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From YouTube: General SharePoint Dev Special Interest Group (SIG) - September 6th 2018

Description

Recording of the SIG from September 6th. Latest SharePoint Development news from engineering and cool community demos.

- SPO Management Shell in PowerShell Gallery
- Tenant level provisioning engine automation - multi-site collection, site designs, SPFx solutions etc. Upcoming PnP Provisioning engine improvements
- Run Site Script when a site is associated with a hub site

Detailed agenda and covered topics are available from SharePoint Dev blog at http://aka.ms/spdev-blog.

Download recurrent invite from http://aka.ms/spdev-sig-call. More details on the SharePoint Dev community from http://aka.ms/sppnp.

A

Welcome everybody: this is the SharePoint Patterson practices community call- and this is the general SharePoint development special interest group. That's what the seek actually means in the title, so special interest group. We have two of these special interest groups. One of them is for SharePoint framework development and JavaScript development and other one is this. One I mean this is the shipment framework. One is it's really kind of a clear what we're talking there? This one is more generic, so we talked about site designs.

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We talked about themes, we talked about top sites, we talked about PowerShell, we talked about provisioning and many many other things in this call, and originally years ago they started as a extension, did the monthly community call because we were never had a time to actually coach you all of the things in the monthly community call what we were planning to do now. All of these girls are getting recorded and the recording will be available in the YouTube channel within 24 hours on the based on whenever the session actually was originally now, my patient.

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This is really around as well.

B

As solutions around the sort of seesaw client side non client side, excuse me I'm so used to doing the client side special interest groups, so the seesaw flow power apps, the maker type things as well as the community demos for all those technologies are really the focus of this call to links down there at the bottom. A kms, slash, SP, P and P dash community will take you to the Microsoft tech community for all things. Sharepoint, so that'll be the SharePoint section there in the tech community and the bottom link there.

B

Sp dev Docs is the link to all the SharePoint documentation. So that's all the SharePoint documentation all up. So your WSP development see some development and as well I've got resources in there not necessarily fully about flow, but integrating with flow and power. Apps, and things like that as well. So moving on to face is.

A

Back yeah I'm back I just wanted to listen, how you're doing sure I went for a refill off the coffee, so sorry for dumping. I didn't have time to do that, so opportunities for participating within the community. First of all, we're looking into having community members to demonstrate potential samples, technologies or a pattern. So just a note on this one.

A

If you represent a company, if you have an existing thing, which you don't want to share I, say a sample or a source code, that's actually absolutely fine as well, because we actually are looking into understanding how people, for example, use the PMP provisioning engine, how they use flow and getting ideas from the others in a community. So very important.

A

Now, if you are willing to share your commute a sample, if you're willing to share your code as a reusable thing or not necessarily use a building as a simple, you can contribute the code in the key table as well for others in the community, and then please provide also feedback by using the social media channels and issue list and everything else. So we know what is working and what it's not working and we were able to address that as soon as possible.

A

Now that was hopefully and they're only Thursday outage on the skype, so I told you that's going to happen. You made everyone a start to call anyway. So today, a few general slides are announcements related on SharePoint development. So all those a big one was the SharePoint framework release yesterday. So one point six is sound. That is a really big release and we're going to talk about that. One slide that you take, but this is not the SPF X calls and we're not going to deep dive on it. Now.

A

Oh and I forgot about sailing and getting rid of top or soft discussion. What this is well, that's interesting! So let me one more time double check that did I miss the didn't, actually upload completely wrong session. So let me one check on the slides and this is I- think we actually updated everything else except agenda light. I do apologize on that. So that's a mistake on my end.

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Do the timing issues so, first of all, a few slides and general slides which I wanted to keep on their sessions every single time our documentation, so Inc MSSP abducts one SharePoint framework. The latest guidance is already out there, so 1.6 refresh is already available documentation. So we always push the documentation before the announcement. Podcast blog posts are going, live so NPM packages, then the documentation, then the blog post, so all of the the articles have been already updated to match a SharePoint 1.67 framework 1.6.

A

Now the other thing why what I always keep in here, which we are slightly behind after schedule, is the issue list so making sure that we are hearing your input around the issues and potential things what's actually happening right now, as an example, I'm hearing a noises in Twitter and social media that people are suffering and having issues related on the craft, API usage after the 1.6 dunno, the most important thing is to go to this issue list and report with the screenshots and with details how to reproduce so we're able to actually then step in those steps into engineering and are super and support engineers are able to help you.

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That's really always to ask so go first on this issue list again to get them go to the social media and then you can rent in social media if you want to, but please let us know first, so we're able to help you as fast as possible.

A

Now before we actually. Let me go forward on one slide, so here we go so a few announcements before we actually go there. So one thing what I wanted to quickly mention, because mati is actually asking that so maybe you followed us and followed us the discussion pretty recently on the social media related on the mega menu, and so there was actually mati or actually Katia found out that we had released this mega menu capability for communication sites and then it actually worked worldwide.

A

Unfortunately, that was an accidental leakage of a future capability, so that has been disabled so just to clarify that on Mattie's question now other topics so SharePoint framework 1.6 is now available. Three main topics in this one and plug set. Please give us feedback if we run into any exceptions. If we run into any issues, please go to the s/pdif docs issue list and let us know- and we can start investigating these things now.

A

The one number one thing is the native Microsoft graph access and on this one, and there was an unfortunate changes which we needed to do as part of the Deaf preview. If you Crandall permissions for Microsoft graph ap is those permissions no longer apply? We were forced and do technical reasons to reconfigure. The underlying Asha AD application, which has now an N different name, so you need to actually recreate the needed permissions for your craft for the webparts and functionalities which are using microsoft, crafts. Now it's kind of it's unfortunate.

A

That was the situation in def preview. We always know that as part of the Deaf preview might have this kind of things now now from this moment forward, we are in GA, so you don't actually have to react. Rent the permissions after this one yeah or in the future, when we're actually releasing a newer version.

A

There's a question on what permissions do we need to grant well the permissions, what the webparts are asking so inside of this be PK teeth, well, you're able to request the permissions what the functionality requires and when it deployed those from that SP PKG file to the tenant. That's when those permission requests are getting replicated on the admin UI and then you need to grant those. So that's the right way of doing stuff.

A

There's a question on Patrick Franklin, pure clone. Are we supposed to grant permission to sharepoint online client extensibility principle? Manually answer is no: if you go to the Central Admin, there is a central admin UI, where you can actually manipulate the requests. The permission requests. So there is a tutorials on how this actually works in the official documentation.

A

The second thing: what we released is the securely access third party API is this kind of relates on the natively calling works of craft access because they piggyback on the same functionality. So basically that what it means is that you can securely call a third party web api which has been secured using Azure ad.

A

So that's that's a a that's kind of a similar capability as calling Microsoft graph API, but you're calling your third-party custom API and that's a really really that's just being like the the holy crao and I've been waiting for this capability to go alive, since we started planning that, because that's really the beauty of using a SharePoint, Online and SharePoint framework as the UI and then put the business logic in asha function or a vet api and then call uncle calm stuff in on-premises or whatever securely, without any problems of anybody accessing on that platform.

A

Now, the third one here is a really big one as well so they're, not quite deployment of extensions, and this is has been demoted quite a few times in our call, potentially I'll demo. All of this in next monthly call, which is on next Tuesday but on this one, is that you're able to basically enable SharePoint framework extensions, so application, customizers and ListView comment.

A

Let's clue, Polly within a tenant from a one single location, so you're able to say that hey this footer or this header as an example, or these buttons should be available in every single document library in this talent from this moment forward, and that applies to old sites and new sites. So it doesn't really matter if the site is created in. Is it the new site which is created or is in a roll chart which is already existing in the site cute more on the 1.6 on what nation?

A

All of these things, I will potentially show all of this. If there's a demand for it on next monthly community on next Tuesday, we have other cool stuff, also queued up for the monthly community, call related on open source and SPF X stuff as well. Well, a few other things.

A

I, don't want to eat too much time under on today on this one, because this is the non SPF X community called the just a quick look on the road roadmap, so 1.7 of the SharePoint framework is really the next one on the SharePoint framework side and there's quite a lot of things which were planning to get in there. This isn't a promise. It might be that it's it's not actually and not. All of these things will be available there, but looking into have a dynamic data general availability.

A

This is the two component communications SharePoint 2019 Yeomans report, it's already implemented, but it missed the train for 1.6 preview of SB FX built teams. Tab is coming out on this 1.7 version, preview of teams apps in SharePoint Online, so vice-versa, not just SharePoint applications and teams, but also teams applications in SharePoint Online. So that's coming as well. We also talked about having support of react 16. So that's coming there a bit back for support Newton area version of office.

A

Your fabric is coming there as well preview, folks, look at I/o and preview of isolated fit parts. This is a really cool capability which we talked about actually in SPC, so in North North America earlier this year, but we haven't really covered what it means in practice. So we're looking into implementing this capability, where, if you as an tenant administrator, it feels bad for you to run the JavaScript in the same context of the page. So you are able to then say well this webpart isolate that and it falls on this isolated iframe.

A

So it can play securely executed on a page without the that web part getting access on the actual Dom structure of the page. So that's additional security layer on things. So we talked about. Actually we mentioned this original in SBC in North, America, but I know that not many of you were able to be there so clarifying that pipeline as well annamaria. So there's a you are level improvements. There will be improvements in teaming site, design, side, scripts, additional placeholders, a lot of stuff in the pipeline.

A

What if this stuff can still chains, there will be Chevron, 2019 GA is happening later this autumn and that's going to support modern experiences, so modern lists. Modern betas and all of that and well, it's gonna, be up on framework 1.4 kind of with the support in the GA of SharePoint 2019 everything. What is seen on the slide is subject to change. So let's be really really clear. This is early plans, but we want to give you inside. So what are we planning to do so?

A

There's plenty of stuff in pipeline and there's plenty of stuff for 1.6 and 1.9, and maybe we'll then jump to 2.0 I, don't know on my pizza 1.10 at that point, but there's plenty of plans what's going to happen during this this fiscal year and the next one or the next one. So looking really really interesting. Now arraignment is saying what about header and footer content place areas they do exist, so there is a place holders already, but we're adding planning to have more so right now the footer content placeholder is a floating one.

A

So it's not part of the content, so we're looking into having a content placeholder rather than a a floating placeholder when we'll say so, and the web app for support should be coming in 1.7. Yes, I can't promise that do many, many many many reasons, but we will hopefully get the web back for support in 1.7 right now. The 1.7 timeline is seems to be that it's in October 2018 again timeline is my chains contact my chains, but we're looking into making some good cocoa.

A

Moving on on on slides few slides before we go to the action of the most a few kind of are reminders. Early this week we announced the August version or across released offseason off for SharePoint Online. So this is 16-point 1.80 29. This actually contains quite a lot of AP is which we haven't documented.

A

We haven't told what they actually mean, because we're going to announce some capabilities in the Ignite, but do logistics, logistics reasons we need to actually get to see them out before we can actually do stuff and on our stuff in ignite, so I'm not going to deep dive, what's actually available there. From that perspective, now the second really big thing, and not necessarily for developers as such, but for a overall from a SharePoint perspective, is the fact that we are actually now releasing the shipment online Michelle also from a PowerShell gallery.

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So you don't have to install an msi, because that was really awkward, so I need it always uninstall the existing MSI and ship internal management, shell, and then we were installing the new version name and was kind of a painful around this poor, maintain it from maintainability perspective. No I'm gonna do a quick demo. What this means in practice just to show you how easy it is to actually use that Thank You Thomas.

A

On on the finally comment, and in a long run we are having discussions, obviously on combining SharePoint, Online Management shell, together with BMP PowerShell, because it just makes sense to do so now so for time. Being these, these two things are two separate things. We do lotta Stickle reasons mainly and SharePoint, Online Management, shell, is it's maintained by engineering and we're adding additional things from an engineering perspective, but then BMP PowerShell is typically matching. Quite often the administrative operations as what shipment donor management shell is having and then additional things on the site level.

A

The long term plan is absolutely the combined is so we will have a one really huge, combined set of comment lights, which work in the admin level, also in a site level and you're able to do smart things and increase your productivity by using that set of power shells. So for now, two separate things still, but there is an ongoing discussions that this will happen. It will be. We need to first go to the PowerShell core and dotnet standard and dotnet core version of seasoned, understand, PowerShell, and then, after that, we'll start thinking.

A

How do we merge these things together? It is not actually technical challenge. It is a logistics challenge on how do we maintain them in an easy way in the future HUD. So how do we make that happen? Good haha me talking a lot before we go to the actual demos, once the back, let me actually to jump and show Shaima screen and show what this one actually means in practice. So let me hide my everything else.

A

For my screen- and let me actually share my screen and after that, we'll jump on on paolo if I remember correctly, so just quickly showing what this means in practice, and let me actually also show the PowerShell gallery- and somebody needs to tell me whenever the PowerShell gallery is visible for you, cool.

A

Yes, excellent, thank you so I'm using the publisher calorie the the preview of the new Power Cell calorie, you I had not sure how to actually get to the back UI, so it might look slightly different for you, but if we search for actually just copy that Microsoft online SharePoint PowerShell from here, you can actually find that package will release this on Monday and there's five hundred dollars. Five hundred five hundred ninety download. So it's got some pretty fun nicely.

A

You can actually see what is the inter install module command, so we can easily take that one into use as well. So what it means is that if I run in my side, if I do get module and list well, it's actually do this. If I do connect SPO service there's nothing available, it doesn't find the comment. Let and if I do.

A

Let's see there, we go if I'm trying to find the module. It doesn't exist on my machine right now, so it is not available in my machine. So I can then run a PowerShell command with Nickelback on the page. Let me copy that one put it in there. It's gonna be install module. Maybe one thing to notice: you need to be an admin in the administrative. More modes are able to do this, but this then basically downloads to need at the same place, to be available. That was fast and one two three come on.

A

You can do it turn 10 10 10 10. It's going to take a few seconds to everything to refresh and there we go, and now if I do, connect SP service. It's gonna, ask me the URL, where do I actually want to connect.

A

So let me actually go to here as an example, one of the tenants which I'm using quite commonly as SB PMP on microsoft.com, and then everybody knows my password no just kidding. So, let's write that one and now I mean and now I can actually do get SPO to none so really easy way. Then, to install the module, get the module to any machine and also then you can upgrade module using the module commands as well so super-powerful right now we only have a one version available.

A

Whenever we release the next version of PowerShell, it will be then a new version and we were able to run an upgrade module command and you basically then have the latest version available, so pretty cool functionality. Now from a thank you David from a documentation perspective I had that one in here as well. So so the documentation is in here for some reasons: I need to double check this one. The video isn't actually visible here, but it actually tells how to get started on a SharePoint, Online Management show the video should be in here.

A

I need to figure out why it's not actually visible, but we also also have a PowerShell a video of five minutes, video showing exactly the same steps pretty much. What I did today and explaining the options? What does it actually mean in practice and how to make how to get started on this one? So super simple thing, but actually something which should have been there for a quite a long time. So I think it's fair for people saying that.

A

Well, it is about time to get it available, so it is what it is better late than never right right, good I think we are ready to move forward from here. So Paulo, there's no point for me to share the slides at this point. So she don't. We actually jump on your screen and you can actually start talking about the intent, tenant, scoped, provisioning models right.

A

Paulo Paulo Paulo Paulo right here, I am so yes, okay and then here go. That was fast. We hurt you for a one second, and then it went away now.

A

Paulo you're sharing the screen. Oh there we go now. We can you hear me now: okay, okay,.

C

Cool so yes thank you visa and let me share with the community what we have been working in the last couple of months. Almost first of all, we are going to release a new schema version which would be D, 2000 1807, so the one of July, even if it will come out in September, but who cares- and this will be the new schema that we will use it to do and to make it possible to make tenant why the provisioning of solutions based on hierarchy of sides?

C

That's the main new feature that we will support with the engine. So sorry.

A

Bola I have yet I have to I, have to I. Do a protest now. What does 210 unscoped me and why provisioning actually means? It means that you can have have one BMP template which actually provisions cyclic shion's sites in a site, collection, taxonomies, site, designs, side scream and it's a still a single file right.

C

Exactly yeah exactly that's! That's what I'm going to show right now. In fact, using the new schema, we can not only define a single provisioning template that for a single target sites or set collection which has to already exist as like, as it is right now, with the current release version of the schema and of the engine.

C

But what will be possible with the new schema and with the new capabilities of the engine will be to create a hierarchy of site collection and size eventually connected under the same side hub, and we will be able to apply one or more provisioning template at once with a unique XML or dot BMP file just with one command just with one step of provisioning.

C

So I think it's a huge leap ahead from a provisioning engine perspective, because we will make it possible for you, as community members as partners as developers, to release full solutions based on multiple sides having the capability to create the size and to apply the provisioning template on top of those sides, just created using a unique design model, a unique template from an XML and from a provisioning template perspective. Even if you will not have to write everything manually through XML, but just to let you know what you can do.

C

If you want to manually use the provisioning template, I will show you what we can do right now with the new schema. So aside from the already existing content like the Preferences, the locations and the tenant settings that we introduced a few months ago, we can now define as like as it was before, a collection of templates, which can be templates defined inside of the current template file or can be a reference to an external file. And this was already there in the previous version of the schema.

C

But you can also define one or more sequence elements. So we are used to saying that we now support sequences. So if you will listen to any of us saying sequences, we are referring to D as a new element in the schema and the sequence which actually to be fair, was already defined at schema level, but not supported at the engine level allows us to create or to define a hierarchy of site collections. As you can see here, we have in the sample file one set collection, which will be a modern communication side.

C

You can argue that through these attributes and we can define what Lola, who will be the owner, what is the side design that we will use if you want to apply specific site design for the communication side and so on so forth, and then we say also when you create the side. Please apply this specific template to that side and we have a reference to a template which can be defined within the same file in which I have or can be imported from an external provisioning template file.

C

And whenever we create this a collection, we can also define a hierarchy of subsides inside that side collection which can be at multiple levels. So we can have a custom death of the hierarchy, and here, for example, we have a 1 subside with two more subsides inside of it, and we can do that to create not only communication sides but also modern inside and modern Tiff's sides with no group. The SDS 3, also known as SDS 3 side template.

C

So using this approach, you will be able to provision a hierarchy of site collection and sides and apply templates on top of them, and if you need to rely on the taxonomy still at the sequence level, you can also provision the term groups that you will need in the new sequence. So you have the capability to define a full solution through a unique provisioning template file. We still support and we are still and, of course, backward compatible with the more easy, easier solution of having just one provisioning template applied to an already existing site.

C

But if you wanna think I have and start thinking about bigger solutions. Now, with this new capability, you will be able to do that and I think it is really powerful from a developer perspective. On the other side, if you wanna play with this new capability, you will have a new object, called object, type called provisioning hierarchy, which you can use to have any memory access through all the information that we have at the XML schema level.

C

So we have an ir key which can provide access to a collection of sequences or to a collection of them place. Every single sequence is made of site collections which are made of size and so and so forth.

C

So from a developer perspective, if you want to do everything in that code, you will be able to create your in memory sequence and your memory hierarchy and you will be able to apply it onto a target tenant, but we all know that in the sharepoint TMP community we all love powershell, and that's why my buddy Irwin will show you how to play with this new stuff from a commercial perspective and I. Think it's time for you.

C

Are we to share your screen and show how to play with this IR key is using PowerShell and dotnet code.

A

While you're, even setting up and sharing that one thing, what we chatted on the line window, the the the sequences do support also solution files to get inside of the BMP file right. So we're able to package the whole solution, including customizations inside of a one BMP file. Yes,.

C

We do support the packages at the provisioning template level uh since I think three or four months ago, so they are still supported. So, yes, you can have a full provisioning Araki, which will install an SP pkg file ad attendant level, and then you will be able to use that package in any of these size, collection or site that you want to create using the sequence so yeah and.

A

Then the second question which we had There was around hey, but that's a function has a ten minute timeout. What would it mean if this takes longer than 10 minutes, which is true? If you have a complex template, it can take more than 10 minutes to apply that, even though creation of site collections is super fast nowadays should I answer that question, or should you what's the prob? What's the solution for 10 minutes, timeout.

C

Well, one solution is still to, let me say fallback to a major work job, for example, and by using an issue of Jabba, you can have a longer process to execute or another solution could be to split some of these steps so that you can have a better solution which relies on multiple steps or, if I'm not mistaken, but I'm, not the issue function Juro here you can even go over the 10 minutes. If I'm not mistaken, but correct me.

C

If I'm wrong the visa, there should be a way to have longer running functions, even if you will have to pay a little bit more of.

A

Course, because some of the mike septa I should know all of this stuff.

A

Now, okay, so so the story is obvious that if there is time I like it like in the typical Asha website, it has a timeout of one minute and that's why you need to use such a function. You need to use async models if the ten minutes timeout.

A

This is a problem for you, depending on our template side, then you can go to the web shops and there are multiple other options as well again or like Jared in the iron window, Thank You, Eric on, for example, and that one you can split your template to multiple templates, so there's multiple options.

A

So what we want to do with this one is really the fact that you can have a one file which defines the whole solution which, even though it might be multiple site collections and in in the automation scenarios which we're planning to do and show in ignite, and it's going to be, hopefully a super cool, we're using Azure web with jobs to avoid certain timeouts, but even I, think it's jump to your side and you can actually play around and show how the in memory handling of these templates work in a PowerShell and obviously like manage like anything in PMP, Power, VMP provisioning.

A

It works in c-sharp. It works in PowerShell. Somebody might be asking that this stuff works in a JavaScript answer is, unfortunately, no because this API, as many of these ApS, are only available in season, even though, theoretically, you could mimic say some course in JavaScript, but it gets complicated. But anyway.

B

So right on the screen here, I have a sort of a simplified version of the template that Paulo just showed that I'm going to use for demo reasons, I see a couple of parameters that they define the off 365 tenant name, which is my tenant. The company name, some prefix. Then here is the template section, and here I have a very simple template that effectively only provisions a list being the company name projects, there's a canto, so Inc tests projects when being proficient nothing else. But this is just a normal PN P provisioning template.

B

So you can put anything in there right here, but you already have in your own templates and then here the the new. The new things happens here: the sequence here: I have a site, collection and I, create a site collection with this specific URLs nest sites between basic demo and the date so to make sure that were unique, and then here I reference, the templates. So this is a collection.

B

I can actually reference multiple templates for a site collection, so you can say: okay, I, create the site collection and then I apply this template and that template and that template to the site collection, allowing you to sort of split up your organization, a bit of templates right now, I'm only only applying a single template to it, then I create a sub site here, being the theme subside, no group which is STS has 3 and that one will have a name have being decide: prefixes, another parameter being demo one.

B

So then scrolling down here bit more I will create another team site. It's basically a site collection, but this case it will be a modern theme site and then because I can I will also provision some terms here. So this is a very simple template and if we switch to PowerShell- oh for sure, you applying this template, so the easiest way would be just to say, apply that PNP provisioning and now comes a little change, its provisioning hierarchy.

B

So an operation attempt that's still the old-school command lit that uses the normal position templates its provisioning hierarchy, and then you can straight path and I say my file, and this is the 200 mm 1807 XML file, press, ENTER and little caveat. This is very early code, so it might feel we'll see how it goes. It's provision, your term groups and I will know. That's right now, they're the feedback you get in the UI or the the progress bar is not really up to the levels that I want it in.

B

So it will be changing, but here you'll see that we're creating the communication side at that specific URL. This shouldn't take long and when it's done we'll apply the template to that specific size, collection.

A

While it's doing that, it's a great way of always starting a demo saying well, it might be that this doesn't actually work. So I do apologize. Sir I.

B

Mean like an hour ago, I was still coding on this. So don't expect this to be there next month, yeah. It's.

A

It's the next monthly release for PMP happens on Friday weekend, so we can't get this one on the continuities, but it will be there on the October release and this the Baraat pollen and urban are doing here is a pre requirement for something slightly even super cooler which we're going to show in McKnight.

A

So I think this is looking promising, but after ignite, this should be done available for everybody and on the ignite, while we're waiting this provision as well so right after ignite there's a the BMP weekly community call on the next following Thursday after week night week, so I promised to do a live demo of pretty much everything what we demonstrated in ignite. So we will cover every single, relevant SharePoint dev topic, hopefully, which we announced and ignite in that that particular one month weekly call. So it's.

B

Almost done now, it done it finished and no errors. So, as you can see, I would say so. If we go to my browser and I just make sure that I copied this URL there I think that's! No, not that yeah take this URL here and navigate to this site without a double slash here and press ENTER.

B

There we go. There is my site, and there you see my list that I just provision to it and if I go to site contents, you will notice that if it opens scene is happening before, then it takes a while to realize that you can actually navigate the site. Contents.

A

Yes, you're just using it's wrong, so, okay, exactly there's.

B

A sub site and if I click on this up side here we have in modern sub sites without a office 365 group, so it provisioned everything. So this will be the easiest way for you to use. You create a template in XML and you apply it with a PI PP for provisioning hierarchy. We will release quite a bunch of other commandlets to allow.

A

You to create things I do apologize, I need to address a dumb question, making sure that people don't get this in a wrong way, because, even though I'll answer that the question was, is this mainly then designed for a sub-site of a site, collection and answer its? No? This is actually no only decide for provisioning, multiple site collections in your tenant, because absolutely the same recommendation still applies.

A

What we were to say from a Microsoft engineering perspective, which says try to avoid sub-sites use sub-site only when it actually makes sense if possible, use hub sites and associate the new site collections to it, and you can actually do that automatically using PowerShell using this template model, as one hope me for sorry. Yes, indeed, yeah and.

B

The question from Leo: if the command is available now, no, it is not. It will also.

A

Not be readable in.

B

Now exactly it will be available think of after ignite timeframe.

B

So there is a bunch of other commands that have a little go into all the nitty-gritty details in in what they do, but they allow you to, for instance, say, for instance, if I say, hierarchy is new PNP provisioning hierarchy and now we're creating this hierarchy in memory, and this allows you to solve today again we create a sequence, you can say: NIMH PNP provisioning, Iorek sequence, now I have a sequence in there and I can say at PNP provisioning sequence to my hierarchy, and this is how I can build up my hierarchy and I can add side collections to it and I can add templates to it and I can add references to templates to site collections, etc, etc, etc.

B

So there will be a whole bunch think of 20 30 commandments. Maybe in that race we will provide that. Allow you to do the whole build up of the provisioning engine, sorry, the provisioning template or the provisioning hierarchy from PowerShell directly. What will allow you to do this is that you build up this object like this, and then you are able to save it as a PNG file and we will save the whole thing into this binary format.

B

It's actually a zip file, but we will save this file for you in a PNP file format, there will be an equivalent command also that allows you to read an XML file as a PNP hierarchy. Template provisioning, template hierarchy, read it into memory, so you have the memory object here and then you can save it as a PDF while allowing you to do some conversion. So you have a single package with everything. There's a there's, a good question for Muffy about get PP provisioning hierarchy. Currently, no we're not looking in that right now.

B

It might happen in the future, but for now extracting a hierarchy will be a bit of a problem, because we will have to make a lot of assumptions when we do this, what they call the template, what the template refers to, etc, etc. Will you get duplicate templates? You will potentially say if you extract five sites into a hierarchy and the sites are all the same, that we will have to do checks. If the template extracted from side age, the same site B will be refer. What do we do there?

B

It's a bit of a more complex story, so for now, no.

C

B

Can add? Oh sorry,.

C

If I can add something it not mentioning the fact that if you have a quite a busy tenant, it wouldn't be a really easy and simple to extract everything from that payment or to make it possible for you to select which set collection. You want to extract from a live tenant in which you don't want to extract. So it's quite a challenge to make it possible to get the full hierarchy out of a tenant. Yeah.

A

And it's not about really active about getting the full hierarchy in the first place. Obviously you can you can using these powershell commandlets, which urban is showing in here. You are able to extract templates from the existing sites, you're able to associate those templates inside of the memory stream with system the the tenant level, provisioning template, and then you are able to serialize eventually that one. So it's a combination of a resident of multiple PowerShell commands, which you would be executing and building the template, and then you serialize, yes,.

B

And to comment comment from Tom here said: there's an alternative to new PNP site, effectively new PNP side and that provisioning engine is using the same code behind the scenes. So yeah you can think of this as an alternative to PNP site, creating.

A

A sequence template within your site, collection, element and then saying apply this to the tenant level. It's gonna create the site collection, absolutely.

B

Cool, so keep it keep an eye on the guys. After week nights we will have something yeah.

A

Or trap I in our combined Shepherd framework and PNP, both so urban me Paulo, Elio, Luka, Pat Miller will be in that both during the Ignite. If you are in ignite and we'll show you more under stuff and in October release of BMP, this is meant to be hopefully prime time it's just a matter of actually doing proper testing. So we don't compromise anything with this new functionality.

A

I think we are then ready to go and let's actually jump directly to Sean Squires who's on the call, as well so I just promoted Sean as a presenter good morning, Sean good.

D

Morning, that's a good morning: everyone, it's.

A

Such a long time again, when we're chatting, it was like just before he went to sleep or something anyway, but welcome as Sean is here to actually show the well to cover the fact that we are able to now associate a site design or a site script to be applied whenever a site is getting associated to a hub site. Right.

A

D

Yes, sorry I just want to make sure I'm getting the right screen here. Yeah.

A

Classic story of having two minutes Prince, sir, so I never.

D

A

That the increasing of the amount of screens will impact positively our productivity, so I have seven screens on my table.

D

All right, I'm, just gonna, everyone see the window that I'm putting down there: okay, okay, wonderful, all right so I'm, sorry Ben! So you were saying I! Think you were doing a quick, intro or I can guess.

A

Feel free to explain its your feature, answer yeah.

D

And unfortunately, guys so the good news good morning, I am here hello, the bad news in our mad rush to get all sorts of cool goodness into the tenants that we will be using at ignite in two weeks.

D

We broke this environment last night, so I feel, like I've, said that before so I apologize I'm still going to try and walk you through as much as I can just to give you a heads up and I know. This might be shocking to believe, but despite broken the environment, we're actually going to start rolling. This feature out very very soon, in fact it'll sort of only before ignite.

D

So what am I talking about this is actually something we first announced at SharePoint conference in May, and this is a new entry point for, or rather a use case for, uh site designs. So if you have a published site design in your tenant, you have the ability to essentially associate it with a hub and then any site that joins that hub, that site design will get applied to it.

D

In this case, synchronously with the other join gestures that are doing things like applying the hub theme to the joint site and making the news content Association. So some of the other hub settings that need to happen with that relationship being established. We're looking at some other ways to sort of offset that so that we can support larger site scripts and designs in the future. But the intent really is to just kind of extend to another scenario that opportunity to leverage a site design and make sure that you know you get consistent.

D

Configuration and settings apply to those associated sites that are joining that hub. So what this looks like real quickly, I I did two things here. The first is you'll see here that I have a hub and I've already set up this hub and in fact, you'll see that I've also, given it an emphasis which I'll do a quick shout out because I own that feature as well, that is rolling out the door as well.

D

So this is a new theming branding option that we are releasing them, we'll be building out more and more over the coming quarter.

D

But this is the ability to add emphasis to your header, a color emphasis, your header, we're using the primary color we're also going to be announcing a couple of other additions here at ignite in a few weeks, but what's cool the reason why I call this out is because this will actually get this emphasis and theming, because, because the just, like the theme gets carried through to any joint site, the other branding elements like this header emphasis will also be carried through to the join sites as well.

D

So real quickly, you'll see here under hub site settings and I apologize, the environments will slow. That's a little bit better you'll see we have a new option in the hub site settings that panel and it's a site, design applied to associated sites and you'll, see here that it provides a picker and what this picture is showing is all of the published site designs that are on this environment.

D

Obviously, a question that folks will probably ask is well: aren't those the same site designs that would show up in the self site provisioning flow, and the answer is yes. If you want them to don't forget that we have an option where you can scoped site designs, so one thing that we are representing is: if you have a hub, specific site design that you don't really want made broadly available through, say, self-service, site creation.

D

What you can do is actually scope that site design, so it'll still show up to the administrator here when they're doing the the that's doing the setup, an association, but it won't show up in that other affordance and I will also talk about a couple weeks. We're looking at some other ways to sort of distribute the creation and storage of site designs to make that experience a little bit easier to manage. So you don't have to always remember to scope stuff. Okay, so I have this!

D

No, no, no site design is currently applied because I am on a call with a bunch of devs I just want to. Let you guys know. We also have made an amendment here to the C saman powershell. So here is the set SPO hub site to manlet and you'll, see that we have a new parameter here for site design.

D

Id, so what that allows me to do is I'm actually passing in the ID of this hub site, that is on the browser window and also passing in a site, design, ID and if I go ahead and hit enter oops do I have focus, maybe I lost focus.

D

Make sure, though, does that do it I think it did there? We go okay, so now, if I buy, what I've done is I've essentially just updated the hub site settings. So if we go ahead and close this and reopen it, you'll see that I have now associated a psycho sign to this hub. So I want to go ahead and save that and the thing that, unfortunately, is not working and that we broke last night.

D

My apologies is what would happen is if you go to a if you go to a site that you want to join a hub. You will see here living when you go into the site information panel, the hub site Association. If I were to go through here, I can go ahead and pick this hub. That I want to join and what will happen is when I join it. Not only will this this joining site pick up the hub sites, nav the theme and as well as other those other establishments.

D

We go for the sinking news, but you will also get the site design and the site design will actually execute against this site synchronously and, let's just try it. No, unfortunately, I'm sorry, this is still broken. I was hoping, it might have been an environmental thing, but somebody reported last night, but there was a problem. So what that?

D

What would happen is, in this case, I associated this with an SPC travel guide, and so it would just do a similar thing that you would expect here's a site that I joined previously notice that the header emphases carried through there's that new travel journals list which was applied via the site design. So this is a new capability, we're very excited about just to sort of give more flexibility and to the use of site designs, as well as to just make hubs that much more powerful and richer as an experience.

D

So, looking forward to getting this out, you guys.

A

Soon, yeah so a few questions which I would be asking us a community member as well, but now so just reiterating what you're saying this is basically and execute my code when another site is associated to the hub. So basically, this is almost like a create a sub site to do hub, which is a actually a site collection but then executes my code as part of that right. That's.

D

Right, yes, yeah great great distinction yeah. This is that those sites that I just joined are in fact site collections and that's one of view. Ttle things about the hub site, Association, it's a very loose coupling and I will add, since you brought that up as a just just again stay consistent with the principles that we've established with site designs. They are currently additive.

D

So that means that if, strangely, if you had a scenario where you had a hub, I'm, sorry a site, you joined it to hub one and then unjoined, and what the hub and both of those had two different site designs associated with them. They would both be applied. You know so the first one would run obviously then later on, when you joined the other hub, it's not like. We remove the settings of the other site design they stay there and the other one would be added yep.

A

And then there's a obvious follow-up question with Freeman to also ask Ando in Windows, so we can also run also flow as part of the site at these site designs as well. Oh.

D

Yeah these are these are everything that you guys know and have come to love and expect with site designs and associated scripts and actions. They can all just now be essentially associated with that gesture of joining a site to a hub, yep.

A

Yeah and and David is commenting around the associate event. I think it is worth while back so actually I'm going to think of it. So, oh sure it is an additive functionality, but sooner or later, if you have certain things which one are our associations or settings in a site level which we want to get rid of, if you get unassociated to a hop, maybe we'll add a a an Associated event at some point, but one step at a time right, Bert, right, ash on sorry.

D

Yes, real quickly, why did you go back? There was a comment. I saw up here by Ravi yeah the hundred limit that that number 100 actually applies to the number of hub sites. You can could we currently support in a tenant, not the number of sites that can be joined to a hub right now? That number is probably more than you would ever need.

A

Whatever the number is well.

D

I'm sure that there's a little bit somewhere the code, it's equal but yeah, it's a you- can join 10,000 sites as far as I know to a hub and all would be good yeah. You might have.

A

D

Hideous nav, if you did something interesting with a PNP solution to add those sites to the nav. But that's your call.

A

Make sense make sense.

D

Any other questions that by ignite what else sorry Paula, what was that yeah.

A

Caught us asking what else is by ignite? Oh there's.

D

All sorts of things I'm actually really glad so I I should tell you this, but there was actually a couple of little things on that environment. I was just showing that we are bringing night so I'm glad nobody noticed I. Think.

A

That somebody asked around that certain things in that and want already said we that's fine and then what you are seeing. It was actually our II dog, so that is actually updated day to day basis with the latest code from our code base. It's actually multiple times in a day. So that's not always a risky thing to show in the calls right.

D

Yes, but you know we're among friends and to show all this guys and yeah like I, said just to make a plug. You know I know a bunch of us are going to be at ignite and I hope you all are too and if you're not, we will be sharing a whole bunch of stuff very at ignite and releasing soon thereafter. But everything that I have here will be starting to go out to targeted release actually by the end of the week.

D

I believe and should be fairly rolled, much rolled out by early October, yeah Danna.

A

And I promised already that I'll do a quick demo of everything from a shape on dev blood perspective the week after ignite. So if you will shown actually join me on that call, you can do your stuff. The the theme.

C

A

We can balance out slightly there who's doing what so that would be helpful, because not that many people can actually join the ignite ignite. That's fully booked already orchid yeah. Well it it's it's a positive thing that it's fully booked, because that means that we will have another ignite at least in a year. So rather this way everything is getting recorded from McKnight anyway.

A

So that's good to know, and especially on the dev side, we want to be as transparent as possible, so everybody because, like Sean said we are among friends, so you will know immediately when possible, what's what's actually possible and how what I support cool I think we're running out of time. If there's any immediate, really critical questions, we actually have two minutes time for Q&A this time. This is insane so I think we have our closest 125 closest friends. What's nice.

D

A

Us the Persians were watching the recording, but, let's not mention dance, there's a question from David around the tents cool feature in 1.6. If you are using sites and specific app catalog, the scientists get to create it there to answer is no so the telescope feature tenants go quite deployment of extensions only is supported in a tenant level, so you cannot actually it.

A

What David is looking for is to make sure that every single subside inside collection would have the same extension available by default without anything any other things most likely that Susan area what you're looking for right now, that's not, unfortunately, support.

A

I'm moving to a 2010 10 on 2 SP online should I use site design season, something else, I'm, not gonna, do it by hand so for Stevens question. If you are moving actual content, the recent out-of-the-box migration API is available. There is a documentation in the dev dev documentation. There's quite often it really depends again. What do you have on the existing SharePoint 2010 on-premises environment?

A

If you have fully customized site designs inside things, it might actually get highly complicated, and that's when you want to look is V partners like share Cade, if you're only looking to get files in and false move to the other side? That's a relatively simple thing to do so, but we don't really have humongous amount of my creation, guidance content. Unfortunately, right now, at least in the dev dogs, but there is a def. There is a migration API, though, so you might want to have a look on that.

D

At the time, thanks everybody, let me know if you have any questions to Twitter or invest that and hope to see as many as you can as I. Can this one I gotta run thank.

A

D

A

Answer on the one question from Steve, on wit, surfer Ron should I go through SharePoint 2013 if I'm moving from 2010 to SharePoint Online answers. Actually, no, it doesn't give you that much additional value because sure the UI will get slightly closer, potentially us and shipment online, but on the other hand, in SharePoint Online, it's a modern UI and in SharePoint 2013 the UI is classic.

A

So, if you're looking just moving content files and that kind of stuff moving between two later versions from 2010 to 2013 before you go, the SharePoint Online doesn't actually give you that much that much additional value and well that's a fair point from Ravens and Microsoft. My creation, you I told, doesn't work with SharePoint. 2010 again really depends on on details. On the my creation case and, and that is say, the migration is one of those things to be fully honest.

A

I try to stay away from my creation cases for my whole career with SharePoint, because they are so complex. So can you answer ignite videos real quickly, I missed that one, the Ignite videos will be streamed, live I'm, not sure. If they will be streamed live they will be absolutely the videos will be posted there. It is. Are the posting videos from Atlantis years? Yes, the videos will be available from ignite this year as well. So they are. We are recording two videos. They will be available typically within a few days later than the session.

A

Now, whatever we unknowns in ignite, whatever we do in ignite, there should be blog posts, social media attacks, everything else, so you are able to follow up on what's happening, turn so or get but I think that's it two minutes of it on the top of the hour. Thank you for this one. Hopefully you find the content relevant. If you have good ideas on what we should be covering, if you want to do a demo, please let us know, let's be interactive in social media and thank you for reporting stuff.

A

Thank you for finding issues and reporting issues and let's keep on rockin. It is a journey which we work together in the cloud as well. Thank you. Everybody Thank, You, Paula, Thank, You perving, even for the demos shown already left, we'll see you latest on next week, Cheers bye-bye.