PnP Weekly - Episode 81 - 27th of April 2020

In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), share their perspectives on how open-source projects and community initiatives can be successful.

Why do some ideas get attention and others just languish?

This discussion focuses on 5 tips for driving successful open-source programs.

1. Get the idea out of your own head
2. Target the idea for the people who need it
3. Rinse and repeat
4. Building a team
5. It's not about you, it's about them

Perhaps the ultimate success metric:  A self-sustaining program.  Successful programs include a strong community of contributors with varying talents, constant communications/reinforcement, well understood goals and objectives and a sincere Sharing is Caring mentality.

Thank you for your participation and contributions in your community.  Also, in this episode, there are 15 newly released, well documented and evolutionary articles.

As always, if you need help on an issue, want to share a discovery, or just want to say: “Job well done”, please reach out to Vesa, to Waldek or to your PnP Community.

This episode was recorded on Monday, April 27, 2020.

• Video at SharePoint Dev 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!

Microsoft / PnP articles:

• How remote work impacts collaboration: findings from our team | Jared Spataro (Microsoft)
• Office 365 CLI v2.9 | Microsoft 365 PnP Team
• Microsoft Graph tutorial and quick start updates – April 2020 | Jason Johnston (Microsoft)

Community articles:

• A Lap around Microsoft Graph Toolkit Day 4 – Customizing Components | Hugo Bernier (Point Alliance)
• Microsoft makes more tweaks to its M365 services in light of increased remote-work demands | Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet)
• SPFx Teams tab: Use react hooks to dynamically handle theme changes | Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Intranet)
• Implement Continuous Integration (CI) in SharePoint Framework Using Azure DevOps | Vipul Jain (AWC Software Pvt Ltd)
• Getting started with the Office 365 CLI | Bradley Wyatt (BDO Digital)
• Building a release pipeline on Azure DevOps for Logic Apps | Giuliano De Luca (Hugo Boss)
• How to use jQuery with SPFx projects | João Ferreira (Beezy)
• Video Series on Bulding an Image Search Center in SharePoint using Azure Computer Vision & Power Automate | Ram Prasad (Infineon Technologies)
• Using PnP Provisioning engine to populate SharePoint user profile properties | Gautam Sheth (Valo Intranet)
• Export PnP reusable controls from SPFx library component | Joel Rodrigues (Storm Technology Ltd)
• Styling SharePoint Framework components using CSS in JS approach | Sergei Sergeev (Mastaq)
• React, Hooks, and Office Development – Bringing It All Together | Mike Homol (ThreeWill)

Additional Links:

• SharePoint look book with Crisis template
• Microsoft 365 learning pathways

If you’d like to hear from a specific community member in an upcoming recording and/or have specific questions to SharePoint/Microsoft 365 engineering or visitors – please let us know. We will do our best to address your requests or questions.

"Sharing is caring!"

SharePoint Team, Microsoft - 28th of April 2020

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