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 1^st 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. 

 

 

 

 

Featured Topic:  

SharePoint Site Templates – the latest features and experiences - walk through new 1^st party site templates’ feature with demo and Q&A.  Call participants joined a live technical requirements discussion focused on enabling 3^rd parties to create customer site templates in the future.   A standing design criteria for 1^st & 3^rd 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 29^th (EMEA, APAC & US friendly times available)
  • Community Docs Session – June 23^rd  
  • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – June 17^th  
  • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – June 24^th
  • AMA (Ask Me Anything) – Microsoft Graph & MGT – June 8^th
  • First Time Presenter – June 30^th
  • More than Code with VSCode – June 16^th
  • Maturity Model Practitioners – June 15^th
  • 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 - http://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 - http://aka.ms/spdev-call
• SharePoint Developer documentation - http://aka.ms/spdev-docs
• SharePoint Development Issues - http://aka.ms/spdev-issues
• SharePoint GitHub organization - http://github.com/SharePoint
• SharePoint Development UserVoice - new feature requests - http://aka.ms/spdev-uservoice

 

Upcoming calls | Recurrent invites:

 

• Office add-in monthly call – June 9^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall
• Adaptive Cards monthly call – June 10^th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall
• M365 General Dev call – June 10^th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig
• Microsoft Teams monthly call – June 15^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/microsoftteamscommunitycall
• Power Apps monthly call – June 16^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall
• SharePoint Framework call – June 17^th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call
• Microsoft Identity Platform – June 17^th 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 - http://aka.ms/m365pnp.

 

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