In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen, Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm are joined by Bangalore, India based Technical Architect, PnP maintainer and MVP, Arjun Menon (Tata Consultancy Services) | @arjunumenon.
Topics discussed in this session:
- On becoming a community contributor, a PnP maintainer and an MVP!
- One cannot become an MVP, you must be an MVP.
- Why community matters when you have a full-time day job already?
- Three focus areas for Teams work at Tata Consultancy Services?
- Motivations for becoming a PnP contributor.
- Journey from first Fork to maintainer of CLI for Microsoft 365.
- Advice for others wanting to do what I do.
- What is it like to participate in an MVP Summit?
- 3 tips for anybody wanting to start contributing to this community?
- From a Teams connections perspective, how might we look at the future of meetings/travel?
We also covered 17 articles published by Microsoft and the PnP Community over the last week.
This week:
- Waldek – processing PRs for CLI for Microsoft 365, catching up with MVP Summit recordings and learnings that will influence announcements at Microsoft Build – May 24–26, 2022, and previewing with a small target group concepts for improving the experience for Angular Devs wanting to build Teams tabs with SSO. If you use Angular and build for Teams, please contact Waldek, to show you what we have built and subsequently provide your feedback.
- Vesa – catch up after MVP Summit week and preparing this week’s release of SPFx v1.15 beta with List extensibility (custom forms for creating, viewing and editing an item) capability.
Please remember to keep on providing us feedback on how we can help on this journey. We always welcome feedback on making the community more inclusive and diverse.
This session was recorded on Monday, April 4, 2022. Enjoy the show.
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Here are all the links and people mentioned in this recording. Thanks, everyone for your contributions to the community!
Microsoft articles:
- Microsoft Teams apps designed for Microsoft 365 coming in Preview to Outlook and Office.com - Mamata Kumar (Microsoft) | @zuprmamtakumar
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | March 2022 - Microsoft
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: March 2022 - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman
- Get inspired with Microsoft 365 apps at Microsoft Tech Days - Microsoft
- Microsoft Graph API support for new content type sync enhancements - Microsoft
- Learn from the community: Teams App Dev Challenge winners bring data and dashboards into Teams chats - Bob German (Microsoft) | @Bob1German and Decision Point team
- Introducing Microsoft Power Platform API (preview) - Lane Swenka (Microsoft)
Community articles:
- Microsoft 365 Conference - Las Vegas - April 5-7
- CLI for Microsoft 365 v5.1 - Patrick Lamber (Experts Inside) | @patricklamber
- Validate SharePoint Framework project easily using CLI for Microsoft 365 - Rabia Williams (Microsoft) | @williamsrabia
- Developing SPFx solutions using Docker - Don Kirkham (DMI) | @DonKirkham
- SharePoint JSON formatting: Check if date & time column is blank/empty - Ganesh Sanap (Globant) | @GaneshSanap20
- Open Word documents in the desktop app from Power Apps - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
- What is means to be a Microsoft MVP - Microsoft 365 Voice - Sarah Haase | @sarahhaase, Antonio Maio | @AntonioMaio2 and Mike Maadarani | @mikemaadarani
- Dude. Where’s my Power Apps? - #234 - Daniel Glenn (InfoWorks, Inc) | @DanielGlenn, Darrell Webster (Modern Workplace Change) | @darrellaas
- Episode #199 - Disabling Guest Users via Power Automate - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
- Power Apps Responsive Design - Shane Young (PowerApps911) | @shanescows
Additional resources:
- Microsoft 365 Unified Sample Gallery (preview) - https://aka.ms/m365/samples
- PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing to the community
- Want to ask a question or in general engage with the community - Add a note in the Microsoft 365 PnP Community hub at https://aka.ms/m365pnp/community
- Check out all the great community calls, SDKs, and tooling for Microsoft 365 from https://aka.ms/m365pnp
If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions for Microsoft 365 engineering or visitors – please let us know. We will do our best to address your requests or questions.
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