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From YouTube: General SharePoint Dev (CSOM, Provisioning, PnP) SIG - November 30th 2017

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Recording of the SIG from 2nd of November. Detailed agenda and covered topics from MS Tech Community (http://aka.ms/sppnp-community).

This SIG had some SP Dev news on latest capabilities, live demo on upcoming Site Design capability, live demo on modern web part provisioning with modern sites and demo on building self-service site collection provisioning application for modern experiences.

You can download invite to bi-weekly special interest group call rom http://aka.ms/sppnp-core-sig-call.

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Here we go now we're hitting tower I- probably missed few seconds on that one, but welcome everybody. This is the SharePoint palace practices, general SharePoint development, special interest group, and this is the bi-weekly soon November 13th edition.

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So let's actually quickly I've done some modification on the slides, and so we well. First of all, our marketing director has created us anew awesome template which we can use and then I've also shuffled some of the slides from the past course. But there's always people who haven't actually been in this course in the past, so quickly explaining what this are all about. So we do have two different special interest groups, kind of special interest group teams inside of the SharePoint PNP overall umbrella, and one is around the chin or development.

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This used to be around to be mpcore and being a publisher, but we kind of expanded. That course all of the other SharePoint development topics as well. So this is around intern solution, design, provisioning and automation in APs, and all that so talking about season and manage code.

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Quite often now the other special interest group, which is happening by weekly as well, but on the on the second well to this day, it's general dev seek the second Thursday next week it's going to be SharePoint framework special interest group call where we then talk about the client side, development and JavaScript development. So that's really that the way we always divide this Thursday course so every single week on Thursday at the same time, will will always have this course. Now why commit said this is the general shape on development special interest group code.

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So we're going to talk about, let's say general development topics, and we have some food news, which has happened scintilla since the last special interest group called on this particular special interest group, because last time, actually we had to cancel that was soon the week when we were in Dublin, so everybody in the core team were in Dublin, so we were unable to do that. But months ago we did have the special interest group call for shipment development, and quite a lot of stuff has happened since and there's some fresh news from today as well.

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Then we will have three different demos: I was walking through today, so urban will start around preview on the BM vehicle month. Let's upcoming site designs and slide scrapes, so also demonstrating the side designs and slide straights capabilities. But this is more around. How do we configure those and how do we actually make them? How do we make them available within a tenon? Now, let's be super clear on this one. It is a preview capability, site, designs and sign.

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Scripts are not yet available for preview, but it will be available quite soon, so you will see something which is kind of be lighting up quite soon in the SharePoint Online. The second thing: what we'll talk about is the provisioning of out-of-the-box modern web parts. Two pages so Burt has been working on this model quite a lot together with engineering people. So how do we actually provision modern themed sites with out-of-the-box web parts on the welcome pages as well?

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So there's certain specific, let's say, challenges around that one: we're just going to do a demo on that one explain what is that all about and I'm gonna do. Well, we probably do have time, so I will absolutely do a quick demo on upcoming a sample. So we are refreshing some of the BMPs suppose to be more aligned on the modern experiences, and this is the sample which for plan to go live today, but it's it's slightly. We need to polish some stuff on it still, but this is a self-service, provisioning application for modern experiences.

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So how do you actually have that self-service experience? So you go to a forum, you request a new team site, but it's actually provisioning modern, modern communication sites or modern collaboration sites or those team science, and this is really around that the last minimis is more around thinking on the fact that there's quite a lot of customers who have invested on the existing self-service site provisioning solutions, so we kind of show how easily you can in quotes, modify them to actually provision modern sites as well.

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So absolutely already, today, you can move into the modern experience. I scratch I mean, if that's what you're looking for now, let's actually move on on things, so opportunities to participate in this community, and so in this play a divorce ship under general, developed no special interest group site. If you are interested we're more than willing to actually give you a posse in this course. So if you, if you're building something around provisioning or automation or API, so you want to demonstrate your solution.

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We are more than happy to actually give you the spot in this goal and you can demonstrate your solution which is available now. It does not have to be something with us in a key time. It might be something what's your product, what your company is offering as a service, because the key point of this course is that people can understand what we can build on top of the SharePoint.

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So you can demonstrate some solution which you can shower or whatever, if you're interested on doing that and then obviously contribute in a github and provide us feedback so contributing on github through issues or core requests and absolutely give us give the feedback coming. So we in shape on the engineering will know what works and what doesn't work and welcome back on that one in a second as well.

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Now a few news I promised that I in past special interest group calls I, will keep this slide in here for upcoming and months, but and just to repeat the story once again, as MSDN is going to be shut down gradually yeah or it's going to be archived. So all of the the existing activate active sharepoint development topics are moving to oxford microsoft.com.

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So a game is spdf docks, it's probabilities as the URL to remember or dosed at Microsoft that comes the SharePoint either way, you'll find the bots where the development documentation and you can easily access that, and these are sourced from github, which is kind of cool.

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So if you find a buck, if you find a typo, if you find something which you don't agree, you can always go to the github site and then first of all report an issue or potentially even stuck neither suggestion on the on the modification change changes which should be provided within the documentation and that's really really cool. So everybody can actually let us know what is actually, what is the documentation what's missing and and also the docks that microsoft.com platform has a great commenting capabilities as well.

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So you can actually ask questions on the under individual basis as well. Now other, let's say news before we go to the let's say demo section: this is something which we haven't filled but I think we need to fix that. So whenever we went live with the SharePoint framework, we were pretty, let's say open on the fact that if there's any box, if there's any issues and critical issues which you can find from a SharePoint framework, please lock a bug in the SP dev Docs issue list, but I.

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Don't think that many people are aware of this process and, and what we want to do in the future is that we want to make sure that people aren't aware, because if you find a critical issue, if a client will find a critical bug, we actually want to know about it immediately, and this is kind of a bypassing process for all of our support, journals and everything else. So this is meant to be mainly for originally for SharePoint framework issues.

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What I shall say a SharePoint framework issues, but obviously, if you find anything critical on other shipment areas as well we're more than interested on on hearing those trigger issue list. You know- and this doesn't require anything else from you than submitting an issue on the issue list. Obviously, if it's a random question on how would I do something in the future framework? This isn't really the right location to ask those questions.

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Rather, if you can find, if you find a bug, if one an or you have a suggestion on what kind of documents should we improve in the future, all of those stuff, you can use the issue list in the SPF docs repository.

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So a kms SPF issues would be the short list or short a URL to remember, and if, if you have any critical things, please block- please please, please let us know through here as well, because this is actually bypassing or, let's say, complicate a support process, because we want to tackle potential critical issues as fast as possible and we'll be concentrating more and more on the future on their own.

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Their submissions in this issue list as well, but it gives you more visibility on what's happening and it's better to actually open an issue in the CC list, rather than send an email, for example, to me, because I don't have time to read my email anymore, because I'm getting way too many one-to-one contacts in multiple locations, including that issue in this issue list, means that other people can actually find. Oh they'll say a acknowledged issue, and potentially somebody from engineering has already know and let us know what's actually happened.

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: forwarding test a update on this one.

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Last time, a month ago, when we had a special interest group call, and we talked about the fact that : formatting is coming soon now, it's out, you probably might have seen this already, but Colin formatting is now available for preview, tenants and preview usage, and we also have an open source repository for shared sharing, JSON samples right now that the whole system works in a way that you need to learn kind of slightly complicated chase and definition to create this column, commenting formatting rules, but in the future, we're looking into having a proper UI tool in the in the sharepoint online or in the sharepoint, for making these easily puzzle easily available using a browser, but that's something which is going to be evolving in the future and now I just see that there's a small, a small issue in the URLs.

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So let me actually fix that live on the slide. It's not potentially I could actually do that. The second, an URL which you can actually see here does no longer exist, I mean I'm, not sure. Actually, if you can see what I'm actually hiding here, it's this working by the way can somebody saying I went that, can you say the the red thing but I'm actually adding on this one.

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Okay, excellent, so that URL has actually yes good, so and also double checking that people can hear that I'm talking now. The second URL is actually gone and that's the most originally one of our ideas to have a disconnected tool or an offline tool, but we'll we actually got rid of it. So the documentation is in the ghost of my stuff calm and then we do have a github repository for these community contributions and that seems to be quite actually active. So people are contributing and adding examples over there Thank You Patrick.

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You can't hear me that's good cool other news before we go that the actual diamond sections announcement of office, 365 CLI for managing office, 365 tenant on any platform, and this is something which weren't alive today earlier today in the docs doc max re-gifted of strut comes last blocks. We had a plug post and a short video recorded by wall deck, and this is a tool to manage your tenant level of properties and operations or settings without a PowerShell.

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So if you are using a Windows platform, this is not necessarily for you, but there's a lot of actually more and more people who are using Mac or Linux, and the classic PowerShell doesn't really work there or we as a Microsoft or share for the engineering. We do not release the PowerShell, which would work in the Mac platform or in the Linux, so people be enforced in a pass to then create a VM and host a DM and use that to manage their tenant properties.

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Now what what this one is from whining is a CLI using a note platform, so node platform, which can be used, you're able to sign in against your office, 365, tenant and admin.

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The U is, or admin URLs and then you're able to manage stuff, likes, CDN settings or tenant level properties and some of the other settings as well and depending on the interest and depending on your demand, you're, absolutely see more and more operations available in this tool as well or whether the the PowerShell is no doubt our primary way of managing tenant- and it will be will be always the latest and greatest.

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This is community driven initiative with Sisseton, giving people who are using a Mac or Apple a way to manage or a Linux way to manage their office.

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Trait is to first and on settings we now to need of having a VM, so kind of cool tool, and it's going to probably help at least some of you who are wondering how to manage the settings if you're using a non Microsoft platform, hopefully interesting if you're interested the documentation is in a kms, all 365, CLI and and and there's a plot, post and vailable as well in the dev tariffs that comes last blocks and which has a short video recorded by Baltic on the on how this actually works and I and like commented there by Sebastian.

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This is no doubt targeted for classic, let's say primarily no well I, wouldn't say primarily, but it is something classic. What shape and framework developers are asking that it would be creative. They could actually manage, for example, of experiences capacity and settings without requirements of opening up a BM which is running Windows. So this one will do them and I'm not going to comment on the blank root password comment, but it's been an interesting, interesting thing to follow in twitter or ms cool.

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What else? Probably a final news if I remember correctly how I prepped the slides quickly so SharePoint PowerShell a documentation has also no move to Doc's at Microsoft that come. This happened this week, so we are shutting down the tech net I think the tech net has already redirections in place and the BMP PowerShell redirections in MSDN will be enabled probably later this week. But what's kind of cool about this one is that if you go a kms, SB partial, you landed this one page where you can find all of the PowerShell related on SharePoint.

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So we have SharePoint on-premises PowerShell of SharePoint Online, tenant admin, powershell and also BMP powershell commandlets, side-by-side between everything and you'll find out. The latest documentation here will keep on refreshing that, as we release new versions of the of the powershell commandlets and now that this is in docked at Microsoft calm, we can also keep the SharePoint Online PowerShell documentation in much more easily up to date. So we will live working on on getting all of this fully automatic.

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Whenever we're releasing a new version, we would actually update all these documents, which is cool and a super useful resource for everybody, yes, kind of TechNet goodbye old friend as well. So now, that's that this kind of relates on the on the discussion and that deaf dogs have already been move the doctor at my stuff that come so it's pretty obvious that TechNet will be, let's say I wouldn't say, shut down, but it will be archived as well, and all of the relevant content will be gradually moving to dr. my stuff.

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That comes a share points, thus IT Pro, if I remember correctly, or something like that, so you'll find absolutely the same guidance, but it's in the new location and it's it's backed by a key top repository. So if there's any issues, if there's anything what you need to change, you can always submit a pull request as well, and that's really really cool.

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Ralph is remembering really old. Stuff I was in kindergarten in 93, no I wasn't what still all of let's actually move on to the live demos on things.

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Yeah 93, let's see I was 18. Yeah I was 18. So it's a past time. You are pretty they're, pretty young cool, let's actually start the the first of the today's diverse and let's start with an urban. So our Lee's gonna show some of the preview on the PMPA comment: lights around the upcoming side, designs and side, scripts and capabilities, and most likely he's gonna, do a live demo on the side designs as well.

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We've been doing these demos few times already in the special interest recall and the before somebody's asking when when this is live, it's gonna be live. The plan is still to make side designs and side scripts available by end of this year and which means, within a few weeks so PI end of anyway, bye-bye end of December. What urban feel free to take away the screen and presentation, yeah.

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In 93, I actually just got my first job, if put in context I.

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Know that you win this discussion.

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So no you're, not you just loo gold I've been working two months in ninety, exactly that's probably it yeah.

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Right so psy designs, most of you probably have seen them already at work in their most at lesser or I, have been doing. We did it at the keynote in Dublin at HPC. We demoed it in ignite just to briefly explain again what the site design is. Did it's something that kicks in the moment?

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You create a modern site that teams had a communication site which can kick in so if I create a new site here and I pick a template or a type of site, then here you see the designs popping up, and this is, for instance, a custom site design that you can select and when you create the site, it will do all kinds of things as you defined in that site and during the demos again in Dublin and ignite, we showed you, for instance, how its executed a flow that's connected to an azure storage cube, whereas your function was kicking in etc, etc, etc.

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So what I will show you today is how you create a site design and how you associate it with the side script, because there's two different things: there's a side script in a site design and let's, let's go back to PowerShell and show you so what you're looking at is it's not available currently out there? You need a specific tenant that we're using here for the demo, but it will come pretty soon.

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The Commandant's are available or asked from the next master merge the next release we will do, but if you run them on your tenant, it's not available. You look at the message like this is in pre, currently not released yet, and you will have to wait so in order to see all your site designs, you say: get PNP site, design, presenter and it connects to your tenant, and you have to understand you have to be tenant administrator here, so it can actually beta key to your to your tenant level and then it retrieve societies.

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I say you see the four side designs currently active when I just clicked on the create team site, you only saw three, and that is because you can hook up a site, design to a specific site, type being take munication size or a team site.

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So here you see the sidelines and every site design is associated with one or more side scripts, and you see here the grids of the side scripts and in order to see the side scripts, you see you enter, pin we get PNP side script and here is he decide scripts, and we can have a look in the side scripts, but I will I will just create a new one and show you how to create one on how to associate one with a side design and then, when it's applied, I will create a site based on the new site design.

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So a side script is nothing more than a blob of JSON effectively. So if we open code here, you see here a side script and what I do here is I create a list. Here's the verb, create list, :, that's PNP, demo list. It's based on generic list custom list, then I set. The description to this is a demo list. I add a fields being repository name of type text which is not required and it should be in the default view.

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I add another fields of type number, which is called number of contributors, which is also added to the default view and is a required field. Then I have another action here. Why I say add a navigation link to this list and it's by positive, so I don't have to enter the full URL here of the list and then I apply a theme being the contours of programs theme that's effectively what I'm doing here. So this is my old side script. So AI I just copy this to the clipboard and do some powerful magic.

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Report so now my script is in that variable skip variable so now I can create very simply a new side. Scripts at pin, P side script, title PMP, demo, script description. You can specify description if you want to let's: let's do it demo, script content and that's my script: press Enter side script has been created so if I retrieve my side scripts now there is my demo script. So what I do now is I copy this grid, here and I say at PNP site design, title P and P demo site script ID.

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This is an array of values. You can just basically paste at that grid. There then the description. Now you have an F in there. It's the default side script. You can specify it's a bit difficult to see. Maybe, but you can specify the perimeter. The preview emits alt text and URL of the preview image, so I will just leave those blank for now and then the web template and there you specified communication site or team site.

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So basically, what I'm telling now is that okay, this side design should only show when I create a team site. So press enter and that's all there is to it now. My site design has been created. My tenants if I do get PP site design there. You see the side design with my side script associated to it. So if I navigate back to the browser and create a new site.

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There is my pin P demo site design and we're calling this we're going to Berlin, say Berlin m in January 2020, just coming up with something and click Next, it's creating the sides already it's a modern side. So this will take a few seconds there. We go. Click finish navigate me to the site and there we see the site design kicking in.

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It takes a bit and there we go. It created the pin, P demo list it added to let the list is an F navigation, and if the party themes, if I click finish right now, it will reload the page there we go and there's my pin B demo list with the two fields that are defined. So if I click new here you see the two fields and the contributors field is a required field. This was all there is to it.

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It was actually not very complex now, which you can do among others and I didn't demo that here, but you can hook up a a.

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That flow, as I said, to be limited during ignite again the flow ads and the URL of the site. You just created to a storage queue and then it can destroy rich queue, again trigger a function and that function can kick in and do basically anything you want to do. Given the API is available, you don't have to use PowerShell we're using PowerShell right now.

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There are methods for you available on the tenant object, so the tenant API see some API has the methods available and for you to do this, so you can do this fully from code. If you wanting there's nothing preventing you from writing your own console application and using those API is in there. The only thing that the PowerShell commanders do is basically implement that part of season for you to make your life a bit easier.

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So I designs are currently very icy. The question here about content types are basically what I just demoed is what you can do with the exception, then of the flow triggering I didn't demo that, but this is basically it at this moment it might be extended in the future, but currently this is the level you get which side his eyes.

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That was it for me. Thank you.

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And coming back home, Sebastian's essay is not supported. Yes, it's a critical capability. That's why we have an extensibility point and that's why you can use a for example, PNP provisioning to make those content types and all of those available reality is that when we go live to the preview, we have a super super super, more small set of actions supported in the side, script or side design.

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So any let's say slightly more sophisticated or complex scenario will require and then an external API to be called and that's where the flow trigger option is available and that's what we been demonstrating in in the community cost few times. There's this video recordings available on this one and also in ignite and ESP, see that we basically flow trigger.

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We activate a flow, the flow itself dist and adding the URL of a site which was just created a test HQ non-story, scariest and activating a function which is then executing Li and B provisioning as an example, so sounds may be complicated, but it's relatively simple setup to do, and it's it's just matter of doing those logistics and then it's up to you. What you need to do as far as the provisioning to.

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Comment to remark from Chris here that that's indeed an approach you could take yeah just use the site design to trigger the flow.

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In your function and most likely that's exactly what will happen, we get that absolutely from an engineering perspective, because those who are familiar with the BMP templating engine there's really no point of mix-and-match. You, you have a flow tree curve which will activate the PNP template and that's it absolutely. A viable option does much stuff to have any data on how many sites they don't actually use custom content types we do, but it's not public information, so I can't disclose that we do trace significant amount of data. How people are using.

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Our tools smells right to me. Yes, it does numerius before commenting on that.

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Will it have a less issues with the site not yet being fully created. Now the on Kevin's comment is related on the point of fact that the side script outside design is getting activated when you first frame actually go to the site. That's what happens there when, first time a person goes to the site, it actually start the site design and that's when you you start of the box, you guys that's just what actually happens there.

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Technically, the site is not theoretically fully provisioned at that point, so that could actually still cause some headache, and we know that this is a potential challenge for the remote provisioning solution.

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So it's a classic challenge in the in the modern experiences, because when in engineer inside there has been decisions to reduce or minimize the time taken for provision, a new site and one of the approaches is that it's it's actually, the provisioning is happening in async way, so you'll get the site ready, but then some features and activities are assumed, Cronulla getting activated slightly later and for time being, there's no explicit, yes or true lumen, which would actually tell you when the site is completely one hour, some permission.

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So that is a classic challenge and we're looking into potentially getting that solved in the future.

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Does it matter if the first user does not have the correct permission? No, it doesn't matter. So it's in the execution. It's not happening with the user permissions. It is happening with the system permissions. So that's all good.

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Yeah, yes, I, absolutely understand the challenge. What Kevin is having? We so hope this in a polite way. Obviously, in serpent engineering there's there's experienced people there's none experienced people, there's new people, there's old people and all of that and the people who come from just different sides and and then there's always a long debate on on on the right approach and and the priorities and these things so we'll most likely will get the fully provisioned flag there at some point. At the same time, it does make sense. I do agree on that.

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One that having a site superfast ready for the end-users is quite nice feature as well. So it is debatable. Should we delay on getting the site available and do more on sync rather than async, so it's it's an endless debate. Let's put it this way, but I think it's, let's flip to Bert's demo and then we'll do my demo as well, and we can continue a discussion on the on the other topics. If there's any Q&A after that, Bert take it away Bert. We can't hear you if you're talking, we can see your screen.

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So that's already I could start, but I can we can do a telepathic connection between you and me, and I can hopefully tell what you're talking? No, it doesn't work. I can't hear a thing you're too far, you're unmuted and minutes and still nothing.

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Sharon telepathy, it's common feature. Yes, he did I think it might be. You know worst case scenario, bird. You need to reconnect, oh my god, better, okay, Jimmy yeah, no good! That's good right! The.

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Screen still visible yep.

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The screen is visible, orchid are all right, good.

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Good okay topic of my demo is around provisioning, modern, first-party, webparts to client pages so for the folks that have joined in this equals you've seen several demos in the past, where we created modern client-side pages and put rappers on the pages, we typically use an image of a part and the hello world customer part of some friends, the other custom third-party web part, but we received several and notifications from community that certain first party web parts were not working example, quick links.

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So when you used Quick Links and you apply to a page, it simply didn't work. We just quite annoying because we want all those first party party web parts to be available for you to promote eclis, put on pages and that's the reason why we did some investigation. We found some issues and we fixed issues. I'll talk about that later.

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We've got a first show. I recommend the approach on configuring, those first part of a process and using them in a provisioning flow. So I have like a modern site open here and I'm gonna go first to the workbench.

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Alright, loading workbench I'm not running anything locally. So it complains about Gollop server, but you can ignore that the reason why I want to do this workbench is because it's an easy way for me to configure web parts and to copy the necessary Jason properties afterwards. So, let's add a web part, let's take our Quick Links friend, the one that didn't work if I see it here is alright, let's put some links in it. Let's put a link to this representation.

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Let's change this to a B&B rocks.

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Let's have another one.

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Well, that's six empty notes! Why don't you looked.

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Clearly, using it's wrong so yeah.

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If it could be it from here, it might not. Let's go to images yeah. Let's try this see if this works yeah seems to work. Let's change this to alright robots configured next step, click on well power data in the workbench. We should, if you like, in a massive Jason. What was this is a pretty complex web part ton of settings and that's why having a visual designer for it using workbench is pretty neat, so you copy the Jason structure, don't take the the square brackets, leave them out.

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Let's start from the bottom, that's easier like this! Alright, now I want to reuse. This Jason configuration to provision a modern page for the same web part before I can paste the JSON I need to encode it because otherwise it doesn't really fit nicely into a in the provisioning XML. So let's encode and then let's copy to encode its text, which is really long now, but should work and I'm gonna flip over to a template, I already pre created. So this is template. Having.

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One one page and one section of one column so which is empty so I'm gonna, add the control on here.

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Park-Type this was just needs to match, with the thing that you did so quick links and then I'm, gonna, Jason control, data, I'm gonna, just paste the whole encoded JSON blob and then, let's close the control, all right, one control done.

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This is one more pom pom pom. Where is my window? We're okay back to the workbench close any preferences for webparts? That's one, let's risky in the demo, so I'm just gonna, take one thing: I want all right: great! Let's take big maps and a location store column. Then.

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I city I think.

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Never been there but I guess it's nicer. One can confirm, let's zoom in to something in so column like this.

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I told us the column is really nice, but rights.

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Maybe we've been there now.

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I prove I've, never been there. I've been at the airport.

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Okay, again copy new web data, you see this one slightly smaller easier copy, just repeat the same trick: let's clear.

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This guy paste.

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Codes and copy the results to be boom simply add one other control of each.

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Like this visiting and alright we've configured to webparts Quick Links, big map, which are pretty complex, I'm, not sure a big map didn't work before, but I definitely know that Quick Links didn't work before before this change. So, let's see if it works now, since this depends on code which has been checked into the dev branch recently meaning today this morning, it's not yet available in and UK packages will be available in the upcoming December release.

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But for now you have to use the developer branch so and I'm gonna just test this with a basic unit test that will apply the template. So, let's debug this test.

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It starts running so we load this particular file. Wait. Oh I, guess I did some comments in here. Let's beam up this file there, some leftovers.

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Like this so I'm just making a lot of noise all right, let's try again stop this one go back over here and you book my test. Here we go Oh free. It works now.

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Loading up a template and the template has been loaded, so we have one templates having one client side page with one section, and in a section we have two controls. It's fairly small for you guys to eat. I consume this because it disappears with essentially two controls on the page like we defined in XML, and the prevailing will continue. It will only do the page each content handle specified over here, so it should be fairly quickly.

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And once that's done almost.

C

Yep we're done, let's flip back to the SharePoint site. Let's go to our pages library, let's see if we have a new page, which should be the case, so we have sick demo, 30 11 and let's load this one and well here we go Quick Links were passed as it works, stop all of us working looking nice and well good. So why does it work now? Why did it work before?

C

Let's have a quick look at that and.

C

Let's go over the solution, Explorer. The reason why I didn't work before is because this is pretty technical, but I just want to show you guys. You know, so we provision the web parts required component ml. Essentially, so we kind of create HTML and then stuffed HTML and into the canvas wanted one field, but we didn't add the HTML underneath this particular stiff.

C

The reason why, because initially some wear posture we tested that work without this HTML, but this is critical for some wear pants, like weaklings, like Bing Maps, to get to work and that's a change with it.

C

Now you might wonder like wait now we have like a custom, HTML web part, it's all different program parts and and how do we deal with that? And is that not a maintenance, nightmare, etc and pair questions? But luckily that's not the issue, just not really a problem around that, because because, if you look at example, two quick linked web properties, the JSON that we actually remember the structure we copied from the workbench, if you formatted nicely you get this data over here, which, by the way is available.

C

Let's go to pages I've added all webparts with their properties, so if you ever want to configure or copy I have Ruby, the properties is an easy place for you to have a look at it. I would is configured by default. Now there is the server process, content note in the JSON structure and that's critical for those papers, so for first of all party webparts, if you put them on a page, try to just copy over this part as well, because that's the one that's driving this HTML output.

C

If you don't have this in the JSON that you specify, then the web part will still not work. So the reason why we really want to advise you use the workbench, put reporting, workbench, copied adjacent structure and then paste it in you can still change the JSON and to fit it to your needs, because you can tailor them and play around with it. But having this part in it is important.

C

So if you were making Eric solution, you have to ensure that you also update these things in this on these places, because that's being transformed to HTML when the page is rendered I.

C

Think that sums up this short demo, VESA cool.

B

C

This talent blocks all the first party web parts to be used for everyone. It press still problems around them. Please switch out because we really want to make those thing. Web parts work perfectly yeah.

B

And there was two questions: what I want to follow up on is that we actually mentioned so Leo leo was asking that a so was there any server-side changes and answer is actually no. The changes are only on client side, so we didn't do a service I chances for this. The PMP is always using native out-of-the-box, seasoned API or REST API for out-of-the-box API, so as easily. It's just a wrapper on everything.

B

What is natively there to be fair if we have a look under from a slightly longer picture, so, within the past three to four years, we've been actually through the B&B and the initiatives which we had on side of the BMP and before the B&B and we've been able to actually include a lot of additional API Thunder on the surface and then in the future, more and more also in a Microsoft craft side. So but that's not a nother discussion now.

B

The second thing is: where can I find an example for p.m. a provisioning template for modern pages? Probably the easiest way to do that is it's an export. Life cite or export a live page or a site from a click-through to a browser and then do an export yeah.

C

You have to work off eight homepage, so we only export the home page, but you can just go feed home page put word pass on it, export it and you'll get the necessary XML that you can be used. Yep.

B

Cool and then for some reason, we flip back on the front page I'm gonna move back on the, because I have a one slide that I wanted to quickly go through before jumping on to actual demo. My animations apparently are slightly broken, but that's fine, so we do not have a massive amount of time, but this is an upcoming sample which will be hopefully in the December release, or it should be in the December release.

B

But what we're planning to do with this sample is, we do have a quite a lot of, let's say, provisioning, X positive solutions in the PMP in the coton, but this is the first one which is doing in to end self-service site provisioning using the modern or modern site, so you're able to use this as a baseline or an example how to do modern, themed sites or communication sites using using the self-service site provisioning techniques. So this is solution for those scenarios where you have already invested, for example, significantly to existing customization.

B

You would don't want to use out-of-the-box. You is in the in SharePoint Welcome page. You have your own provisioning logic. It might it might be, do the fact that you are asking additional metadata. It might be due the fact that you have a completely separate, let's say, external system, which is provisioning, your solutions and in in the provisioning. We always recommend this window provisioning, a new site collection or a monocyte collection. It only takes few seconds nowadays, but we always recommend this to be an asynchronous process if possible.

B

Theoretically, you can actually make this happen in a Sutras way, but it's not really the optimal situation, because if you start modifying the site after the site, collection has been provisioned, you start applying themes and branding and lists and libraries suddenly. Actually the execution might take longer than one minute and, for example, the one minute is say: timeout for a classic web site in an usher usher hosting. So if the execution will take longer than one minute, your execution will be shut down and that's why there might be issues with that approach.

B

So that's why we say that you should be always looking into having this a synchronous solution and a synchronous solution. It always means that it's actually surprisingly simple to do we're looking into getting this read recorded as a video and the steps getting properly written down. But basically you have a UI or a solution where you drop the needed message to another storage code, and this is super. Easy super simple super cheap. So it's not a really a cost factor either.

B

But you have a message structure which the chopped' endures as your story school and then you either use inertia or a NASA web chat asked as the primary to actually do the provisioning and applying off the template and now the stuff.

B

What Burt showed today can be then used, for example, inside the template automatically, so you can provision stuff from a web shop or an usher function properly under on the welcome pages and all of that school stuff, and one thing what we also demonstrated with this sample, which I will show in a second as well. It's a way that you do not always need to use an app only access in the Asha function or in a web shop. So in this particular solution we're actually taking the access.

B

Token of a user- and we include that to the storage cube message and by default access token in the Microsoft Azure I think the timeline right now by default is a one hour. It could be adjusted by a administrative or as an azure ad admin admin to attend minimum of 10 minutes, which means that within one hour the message has to be processed, those or otherwise. The access token is no longer valid.

B

But what's cool about this approach is then, since they take the access token boo sitting in the storage school, the storage group will then fire as a function or a butcher. We actually use a user context when we are calling back to SharePoint Online, so you can actually do all of the needed operations which require a user operation or user context, because we are actually using the user access token.

B

What's a super cool but because in the SharePoint Online like in a SharePoint in general, there are certain limitations like User, Profile properties or certain other limitations or capabilities which are not available if you're using the app only and sure we should get those fixed and I do get that. But this is a nice workaround for getting stuff executed on this side cool.

B

So let's actually quickly have a look on this look on this one. In practice this will be a relatively short and not a super complicated demo. This is work in progress week since we found few issues earlier today on this one. So we need to actually get that one and those wonderful things, but before we go there before we move on on the demo, let me share my screen server, able now to see the demo in practice.

B

What's the best place to go to ask how the question um that's a well, the SP dev dogs is I, think it's it's theoretically ballot or then the issue lists in the github in the in the particular repo. That's probably they're the one way of thinking that now let me share my screen and let's double check when people are getting the screen, I do have a slide waiting. There I say small joke what somebody needs to confirm when the screen sharing is available.

B

When can you see Burt I.

A

B

B

Let me actually break that presentation and let's, let's get it down so, and let me show this one quickly in practice so and like I said this is this is still work in progress and we we need to modify certain things. There are certain last-minute findings earlier from today, but what we have is that we'll have a solution structure. Let me actually do this in a way.

B

This is kind of a classic SharePoint BMP provisioning structure, where we have an asp.net solution, which is an MVC solution, obviously because well it definitely should not be web forms. Anyone and then we have an usher function. Implementation will most likely actually change the function, implementation to be based on PowerShell.

B

We haven't actually yet to design it this, but we're kind of a running out of time pretty soon, because we want to get this one into a separate release and then we, the infrastructure, is just shared goat right now between the function and the web job, and then we have a web job and based on the selection. What the person now does within this sample solution and we'll put the processing request either to the function or in a web job in real world, you would actually choose.

B

You could either implement your stuff using Azure function or based on Azure web charm. There's certain advances and disadvantages in both technically the the asha function is never meant to be used in a long, long, long, running operation and with the long long long running operation, meaning more than five minutes execution of things. So, if you're stuck, if you're provisioning engine is doing a lot of stuff connecting the on-premises or connecting the external systems trying to figure out, something then does something, and something then applies a template to the site.

B

Then definitely you should be looking into using a web job rather than an Asha function, because awake chaps are then more designed on the a long-running operations. But but again this is debatable. With which option do you want to use and there's a cost factor behind of all of this, as well as your functions are cheaper than Asha, with jobs potentially, but again, it's like it depends now. In our case, let me actually start that one I'm just going to open up this one in here.

B

Let me see if I actually get the local host up and running in the context of my chart, so I'm kind of a mimicking the situation where I'm using my local tenant and signing in using my account and there it is there's the application. So they say essentially we'll provide you a simple generic sample, which is your self-service site, provisioning UI. This could be hosted in a shirt.

B

It's another application registered inertia so it so it's not necessarily in the context of office 365 as a property hosted area, but obviously you can link that true within your tenant and then I can select, for example, that I want to provision a communication site. Let's call this sick.

B

B

Matter, my classification is something which we right now have here. Most likely will actually chop this away from the final demo, even though this kind of call it goes to the usher ad and checks. What's the official site classifications which would be owned in the other box, us as well, but I think this adds unnecessary complexity on the on the reference solution and then we can show and select I'm gonna use such a function or web shop.

B

So in the real world implementation you wouldn't clearly have this kind of a selection you, you would design your solution into either way, but this is for a reference sample or- and let's say, a simple technology sample. So you can actually have a look on the advantages and disadvantages of both option and then you're able to select them and we're going to use a BMP template, 0, 1 or 0 2.

B

So technically we're gonna create a communication, science, modern team science or a modern communication site and then we're going to apply a PMP template on top of it in our asha web shops. When I click create now, let's actually make sure that this works or let's see if it actually works, so it's based on a short story screws. So let me refresh my story skew and most likely we can actually see there's my message, so it is in the storage school waiting to get processed, and we can see that it's saying see.

B

Today, let's call it because we have the archer web charts waiting in an usher application as your site configured to follow up this message queue that would mean that if, if everything is getting executed properly, the message is now processed from the queue, and why is that? Well, our asha web chart got executed automatically.

B

So if I jump now to the rusher side, see if I can actually find there's my uh sure side, there's my asha webshop and in other side I have an ash of web shop running, and we can see that right now there is an execution of process queue message with executing 49 seconds ago, you find refresh.

B

We can actually say that it's successfully processed and if you go here, we can actually see what was the message and like that, the cool thing about this one is that one of the things what we provide from this message is the user access token. So we use that dynamically, that user access token of the user, which actually originally requests at the side, because the execution of the web job will happen in less than that one hour.

B

Hopefully, unless there's a catastrophic on network failures, somehow magically between office, 365 and under sure, and by the way, Chris you're, not getting control on this I think that's an that's an accident, no you're, not getting control. So so.

B

In this way we've been getting the user access, contagion I'll, be using the access token, so we're executing the webshop connectivity against office traces to five in the context of the user and that's pretty cool, and that didn't means that if I now take this URL and if I go back on my tenant context and if I use that URL and request that once it called Emma 13 north, we can see that we just have a just created new site and in the site we also created a custom list.

B

So if I go to the site contents, you can see it in the navigation already. We actually have a custom list here. A one executed as part of the provisioning as well, and how this one most of us have done is that we have inside of the provisioning engine in the web jobs area. When we deployed the webshop, we have. These templates available, which are essentially then decorating, we kind of provision the out-of-the-box communication side, and then we can include, for example, whatever bird showed earlier today in the demo on that one.

B

So we could modify what they initially the Welcome page. We can add lists content drives fields whatever as part of the site provisioning as well technically over that the provisioning engine can be migrated to the outer toe box. Sharepoint provisioning flow as well. But, like said, if you have already invested on an external tooling and a cell service-side provisioning tooling- and this is really the show that you can use the modern and provision modern sites as well in the future.

B

Cute I- think that's it for that. One and I'm, looking into the time I'm not going to deep dive on the code of this one technically we'll just take the user access token and the information. What user is providing and put it that to the message group? And then we process that, during operations during as part of the execution, relatively simple classic provisioning solution, if the sample will be available, it will be documented how to set up everything. So you can actually follow up on that.

B

One will absolutely do the video recording on that proper video recording on the demo as well, so you can easily follow up on how to do it exactly what I did today, but I think that's it for this one. If there's any urgent, let's say questions any urgent things which I wasn't able to follow during my demo. Just you can add them in the entire window. At this point just to follow out the web part demo. Can we use to get BMP webpart comment led to extra spare part and properties.

B

Answer is actually no, if I'm not mistaken urban, can you confirm that as that site, because we need the object that doesn't actually give you the chaser definition correctly yeah, so you.

A

B

Sorry but yeah.

C

There is going to no commands lit that you can that kind of grabs where perform an existing page and outputs it for you. Yes, maybe there would be something nice to have actually like which gives you the JSON structure, so you can then apply it automatically.

C

Yeah definitely thought John.

B

It's so super easy to be on the conduct of SharePoint and then do clicking in the workbench as well and then extract. But but again, why not? It's it's it's a good idea, but if there's no other clicks a critical agent questions, hopefully the content was again interesting and we're trying to keep this interesting for you and available. The samples will be out like say it's site. Designs will be in preview within a few weeks.

B

I would say that's safe to say somebody was asking around the site collection, app, catalog, that's coming out within a matter of days, we've been promising that for quite a long time within the matter of days, but it is coming in the matter of days so pretty soon the the sample which showed which so today, the comment. Let's what urban did are coming released on the December release of BMP and they will be then working within your tenant when the site design is available. Bird stuff will be as part of the December release December.

B

What I showed will be polished and we'll have guidance, also as part of the December release and a summary of the PMP be a release of December, but thank you everybody for joining. Thank you for watching these. Please keep the feedback coming for ship and engineering and also for the community stuff. So if something is missing, something isn't working, please let us know we want to actually help you to be successful which helped on customizations, but thank you, everybody and, let's absolutely stay in touch. Thank you. Bye, bye,.