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Does community matter? Hell yeah! This week, Femke Cornelissen joins us to chat about the importance of community to her journey to becoming a Technology Evangelist at Wortell in the Netherlands. We chat about her jump from marketing to SharePoint Consultant and how chatting at Ignite helped her realise the power of community. Want to get more involved in the community? Check out these great events already booked in for this year that we are involved in. 8 March - Microsoft Ability Summit 2023 - Home (eventcore.com)  13 April - Community day event Netherlands - link coming soon 22-24 May - Collab Summit - European Collaboration Summit (collabsummit.eu)  2-4 May – M365 Conference - https://m365conf.com/    13 June - Community Days | Viva Explorers Belgium  15 June - aMS Berlin - 15.06.2023: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com  Experts Live  25 May  - Experts Live - Netherlands 18-20 September Experts Live - Prague 20-22 June - EPPC - European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference (sharepointeurope.com)  21-22 June - Commsverse - The Microsoft Teams Conference 2023  5 Aug - Scottish Summit - Microsoft Cloud community Event  18-20 September -  Location | Experts Live EU  27th September 2023 - CollabDays Bletchley Park 2023 | Collabdays  13-14 Oct - South Coast Summit - South Coast Summit – A Microsoft Cloud Technology Conference  15-16 November - Microsoft Ignite - Home - Microsoft Ignite Information Home Page  27-30 Nov - ESPC- European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference (sharepointeurope.com) Photo by William White on Unsplash

Garry and Kevin are joined this week to talk Viva Connections with Anoop Tatti (https://aka.ms/anoopt), covering what Viva Connections is, why you would use it and how you can build it out with the usual distractions along the way! Viva Home Announcement - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/more-options-coming-soon-for-the-viva-connections-desktop/ba-p/3644419 How to set up Viva Home - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/edit-viva-home Great video by Darrell As A Service on how to set up Viva Home or not - Your new Viva Connections landing page? - YouTube PnP Samples: https://github.com/pnp/AdaptiveCards-Templates https://github.com/pnp/sp-dev-fx-aces

This week, Kevin, Al and Garry (sadly Luise couldn't make it last minute) look back at 2022 to pick our favourite tech news of the year and our own personal highlights. Kevin even decided last minute about what everyone's focus was for 2023 so there are some late panics in the show that are worth sticking around for! Microsoft Viva Goals brings purpose and alignment to the employee experience Set Team and Company Goals | Microsoft Viva What New Terms Like 'Goblin Mode' Reveal about Work in 2023 (microsoft.com) Teams Toolkit Overview - Teams | Microsoft Learn Build Microsoft 365 apps that help keep employees in the flow of work Introducing Microsoft Syntex - Content AI in the flow of work - Microsoft Community Hub Microsoft Syntex, Content AI | Microsoft 365 Shared channels in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn Entra, Purview, Priva, & Viva: Microsoft's New Move to Naming Products (synergy-technical.com) Microsoft Viva Sales | Microsoft Viva Introducing Mesh avatars for Microsoft Teams in Private Preview - Microsoft Community Hub Microsoft will start charging for some Microsoft Graph Teams API calls starting July 5th 2022 | The thoughtstuff Blog Introducing the Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy community preview - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog Microsoft Teams Premium licensing - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue (openai.com)

No news this week as we had a slightly shorter recording so we have included some links below. However, instead we have a cracker of a show with Will Rowe from MS-Talent, talking about the current job market in Microsoft IT related roles, the impact of hybrid, why people are moving and even blue back hair (yes really). Careering out of control - Will's own podcast with even more adviceTech layoffs - https://www.geekwire.com/2022/report-amazon-to-cut-10000-corporate-and-tech-jobs-making-largest-layoffs-in-its-history/Leading women in tech urge schoolgirls to take on the UK's... - NCSC.GOV.UKCulture of learning at Crayon https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-learn-blog/crayon-strengthening-a-global-company-during-the-pandemic-with-a/ba-p/3262746Building OKRs into your businesshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/how-to-build-okrs-into-your-business/ba-p/3670976Customizing F5 debugging in Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog  Replace ngrok with your own local tunnelling service Breaking changes for the Microsoft Graph Insights API   - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog Events: Still time to sign up for ESPC 22 - European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference (sharepointeurope.com)Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

A very brave Emily Mancini tackles the subject of Yammer and when it excels for organisations over Teams. The chat with Luise, Al and Kevin takes in the different use cases around Yammer and Teams, how you can help adoption, why you should consider both and a lot lot more. There were certainly opinions this week!

This week, Kevin, Al and Luise were joined by Emily Mancini to talk about the latest news with Power Platform updates, great eBooks about Viva via Mark Rackley, new devices (with live demos!) and the end of an era in Microsoft related journalism as Mary Jo Foley leaves ZDNet after 16 years. This led to a slightly diverted chat about what we were up to 16 years ago - can you guess?   Power Platform Oct 2022 Updates - https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/whats-new-power-apps-october-2022-feature-update/ Viva eBook - https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE56FRU Viva Admin features https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/announcing-new-microsoft-viva-it-admin-features/ba-p/3650475  The Presenter + and Microsoft Audio Dock Sara Fennah’s Presenter+ review https://teamsqueen.com/2022/10/25/first-look-at-microsoft-presenter/  End of an era for Mary Jo Foley https://www.zdnet.com/article/mary-jo-foley-looks-back-on-a-momentous-16-years-of-covering-microsoft-for-zdnet  Events Garry keynoting FinJS London - https://buff.ly/3gs7IE7  Viva Explorers Day https://communitydays.org/event/2022-11-12/viva-explorers-community-day-uk  M365 Chicago Microsoft 365 Chicago Virtual Event (m365chicago.com)  ESPC - https://www.sharepointeurope.com/conference/schedule/  

The SharePoint Wizard Ami Diamond is on the show to talk about community and why it matters to him, especially with his YouTube channel and host of WhatsApp groups he maintains. The SharePoint Wizard Channel Community days - https://communitydays.org/

Garry and Kevin are joined by Ami Diamond (aka the SharePoint Wizard) to talk about the big news from Microsoft Ignite, including Microsoft Syntex, Teams Premium, Designer, Loop and big exciting news about Planner (no really). Microsoft Ignite 2022 Book of News Weekly view in SharePoint calendar - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=SharePoint&searchterms=100504  Microsoft Syntex—Content AI integrated in the flow of work | Microsoft 365 Blog Microsoft Syntex - How big a deal is this? | Deep Analysis (deep-analysis.net) Susan's Hanleys Roadmap Slides  Microsoft 365 at Ignite—Re-energize your workforce in the office, at home, and everywhere in between | Microsoft 365 Blog https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2022/10/11/microsoft-and-meta-partner-to-deliver-immersive-experiences-for-the-future-of-work-and-play/ Enhance collaboration with Microsoft Teams chat and channels features for the hybrid workplace - Microsoft Community Hub Microsoft Designer - Stunning designs in a flash Loop - https://loop.microsoft.com Presenter+ https://twitter.com/sfennah/status/1582082424187813889?s=20&t=Zll43rUYu6OuoenuY23cvQ Announcing updates to the Planner API in Microsoft Graph - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog Project and Planner value from innovation

Kevin, Al and Garry were guest-less so covered the large amount of news and had a chat about Viva, Teams and Power Platform Hybrid Work Is Just Work. Are We Doing It Wrong? (microsoft.com)Microsoft Viva EbookWhat’s New in Microsoft Teams | August and September 2022 - Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft Teams apps coming in preview to Office and Outlook apps on Android  https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/microsoft-teams-apps-coming-in-preview-to-office-and-outlook-apps-on-android/https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/start-your-journey-to-becoming-a-microsoft-365-developerMicrosoft Power Up Program for career switchersMicrosoft Power Platform Conference shares new opportunities - Microsoft Power Platform Blog  Collab Days Bletchley Park - 5 Oct - Kevin and Garry CollabDays Bletchley Park | CollabdaysTechorama Netherlands October 11 - 12 Home | TechoramaCollab Days Belgium - Oct 15th CollabDays Belgium 2022 | CollabdaysIgnite - 12-14 Oct Register - https://ignite.microsoft.com/homeSouth Coast Summit - 14-15 Oct Register - South Coast Summit – A Microsoft Cloud Technology ConferenceSecurity & Compliance Workshop - Security and Compliance with Microsoft 365 - 1 Day Workshop Tickets, Fri 14 Oct 2022 at 09:00 | EventbriteCodemotion - 18/19 Oct Home | CodemotionViva Explorers - 12 Nov Viva Explorers Community Day (Manchester, UK), Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 9:00 AM | MeetupEuropean SharePoint Office 365 and Azure Conference 28 Nov - 1 Dec European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference (sharepointeurope.com

Newly minted MVP Leon Armston joins us to chat about all things SharePoint Syntex, covering what it is, what you need to use it and some real life scenarios that Leon has used. Leon's Blog SharePoint Syntex | Microsoft 365 Automate document generation with SharePoint Syntex and Power Automate (preview) - SharePoint Syntex | Microsoft Docs  Licensing for SharePoint Syntex - SharePoint Syntex | Microsoft Docs SharePoint Syntex Adoption – Microsoft Adoption AI Builder Calculator | Microsoft Power Apps Regex generator – GPT Crush – Demos of OpenAI's GPT-3 https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-gb/ai-builder-calculator/ (6) LinkedIn - James Eccles Get started with SharePoint Syntex - Learn | Microsoft Docs SharePoint look book (microsoft.com) PnP Syntex Samples Syntex Roadmap Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash

This week we are joined by Leon Armston, newly minted Microsoft 365 Apps and Services MVP, who shares his thoughts on the latest news. Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro and Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic, everything you need to know. - Tom TalksDriving adoption of Microsoft Viva at Microsoft - Microsoft Tech CommunityIntroducing Adoption Score – helping customers get the most out of Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Tech CommunityPublic preview of SharePoint Framework 1.16 – First release of upcoming features - Microsoft 365 Developer BlogIntroducing Microsoft Teams App Camp - Microsoft 365 Developer BlogWhat’s new: Power Apps August 2022 Feature Update | Microsoft Power Apps Events Metaverse One - 7th SepRegister - Metaverse One – A Community Metaverse Event (metaverse-one.space)Collab Days Netherlands - Sep 10th 2022CollabDays Netherlands 2022 Power Platform Conference Sep 20-22https://powerplatformconf.com/Teams 10X - Sep 28th/29thhttps://teams10x.com/Collab Days Bletchley Park - Kevin and GarryCollabDays Bletchley Park | CollabdaysTechorama Netherlands October 11 - 12Home | Techorama Ignite - 12-14 OctRegister - https://ignite.microsoft.com/homeCollab Days Belgium - Oct 15thCollabDays Belgium 2022 | CollabdaysSouth Coast Summit 14/15th OctoberRegister - South Coast Summit – A Microsoft Cloud Technology ConferenceSecurity & Compliance Workshop - Security and Compliance with Microsoft 365 - 1 Day Workshop Tickets, Fri 14 Oct 2022 at 09:00 | EventbriteViva Workshop - Employee Experience with Microsoft Viva - 1 Day Workshop Tickets, Fri 14 Oct 2022 at 09:00 | EventbriteCodemotion - 18/19 OctHome | CodemotionEuropean SharePoint Office 365 and Azure Conference 28 Nov - 1 DecEuropean SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference (sharepointeurope.com) Viva Workshop - Microsoft Viva and Syntex Workshop - European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference, 2022 (sharepointeurope.com) 

Part 2 of our recording with Gavin Jones as we dig into productivity Modern Workplace Accelerator | MeeTime ServicesGavin 🤓 Jones | LinkedInMeeTime (@meetimeapps) / Twitter Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash