Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly - Episode 111 - 25th of January 2021

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 MVP, "Stickerpreneur", conference speaker, and engineering lead Elio Struyf (Valo Intranet) | @eliostruyf. 

Their discussion focuses on building products on the Microsoft 365 platform, from a partner perspective.  Angles explored - platform control, product ownership, communications, a marriage, importance of roadmap, areas for improvement, communications, and value.   Considerations behind product development and distribution strategy including on-Prem, SAAS offering or delivery to customer to host in their own cloud with assistance from partners.   Valo is effectively an ISV that delivers solutions like an SI. 

14 articles and 2 events from Microsoft and PnP Community contributors are highlighted in this session recorded on Monday, January 25, 2021.

This episode was recorded on Monday, January 25, 2021.

• Video at Microsoft 365 Community YouTube channel.

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Here are all the links and people mentioned in this recording. Thanks, everyone for your contributions to the community!

Events:

• Friday, January 29th, 2021 - Power of the Cloud - Microsoft 365 Cloud Power User Virtual Conference
• Thursday, January 28th, 2021 - CollabDays Birmingham 2021

Microsoft articles:

• Notifications from Yammer communities are now available in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft
• 7 tips for safe online meetings and collaboration with Microsoft Teams - Microsoft
• “Making risk less risky” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman, Chris McNulty (Microsoft) | @cmcnulty2000, Martina Grom (atwork) | @magrom and Christophe Fiessinger (Microsoft) | @cfiessinger
• Guides and tools to design your Microsoft Teams app effectively - Microsoft
• Get the Microsoft Lists app for iOS - Mark Kashman (Microsoft) | @mkashman

Community articles:

• Format an image column with preview in Microsoft Lists and SharePoint - João Ferreira (Beezy) | @joao12ferreira
• Testing out the new Power Automate/Flow commands in PnP.PowerShell + Bonus Script: Export all Flows using PnP.PowerShell - Leon Armston (Intelogy) | @LeonArmston
• Understanding why you at least must consider to go isolated - William van Strien (ASML) | @wvstrien
• Building a Microsoft Teams bot for AppSource: Posting an Adaptive Card carousel as a welcome message - Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Intranet) | @vrdmn
• Use multiple Node.js versions on your computer (and develop a SPFx webpart) - Toni Pohl (atwork) | @atwork
• Markdown Explained in Under 10 Minutes - April Dunnam (Microsoft) | @aprildunnam
• Episode #138 - Introducing the new PnP Framework v. 1.0.0 - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @paolopia
• Post a SharePoint news or page in Yammer - Juan Carlos González (Ricoh España) | @jcgm1978
• Organisational ownership of Microsoft 365 is not so straightforward - Loryan Strant (Insync Technology) | @jcgm1978

Additional resources:

• Doctor - the static site generator for SharePoint - Tool from Elio Struyf on converting Markdown documentation to modern SharePoint pages
• PnP Sharing is Caring initiative - Getting started guidance and training for using GitHub and contributing to the community
• Check out all the great community calls, SDKs, and tooling for Microsoft 365 from https://aka.ms/m365pnp

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