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From YouTube: PnP Core, PowerShell and Provisioning Engine SIG - March 22nd, 2017

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PnP Core, PowerShell and Provisioning Engine SIG recording from March 22nd, 2017. Details around the covered content and direct links to demo section from TBD

A

Good I think we're good to go so we're hitting the lower and, let's say, there's typically quite a lot of people joining a few minutes late and that's absolutely fine. That's what always happens but welcome everybody. This is the special interest group from SharePoint patterns and practices initiative, and this time this is the bi-weekly call where we could concentrate on the PMPA site, score and EMV power.

A

Shell and quite often may actually also cover elements like the modern site, provisioning which is pretty close to the BMP site, score NPM, a power shell as well, and the modern silent experience is in general this time today. So we will have a relatively short kind of a presentation, part and we'll concentrate on the demos.

A

So we do have two demos coming up, one from Chen, Lu related on how to use PMP, PowerShell in Azure functions and then connecting to the sharepoint online and that's a super cool demo and great to get it recorded as well and then a second one is a run true of a tool which is coming from the BMP initiative as well.

A

So Burt has been working on this crate tool, which is giving running through the sites and doing an assessment on the site around the readiness for the modern experiences and Bert is gonna cover that more detailed on his section before we actually go started so just quickly always repeating this and I do apologize, but there's always new people in the in this course. So Cheryl Anderson practices is his own and coordinated by the shipment engineering.

A

So we are actually our team is responsible or my team I work in the Redmond team and we're responsible of all of the deaf experiences within a ship one and but we need the BMP initiative is really open source community of an initiative and we work together with community MVPs and the internal national community members to provide code samples cards documentation. We have community course where special interest group calls like this one bi-weekly :. Then we have another one for SharePoint framework topics which is bi-weekly as well.

A

The themes are on SharePoint framework, Chevron terrains, much of graph over 365 development.

A

A lot of the sharepoint adding model topics also applied on-premises and in future, whenever the sharepoint framework will be landing in on-premises, which will happen this calendar year, then the sharepoint favorite topics are valid for ship 116 as well. He AMS shipment am paste. One address to remember good, let's actually get on going on today's agenda. So today we kind of have a one slide around the PMP march release and what we're planning to do for the april april of release and may release.

A

So you could have some sort of a high-level understanding where the BMP core team will be spending the most of their time. Then we will have a demo around the BMA powershell in asha functions, so gianlu is joining from australia and it's pretty darn late at his location. So we wanted to actually have him first, so he can actually do the demo and then, if he needs to get some sleep, he can actually transform the goal.

A

Thank you John for that, and then the second thing is, and the second demo is the modern user interface compatibility scanner, and this is done. The demonstration is done by Bert. The code is actually already available in the github as well, and the whole point of that one is that you're able to run this tool and get an understanding. What is the situation around your tenant in the context of the modern experiences? So can you flip over what what kind of customizations are there and all of that?

A

So you get a nice report on the findings from the tenant and then we should have plenty of time for the Q&A. If there's any questions around EMP, PowerShell or PNP side score, we can have that open discussion within your call as well. If there's no questions and people want to have rather discussions in the social media or in the tech communities, we can close the call early and that's absolutely fine as well good and.

A

And moving on are things so I do have one slide around the March 2017 release, which happened last week and more on the future. What are we actually working on so on the PNP core component and the PNP PowerShell, not a significant amount of changes from a capability perspective, but there's a few really really interesting. Let's say elements there, which Joan is actually going to use as well, so starting from a march 2017 release, you're able to use at only connectivity, true, craf.

A

Well sorry, only connectivity to craf from a sharepoint or BMP powershell or the PNP core component to be fair, I, don't know exactly what Joan is gonna show, but we'll see how it actually goes, and he has 20 minutes roughly under or from a timing perspective but anyway. So we there was contributions from a community around.

A

How can we use the app only to access craft endpoints and as an example, if you are provisioning modern SharePoint sites, that's a one option to do so so you're hitting there or connecting the craft and then creating a new modern sites using to craft endpoints. Alternatively, you can actually use a REST. Api is provided from SharePoint as well, but there are certain differences between those in general for the future.

A

We're still working on this kind of a massive refactoring of the PNP provisioning engine, and this is really around the fact that we want to simplify and optimize the code in a way that in the future, when we're introducing changes, they can be more easily tested. Then we can actually built unit easier unit testing and all that Sao Paulo PRC is working on that one of it Ivan from well I haven't just changed. The company I can't remember Ivan's company's new name.

A

If I haven't said Ivan listener call, he can actually point that in the IO window, but that should be ready for April release and after that we can then concentrate on introducing a new version of the BMV, provisional schemer. So there's quite a lot of feedback which we have got in a github around what should be edit and those are, for example, around the modern payday support automatic CDN configuration for libraries.

A

That would be really cool webhook association automatically to the lists, with targeting provision term store improvements and also, in general, improved coverage amassing the season capabilities, so the BMP provisioning engine is always using the available wrist and the season api.

A

So whatever we are providing from a template perspective that matching capability has to be available and exposed from api, because otherwise we can actually make that happen, which is kind of understandable good, but without any taking any additional time on kind of an intro and in the future, by the way before we actually go to Joan's presentation in the future as well. We try to minimize actually the presentation times on this course and concentrate more on additional topics and scenarios, and obviously we should have again be more public in the social media.

A

What are we going to present today? But I think it's time anyway for Chung to share his screen, and hopefully the network latency gods are with us because he is calling from Australia. So let's see how this actually goes, but John. If you unmute yourself and start sharing, you should be able to take over the presentation if everything is working, fine.

B

Can you guys hear me yep.

A

B

Okay, let's see oh, is it is the tiny or is that okay.

A

The screen is fine yeah, it just arrived at this location, yeah, it's cool good, at least okay, okay,.

B

I'm sounding quite cheerful at 2:00 a.m.

B

but let's just keep going I, don't actually know how many people have used at your functions so because I want to show choir, but you see how many functions I've got lined up. We won't show all of them. If you have a particular one, you want to see the other in the church. I know, I might just very quickly show you how to set it all up, so everybody should have their as your function account go to functions as your home I've already I'm already signed in so I come here, but normally you get it.

B

You get a landing page and then your login and the functions I'm showing now under funky demo. So if I open that it takes me to this place, this is actually a the edge of functions. Web interface inside the edge of portal whoops, which is cuckoo issues, and so so yeah. You see this load up.

B

And now quickly show you see here: I used three dollars this month. That's because that turned out all my fears. I only run functions now.

B

This months is nearly over, so in the function interface we go to new functions and many we can choose the languages. I want to mainly focus on PowerShell. Today, c-sharp is very popular. F-Sharp has been g8 this week and, if you're into JavaScript and know no js', it's also very popular so powershell. This is still experimental is not yet and then you can pick a function and create, and that will be a function and for people that have not seen a function before it's basically one powershell file.

B

You could just go here test and hit with run. He has run button and it's gonna run your code in the cloud and it's finished and it's returned that string. Okay and every function comes with the URL. So if I copy the URL didn't copy, isn't it? I got a brand new page and just paste that you'll see it's call my function and then return the results in just directly to HTML, hey Sebastian.

B

So that's really very quickly. What function now to use PMP PowerShell! This is why we are talking about functions with office 365. We need to add the PMP powershell with this TRL's into our header function, so it will run the additional commandlets and because pasha is still in preview, there's. No, that the way you kind of get going is this. You go to the function. Tap Settings!

B

You gotta hit this go to kudu, who do you say kind of web based command line you drop into the backend, and then you will see under site and the web root. All the functions appear here as folders and that's the one I just created so in here. Yes, we have to create a folder comatose.

B

And then there's this next part. The next one is very quick.

B

If you have the PMP powershell for sharepoint online installed locally, you run this command, so you try to figure out ways they bought. You installed on your on your machine, so it could be, and so under program files if it's installed for all uses or it could being still under your own local folder, if it's just in so for you copy that go over to that. Folder I had to open from the Lea, and you see this is the PMP pouch others way.

B

It's installed the definitions here, the Mandy RL is this one, and then he uses a whole bunch of other things, including Microsoft, see some for SharePoint the identity, libraries, ms/ms, taoism SL, this whole bunch of them, and so you basically need all of them being at your function, so copy everything you don't need the icon, because I'm that's sewing answer functions most of the compute you it will fall under the free bucket, so you're really just charged for this storage.

B

That's why you don't want the icon, because it actually you cost you like, maybe maybe and know you.

A

Don't wanna it's a 55 kilobytes come on.

B

But fair point we're all about having the costs it costs.

A

B

You can just drag and drop and drop into here and I might just do that and storage also includes uploading. So this uploading is costing me. Maybe one cent crazy.

B

Then, let's build it and if I go back to the function, I was in, which is I. Think where is it?

B

Oh, no, no! No housing! It was here yeah. So if I come here, you could see the modules folder is here. You could also upload from here, but I do I. Do like the cooter, where you can drag and drop a whole bunch of things and if I quickly do here, I don't know what to do. Okay,.

B

You come in that way.

B

Let's just try that.

B

So you see kind of in the log I should have expanded. This can explain. What's thinking you see that it's picked up all the deals from that folder see, and it's only me, the comments are available. You see. Most of the PNP comments are here: okay, now that's how you get set up and let me delete this whole thing. Cuz I, don't want this here.

B

Now, when this was kind of made available last year, basically for each function, you will have to wear there. I, don't know I'm, not actually sure why I can't believe you.

B

Yeah, but basically last year, for each function, you will have to copy all the PMP files in so the more functions you write. You have all these libraries that duplicated another thing is with the PMP powershell over time. We can. We get more and more new commandlets, like the ones that could talk to Microsoft graph, the ones I could talk to taxonomy.

B

So when you ins in general, Thank You Owen for all your hard work, I love you.

B

So so in about February, they came up with this other syntax that became supported, which is this inside your function. You could run you could basically import the module from a different folder.

B

You can import from another folder, so what I have now here in kudu is, if I go back up to so this fold is probably gone. If I go back up to the wah-wah-wah-wah root, a BW w route and make a shared module folder here and then I hablo OD, all the.

B

I'll blow oh the DRLs here, then we think all my functions, I could just reference. Let me just close one of these I'm gonna get confused yeah, so we think my functions, I could just reference and then, when this function runs they're all sharing the same out there else from one place. That also means that it's much easier for you to update all those out there else that you use as we get newer versions of every month, I just I blow over that folder they. So that's pretty cool to connect to so this I guess.

B

I'll start with this example to to connect to our obviously six art we probably familiar with this. We need to connect PMP online I, give it the URL. For me it's my SharePoint site because we're running an unattended, we don't want a pop-up dialog. You need to pass through the credentials and in our pouch all you could do it this way. So my username I've created a service account is actually a is now a pecan. This is actually a person called service and I have his password set the password said in the environment.

B

So if you go into the function app settings there's a place for you to kind of record environment variables that lets me. You know, show you guys this code without showing you my password, which is kind of good, and so I will show you where that setting is I, also hide kind secrets or in the app settings.

B

So that's the line that will connect PMP on line and that line will get this items and then for each item, I'm running the copy PMP file, so this will actually copy everything from my source source is actually something from my argument so which is here so when I, when I hit run, it's gonna use the sample JSON to call my web service, take everything from share documents and copied them or to test destination. So I could be show you, my SharePoint Online.

B

Here's, my shared documents, I have about 12 pictures. Toefl. This test destination is empty I deleted earlier. So if I just run that the deuce is running and try to connect.

B

If they're, not that more fair work, you see more, but it's copying. You sees how it's saying copy copy copy.

B

Pretty quick, yeah Oh see it's finish, so you finish: what's that 28, so Oh 8 to 20 years or 20 seconds, it's copied ULTRA files. If I go over here, go to test destination, you see all the files have been copied in and they have all been copied by my service user.

B

Sorry I thought there was a Christian on the chatroom. Okay, I'm gonna keep going. So that's one and in fact, because this is the URL, you could call this URL with a JSON, and so you can have some parameters that you could pass in I. Based on how you bill your function, so I think this is actually really powerful. You know you can I hope this. This is something to give you ideas about what you can build, another very quick one. What else.

A

There may be one point to remember and point out so how you're showing this from here. But again you actually have the function URL, which is super cool, so you can actually build this using PMP PowerShell and then just hit that endpoint and voila. Something is happening. Yeah.

B

Actually know you mentioned that, let me quickly show you this really cool thing. If we go to the function tab settings there is a thing called configure course, and you know you feel doing JavaScript and you need to call out to an external domain to run some sort of post function.

B

Courses building you just allow the domain to come from, so this could be your SharePoint Online URL, and then you could just have your SharePoint JavaScript from your ship. One framework go out to this function and the thing is: this function is running with a different user credentials to the user. That's currently running the JavaScript, so you essentially can do the whole elevated permissions stuff as well. So you know when we're waiting from solutions. What do we need to build? We need to build elevate permissions. We need to be running as some other user.

B

You know this. This can handle all that situation. Functions could handle web hooks, which is I'm Ramon. Even receivers functions could be run on schedule, so that's kind of like your schedule tasks. So, if you're from a from solution background where you were used to all these things that are difficult to build in SharePoint Online and your functions with so well in this space like when I first saw this so Jeremy fake, was in the functions team and when I first saw him start clicking about and started to look into. This I was thinking.

B

Oh my god. This is. This is like it's. It's like the edge you guys designed this for the sharepoint online people. It's just the Fed was perfect and.

A

I have to elaborate on that one one step more, even more kind of a making sure that everybody gets what you're saying, because that's brilliant wanting to kind of add oversimplify things. What we're seeing here is a custom web api which can be called from a javascript or a web service, and then you can actually configure what the web service is doing. It has a call to end point and that's it. Yes,.

C

A

That's brilliant, because now you can bright your web service in a PowerShell, even if you like, absolutely brilliant and.

B

Pnp powers are here, you know you can use the hope, EMP cycle and, if you're, if you're more used to that in c-sharp, that's perfectly fine I just find for, because the PMB partial reps so much functionality. You could just do so much with RPM repulsion. So this one's actually at no js' function.

B

This one is which one's the side script. So this one uses the PNP and then it does the new size of the sue create new team site, and then this applies the PMP provisioning template from a template that I've stored inside my SharePoint. So if I create I, hope, I don't have the site. But let me just see.

B

Yeah, oh no I had at I was testing at two hours. Let me just let me just give a different name. That's probably the quickest way to not get this game.

B

Sorry I didn't tell myself before I do this, so nobody we.

A

Still have plenty of time, this is super cool, stuff. Okay, so sorry, Barry.

B

A

Think Joan is taking all of the thunder from this quarter, but.

B

I will stay out doing what's your thing, so this doesn't use the gray out, but now e gray, so it makes it harder to read, but it's basically saying it's connecting to the parent site to the roof site. It cannot find a PMB much one. So it's creating a new 10-10-10 play teams are template and then once it's created that it's applying the PMB provisioning template. So while it's thinking I'll just like to show you guys, this picture right make sure people are seeing this.

B

This is in the the the PMB provisioning engine, see how this thing that we're doing c-sharp you could pretty much do it in four lines. In PowerShell, it's pretty crazy, and so there there's connect new web apply provisioning template, that's a to go Stan. So that happened. That's oh, five is started in, oh one, so about a minute and four seconds, we've got eight side provision. Let's look and simple template stamped over so sec. The PMP match one made about min ago and discussed so it's like it's not a blue screen.

B

It's called a phone than the color, and so on stand, oh cool. That's that's that one, that's pretty cool the graph one. Is this one that it's actually pretty much the same as what wellfest showed I think the last school where were using so because now we have Micro Swinson, seeing it gently, don't know whether he's in the core now yeah I was trying to get this to work over the December and OS just scratched my head in I. Can't I couldn't cut it, but Michael Swinson. He he got that to work.

B

So now again we can do unattended our coast to Microsoft graph, and this is pretty cool. Actually I think there was not a one.

B

Sorry, quick one I think this one. Could it get get access? Yes, there's no documentation.

A

B

Yeah get access key or something one. No, not sure me if I can't find in this fight, yeah.

B

Yeah yeah that one so I'm, just gonna copy died as well and so dying here, so connect to graph. We're gonna show the key and then we're gonna get a group.

B

The group I'm after is a group I've created a copy s1. What is the computers on PowerShell? One yeah.

B

No, it doesn't like it PMP access token oops.

B

Not sure why, anyway, that wasn't part of the demo so technically no demo failure, but what I wanted to show was that so in in the PMP commandlets, we don't have commandlets for every endpoint in the Microsoft graph, but we do have a way to get the access token. So you can use the Microsoft graph, I connect, PMP, Microsoft graph to get your token and then go and access the API directly using in progress.

B

So you could kind of combine the two let PMP handle the authentication, which is the difficult part, and you get the nice token, which is like a key to your hotel room. You can do whatever you want so that our thing is really powerful. So I wanted to show that any way that I think is not the recommended, and this is the next part- I actually run, and you can see it's retrieved. My group so I think the crew was created a while ago.

B

It did not have a SharePoint site created, not sure why I still know this group is being around for a few months, so it might be broken group.

B

Well, it's not a fun one, the terms, so this was something that was awesome. Twitter someone was saying: hey can we get? Can we get our turns so this one's super cool cuz I want to talk about this one, so we are connecting to a site, we're looking for a 10 set and they took group and we're selecting all the turns from that tempo I then use this thing. I confer the PowerShell array to a JSON array so because Paul Shaw has all these really powerful command leads. It just makes serialization so easy.

B

So if you look at the output here, see how I have an array of oldest locations in Australia or the capital cities, so that comes right as a as that does that comes back up yeah that comes back out as JSON, so you know you feel building, say a web application and you want to get a list of the terms the taxonomy. You could have the edge' functions, but that out for you, so that's pretty useful, but I did like this demo, because this example shows things like compared to JSON.

B

It's just super useful and you know if you write this thing c-sharp you might have to get a serialize. It then pass your object in and then serialize it to a string and all that fun stuff that I don't really like. I. Do like this one final one I do this one thing! Well, I, don't know, I, think I think this will be the last one, this one's a very common one.

B

People want to say you know every Sunday send an email update to someone about the number of tasks that haven't been closed in a cast list. You know some that type of scenario. So so in the old workflow days we were saying: okay, we need a workflow that will run every Sunday and then it's gonna have to loop through each item in a list and then he's gonna do some sort of logic to concatenate. The string in the PowerShell is I. Think it's just a lot easier.

B

So, ok again connecting to the side in here I'm just getting a list of documents I'm. Actually, after the file name, the the person- that's changed it in the day that it was changed, adding it to a partial array, then I'm, sorting by the modified time, comforting to HTML table seeing again those really powerful, convert our methods and then I do a little debug cuz. It should know I just compare that to string and then I use the PMP Mail to basically send that to me. I had to basically send that to me.

B

So if I run this I'm speeding through it see this, this is so much fun. There's so much fun.

B

So that's Ren, it's finished in I know got seven seconds. You might jump over to my site here: mail, 231 yep, that's the one, see how it's formatted nicely as a as a decoded XML table. It's just formatted nicely! This is too easy, so you can schedule that, in your add, a function to run an every Sunday.

A

John, that's a good thing! If you, if you don't mind, actually better your schedule, this stuff, because I think alright a lot for people, okay, so cool! How do I actually sketch your stuff yeah.

B

Yeah, so there are two ways to do schedule. If you want to do everything in function, you could do it here when you create the function, use the timer trigger, and then you need to use a con job string to specify you can actually say how often like every two hours or every hour.

B

That's one way to do it another way to do it, which may be better for say if you're in a team that has some power uses and some developers, so the developer may be building this function, but you want the power user to have control over when to call your call your function right, so you take the URL and you basically can do this connection to connect this piece of work inside flow. So let me go to flow which this one yeah so in this flow faster. You know, I have this demo.

B

How come you make this? It's like you, you ask me a Christian. Let's lead up to this demo anyway. Take it I have a frequency or Serena is calling the insight method that you just asked me. Don't know how you did this, but yeah.

B

So you could say every seven days and there's a friend's option about when's the next time it's gonna run and then it's going to call your function and if I in fact, I passing a slightly different, but you could sell a different argument just so that we can see it's been called from different place and I think there's a way to see when it's being run. So you have six days ago, he runs. Oh, he hasn't it's due to be run again soon.

B

What else do I want to show you here? So the catch is make this random.

B

As you can see, I'm at the did, you guys see this. This is new. You could save a flow now starting from yesterday.

B

So anyway, I know we old fella purse by actually I'm pretty excited about be able to save a flow, and then you can give it to someone else you can create. You can move it around on sites. Thank God. You know this read that. So that's it's that the type finish.

A

Writing iterate yeah.

B

Yeah it 11 seconds ago, you finish and if I quickly come back here, which can listen, email.

B

You see it. This is the second time I read, I, think yeah. So that's a 3:30 and that's the 334, that's a second, our movement and I think I would have gotten a second email here we go yep same email really, so I think flow is a great way to do that. You know let your user control when do they want to set this thing. Flows super very good. So if your function is created in the same account as as your flow, then when you create an action in flow, you actually list your functions here.

B

So your functions appear here. If the function is made in a different assistant, you could then use HTTP cool. You can use a GP or you can upload a swagger farm. So I have something like this rectifier that points to the ferry all my endpoints together and actually it's good. It says you really cook in one function, app you can mix languages, so one of the things I've been doing is I've been trying to learn.

B

F sharp- and you know you will never build a shelf or a whole app, but you could easily use F sharp just for one function, I thought that was fun anyway. That's a it's! A very functional language, kind of like C, sharp, Mary JavaScript to me, yeah I, hope, I didn't offend function, people that anyway sidetracked.

B

So that's what one last one you can call functions from SharePoint designer, so he's up on designer. This is 2013 workflow you can build dictionaries right and dictionary, essentially is your little JSON.

B

Then you call your function with the variable st post body capture the results and lock it to a history. So let's change this to say: hello, Fazle,.

B

Publish this well, it's publishing we go over to outside my contents workflow. So that was a side workflow! That's not a list! What I test the one earlier you just make sure we finish.

B

This may be marijuana demo, fair. How come take so long to safely acaba de need to change. Oh well,.

B

Any questions from the gym.

A

C

A

Yeah, what a feedback related on mo sand and the fact that they were showing seriously SharePoint designer, but the whole point is now you can it doesn't have to be. It can be anything what can call an HTTP endpoint. That's the period of the of the functions.

B

The piece about ship on this designer, like it's so much work to go in and change something, and, if you're trying to do rest and trying to folder around these actions, it's pretty hard I find that a lot easier to just replace a whole body with a edgy function.

B

Anyway, let me run that it should say Cooper. So there's no argument. So it's just gonna start running and it's.

C

Gonna, send me another University.

B

Sharepoint editor, yes, you can call upon in textbook local as well. So if I said the second one is the two am one right and Sherman to complete it. You see here is a stunt vessel, so the argument has gone to the functions wasn't included in the email, but then they kept back in the output which I captured and then saved into the blog.

B

You see, I got another. You know that same function didn't do anything. That's.

A

Really cool! That's really good! Now I do apologize Joan! This is awesome stuff, but we need to make sure that Bert Oscar truly is material as well. Let.

B

Me, let me just yeah yeah.

A

If you want to come.

B

Down I'm cool, but.

A

Thank You Jonah for this one I burped, you can probably switch the presentation. Please I think you have used two slides and then we can actually do a quick demo on that one as well with absolutely brilliant demo and it's great to see the integration and the awesome capabilities, Raimondo uh sure functions and one thing what Joan mentioned.

A

But it's not super clear unless you kind of followed up on the discussions in social media using asha functions, it's super super cheap, so the cost yes are typically one tenth of using a website or a web api or something it's it's really ridiculously cheap, at least for now. So hopefully it will be in the future as well.

B

Every month, I'll agree about fourteen cents, 15 cents.

A

C

So feel free to take over let's, let's move on a great demo, John and then I think I can propagate Asia functions to the next part as well. It's often a demo, but you gave me ID, sir, how to use Asia functions as well. So good, ok, switching gears talking about modern experience, so modern experience is kind of well. Is there a bit?

C

We call a modern that we should stop, calling it modern a certain point of time, because it's not moral anymore, but it is actually comprised of all the new user interface experiences we have so we have like a new way to work with listen libraries like affluent UI. We have like modern pages today, responsive nice-looking pages. What you talked about in last cycle as well. Now these be these new modern experiences are turn on by default, but what we see is that big enterprises tend to turn them off. Why?

C

Because they want to assess the impact, meaning they want to understand like if I turn it on. Will it work everywhere because we won't have like a coherent experience for all our users and what parts of my tent or what kind of sites what life is, what this will not work with modern?

C

So that's the key reason why we built the scanner. So the scanner is there to answer those questions like ok, let's say I enable modern pages or have it enabled. How can I know which sites are not able to use them same felissa libraries, it has been enabled, but a user could have disabled it at the user level, an administrator site admin could have turned it off at site or web scope level. The particular list of library might have features which are not compatible with modern and as such, the list will render in classic UI.

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So these are questions that really because was awake and related to that, because the first two are really about scanning from actual modern features. Now, when I built, the scanner I also included thought about other type customizations which not necessarily tied to modern but classic customization, that you have, like example, using custom action, which is embedding JavaScript typical one that we see very often now that we actually have been providing heavily with B&B. Now, if you have such a customization, it is actually ignore.

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On modern pages that javascript is not embedded and as such, it doesn't do anything now. The scanner also will have look at those type of customization, so it will give you when the scan sites it will detects like. Oh here's, an incompatible user custom action, so I logged it. So at the end, you will have a list of sites pointing to customizations, which is like, if I want to have a full bottom experience. These are the conversations that I need to work.

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Work on essentially I need to kind of update or improve alright, so this is all based on the MSDN guidance. So the bottom, you see that the link here pointing to our MSDN articles around more experience. So if you want more background around mobile experiences around how to customize experiences, I would recommend checking out those articles we give them up to date. We do like weekly changes because we detect, we see new things. We have changes in a product or just further keep on proving that those articles.

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Now, what did we build it? So we call it a model user interface scanner that they have to have a name. Maybe the name assists. This serves a rule from proof under the name, but this file is called today. Essentially it's an adult exe using a PHP bits. It's you see yourself, the pnp szybko her goat, it's all wrapped into one eggsy, so you just download one zip file containing one exe that you can run and we'll do like a multi-threaded scan of your tenant.

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Now multi-threaded part is important because this can take a while remember that it will last after scan each sites each web and each lists for each listed will do like a kind of a deep dive inside the list to detect like what lists features are not compatible.

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I, think I did a run. All I'm city alter flipping, em city, tenants it's about 5,000 site collections and it took if I recall correctly, around 12 hours running it remotely from Belgium based against the US based tenants, so not optimal, but just relating this to John's called, and you could perfectly run this eggsy in an azure function.

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Close to your tenant, so that would definitely increase performance now. What will the scanner do? It start scanning and that's the part you have to wait for a while, and it was done at the end of the run. It will generate files for you kind of a self. We post, essentially we're gonna, look at the be posts in a demo just so, but this is what you get us out, but this view posts you can use to further assess how good or how bad is.

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Your tenants were when it comes to and embracing the model in a user experiences.

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All right any questions so far, if not I'm gonna go into the demo.

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Think pretty okay. So let me share my screen: I'll feed. It works this time because last time it refused so I'm sharing.

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It's an error occurred Sankara, oh, you got no, it flashed there for a second and then.

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Okay, well, I will just drop the call and be back in one minute. So.

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Entertain a people yeah I can do singing while we're waiting for yes right. Okay, that usually helps any other questions.

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The other say there was a discussion around the modern experiences and the fact that if you create a a site from an admin UI, it's always classic and that that is absolutely every day, it's the powershell available available to customers. Absolutely you can modify modern or classic sites using BMP powershell as well. Now, on the modern sites, there are certain limitations. So if you're trying to set property back store user custom actions, you won't get an exception.

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Limit limit on the number of site Colin stated that provisioning engine and candle there is. There is no limit on the provisioning engine itself. The limits are coming from SharePoint, that's so no technical limitations, like Larry mentioned and.

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Takes about 10 to 12 minutes exited, apply probation in temp lines. Emitter has anyone run into this kind of scenario? Well, it depends on a template. Now we need to remember that the BN paper provisioning template actually defines what we need to execute as a see some operations and if we only have a one custom list or whatever, then the operation is first and simple.

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If we, if the template is super complex, like in the case of Paul, that can actually take significant amount of time because we're applying a lot of stuff on the site, but sharing is working for Bert. So, let's flip back on the birds demo and continue Q&A after that. Yes,.

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Okay, sorry for little hiccup, so what I want to do is do a quick run over the documentation. So, first of all, everything is already published on kita. This is a preview by the way, so it's two-fifty released because we're doing some some testing with a number of big customers, but I would recur you guys to try it out, download it or give it a run and provide feedback using the regular in P channels.

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So it's under PNP tools, the solutions folder and then there is the SharePoint taught. You I experienced scanner that you you want in there. There is a QuickStart right which I will walk you through. Essentially they are not a tool which is an easy. Once you have the tool, there's two ways to to run the tool: either use a pony or use username password. The recommended approach is app only because it's the easiest way to guarantee that the tool can read all the site collections in your tenant.

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If you work with an account, you would have to grant that account permissions to also add collections, which is for an the small talent that might be possible for large talent, that's kind of hard to do so. It kind of explains how to create a new principal, how to grant it the proper permission. So it's telling score permissions.

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You have to consider this. This client, ID and client secret combination is like your admin, password an account. So really these safeguards the this ID and secret, because with it, people can access all the data in your tenants.

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You have to give it up only of course, this one and full control as well. So it's important, then you have to trust it. It will and then that point here at principal is created.

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Ok next step is an actual scan of the environment. So that's very simple: you call the tool, provide your tenants and your client ID and client secret, so in this case calling 10 on this name contoso. So if you tell in this canto store sharepoint cim yux, you provide kanto, so it will figure out all the rest and client econ secret, the sauce running and showing some output in the ends and I'm not going to show the rodent practice, because it's boring to watch console application. Dumping sauce on statements on screen.

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So in the end, you'll get a number of reports. Indeed, that's what's interesting, that's actually the the result of the run and I will have a look at the swee posts in a second now the actual columns of reports are described in the manual as well. So you can learn what's in there. What I do want to quickly touch upon its options? Do a partial scan, so it typically will scan for everything, blocked this block pages and ignored customizations, but you can kind of control what scans and not important to know.

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This is SharePoint line dedicated if you're dedicated you have to use slightly different parameters so because in dedicated we can simply figure out what are the actual URLs you use. So you have to provide that to the tool, for example, here I'm scanning everything on the team that kentucky.com and on my site or sitcom, then I provide the URL today D the next admin Center, which is cantos Tedeschi admin. What cantos woodcomb just I made up this URLs but I. Think if your indicate the customer, you know what this means.

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Alright, let's have a quick peek at the output, so I ran the tool before and when you run the tool, it generates a folder, a timestamp folder. Essentially so each run Stross. This data into a unique folder know in every will overwrite existing data, which is good, and then you get those individual CC files which already have opened up in Excel.

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So let's first start with modern pages. It's a really simple one, because the modern page can only be blocked whenever you have disabled modern page feature so, and the report will tell you like okay, these are the sites where this feature has been disabled. When is the feature disabled because someone did it purpose as part of provisioning, for example, or if you have a publishing portal, we don't enabled the feature publishing portal. The opposite is true, though, if you have a team site and on a team site, you've enabled publishing features at that point.

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The modern page feature is also enabled, and you kind of have both essentially with this- is then the list of of sites that are not having this modern wage experience. So if you want to work in your site ever after everywhere, you need to start from this list. You see a block appearing a lots here. I think that's by design the classic block will not be able to use modern pages.

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All right, modern lists, it's a pretty big list. Now you see it's it's from my test. Tenant, which is like 200 site collections, contains a lot of data and I did this a purpose, so you can really filter out, see what's relevant for you. So again we have a site site, URLs its column and then individual view URLs, because the weather a list is showing a modern.

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It's not just depending on the list itself, it's also depending on the view that is used to show that this data, currently the tool, is only scanning the default view page of a list. So we're not scanning a example and an ad page, because that would kind of take quite but really increase the time roll scan and the most impacted one is that I think the view of the often is data.

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So what do you get from this report? You will be able to filter out which side collections have been blocking a motor one, listen, libraries at site level or at web level of example, where that's the user kind of turned a particular modern UI off for a site collection as for a surfer list. So this case I have trade lists in two different side collections, where the NQ is a set like no I'm, not going interested in running the modern UI I turned it off.

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So, let's flip this back on, it will tell you the list page random type, which is property you get back from Microsoft, which is new, API discussed in previous cycle.

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What else is really handy important here is: it will give you multiple reasons why a list might not be rendering in modern.

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So in this case, management data, if you have that turned on the list, will render modern you see this one is managed metadata, true and also it's using a calendar based view which is not supported, so it's not rendering a modern it's using a base template which is not supported as well. So that's the idea behind you check on the blot columns. You filter out the truth, and then you see typically the next column like the actual values when they're relevant.

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So there's multiple reasons. You see, big lists base template number parts on the page, J's link I think it's a popular one as well. So let's have a big chase thing to true. You will see that there's a number of lists which, having Jace link set at our list to a park level, excel link, Excel, etc, same story, and then it moves into fields. Certain fields are also blocking a-lister engine.

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Modern field can have a J's link again, I feel level not at by Park level field level, and it can be types of fields like business data tasks, art comparison fields, irrigation that aren't working it and, finally, certain list custom actions can also prevent a list from showing in modern.

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All of this is gathered in this particular big report for you to analyze and then the other one last we brought some kind of clothes sometime, but there is this: ignore customizations we bought over here, which is giving you a list of all the customizations which are like north have not respected on modern they. Just this is overview. It will give you like you better as a master page or alternate CSS or custom action which is causing the the creation of the show up, and then you can.

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If you want have more details, you example: custom action. You go to the actual Russian got some action report, so this detailed report telling you like ok on this side, I have a script, link custom action which is not supported because it's using scripting is not allowed.

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It will give you the actual scripts and other details, so this will give you a venturi of all the connections floating around in your environment, which will just not show up for modern, and you don't want those things to just not show up, because you want your fictional tea to work. So these are things that you have to tackle as part of being ready for motor and experience, alright, so the investor. How can we flip back to the last so actually I shall switch to the last slides yeah.

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We can have a Q&A once we're running out of time anyway. It's this.

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Way which I'm gonna end with the Q&A slides? Yes for the video? Yes,.

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This one, so it was a quick overview, we'll do a more detailed recording of the tool pretty soon, and this is a previous version. So the plan is to have a final version by end of next week, if possible, we'll see how things go, hard testing goes, but yeah any feedback is welcome. Give it a try and let us know, and.

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Obviously, please use the tech community or the issuer lists in the kit on we're trying to follow up on all of those which are coming in and for this particular tool. What Burt showed it would be. The PNP tools, repo and they showed us over there. But again we are trying to migrate. Former and stuff is happening as people are submitting them into issue lists, but I think we're running out of time for this one. Thank you John for an awesome demo. Inertia functions.

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You kind of stole the Thunder from Bert the bird stool or this particular tool, which were to demonstrate it it's more for enterprise analytics, but quite often, that kind of a insight is needed. Cross the tenant as well, but I think that. Well, it was a nice balance of super super cold, new stuff and then enterprise scale analytics as well. But thank you everybody. Thank you. Bert thank you. John and the recording of this one will be available in YouTube within 24 hours, so and I'll push out a Twitter tweet when it's actually pushed down.

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But thank you everybody please. Let's stay in touch bye, bye,.

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