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 Redmond, Washington, US-based Senior Program Manager in the OneDrive and SharePoint organization responsible of the Power Platform integration, Sudha Narayanan (Microsoft).
Topics discussed in this session:
Sudha’s present Program Manager role in OneDrive SharePoint (ODSP) team is focused on automatio...
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 Redmond, Washington, US-based Senior Program Manager in the OneDrive and SharePoint organization responsible of the Power Platform integration, Sudha Narayanan (Microsoft).
Topics discussed in this session:
- Sudha’s present Program Manager role in OneDrive SharePoint (ODSP) team is focused on automations and visualizations (Power Platform integration). Previously worked as Developer/Analyst in Viva Topics, SharePoint Syntex and Azure DevOps.
- Role of a Microsoft Program Manager – solve problems and change the world. Working with customers and engineers, focusing on a specific problem area, and bringing capabilities from across Microsoft to address these opportunities.
- Career progression spanning several organizations both in India and US.
- How got to Microsoft – computer Science engineering graduate, developer, curiosity, speaking with customers, shadowing, taking a chance and working on a problem, moving a few times, finding supportive managers and knowing your superpowers.
- Differences in the Azure Dev Ops and ODSP orgs. Process adherence and leadership transparency.
- Cultural revelations both in countries and in organizations. Very open career conversations in US. Microsoft – “fine, you do you.” Worldwide attitude - get happiness from your work.
- Advice to woman in IT. Constantly look for people (plural) to look up to and go talk to them. Learn to learn. Value yourself and ask for what you are worth.
We also covered 17 articles published by Microsoft and the PnP Community over the last week.
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, February 14, 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 performance improvements reduce power consumption in meetings by up to 50% - Robert Aichner (Microsoft)
- Create interactive meeting apps for Microsoft Teams - Microsoft
- Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store - January 2022 - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
- Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Search DriveItems for Only Files - Brian T. Jackett (Microsoft) |
- Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.14 Release Candidate – with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
- Client Secret expiration now limited to a maximum of two years - Microsoft
- Learn from the community: React web app and Azure QnA bot to centralize learning resources - Ayça Baş (Microsoft) | @aycabs
Community articles:
- Showing and hiding content in Adaptive Cards - Tomasz Poszytek |
- Comparing two arrays without an apply to each? - Damian Bird (Incremental Group) |
- Changing a SharePoint Site URL When Connected to Microsoft Teams - Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) | @sympmarc
- Migrate a Planner plan to a List using CLI for Microsoft 365 - Albert-Jan Schot (BLISS.digital) | @appieschot
- Create a custom connector in the Power Platform – The WordPress example - Pieter Veenstra (HybrIT Services) | @PieterVeenstra
- SharePoint Syntex: Pre-built & Pre-Trained Models now available for Invoices & Receipts - Leon Armston (Intelogy) | @LeonArmston
- Announcement tweet on the PnPjs v3 - PnPjs crew | @m365pnpjs
- Adaptive Card Host - Reusable SPFx controls react control - Fabio Franzini | @franzinifabio
- Microsoft Lists Wordle Game - Microsoft Lists formatting definition - Tetsuya Kawahara | @techan_k
- Episode #193 - Creating OneNote pages via Microsoft Graph - Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
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
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