SharePoint community call - June 8th, 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

Summer break and community call schedule updates reviewed. You are invited to join the Viva Connections private preview!   Don’t miss the SharePoint samples gallery.   Preview the new Microsoft 365 Extensibility look book gallery.  Visit the new Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub at Microsoft Tech Communities!   Sign up and attend one of a growing list of Sharing is Caring events this month.   Check out our weekly shows – Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly (latest news and announcements from Microsoft and community) and Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast (focusing on Microsoft 365 dev topics).   The Microsoft 365 Update - Community (PnP) | June 2021 is now available.  Developer and non-developer entries in UserVoice were reviewed.   We are in the process of moving from UserVoice to a 1st party solution for customer feedback/feature requests.  SharePoint roadmap priorities reviewed. A huge thank you to the record number of contributors and organizations actively participating in this PnP Community during May.  You make this community stronger.  The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) @vesajuvonen.  Q&A took place in the chat throughout the call. 

SharePoint Site Templates – the latest features and experiences

walk through new 1st party site templates’ feature with demo and Q&A.  Call participants joined a live technical requirements discussion focused on enabling 3rd parties to create customer site templates in the future.   A standing design criteria for 1st & 3rd party templates includes leveraging the Community’s existing investments in modern site scripts and site designs.   9 OOB Communications and Teams sites templates to be released in July-August.  

Actions

• Join on the Viva Connections private preview! | aka.ms/viva/connections/preview/register
• Register for Sharing is Caring Events:
  • First Time Contributor Session – June 29th (EMEA, APAC & US friendly times available)
  • Community Docs Session – June 23rd  
  • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – June 17th  
  • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – June 24th
  • AMA (Ask Me Anything) – Microsoft Graph & MGT – June 8th
  • First Time Presenter – June 30th
  • More than Code with VSCode – June 16th
  • Maturity Model Practitioners – June 15th
  • PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session - Register
  • PnP Buddy System - Request a Buddy
• 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, June 8, 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

• UserVoice status for non-dev focused SharePoint entries – 12:32
• UserVoice status for dev focused SharePoint Framework entries – 13:43 
• SharePoint community update with latest news and roadmap – 14:25
• Community contributors and companies which have been involved in the past month – 16:07 
• Topic:  SharePoint Site Templates – the latest features and experiences - Melissa Torres (Microsoft) | @Meltorac, Nicole Woon (Microsoft) | @NovelNicole & Matt Mooty (Microsoft – 19:32 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 attached to this post.

Resources

Additional resources on covered topics and discussions.

• Support - Apply and customize SharePoint site templates 

• Blog Post - Use SharePoint’s new site templates today! 

• Article:  THE INTRAZONE PODCAST EPISODE 

• PnP Weekly – Episode 130 with the Software Engineer behind the Microsoft Graph Toolkit, Nikola Metulev (Microsoft) | @metulev. | video | podcast

• Register for the Private Preview of Viva Connections

• 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

• SharePoint sample gallery | aka.ms/spfx-webparts

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

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

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 – June 9th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall
• Adaptive Cards monthly call – June 10th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall
• M365 General Dev call – June 10th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig
• Microsoft Teams monthly call – June 15th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/microsoftteamscommunitycall
• Power Apps monthly call – June 16th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall
• SharePoint Framework call – June 17th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call
• Microsoft Identity Platform – June 17th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar "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”