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 Reykjavik, Iceland-based Consultant and MVP, Derek Cash-Peterson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @spdcp. The group’s discussion covered the Derek’s move to Iceland, strategy for positioning Microsoft Viva to customers, selecting the right tools for the job for appropriate customization, and tips for those considering a career in technical consulting. Microsoft and the PnP Community delivered 13 articles in the last week! This session was recorded on Monday, December 6, 2021.

In this 15-minute developer-focused demo, Alison Collins’ presentation opens with a demo of her SPFx ReactNewsWebpart that displays thumbnail, article, link to article, preview description, creation date, likes and comments from SharePoint site(s) the logged in user is authorized to view. In properties, select display style (stack, single), show author, and select sites to search. Instructive code walk-through includes – web part updating, news post data storage, calls to get data, and pagination. This PnP Community demo is taken from the SharePoint Framework and JavaScript Special Interest Group (SIG) – Bi-weekly sync call recorded on November 4, 2021.

In this 28-minute developer focused demo, Waldek Mastykarz and Vesa Juvonen open with an objective: Build a SPFx 1.13 web part to surface important announcements (from a list) on Viva connections Desktop. Test web part in localhost, bundle and deploy. Developers own the web part’s UI – the HTML and CSS, leaving content owners to add and configure web parts on a page. This demo focuses on Web Parts. Related demos focus on Adaptive Card Extensions and Application Customizers. This PnP Community demo is taken from the weekly Microsoft 365 Platform Community call recorded on November 16, 2021.

SharePoint PnP Community - SPFx & JS SIG call on December 2. Demos on Introduction to HtwoO React library – Fluent UI experiences easily and Getting started with using PnP Search Web Parts v4. SharePoint Framework 1.13.1 released - npm install -g @microsoft/generator-sharepoint. PnP project releases in the last two weeks - SharePoint Framework (SPFx) v1.13.1 GA and CLI for Microsoft 365 v4.2.0 GA. Delivered as well - 2 extension, 2 web part and 2 ACE samples. Terrific twos! The host of this call is Patrick Rodgers (Microsoft) | @mediocrebowler. Q&A takes place as always in chat throughout the call.