Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices (PnP) Community November 2020 update is out with a summary of the latest guidance, samples, and solutions from Microsoft or from the community for the community. This article is a summary of all the different areas and topics around the community work we do around Microsoft 365 ecosystem during the past month. Thank you for being part of this success. Sharing is caring!
What is Microsoft 365 Patterns & Practices (PnP)?
Microsoft 365 PnP is a nick-name for Microsoft 365 Ecosystem activities coordinated by numerous teams inside of the Microsoft 365 engineering organizations. PnP is a community-driven open source initiative where Microsoft and external community members are sharing their learning’s around implementation practices for Microsoft 365. Topics vary from Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint. Active development and contributions happen in GitHub by providing contributions to the samples, reusable components, and documentation for different areas. PnP is owned and coordinated by Microsoft engineering, but this is work done by the community for the community.
- See more details from New Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices (PnP) team model with new community leads
The initiative is facilitated by Microsoft, but we have multiple community members as part of the PnP team (see team details in end of the article) and we are always looking to extend the PnP team with more community members. Notice that since this is open source community initiative, so there’s no SLAs for the support for the samples provided through GitHub. Obviously, all officially released components and libraries are under official support from Microsoft.
Some key statistics around Microsoft 365 PnP initiative from October 2020
- Unique visitors during the past 2 weeks in PnP, OneDrive and SharePoint GitHub organization repositories – 57,728
- Overall unique contributors in the PnP, OneDrive, Microsoft-Search and SharePoint GitHub organizations – 1,554
- Merged pull requests across PnP, OneDrive, Microsoft-Search and SharePoint repositories (cumulative) – 11,132
- Closed issues and enhancements ideas cross PnP, OneDrive, Microsoft-Search, and SharePoint repositories (cumulative) – 14,088
- Microsoft 365 Community (PnP) YouTube channel had 70,853 views with 5,497 hours of watch time and 18,934 subscribers
Most viewed videos in the Microsoft 365 Community (PnP) YouTube channel during October 2020:
- Working with Microsoft Lists (webinar) | Harini Saladi, Miceile Barrett, Chakkaradeep Chandran and Mark Kashman | 4,601
- Getting started with Site Designs in SharePoint Online – Laura Kokkarinen (Sulava) | 4,136
- SharePoint Syntex at Microsoft Ignite 2010 | Jeff Teper | 3,760
- SharePoint Framework Tutorial 1 – HelloWorld WebPart | 1,637
- Latest on Power Automate integration within SharePoint Online | Chakkaradeep Chandran (Microsoft) | 1,349
- PnP Webcast – SharePoint Framework Modern Search Web Part – Tarald Gåsbackk (Puzzlepart), Franck Cornu (aequous) | 1,243
- Getting started on using custom search result page in SharePoint Online | 1,210
- List and column formatting magic – Out-of-the-box UX design mode wizards | Chris Kent (DMI) | 1,190
- Architecting Your Intranet | Melissa Torres (Microsoft) | 1,091
- Microsoft Lists – Share and track information across Microsoft 365 | Lincoln DeMaris (Microsoft) | 1,018
Main resources around Microsoft 365 Community:
- Microsoft 365 Community – http://aka.ms/m365pnp – One location for all the resources and news around PnP
- Microsoft 365 development blog – http://aka.ms/m365pnp-blog
- Microsoft 365 Community Channel on YouTube – http://aka.ms/m365pnp-videos
- Microsoft 365 Developer YouTube channel – https://aka.ms/M365DevYouTube
Latest Dev Blog posts
Here are the latest blog posts and announcements around Microsoft 365 development topics from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blogs.
- 10th of November – Announcing a new, redesigned Microsoft Graph changelog
- 9th of November – Announcing general availability of Microsoft Teams Resource-specific consent and read channel messages
- 2nd of November – Announcing the general availability of the Microsoft To Do API in Microsoft Graph
- 2nd of November – CLI for Microsoft 365 v3.2
- 30th of October – Microsoft Teams App Generator (Yo Teams) v 2.16
- 27th of October – Looking to automate in Excel? Check out what’s cooking with Office Scripts
- 26th of October – Mailbox 1.9 JavaScript API is Generally Available
- 23rd of October – Importing third-party platform messages to Microsoft Teams is now available in beta
- 19th of October – Announcing deprecation of includeProperties property for Microsoft Graph change notifications
- 16th of October – Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices (PnP) – October 2020 update
- 13th of October – Announcing the General Availability of Microsoft Graph Teams Membership API
- 9th of October – Outlook add-ins and optional connected experiences
- 7th of October – Microsoft.Identity.Web is now generally available!
- 4th of October – CLI for Microsoft 365 v3.1
- 2nd of October – Microsoft Graph advanced queries for directory objects are now generally available
Community call recording blog posts
- 12th of November – SharePoint Community – November 2020 monthly community call recording
- 6th of November – SharePoint Framework Community Call Recording – 5th of November, 2020
- 30th of October – Microsoft 365 PnP – General Developer SIG recording – 29th of October, 2020
- 23rd of October – Power Apps community call-October 6, 2020
- 23rd of October – Microsoft Teams community call-October 20, 2020
- 23rd of October – SharePoint Framework Community Call Recording – 22nd of October, 2020
- 19th of October – Office Add-ins community call–October 14, 2020
- 16th of October – Microsoft 365 PnP – General Developer SIG recording – 15th of October, 2020
- 15th of October – Adaptive Cards community call – October 2020
- 15th of October – Microsoft 365 PnP – General Developer SIG recording – 15th of October, 2020
- 13th of October – SharePoint Community – October 2020 monthly community call recording
PnP Weekly video blog / podcast shows
- 10th of November – Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 104
- 3rd of November – Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 103
- 27th of October – Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 102
- 20th of October – Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 101
- 13th of October – Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 100
- 8th of October – Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 99
We highly recommend also subscribing on the Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast show, which is a great show covering also latest development in the Microsoft 365 platform from developer and extensibility perspective.
Community Calls
There are numerous different community calls on different areas. All calls are being recorded and published either from Microsoft 365 Developer or Microsoft 365 Community (PnP) YouTube channels. Recordings are typically released within the following 24 hours after the call. You can find a detailed agenda and links to specific covered topics on blog post articles at the Microsoft 365 developer blog when the videos are published.
- Adaptive Cards https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall – Updates and news around Adaptive Cards with live demos
- Microsoft Graph https://aka.ms/microsoftgraphcall – Updates and news from Microsoft Graph with live demos
- Microsoft identity platform https://aka.ms/IDDevCommunityCalendar – Latest on the identity side
- Microsoft Teams https://aka.ms/microsoftteamscommunitycall – Microsoft Teams monthly update with live demos
- Office Add-ins https://aka.ms/officeaddinscommunitycall – News and community work around Office add-ins with live demos
- PowerApps https://aka.ms/PowerAppsMonthlyCall – Monthly summary on PowerApps community with live demos
- SharePoint https://aka.ms/spdev-call – Consists of the latest news, providing credits for all community contributors and live demos typically by SharePoint engineering.
- M365 General Dev SIG https://aka.ms/spdev-sig-call – General topics on Microsoft 365 Dev from various aspects – Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Graph Toolkit, Provisioning, Automation, Scripting, Power Automate, Solution desin
- SharePoint Framework SIG https://aka.ms/spdev-spfx-call – Consists of topics around SharePoint Framework and JavaScript-based development in the Microsoft Teams and in SharePoint platform.
If you are interested in doing a live demo of your solution or sample in these calls, please do reach out to the PnP Team members (contacts later in this post) and they are able to help with the right setup. These are great opportunities to gain visibility for example for existing MVPs, for community members who would like to be MVPs in the future or any community member who’d like to share some of their learnings.
Microsoft 365 PnP community Ecosystem in GitHub
Most of the community driven repositories are in the PnP GitHub organization as samples are not product specifics as they can contain numerous different solutions or the solution works in multiple different applications.
- PnPjs – PnPjs Framework repository
- o365 CLI – Cross-OS command line interface to manage Office 365 tenant settings
- generator-spfx – Open-source Yeoman generator which extends the out-of-the-box Yeoman generator for SharePoint with additional capabilities
- generator-teams – Open-source Microsoft Teams Yeoman generator – Bots, Messaging Extensions, Tabs, Connectors, Outgoing Webhooks and more
- teams-dev-samples – Microsoft Teams targeted samples from community and Microsoft engineering
- Sharing is Caring – Getting started on learning how to contribute and be active on the community from GitHub perspective.
- pnpcore – The PnP Core SDK is an SDK designed to work against Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Graph API first approach
- powershell – PnP PowerShell module which is PowerShell Core module targeted for Microsoft 365
- pnpframework – PnP Framework is a .Net Standard 2.0 library targeting Microsoft 365 containing the PnP Provisioning engine and a ton of other useful extensions
- sp-dev-fx-webparts – Client-side web part samples from community and Microsoft engineering
- sp-dev-fx-extensions – Samples and tutorial code around SharePoint Framework Extensions
- sp-dev-fx-library-components – Samples and tutorial code around the SharePoint Framework library components
- sp-starter-kit – Starter kit solution for SharePoint modern experiences
- sp-dev-fx-vs-extension – Open source Visual Studio IDE extension for creating SharePoint Framework solutions in the Visual Studio 2015 or 2017
- sp-dev-build-extensions – Different build extensions like gulp tasks and gulp plugins from the community and engineering around SharePoint development
- sp-dev-solutions – Repository for more polished and fine-tuned reusable solutions build with SharePoint Framework
- sp-dev-samples – Repository for other samples related on the SharePoint development topics – WebHooks etc.
- sp-dev-fx-controls-react – Reusable content controls for SharePoint Framework solutions build with React
- sp-dev-fx-property-controls – Reusable property pane controls to be used in web parts
- sp-dev-list-formatting – Open-source community-driven repository for the column and view formatting JSON definitions
- sp-dev-site-scripts – Open-source community-driven repository for community Site Designs and Site Scripts
- sp-dev-modernization – Tooling and guidance around modernizing SharePoint from classic to modern
- sp-power-platform-solutions – Solution and sample code for SharePoint Power Platform solutions
All SharePoint specific repositories or services supported directly by Microsoft are located in the SharePoint GitHub organization
- sp-dev-docs – Source for new SharePoint dev center documentation exposed from http://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev
- sp-dev-provisioning-templates – Open-source templates used by the SharePoint Look Book site
- sp-provisioning-service – Source code of the SharePoint look book site
PnP specific repositories – solution designs and tooling
- PnP – Main repository for SP add-in, Microsoft Graph etc. samples
- PnP-Sites-Core – Office Dev PnP Core component
- PnP-PowerShell – Office Dev PnP PowerShell Cmdlets
- PnP-Tools – Tools and scripts targeted more for IT Pro’s and for on-premises for SP2013 and SP2016
- PnP-Provisioning-Schema – PnP Provisioning engine schema repository
- PnP-IdentityModel – Open source replacement of Microsoft.IdentityModel.Extensions.dll
Repositories in the GitHub Microsoft Search organization controlled by the PnP initiative
- pnp-modern-search – Home of PnP Modern Search solutions, see more from the documentation
Other related resources from GitHub
- Microsoft Graph Toolkit in GitHub – Community contributions welcome!
- Office add-in Patterns and Practices in GitHub – Community contributions welcome!
- Microsoft Graph GitHub organization
- OfficeDev GitHub organization – Includes all Microsoft Teams samples from Microsoft
What’s supportability story around PnP material?
Following statements apply across all of the community lead and contributed samples and solutions, including samples, core component(s) and solutions, like SharePoint Starter Kit or PnP PowerShell. All Microsoft released SDKs and tools are supported based on the specific tool policies.
- PnP guidance and samples are created by Microsoft & by the Community
- PnP guidance and samples are maintained by Microsoft & community
- PnP uses supported and recommended techniques
- PnP is an open-source initiative by the community – people who work on the initiative for the benefit of others, have their normal day job as well
- PnP is NOT a product and therefore it’s not supported by Premier Support or other official support channels
- PnP is supported in similar ways as other open source projects done by Microsoft with support from the community by the community
- There are numerous partners that utilize PnP within their solutions for customers. Support for this is provided by the Partner. When PnP material is used in deployments, we recommend being clear with your customer/deployment owner on the support model
Please see the specifics on the supportability on the tool, SDK or component repository or download page.
Microsoft 365 PnP team model
In April we announced our new Microsoft 365 PnP team model and grew the MVP team quite significantly. PnP model exists for having more efficient engagement between Microsoft engineering and community members. Let’s build things together. Your contributions and feedback is always welcome! During August, we also crew the team with 5 new members. PnP Team coordinates and leads the different open-source and community efforts we execute in the Microsoft 365 platform. We welcome all community members to get involved on the community and open-source efforts. Your input do matter!
Got feedback, suggestions or ideas? – Please let us know. Everything we do in this program is for your benefit. Feedback and ideas are more than welcome so that we can adjust the process for benefitting you even more.
Area-specific updates
These are different areas which are closely involved on the community work across the PnP initiative. Some are lead and coordinated by engineering organizations, some are coordinated by the community and MVPs.
Microsoft Graph Toolkit
Microsoft Graph Toolkit is engineering lead initiative, which works closely with the community on the open-source areas. The Microsoft Graph Toolkit is a collection of reusable, framework-agnostic web components and helpers for accessing and working with Microsoft Graph. The components are fully functional right of out of the box, with built in providers that authenticate with and fetch data from Microsoft Graph.
- Latest version currently is 2.0-preview.4 with updated community and engineering capabilities
- Microsoft Graph Toolkit v2 was announced in the ignite 2020 Microsoft Graph related announcements and is planned to get out soon
- mgt.dev – Microsoft Graph Toolkit Playground
- Getting started with Microsoft Graph Toolkit guidance video from recent community call by Beth Pan (Microsoft)
All the latest updates on the Microsoft Graph Toolkit is being presented in our bi-weekly Microsoft 365 Generic Dev community call, including the latest community contributors.
Microsoft 365 Community docs
Community docs model was announced in the April 2020 and it’s great to see the interest for community to help each other by providing new guidance on the non-dev areas. See more on the announcement from the SharePoint blog – Announcing the Microsoft 365 Community Docs. You might be interested on following assets to learn amore on this area: Here are the new articles on the Microsoft 365 Community Docs after the previous update
New articles
- Elevating Staff and Training – by Emili Mancini (Sympraxis Consulting)
- Power Automate vs Logic Apps – by Paul Bullock (Capta Creative)
- How Do Site Columns Become Managed Properties – Thus Available for Search? – Jimmy Hang (rewired)
Updated articles
- Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 – Introduction – by Emili Mancini (Sympraxis Consulting)
- Follow Microsoft 365 on Social Media – Christophe Humbert (User Managed Solutions LLC)
- Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 – Staff & Training Competency – by Emili Mancini (Sympraxis Consulting)
- Small adjustments on other articles
Here are also some additional resources explaining the model more detailed.
- Updates on the Microsoft 365 Community Docs – June 2020
- YouTube – Introducing Microsoft 365 Community Docs
- GitHub issue list with articles ideas
Get involved! All contributors will be also called out in our quarterly summary released soon as a separate post in SharePoint blog at https://aka.ms/sp-blog.
Microsoft Look Book – Provisioning service
We have been releasing numerous updates for the SharePoint Look Book (http://lookbook.microsoft.com) within past month. Look book exposes numerous new templates which are demonstrating the possibilities of modern SharePoint designs. Typically you will need to be a tenant administrator to apply the template, but we are also soon enabling basic templates for normal users. All the hosted templates are also provided as an open-source solutions from the sp-dev-provisioning-templates repository, which means that you can also modify them based on your interest and use them option directly using PnP PowerShell.
Look Book site source code is also released as an open-source solution at sp-provisioning-service GitHub repository and we keep on evolving the experience further.
yo Teams – Yeoman generator for Microsoft Teams
Yo teams is a Yeoman Generator for Microsoft Teams Apps projects. This generator is for developers who prefers to use TypeScript, React and node as their primary technologies. The generator allows you to simply create and scaffold projects that includes one or more Microsoft Teams features such as: Bots, Messaging Extensions, Tabs, Connectors, Outgoing Webhooks. You can easily get started by following the guidance available from the official Microsoft Teams platform documentation. Latest changes on the project:
- Latest version is 2.16
- Updated to @microsoft/teams-js version 1.8.0
- Updated core node packages of generator and generated solution, some related to security notifications
- Schema 1.8 is the default option for new projects
- Default app icons changed to PnP Parker
- Switched to jwt-decode, from jsonwebtoken to reduce bundle size
- Updated to use Typescript 4+
- Updated Webpack to 5.0.0
- Updated misc dependencies
- Using module=es6 for client side TypeScript to improve tree shaking (#156)
- For testing upgraded jest and moved from custom TypeScript preprocessor to ts-jest
Upcoming features
- React Hooks
- Meeting extensibility
- Closer integration with Microsoft Teams Toolkit
- What do you need?
We are also working on having better integration and story between yo teams and the Microsoft Teams Toolkit – more on this integration later this autumn. Got ideas and suggestions on this side? Please let us know!
PnP Sites Core and PnP PowerShell move to .NET Standard 2.0 versions
PnP Sites Core component, which has existed for numerous years, have been updated to use .NET Standard version and is getting fully modernized. As part of the October 2020 release, there was now numerous changes on the release model and a new NuGet and PowerShell packages for the modern direction. We are continuing on this path with the November 2020 release.
All of the new components are implemented using the Microsoft Graph first model and they fall back only to classic APIs when needed in the case of SharePoint Online. You should always prefer to use the Microsoft Graph and the standard SDKs for accessing the Microsoft 365 APIs, but if you have existing investments on the provisioning automation or other complex scenarios, which is not yet available in Microsoft Graph, you can use the PnP components to increase your productivity (see https://aka.ms/m365pnp for full list of standard and open-source components and tools). Key changes on the direction:
- New PnP Framework component released for SharePoint Online – This is .NET Standard 2.0 SDK containing the classic PnP Site Core features for SharePoint Online
- This component uses Microsoft Graph SDK behind the scenes for all Graph targeted operations
- This component is still in preview status, but intended to go GA in December 2020
- You can find the PnP Framework component from NuGet gallery
- Component code is in new GitHub repository to differentiate it from the on-premises version
- PnP Core SDK is a new Microsoft Graph first SDK targeted to bridge the gap for SharePoint Online between the Microsoft Graph and classic APIs – it’s targeted to enable customers to use Microsoft Graph operations where possible, but then seamlessly fall back to classic APIs on those areas where feature team has not yet provided Microsoft Graph API surface
- PnP PowerShell has been released as new cross-platform version, targeted for SharePoint Online
- You can find new PnP PowerShell from PowerShell gallery
- PnP PowerShell has a new GitHub repository for the new modernized version
- Classic PnP PowerShell will be deprecated by end of 2020 and focus will be on the modern PowerShell 7 version
- Classic PnP Sites Core v3 will be targeted only for on-premises deployment and will remain in the .NET 4.6.1 level
We are also working on full convergence around the SDKs with Microsoft Graph team, so that there is a clear path to transition from the legacy API usage towards the Microsoft Graph APIs. This is a journey we want to do with our partners and customers. This will take a while and we will be providing guidance and components on addressing the gaps until full convergence can be achieved so that our partners and customers can more seamlessly transition their existing investments to modern world. More on this work within upcoming months.
Modernization tooling
SharePoint Online is continuously evolving and improving, which is a great thing for you as a consumer of the service. One of the key improvements is the availability of modern sites, which are modern Office 365 group-connected team sites or communication sites, combined with improved functionality that can be consumed from a beautiful modern user interface. There are however plenty of customers who have already existing content in the classic sites and in classic pages, which would be great to get moved on the modern experience. This is where the open-source modernization tooling will help you.
- All guidance and tooling details are available from http://aka.ms/sppnp-modernize
Following are the key changes in modernization tooling and guidance since the last monthly summary
- Numerous other improvements on the modernization framework
Notice that the SharePoint 2010 Workflows will be going away in SharePoint Online. Take advantage of the SharePoint Modernization Scanner to understand if any are used in your environment.
SharePoint Framework development samples
These are the updated samples which are available from the the different repositories around the Microsoft 365 area samples.
- New sample react-bot-framework-sso by Qiong Wu (qiowu) (Microsoft) which demonstrates bot framework integration with single-sign-on support
- New sample react-bot-framework-secure by Qiong Wu (qiowu) (Microsoft) which demonstrates integration of echo bot sample with web part
- New sample react-tailwindcss by Fabio Franzini which shows how to integrate Tailwind CSS framework into a SPFx React
- New sample react-edit-applicationcustomizer by Kunj Balkrishna Sangani showing view/update application customizers properties across any web
- Updates to react-list-form by Ryan Schouten and Marius which demonstrates creation of custom list form with React
- Updates to react-outlook-add-todo-task by Luis Mañez (ClearPeople) which shows how to build Outlook add-ins with SPFx, including Microsoft Graph ToDo API usage
- Updates to react-quick-poll by Sudharsan Kesavanarayanan (NTT Ltd) which enables you to easily create polls in SharePoint or in Microsoft Teams
- Updates to react-directory by Sudharsan Kesavanarayanan (NTT Ltd) which enables you to search people from the organization address book
- Updates to react-calendar by Nanddeep Nachan and Abderahman Moujahid which allows you to manage events in a calendar. Uses a list of existing calendars on any website
- Updates to react-manage-profile-card-properties by Mohamed Derhalli which allows tenant administrators to manage profile card properties
- Updates to react-carousel by Harsha Vardhini and Don Kirkham which allows to show images and videos in carousel
- Updates to react-avatar by Joel Rodrigues (Storm Technologies Ltd.) that helps user create their avatar and save as profile picture
- Updates to react-tenant-properties byJoel Rodrigues (Storm Technologies Ltd.) that allows tenant administrators to manage tenant properties through a graphical interface
- Updates to react-graph-calendar by Abderahman Moujahid and Sebastien Levert (Valo Intranet) to add support for recurrent meetings
- Updates to react-pnpjsexplorer by Abderahman Moujahid which allows developers to test PnPjs methods dynamically on existing sites
- Updates to react-securitygraph by Russell Gove which uses React and Office UI Fabric to render a grid showing which users have access to which lists/libraries/folders/files on a site
- Updates to react-content-query-webparts by Abderahman Moujahid which allows to build complex data queries in modern SharePoint experiences
- Updates to react-faqapp by Abderahman Moujahid which allows to build dynamic FAQ based on list data
- Updates to js-workbench-customizer by Joel Rodrigues (Storm Technologies Ltd.) which can be used to enhance online development workbench experience
- Updates to react-word-game by Don Kirkham which implements simple word game based on SharePoint list data
- Updates to react-graph-telephonedirectory by Aimery Thomas showing implementation of company wide telephone directory
How to find what’s relevant for you? Take advantage of our SharePoint Framework web part and extension sample galleries – includes also solutions which work in Microsoft Teams
- Web Part sample gallery – http://aka.ms/spfx-webparts
- Extensions sample gallery – http://aka.ms/spfx-extensions
Microsoft Teams community samples
These are samples which have been contributed on the community samples since last summary. We do welcome all Microsoft Teams samples to this gallery. They can be implemented using in any technology.
- New sample msgext-search-giphy by Rabia Williams (Microsoft) showing how to build a search based Messaging extensions which allows users to interact with your web service through buttons and forms in the Microsoft Teams client.
- New sample tab-spfx-me-experience by Rabia Williams (Microsoft) showing how to build a Me-experience in Microsoft Teams using SharePoint Framework and Microsoft Graph Toolkit
If you are interested on Microsoft Teams samples, we have just released also new Microsoft Teams sample gallery. Contributions to Microsoft Teams samples is also more than welcome. This gallery already surfaces all Microsoft samples, Microsoft Teams app templates and community samples.
Sharing is Caring initiative
The “Sharing Is Caring” repository is targeted for learning the basics around making changes in GitHub, submitting pull requests to the PnP repositories and in GitHub in general. Take advantage of this instructor lead training for learning how to contribute to docs or to open-source solutions.
- See more from the guidance documentation – including all upcoming instructor lead sessions which you can participate
PnP Modern Search solution
PnP Modern Search solution allows you to build user friendly SharePoint search experiences using SPFx in the modern interface. The main features include:
- Fully customizable SharePoint search query like the good old Content Search Web Part.
- Can either use a static query or be connected to a search box component using SPFx dynamic data.
- Live templating system with Handlebar to meet your requirements in terms of UI + built-in layouts. Can also use template from an external file.
- Search results including previews for Office documents and Office 365 videos.
- Customizable refiners supporting multilingual values for taxonomy based filters.
- Sortable results (unique field).
- Refiners Web Part.
- Pagination Web Part.
- SharePoint best bets support.
- Search query enhancement with NLP tools (like Microsoft LUIS).
- Extensibility model allowing to write your own components.
- New v4 version is now available as a preview release with significant changes on the overall architecture
See more details from the documentation.
Other open-source projects and assets
- Reusable SharePoint Framework controls – Reusable controls for SharePoint Framework web part and extension development. Separate projects for React content controls and Property Pane controls for web parts. These controls are using Office UI Fabric React controls under the covers and they are SharePoint aware to increase the productivity of developers.
- Office 365 CLI – Using the Office 365 CLI, you can manage your Microsoft Office 365 tenant and SharePoint Framework projects on any platform. See release notes for the latest updates.
- PnPJs – PnPJs encapsulates SharePoint REST APIs and provides a fluent and easily usable interface for querying data from SharePoint sites. It’s a replacement of already deprecated pnp-js-core library. See changelog for the latest updates.
- PnP Provisioning Engine and PnP CSOM Core – PnP provisioning engine is part of the PnP CSOM extension. They encapsulate complex business driven operations behind easily usable API surface, which extends out-of-the-box CSOM NuGet packages. See changelog for the latest updates.
- PnP PowerShell – PnP PowerShell cmdlets are open-source complement for the SharePoint Online cmdlets. There are more than 300 different cmdlets to use and you can use them to manage tenant settings or to manipulate actual SharePoint sites. They See changelog for the latest updates.
- List formatting definitions – Community contributed samples around the column and view formatting in GitHub.
- SharePoint Starter Kit v2 – Building modern experiences with Microsoft Teams flavors for SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2019 – reference solution in GitHub.
- Site Designs and Site Scripts – Community contributed samples around SharePoint Site Designs and Site Scripts in GitHub.
- DevOps tooling and scripts – Community contributed scripts and tooling automation around DevOps topics (CI/CD) in GitHub.
- Teams provisioning solution – Set of open-source Azure Functions for Microsoft Teams provisioning. See more details from GitHub.
SharePoint Dev articles
SharePoint Dev articles are surfaced at docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev. You can provide contributions to these documents by submitting documentation improvements using GitHub tooling. All of the SharePoint Dev docs are stored and surfaced from the sp-dev-docs repository. Here are new/updated articles on SharePoint Development.
- New article Build a Me-experience in Microsoft Teams
- Numerous adjustments and updates on the existing
Microsoft 365 Dev and Microsoft 365 Community (PnP) YouTube video channels
You can find all Microsoft 365 related videos on our YouTube Channel at http://aka.ms/m365pnp-videos or at Microsoft 365 Dev. These channels contains already a significant amount of detailed training material, demo videos, and community call recordings.
Here are the new Microsoft demo or guidance videos released since the last monthly summary:
- NodeJs File Handler for integrating custom file types in SharePoint and OneDrive – Patrick Rodgers (Microsoft)
- Introducing: New Employee Onboarding – a Microsoft Teams app template – Nidhi Sharma (Microsoft)
- Performance improvements and preview on Project Nucleus – Andrey Esipov (Microsoft)
- Introducing: Building Access – a Microsoft Teams app template – Pawan Gulati (Microsoft)
- Getting started with Microsoft Graph Toolkit – Beth Pan (Microsoft)
- What’s cooking with Office Scripts: Getting Started – Nancy Wang (Microsoft)
- Application Types in Microsoft Identity
- Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience for Microsoft Teams
- Registering Office Add-ins in Office Online Using URL Query Parameters – Courtney Owen (Microsoft)
- Open Excel from your web page and embed your Office Add-in – David Chesnut (Microsoft)
- HTTP Status Cats App for Microsoft Teams – Tomomi Imura (Microsoft)
- Build “One Productivity Hub” using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Graph Toolkit – Ayca Bas (Microsoft)
- Build an Emergency Response solution with Microsoft Teams and SharePoint – Bob German (Microsoft)
Community demos as following:
- Power Automate with SharePoint On-Prem List to automate business processes – Theresa (Eller) Lubelski (Iberabank)
- Dynamically select field customizer for SharePoint lists using FieldRendererHelper – Alex Terentiev (Sharepointalist)
- Extending Microsoft Lists templates with View Formatting – Chris Kent (DMI)
- Microsoft Teams Messaging extensions using SPFx: Message data with Microsoft Graph – Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Intranet)
- Building a list editing web part with React – Ryan Schouten
- Site User and Group Information Web Part – Daniel Watford (Watford Consulting Ltd)
- Use SPFx for Task Modules in Microsoft Teams and access Microsoft Graph – Markus Möller (Avanade)
- Search-based Messaging Extension for Microsoft Teams – Markus Möller (Avanade)
- Canviz Power Apps Charting Components – Todd Baginski (Canviz) and Matt Schuessler (Canviz)
- Expense Tracking Power Platform Solution for Microsoft Teams – Reza Dorrani (Catapult Systems)
- Enhanced Power App Web Part – Cool Power App integration scenarios with SharePoint – April Dunnam (Microsoft) & Hugo Bernier (Tahoe Ninjas)
PnP Weekly sessions – Community visitors and latest articles from Microsoft and community on Microsoft 365 topics.
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 104 – Cameron Dwyer (OnePlace Solutions)
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 103 – Darrel Miller (Microsoft)
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 102 – Tomomi Imura (Microsoft)
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 101 – Vincent Biret (Microsoft)
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 100 – Visitor: Waldek Mastykarz & Vesa Juvonen
Since last summary we also published following web services on The Intelligent Intranet story
- The intelligent intranet – The intranet is the foundation of your digital workplace – Episode 1 – Michael Holste (Microsoft), Matt Wolodarsky (Microsoft), Debjani Mitra (Microsoft), Ian Doyle (Standard Bank) & Jenine De Klerk (Standard Bank)
- The intelligent intranet – Gaining stakeholder alignment – Episode 2 – Michael Holste (Microsoft), Matt Wolodarsky (Microsoft), Ian Doyle (Standard Bank) & Jenine De Klerk (Standard Bank)
- The intelligent intranet – Implement the design phase of your intranet build – Episode 3 – Michael Holste (Microsoft), Matt Wolodarsky (Microsoft), Debjani Mitra (Microsoft), Ian Doyle (Standard Bank) & Jenine De Klerk (Standard Bank)
- The intelligent intranet – Getting to engagement and measuring success – Episode 4 – Michael Holste (Microsoft), Matt Wolodarsky (Microsoft), Ian Doyle (Standard Bank) & Jenine De Klerk (Standard Bank)
- The Intelligent Intranet – What is a SharePoint Home site and how to create one? – Debjani Mitra (Microsoft)
- The Intelligent Intranet – What are SharePoint Hub Sites and how to use them? – Debjani Mitra (Microsoft)
- The Intelligent Intranet – How to take advantage of multilingual publishing in SharePoint? – Debjani Mitra (Microsoft)
- The Intelligent Intranet – How to create normal and organizational news in SharePoint Online? – Debjani Mitra (Microsoft)
- The Intelligent Intranet – Build an intranet landing page in real time – Debjani Mitra (Microsoft)
Key contributors to the November 2020 update
Here’s the list of active contributors (in alphabetical order) since last release details in SharePoint Dev repositories or community channels. PnP is really about building tooling and knowledge together with the community for the community, so your contributions are highly valued across the Office 365 customers, partners and obviously also at Microsoft. Thank you for your assistance and contributions on behalf of the community. You are truly making a difference! If we missed someone, please let us know.
- Aakash Bhardwaj (HCL Technology) – @aakash_316
- Abderahman Moujahid – Abderahman88
- Aimery Thomas – @aimery_thomas
- Albert-Jan Schot (Portiva) – @appieschot
- Alex Terentiev (SharePointalist) – @alexaterentiev
- Alexey Abramkin – alexabramkin
- Allan Hvam – allanhvam
- Andrew Benson (InElec) – @ViewPorter
- Andrew Burns (AmSty) – @SharePointRox
- Andrew Connell (Voitanos) – @andrewconnell
- Andrew Koltyakov (ARVO Systems) – @andrewkoltyakov
- André Lage (Datalynx AG) – @aaclage
- Arjun U Menon (Mindtree) – @arjunumenon
- Ashar Khan (collabtec) – @nicodemeus
- Balakrishnan (TCS) – balajikrisse
- Beau Cameron (Aerie Consulting) – @Beau__Cameron
- Brendan Andrade (Abrigo) – BrendanAndrade
- Brian Kline (North Carolina Housing Finance Agency) – bjkline
- Caleb Miller – calebmil
- Chandani Prajapati (Digitegrity) – Chandani_SPD
- Chris Kent (DMI) – @theChrisKent
- Christian Zuellig (Monday Coffee) – @ChristianZuell1
- Christophe Humbert (User Managed Solutions LLC) – @Path2SharePoint
- Colin Chan (Powerex) – ultrawide
- Daniel Watford (Watford Consulting Ltd.) – @DanWatford
- David Broussard (Catapult Systems) – @dbroussa
- David Warner II (Catapult) – @DavidWarnerII
- Dean Gross (Insight) – @dean144
- Dennis Bottjer – @dbottjer
- Divya Akula – @_divyaakula
- Dominique Sebastian Marty (Die Mobiliar) – @DominiqueSMarty
- Don Kirkham – @DonKirkham
- Don Shults (donshults) – @donshults
- Elio Struyf – @eliostruyf
- Emily Mancini (Sympraxis Consulting) – @EEMancini
- Eric Overfield (PixelMill) – @EricOverfield
- Eric Shupps (BinaryWave) – @eshupps
- Erwin van Hunen (Valo Intranet) – @erwinvanhunen
- Fabio Franzini – @franzinifabio
- Felipe Plets (Zensurance) – @felipeplets
- Frank Cornu (aequos) – @FranckCornu
- Garry Trinder (CPS) – @garrytrinder
- Gautam Sheth (Valo Intranet) – @gautamdsheth
- Giacomo Pozzoni (DQC Sverige Ab) – @PozzoniGiacomo
- Harsha Vardhini (TrnDigital) – @Harshagracy
- Hiroshi Yoshioka – hyoshioka0128
- hohenp – hohenp
- Hugo Bernier – bernierh
- Jaap Vossers (Vossers Ltd) – @jvossers
- Jacob Warrington (Catapult Systems) – @jjhwarrington
- Jason Merino (Ferguson Enterprises) – @jasonmerino
- Jayesh Prajapati (Cybage Software Pvt Ltd) – @techtonic365
- Jerry Yasir (DXC Technology) – @jerryyasir
- Jim Duncan (ShareSquared) – @sparchitect
- Jimmy Hang – @Hang_Jimmy
- Jimmy Rishe – JLRishe
- João Mendes – @joaojmendes
- Joel Rodrigues (Storm Technologies Ltd.) – @JoelFMRodrigues
- Joseph Velliah – sprider
- Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting) – @jfj1997
- Justin Grote (Allied Digital Services LLC) – JustinGrote
- Kislay Sinha (CGI) – @sinhakislay
- Kunj Balkrishna Sangani – kunj-sangani
- Laura Kokkarinen (Sulava) – @LauraKokkarinen
- Leon – leonardean
- Leon Armston – @LeonArmston
- Lou Farho (ConvergeOne) – @LouFarho
- Luis Manez (ClearPeople) – @luismanez
- Luise Freese – @LuiseFreese
- Manjunath Puttaswamy (Momentive Performance Materials India Pvt Ltd) – @ManjunathPutta3
- Manoj Mittal – @manojmcans
- Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) – @sympmarc
- Mark Powney (Valo Solutions) – @mpowney
- Markus Möller (Avanade) – @Moeller2_0
- Matt Schuessler (Canviz) – @mattschues
- Michaël Maillot (onepoint) – @michael_maillot
- Mike Jensen (Habanero Consulting Group) – michael-jensen
- Mohamed Derhalli – derhallim
- Monty Evans – @iamnitewalker
- Nanddeep Nachan – @NanddeepNachan
- Nello D’Andrea (Die Mobiliar) – @NelloDAndrea
- Ofer Gal (ECG) – @ofergal
- Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com) – @PaoloPia
- PathToSharePoint – PathToSharePoint
- Patrik Hellgren (Sherpas Group) – @patrikhellgren
- Pascal Hohensträter (SoftForge AG) – @hohenp
- Patrick Lamber (Expertsinside AG) – @patricklamber
- Paul Bullock (CaPa Creative Ltd) – @pkbullock
- Paul Schaeflein (AddIn365) – @paulschaeflein
- Ralph Rivas (Magenic) – @bigpix2000
- Ravikumar Pasupuleti (DXC) – @ravikpasupuleti
- reusto – reusto
- Reza Dorrani (Catapult Systems) – @rezadorrani
- Rick Ramhap (Grupo Bimbo) – @rramhap
- Rifaj Aboobacker – rifaj
- Robert Pethick – RobPethick
- Rune Emde Pedersen (DECURIA) – runeemde
- Russell Gove (Tronox) – russgove
- Ryan Schouten (Blizzard Entertainment) – @ShrPntKnight
- Savannah P (7 Oaks Group) – savannahp
- Sébastien Levert (Valo Intranet) – @sebastienlevert
- Smita Nachan – @smitanachan
- Siddharth Vaghasia (TCS) – @siddh_me
- Spencer Harbar (Triumph Media Limited) – @harbars
- Stefan Bauer (n8d) – @StfBauer
- Sudharsan Kesavanarayanan (NTT Ltd) – @sudharsank
- Swaminathan Sriram (TCS) – @SwaminathanSri3
- Tesfaye Gari (XGility) – @tesfayegari
- Tetsuya Kawahara – @techsn_k
- Theresa (Eller) Lubelski (Iberabank) – @SharePointMadam
- Todd Baginski (Canviz) – @toddbaginski
- Todd Klindt (Sympraxis Consulting) – @ToddKlindt
- Uday Adhikari (Cyclotron Group) – @udayadhikari
- Vardhaman Deshpande (Valo Intranet) – @vrdmn
- Wictor Wilen (Avanade) – @wictor
- Wouter Spelt – wspelt
- Velin Georgiev (Pramerica) – @velingeorgiev
- Veronique Lengelle (TSG) – @veronicageek
- Yannick Plenevaux (PVX Solutions) – @yp_code
- Zach – zachroberts8668
Companies: Here’s the companies, which provided support for PnP initiative for this month by allowing their employees working for the benefit of others in the community. There were also people who contributed from other companies during last month, but we did not get their logos and approval to show them in time for these communications. If you still want your logo for this month’s release, please let us know and share the logo with us. Thx.
Microsoft people: Here’s the list of Microsoft people who have been closely involved with the PnP work during last month.
- Aaron Miao – aaronmi
- Adam Burns – adambu
- Andrey Esipov
- April Dunnam – @aprildunnam
- Ayca Bas – @aycabs
- Bert Jansen – @O365Bert
- Beth Pan – @beth_panx
- Bill Baer – @williambaer
- Bob German – @Bob1German
- Chakkaradeep (Chaks) CC – @chakkaradeep
- Courtney Owen
- David Chesnut
- Debjani Mitra – @debjanimi
- Elise Yang – @elisenyang
- Herman Solberg – hermansolberg
- Jason Johnston – jasonjoh
- Joanne Hendrickson – JoanneHendrickson
- John Nguyen – johnguy0
- John Sudds – jsuddsjr
- Kevin Coughlin – @kevintcoughlin
- Kiran Thomas – @notkiran
- Koen Zomers – @koenzomers
- Luca Bandinelli – lucaband
- Matt Wolodarsky – @mwolodarsky
- Michael Holste – @Mike_Holste
- Mikael Svenson – @mikaelsvenson
- Mike Hollinshead – @mahollinshead
- Nancy Wang
- Nicolas Vogt – vogtn
- Nidhi Sharma – @nidsonbirdie
- Nikola Metulev – @metulev
- Oleksandr Fediashov – layershifter
- Orta Therox – @orta
- Pat Miller – @PatMill_MSFT
- Patrick Rodgers – @mediocrebowler
- Pawan Gulati – @pawangulati
- Qiong Wu (qiowu) – DingmaomaoBJTU
- Rabia Williams – @williamsrabia
- Shane Weaver – shweaver-MSFT
- Shreyansh Agrawal – shagra-ms
- Steven Jia – Steven-Jia
- Tomomi Imura – @girlie_mac
- Vesa Juvonen – @vesajuvonen
- Vincent Biret – @baywet
- Waldek Mastykarz – @waldekm
PnP Team
PnP Team manages the PnP community work in the GitHub and also coordinates different open-source projects around SharePoint development topics. PnP Team members have a significant impact on driving adoption of Office 365 and SharePoint development topics. They have shown their commitment to the open-source and community-driven work by constantly contributing to the benefit of the others in the community. Thank you for all that you do!
- Albert-Jan Schot (Portiva) – @appieschot
- Alex Terentiev (SharePointalist) – @alexaterentiev
- Andrew Connell (Voitanos) – @andrewconnell
- Andrew Koltyakov (ARVO Systems) – @andrewkoltyakov
- Beau Cameron (Aerie Consulting) – @Beau__Cameron
- Chris Kent (DMI) – @theChrisKent
- David Warner II (Catapult) – @DavidWarnerII
- Elio Struyf (Valo Intranet) – @eliostruyf
- Eric Overfield (PixelMill) – @EricOverfield
- Erwin van Hunen (Valo Intranet) – @erwinvanhunen
- Frank Cornu (aequos) – @FranckCornu
- Garry Trinder (CPS Solutions) – @garrytrinder
- Hugo Bernier (Point Alliance) – bernierh
- Julie Turner (Sympraxis Consulting) – @jfj1997
- Laura Kokkarinen (Sulava) – @LauraKokkarinen
- Marc D Anderson (Sympraxis Consulting) – @sympmarc
- Paolo Pialorsi (Piasys.com) – @PaoloPia
- Paul Bullock (CaPa Creative Ltd) – @pkbullock
- Rabia Williams (Engage Squared) – @williamsrabia
- Radi Atanassov (OneBit Software) – @RadiAtanassov
- Stefan Bauer (n8d) – @StfBauer
- Velin Georgiev (Pramerica) – @velingeorgiev
- Wictor Wilen (Avanade) – @wictor
- Yannick Plenevaux (PVX Solutions) – @yp_code
Here are the Microsoft Internal PnP Core team members:
- Bert Jansen – @O365Bert
- Bob German – @Bob1German
- Koen Zomers – @koenzomers
- Mikael Svenson – @mikaelsvenson
- Patrick Rodgers – @mediocrebowler
- Rabia Williams – @williamsrabia
- Vesa Juvonen – @vesajuvonen
- Waldek Mastykarz – @waldekm
Next steps
- See all of the available community calls, tools, components and other assets from https://aka.ms/m365pnp. Get involved!
Got ideas or feedback on the topics to cover, additional partnerships, product feature capabilities? – let us know. Your input is important for us, so that we can support your journey in Microsoft 365.
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Microsoft 365 Community (PnP) – November 9th 2020