Microsoft 365 Platform Call – 9th of November, 2021

 

 

Microsoft 365 Platform Community Call - weekly community call recording from November 9th, is now available from the Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel at http://aka.ms/m365pnp/videos. 

 

Call Summary

Welcome to the weekly call focused on capabilities of the Microsoft 365 platform.   

• New to Microsoft 365 Platform development?  Join the Microsoft 365 Developer Program today and instantly get a free E5 developer tenant and other assets.
• Get started with free training modules to accelerate learning Microsoft 365 platform capabilities.
• Preview the Microsoft 365 Sample Solution Gallery with more than 600 samples from Microsoft and community that allow you to learn by example, expedite your development and appreciate what is possible.
• Sign up and attend one of a growing list of events hosted by Sharing is Caring in November-December.   Upcoming Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions for PnPjs and for MGT in November and for PnP Search in January!   
• Tune into the weekly Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast focused exclusively on Microsoft 365 dev topics – hosted by Jeremy Thake (Microsoft) and Paul Schaeflein (Addin365).
• View or audio only the latest episode of PnP Weekly – Episode 142 (November 8^th) with New York, US / Porto, Portugal-based Program Manager at Microsoft - Natalie Pienkowska | @ NataliePienkow1. | video | podcast
• Hear about this week’s top 9 Microsoft 365 Platform related stories and view 2 demos from Microsoft presenters about working with the Microsoft 365 platform.

The host of this call was Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen.  Q&A takes place in chat throughout the call   

 

Microsoft 365 Platform News Flash

• Ignite 2021: Excel add-ins and data types

• Ignite 2021: Building apps for collaboration in a hybrid world

• Microsoft Graph @ Ignite 2021

• Announcing public preview of Azure Fluid Relay service @ Ignite 2021

• Stay in the flow of work with new collaborative apps for Microsoft Team

• Microsoft 365 Developer Program launches new instant sandbox with Teams sample data pack

• Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021: Innovations coming to Microsoft Teams

• Viva Connections mobile and new partner integrations are now generally available

• Announcing new Microsoft Viva partner integrations

 

 

Actions:  

• Opt into PnP Recognition Program | https://aka.ms/m365pnp-recognition
• Give us feedback on the new consolidated M365 sample gallery  
• Register for Sharing is Caring Events:
  • Ask me anything (AMA) PnPjs – November 16^th
  • Ask me anything (AMA) MGT – November 30^th
  • Ask me anything (AMA) PnP Search – January 11^th
  • First Time Contributor Session – December 15^th (EMEA, APAC & US friendly times available)
  • Community Docs Session – November 17^th  
  • Power Platform Samples – First Time Contributor – November 24^th, December 15^th
  • PnP – SPFx Developer Workstation Setup – November 16^th
  • PnP SPFx Samples – Solving SPFx version differences using Node Version Manager – November 30^th  
  • First Time Presenter – TBS
  • More than Code with VSCode – TBS 
  • Maturity Model Practitioners – November 16^th  (every 3^rd Tuesday of month, 7:00am PT)
  • PnP Office Hours – 1:1 session – Register
  • PnP Buddy System – Request a Buddy
• Request a Demo spot on the call – https://aka.ms/m365pnp/request/demo
• Download the recurrent invite for this call – https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call
• Call attention to your great work by using the #PnPWeekly on Twitter.

 

Thank you everybody (200+) for being part of this community call today.  Awesome to see everyone in the house.

 

Demos delivered in this session

• Introduction to Embedded Search Box (ESB) – with few lines of code, add Microsoft search box to any intranet site/page for easy and secure access to internal information. Merges web and work experiences. Uses familiar Bing UX to call Microsoft search and catalog behind scenes. Does not use the Bing Search Engine. Pulls people, file, conversations, PowerBI results and more. No cost with E3+ and Govt Cloud licensing.

• Microsoft Learn Module - Extend Microsoft Viva Connections with Adaptive Card Extensions – use Viva Connections to communicate important announcements to employees. Designate a home site and create announcements list on SharePoint. Demo shows creating/scaffolding project, configuring in VS Code how important announcements are surfaced, testing card functionality in localhost, packaging and installing card in App Catalog, deploying card to tenant, to site and adding card to dashboard. Develop one card used in both desktop and mobile.

Thank you for your work. Samples are often showcased in Demos.

 

Topics covered in this call

• Latest updates and news on the Microsoft 365 platform – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen – 7:52
• Demo 1:  Introduction to Embedded Search Box – Shubham Gatkal (Microsoft) – 11:45 
• Demo 2:  Microsoft Learn Module - Extend Microsoft Viva Connections with Adaptive Card Extensions – Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm & Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen – 22:35

 

Resources:

Additional resources around the covered topics and links from the slides.

• D1:  Documentation - Add a search box to your intranet site 

• D1:  Documentation - Security and Privacy for Microsoft Search in Bing 

• D2:  Learn - Extend Microsoft Viva Connections 

• D2:  Documentation - Plan, build, and launch a home site for your organization 

 

General resources:

• Archives - Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Videos, Podcasts  
• PnP Teams Quickstart | aka.ms/pnp-teams-quickstart
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit v2.2 | https://aka.ms/teams-toolkit
• Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub | aka.ms/m365pnp/community 
• Microsoft Graph Toolkit in Microsoft Learn | http://aka.ms/learn-mgt
• Viva Connections https://aka.ms/VivaConnections
• SharePoint look book
• Yo Teams video training package
• .NET Standard 2.0 version of SharePoint Online CSOM API
• Microsoft 365 community (PnP) videos | aka.ms/m365pnp-videos
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
• yo Teams | aka.ms/yoteams
• Video - Getting started using yo Teams | Wictor Wilén (Avanade)| @wictor
• Build a crisis management site to connect people and information
• Developer documentation | https://aka.ms/spdev-docs
• PnP Power Shell
• SharePoint Modernization Partner Guidance - Feedback welcome
• Solution - Building a modern search experiences with SharePoint Framework web parts
• Page transformation guidance
• Page transformation videos
• Modernization scanner
• Microsoft 365 developer program site - Need to become a Tenant Admin to test look book capabilities? Get a Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription (free tenant for 90 days)
• SharePoint Provisioning Service - Easily provision look book designs to any tenant in the world
• SharePoint Provisioning templates on Github
• PnP Provisioning Tenant Templates documentation
• SharePoint Page Transformation webcast series
• PnP Power Shell
• SharePoint Modernization Tools

 

Upcoming Calls | Recurrent Invites:

• Office add-in monthly call – November 10^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/officeaddinscall
• M365 General Dev call – November 11^th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-sig
• Adaptive Cards monthly call – November 11^th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall
• Microsoft 365 platform call – November 16^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call
• Power Apps monthly call – November 17^th at 8:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall
• SharePoint Framework call – November 18^th at 7:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call
• Microsoft Identity Platform call – November 18^th at 9:00 am PDT | https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar

 

Microsoft 365 Platform community call focuses on latest Microsoft 365 Platform updates and demos delivered by Microsoft presenters and takes place weekly on Tuesday.  The alternating Special Interest Group community calls each Thursday focus on SharePoint Framework (client-side development/implementation) and Microsoft 365 Platform (includes Microsoft Teams, Bots, Microsoft Graph, CSOM, REST, site provisioning, PnP PowerShell, PnP Sites Core, Site Designs, Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, Column Formatting, list formatting, etc. topics.) with demos commonly delivered by community members.   More details on the Microsoft 365 community from http://aka.ms/m365pnp. 

 

You can download recurrent invite for this call from https://aka.ms/m365-dev-call.  Welcome and join in the discussion. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, feel free to provide your input as comments to this post as well. More details on the Microsoft 365 community and options to get involved are available from http://aka.ms/m365pnp.

 

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Microsoft 365 PnP team, Microsoft - 10th of November 2021

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