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<\/figure>\nSharePoint PnP is a nick-name for SharePoint Dev Ecosystem activities coordinated by SharePoint engineering. SharePoint PnP is a community-driven open source initiative where Microsoft and external community members are sharing their learning’s around implementation practices for SharePoint and Office 365. Active development and contributions happen in GitHub by providing contributions to the samples, reusable components, and documentation. PnP is owned and coordinated by SharePoint engineering, but this is work done by the community for the community.<\/p>\n
The initiative is currently facilitated by Microsoft, but we have multiple community members as part of the PnP Core team (see team details in end of the article) and we are looking to extend the Core team with more community members. Notice that since this is open source community initiative, there\u2019s no SLAs for the support for the samples provided through GitHub. Obviously, all officially released components and libraries are under official support from Microsoft. You can use the\u00a0SharePoint Developer group<\/a>\u00a0in the Microsoft Tech Community for providing input and to ask any questions about the existing materials or report issues using the sp-dev-docs issue list<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some key statistics around SharePoint Developer topics from December 2019<\/p>\n Most viewed articles in the SharePoint Dev documentation<\/a> during December 2019.<\/p>\n Main resources around SharePoint PnP\u00a0and SharePoint development<\/p>\n January 2020 monthly community happens on Tuesday 14th of January 8 AM PST with following agenda:<\/p>\n You can find recording of the community call from\u00a0PnP YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0typically within 24 hours after the call. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please participate in our discussions in the\u00a0Microsoft Tech Community<\/a>\u00a0under the\u00a0SharePoint developer group<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here are the latest blog posts and announcements around SharePoint development topics from developer.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/blogs<\/a><\/p>\n SharePoint Dev community has 3 different recurrent community calls, which you can choose to participate based on your interest and availability. All calls are recorded and published in the SharePoint Dev YouTube channel<\/a> typically 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 SharePoint developer blog<\/a> when the videos are published.<\/p>\n If you are interested in doing a live demo of your solution or sample in these calls, please do reach out to the PnP Core Team members (contacts later in this post). 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.<\/p>\n There are quite a few different GitHub repositories under the SharePoint brand since we wanted to ensure that you can easily find and reuse what’s relevant to you. We do also combine multiple solutions to one repository so that you can more easily sync and get the latest changes to our released guidance and samples.<\/p>\n PnP specific repositories – solution designs and tooling<\/p>\n Repositories in the GitHub PnP<\/a> organization<\/p>\n Repositories in the GitHub Microsoft Search<\/a> organization<\/p>\n Following statements apply across all of the PnP samples and solutions, including samples, core component(s) and solutions, like\u00a0SharePoint Starter Kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n New version of the SharePoint Provisioning Service has been released together with a seamless integration to SharePoint Look Book (http:\/\/lookbook.microsoft.com<\/a>). Look book exposes numerous new templates which are demonstrating the possibilities of modern SharePoint designs. You will need to be a tenant administrator to be able to provision provided example tenant templates to your own tenant.<\/p>\n New SharePoint look book templates (v2 designs) have been released and are available also as open-source assets from the\u00a0sp-dev-provisioning-templates repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n SharePoint Provisioning Service source code is also released as an open-source solution at sp-provisioning-service GitHub repository<\/a>\u00a0and we keep on evolving the experience further.<\/p>\n Changes during the past month:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SharePoint Starter Kit<\/a>\u00a0demonstrates how to extend out of the box modern experiences in the SharePoint. It demonstrates multiple different techniques and uses different patterns and practices to build an end-to-end\u00a0demonstration solution which can be provisioned to any\u00a0Office 365 tenant. It contains for example following capabilities, which you can learn from or use them as your reference:<\/p>\n We are currently building a new version of the SharePoint Starter Kit (v2), which will also support SharePoint 2019 where possible with new updated designs for SharePoint Online. This is planned to get released during January\/February time frame.<\/p>\n PnP tenant templates can be used to create Office 365 scoped templates, which can be applied to any tenant in the world with define configurations. Tenant templates provides a capability to have pre-defined configurations of complex tenant scoped settings in a single pnp file. PnP file is an OpenXml file containing all assets which are part of the template.\u00a0 Tenant templates can contain form example definitions around multiple site collections, custom tenant themes, SharePoint Framework solutions, site level confirmations etc.<\/p>\n New capabilities as part of the January 2020 release:<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Following are the key changes in modernization tooling and guidance since the last monthly summary<\/p>\n These are samples which are available from the SharePoint client-side web part sample repository at\u00a0https:\/\/github.com\/SharePoint\/sp-dev-fx-webparts<\/a>\u00a0or from the SharePoint Framework Extensions repository at\u00a0https:\/\/github.com\/SharePoint\/sp-dev-fx-extensions<\/a>.<\/p>\n During October we released a new SharePoint Framework web part gallery, which can be used to easily access available samples. You can find the gallery from http:\/\/aka.ms\/spfx-webparts<\/a>.<\/p>\n Within the past month, we released similar gallery also for the SharePoint Framework extensions which is available from http:\/\/aka.ms\/spfx-extensions<\/a>.<\/p>\n The “Sharing Is Caring” repository is targeted for learning the basics around making changes in GitHub, submitting pull requests to the PnP repositories and coming soon… PnP Contribution Rewards.<\/p>\n PnP Modern Search solution allows you to build user friendly SharePoint search experiences using SPFx in the modern interface. The main features include:<\/p>\n See more details from the documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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January 2020 monthly community call<\/h2>\n
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SharePoint Dev Blog posts<\/h2>\n
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SharePoint Dev Ecosystem in GitHub<\/h2>\n
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What’s supportability story around PnP material?<\/h2>\n
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SharePoint Provisioning Service (look book provisioning)<\/h3>\n
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