @pkbullock
• Episode #195 - Managing Content Types in SharePoint Online via Microsoft Graph - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
• João Ferreira - Hand On Tek - João Ferreira (Beezy) | @Joao12Ferreira

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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