SharePoint monthly community call -- March 9, 2021

The SharePoint PnP Community monthly call is our general monthly review of the latest SharePoint and Microsoft 365 PnP topics (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

If you’re looking at this blog post, then you are at the new Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub at Microsoft Tech Communities!  Please take a moment to look around. The Microsoft 365 Update - Community (PnP) | March 2021is available. In this call, the Top 10 developer and non-developer entries in UserVoice are reviewed and top engineering priorities identified.   Your votes do influence engineering priorities.  You are invited to attend the growing list of Sharing is Caring events.  Register today.  In Episode 117 of PnP Weekly tools and approaches for simplifying the move from Classic to Modern, on-prem to cloud were discussed.  Why Modern?  Well, one reason – Viva capabilities like the one that will be demonstrated today are available only in Modern.  Testing of SPFx v1.12 is on the final stretch.  Release expected any day.   Thank you to the 200 + active contributors and organizations actively participating in this PnP Community during February. You are truly amazing.  The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) @vesajuvonen.  Q&A took place in the chat throughout the call.

Demo: Getting started with Microsoft Viva Topics – system and tools to help customers manage knowledge within their organizations through a conscious AI assisted strategy of connecting people and actionable knowledge.  Content is ultimately rendered through the Topic web part.  Topics along with aligned content and SMEs are initially discovered through AI algorithms, then confirmed and curated by humans.   Topics draws on capabilities from across Microsoft and can be extended by you.  

Actions

  • Register for Sharing is Caring Events
    • First Time Contributor Session – March 22nd  (EMEA, APAC & US friendly times available)
    • Community Docs Session – March
    • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – March 10th
    • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – March 11th
    • PnP – AMA (Ask Me Anything) – SPFx Samples Edition – March 9th
    • First Time Presenter - March 24th
    • More than Code with VSCode – March 23rd
    • Maturity Model Practitioners – March 16th
    • 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, March 9, 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 – 4:10
  • UserVoice status for dev focused SharePoint Framework entries – 5:08
  • SharePoint community update with latest news and roadmap – 8:57
  • Community contributors and companies which have been involved in the past month – 10:40
  • **Demo:  **Getting started with Microsoft Viva Topics - Naomi Moneypenny (Microsoft) | @nmoneypenny - 14:26 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.

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SharePoint Team, Microsoft - 10th of March 2021