In this installment of the weekly discussion revolving around the latest news and topics on Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen and Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) | @waldekm, are joined by Brisbane, Australia-based Cloud Developer Advocate, Rabia Williams (Microsoft) | @williamsrabia. The group’s discussion touched on becoming a Microsoft employee, digital vs physical travel, surprises after joining Microsoft, the role of the CDA, advice to women looking at a career in IT, and the focus this week for each participant. Microsoft and the PnP Community delivered 21 articles last week! This session was recorded on Monday, January 17, 2022.

In this 20-minute developer focused demo, Hugo Bernier and Bob German open with a cleaver Night Before Christmas story of expectations, deadlines, and miracles. A wish granted – a single curated access point for samples from GitHub Repos encompassing the Microsoft 365 suite of products. Samples are vetted, metadata tagged/refinable by product, technology, author and compatibility. Listings include supporting documents, author profile, and demo video, if exist. Site is launched, instruction on how to request and/or deliver samples. This PnP Community demo is taken from the General Microsoft 365 Development Special Interest Group (SIG) - Bi-weekly sync call recorded on December 23, 2021.

In this 5-minute developer-focused demo, Zach Roberts walks viewers through a web part with a single text field that enables search using Microsoft Graph for groups in your tenant and allows users to view the details of a selected group, view a list of group members and the option to export the list of members to a CSV file. Concise code walkthrough. This PnP Community demo is taken from the Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework Bi-weekly sync call recorded on December 16, 2021.

Viva Connections & SharePoint community call on January 13. Demos - Building Emoji Rating Web Part with SharePoint Framework, Introduction to Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) for Microsoft Viva Connections, and SharePoint Framework Design Patterns – Custom Web Part Properties (Part 3). Project releases for CLI for Microsoft 365 v4.3 and PnP Modern Search v4.5.3. Samples 8 web parts and 2 ACEs delivered. Added 2 AMA events on Sharing is Caring. Announced the updated Microsoft 365 ISV Benefit program. The host of this call is Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen. Q&A takes place as always in chat throughout the call.