SharePoint community call - April 13th, 2021

The SharePoint community monthly call is our general monthly review of the latest SharePoint news  (news, tools, extensions, features, capabilities, content and training), engineering priorities and community recognition for Developers, IT Pros and Makers.  This monthly community call happens on the second Tuesday of each month. You can download recurrent invite from https://aka.ms/sp-call.

Call summary

Visit the new Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub at Microsoft Tech Communities!  Preview the new Microsoft 365 Extensibility look book gallery, attend one of a growing list of Sharing is Caring events.  The Microsoft 365 Update - Community (PnP) | April 2021 is now available.  SPFx v1.12.1 with Node v14 and Gulp4 support was released for public beta today and GA slated for end of April.  In this call, quickly addressed developer and non-developer entries in UserVoice.

A huge thank you to the record number of contributors and organizations actively participating in this PnP Community. You continue to amaze.  The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) @vesajuvonen.  Q&A took place in the chat throughout the call. 

Getting started with Microsoft Viva Connections Desktop - an employee centric app in Teams with one stop access to internet resources, global search, contextual actions, and company branded experience.   A SharePoint home site powered by Microsoft Teams, backed by Microsoft security, privacy and compliance.   No additional licensing.  Familiar extensible platform that will include mobile this summer.   Create Viva Connections app package in PowerShell, upload package to Teams Admin Center.    

Actions

• Register for livestream and for a regional watch party:
  • Register to watch the Microsoft Graph livestream on April 14 with your community at:  https://aka.ms/pnpwatchparty
  • RSVP to attend - 2-hour livestream – Building Apps for with Microsoft Graph – 2 sessions – April 14th, 2:00pm AEST (Asia Pacific Region) | APAC Watch Party and 8:30am PDT (North America & Europe Regions) | https://aka.ms/learntogether-graph
• Try public beta of SPFx v1.12.1, access through npm.
• Complete the Developer Success Survey – https://aka.ms/developersuccess
• Join the M365 customer success platform panel – https://aka.ms/SuccessPanel
• Register for Sharing is Caring Events:
  • First Time Contributor Session – April 27th   (EMEA, APAC & US friendly times available)
  • Community Docs Session – April
  • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – April 29th
  • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – April 15th
  • First Time Presenter – April 21st
  • More than Code with VSCode – April 14th & 28th
  • Maturity Model Practitioners – April 20th
  • PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session – Register
• Download the recurrent invite for this call – https://aka.ms/sp-call. You can check the latest updates in the monthly summary and at aka.ms/spdev-blog.

This call was delivered on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The call agenda is reflected below with direct links to specific sections.  You can jump directly to a specific topic by clicking on the topic’s timestamp which will redirect your browser to that topic in the recording published on the Microsoft 365 Community YouTube Channel.

Call agenda

• SharePoint community update with latest news and roadmap – 2:47
• UserVoice status for non-dev focused SharePoint entries – 8:36
• UserVoice status for dev focused SharePoint Framework entries – 9:45 
• Community contributors and companies which have been involved in the past month – 12:50 
• **Topic: **Getting started with Microsoft Viva Connections Desktop - Tejas Mehta (Microsoft) | @tpmehta and Prateek Dudeja (Microsoft) | @PrateekDudeja4 – 16:16 The full recording of this session is available from Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Community YouTube channel - https://aka.ms/m365pnp-videos.
• Presentation slides used in this community call are found at OneDrive.

Resources

Additional resources on covered topics and discussions.

• Documentation - Add Viva Connections for Microsoft Teams desktop 

• Overview - Microsoft Viva | https://aka.ms/Viva

• PnP Weekly – Episode 122 with guest MVP Mark Rackley (PAIT Group) | @mrackley| video | podcast

• Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub | aka.ms/m365pnp/community 

• Microsoft 365 Extensibility look book gallery | aka.ms/m365/extensibility

• Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast | m365devpodcast.com

• Viva Connections https://aka.ms/VivaConnections 

• Microsoft Teams Samples Gallery | aka.ms/teams-samples

Additional resources

• PnP Weekly - Videos
• PnP Weekly - Podcasts
• M365 Community Documentation - (non-dev)
• SharePoint Documentation and Guidance - (technical)
• SharePoint Framework v1.11
• SharePoint Framework v1.11 release notes
• Exploring how to get started on open-source and community work?
• SharePoint Starter Kit
• Recurrent invite to SharePoint Development monthly calls - https://aka.ms/spdev-call
• SharePoint Developer documentation - https://aka.ms/spdev-docs
• SharePoint Development Issues - https://aka.ms/spdev-issues
• SharePoint GitHub organization - https://github.com/SharePoint
• SharePoint Development UserVoice - new feature requests - https://aka.ms/spdev-uservoice

Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites

• Office add-in monthly call – April 14th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall
• M365 General Dev call – April 15th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig
• Microsoft Identity Platform – April 15th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar 
• Microsoft Teams monthly call – April 20th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/microsoftteamscommunitycall
• Power Apps monthly call – April 21st at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall
• SharePoint Framework call – April 22nd at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call
• M365 General Dev call – April 29th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig
• Microsoft Graph call - May 4th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/microsoftgraphcall
• SharePoint monthly call – May 11th at 8:00am PDT | https://aka.ms/sp-call
• Adaptive Cards monthly call – May 13th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall "Too many links, can’t remember" - not a problem... just one URL is enough for all Microsoft 365 community topics - https://aka.ms/m365pnp. “Sharing is caring”

SharePoint Team, Microsoft - 14th of April 2021