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From YouTube: PnP Monthly Community Call - February 2018

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SharePoint PnP Community call recording from 13th of February 2018. Summary of the activities happened in the past month around SharePoint development guidance and 3 specific demos around SharePoint development topics.

Demos - Preview on upcoming Graph and 3rd party WebAPI support with SPFx. Office 365 cli in practice. Modern page provisioning support with PnP Provisioning Engine.

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Gute, so let's actually get on going so welcome everybody. This is Sheppard Paterson practices slash shape on deaf ecosystem, the monthly community call- and this is the February 2018 edition. So basically just it should be super clear and clarify what this is all about. This is the internship on the development community called which, which we have from SharePoint engineering, signed two boards, the community. There is no other, basically there's no other initiatives or no other things related on SharePoint, Devon orange tie point P and B, which is which is hopefully pretty clear for the community.

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Already at this point now today we have quite exciting agenda. So we'll start again for me doing a quick monologue for hopefully 15 minutes I'm trying to improve on that one, and then we have three great demos from the internal and external community members, Sao Paulo will start and have a preview on the upcoming third-party web api and additional craft scope, a support and apparently below your mentioned twice in our agenda.

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So that's my type out there, but now this is something which actually previewed already in the January 2018 monthly community call, which was like three weeks ago three and a half weeks ago, and there was unfortunate delays on getting this released and getting this out. So we haven't been able to push it out from a shape on the engineering perspective right now. However, it looks to be in matter of hours or days to get this one out, so we're getting super super close on getting this one out. Rather than last time.

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We were hunting to get it out, but there was unexpected issues which we found injured now. The second demo after Paulo will be then AC from whiteners doing a quick introduction on office 365 CLI, like mentioned in the in the messenger or the ion window. There is actually a separate conference and separate webcast from well. They can a see on that topic slightly later in the community, and you can find all of that information from the social media now and the last one.

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There's Burt Johnson having another look on the api's to modify a modern pages content and controls. There has been a lot of improvements in here and we're pretty to actually be super. Super super close to support.

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I would say almost all of the scenarios within the modern beta, so basically you're able to truly export, for example, a wet part which has a dependence, the owner image on a site, and we are able to kind of a tackle all of those assets and all of that stuff within the modern pages, but I'll let Burt to go on details on what's actually supported and and what actually can be done related on modern page modification. This is an API which is community Truman API through the BMP community.

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Now in the SharePoint engineering, if I put my chip on engineering had on there, we go as you can see. Oh there's. No video on in the engineering side were looking into improving the API support on the modern places as well, but we do not have an exact timeline for done and no idea what happened there, but apparently we no longer present our presentation. So let me actually get that one back there online that was trench yeah. It might be called Skyped okay, so you can probably see what I'm sharing Ryan says.

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Just confirming that somebody can confirm that into our window. Excellent, thank you, I think so, and let's see, if we have some time for the Q&A chat queue a session. Typically, the monthly community calls from a SharePoint scientists are pretty busy course and that's why that was the original reason why we actually started to separate bi-weekly community calls as well.

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So there's a biweekly community call around SharePoint framework which concentrates on the client-side development on things and then there's a biweekly community calls around so to go ship on general there, and this happens on every single Thursday. The next call, for example, for SharePoint framework is around 15th of February, so this week's Thursday within two days and the general and that the SharePoint dev general are called bi-weekly call isn't following week, so every single turn and 5:00 p.m.

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we do have a community concern and in those calls we're how would I put it and more interactive. Hopefully we have more time for Q&A. This monthly community calls are more a summary on what has happened and within the past month now, and obviously, please take advantage or the community channels, as well as an example to SharePoint developer group under the Microsoft tech community, rather than sending me and random email trying to get you a help.

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I'm just looking in my inbox, which is filling up from this morning again and no offense for people asking help and I would love to be able to help, but I absolutely need to also concentrate to my work and I'm. An individual emails do not scale. So that's why we have mics of tech community. That's why how we have other channels we're also we from engineering actually prefer to go and answer because then other people can see the answer to your question as well. So please take advantage of all of those things now.

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Quick summary on the January numbers is a pretty cool. Obviously super cool for Microsoft employees. You don't necessarily care that much, but in the YouTube channel it's nice to see that people are finding our YouTube videos useful. So we had a 156 thousand minutes of YouTube watch time. It's a period that it would feel bad to enable advertisement in this YouTube channel. So we're not going to do that and then on the unique visitors on github site. We had twenty nine thousand unique visitors which had one hundred and forty-eight thousand views to make it up.

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So it's great to see also the growth in a kids upside so which shows that people are more and more open on at least using the samples and live and finding the kitten, because there's a lot of lot of valuable samples and solution. Something for you to take advantage in the doors of Microsoft that come. We actually jumped roughly 25 percent in the views comparing to the December, which is super high and excellent, because it also shows that apparently, that we have decent amount of content in our documentation for SharePoint dev.

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Now we do know that that chip on dev documentation can be always improved and that's a massive challenge for us as well to keep all of the old material up to date and then keep on adding a new content which would be relevant for day to day work for you. So, but we will be working on that one as we move along with in the spring.

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More and more now on the BMP, reusable component users, we had 8.4 million sorry, eight point: four billion HTTP requests going through PMP, a core component, PMP PowerShell and score, and it was used. Those components were used in a nine point. Nine thousand more than nine thousand ten ounce, which is critical, seem to be breaking the ten thousand tenant almost this month or latest in March and ten thousand billion HTTP requests, which is a mind-blowing for a simple, reusable components which we started.

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Building back in 2014, most years capability, provisioning engine which actually spiked this month quite heavily, and my personal assumption is to disrelated on the announcements and chie of the site designs. So people started using the site design and then they find the guidance around site design and how to do a sensibility with site designs which is showing how to do PMP in how to do BMP. The level of improvements on the provisioning sure there's other provision against out there as well, and please compare and make a wise choice.

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What do we want to use and within your solutions now moving on on topic, so reminder on the documentation location? So if you don't, if you're not aware of this one, yet I will keep on repeating this every single. So all of our SharePoint development documentation is in the doc stuff myself that comes last SharePoint, slash def or a kms SP dev Docs, and this will be the location where we have already consolidated all of our MST and active MSDN documentation. We took keep on evolving this here as well.

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We do have a small challenge and that there's a lot of material from the editing timeframe which we need to go through and modify and polish, and we will be dropping some of those materials of a to make sure that we, the information, is relevant. But we do have awesome set of of scenario based guidance coming not coming up quite soon, which will concentrate on how to make business solutions or certain scenarios in April, in SharePoint, Online or in on premises.

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So that guidance should be out within the next monthly community call there's a quick question on from Kevin around a kms SBB and be technically we. So that's our landing page for PMP, but there's a interesting development around the SharePoint p.m. big, because why do we have a shape on PMP pace? And then we have a separate shipment death page, which is it doesn't make any sense.

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So most likely what will happen, and this haven't yet been decided when it will happen, we will have a simple of modernized, new SharePoint developer, landing page underneath the office and over there you will find all of her mill european-based samples, videos and everything else, because it doesn't make any sense to have a separate page for SharePoint dev and a separate pathways page for SharePoint PMP. It is exactly the same thing. No, so that's the reason why I came SSP PMP might be then redirected to the new page. Whenever we get that one out.

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There are certain delays on that one now. The second thing what I want to quickly mention and before we go to the monthly summary, is please please, please. If you find an issue, if you have problems, if you have a question technical question or especially, if you have run into issues around SharePoint framework or ap, is or development topics around ship, one please go to our SP. Dev Doc's issue list submitted an issue rather than pinging people in Twitter, which is fine. You can ping a person in a Twitter, but Twitter has nowadays 280 character.

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Maximum, so you can't really explain what's the issue in 280 characters, even though that it's double byte at 140, so the issue list is really for you to have an easy way for reporting issues to us if their development related issues and then we are asking certain things and additional details on the template as well- and this is replicated all of the issues which is created in here. It's replicated from Visual Studio online to our engineering and we have twice a week. Triage will go them true and prioritize them based on the priorities.

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Now we do know that there's a lot of issues which seems to be that we haven't replied on them yet or why? Don't you? Actually? This is an important thing for me: we're trying we're trying as fast as we can, and we will absolutely go them through as fast as we can so at least twice a week, all of the new issues and then based on your prior rotation. We are addressing the old ones as well now moving on. Are things quickly update on a road map? This is the February 28th.

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In addition, this actually, unfortunately hasn't been changing that much since the the new year, so we've been kind of up waiting for society. Science and extensibility point went, live and that's now g8, which is a brilliant thing. You can use site, designs and slide scripts in production, so that is now production available. The more Microsoft crash support in SharePoint framework is now, unfortunately, originally was planned to be late. December then January now we're already in February, but now it seems to be getting live in a matter of hours or days.

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So now we're super super close and we seem to be going live with that. One I'm watching my email on the latest Saturday's situation of that. So super super close, but can't give you an exact date because we don't have promised you something which we can't keep so pretty soon. That's going to happen hub site and hub api's were currently working on our documentation on that one. So you will see those live relatively soon. The powershell commandlets are already out in the previous powershell release. There will be some changes on them.

A

The functionality is, do not yet work until we enable them for you for preview use it's an Krupa fire API is coming pretty soon as well. Now user, wise few entries and a few notice on this one and I just wanted to keep this one in the sharepoint dif. This monthly call as well just to make sure that we are 100% aware of the user voice entries and we're looking into addressing many of these within the upcoming year.

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Now there will be we're looking into doing more on the content management side ezm site during this year. We're also looking in the extending SharePoint framework and there's quite a lot of logical things here, which were absolutely 100% need to address. This list itself didn't actually change form from the past month. So in January, the items in the list were accepted the same, except that number two and tree has been flicked.

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So the support for single page application on your SharePoint framework is no number two with four hundred and twenty-nine votes, and the number three item went slightly down: I'm not going to deep down on all of the status on this. From a timing perspective, but trust me, we are closely looking into these items when we're trying to address at them as well. More votes in an item means that it has a higher priority and, yes, we also understand the frustration.

A

What might have we've been asking something for almost a year already or even two years, and you want it and you can't make things happen unless it's there, but it's it's also a challenge so from a internal prioritization perspective, so there's certain internal priorities which are always driving our thinking and our actions as well. One thing, maybe dimension from here the support for dotnet core, which sees them that's something. What we've been closely looking, for example in the PNP team, it's a community site.

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So what would that mean, and also in an engineering we're closely looking into how we could potentially make that happen, because there's a growing demand and ask for having a client-side object model, also in a dotnet course more on all of this, obviously, in our community calls February, 2018, summary, quick, summary endings. So, on a ship and framework side, we had a new release of the new reused policy upon framework controls.

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There was quite a lot of new field controls from Alex from SharePoint list and a few other excuse me other adjustments, there's call it a lot of samples which were upgraded to SharePoint framework, 1.4 version and there's a lot quite a lot of updated documentation. Zahn done on the PMP components. There was new powershell commandlets added.

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These were related on site, dishonest and slide scripts, so manipulating them there's an updated support for nearly 20 18 OS or one schema, which is now the default schema on the on the PMB provisioning engine and the PHAs core is looking into having it. The original official release under the PMB scope and more on that one from Patrick as part of the SharePoint framework community calls. There was also a SharePoint site, design 28 pretty recently last week, so I think so. Last week, office 365 CLI is now a version.

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One point: 0.5 we'll see how have a look on that one as well today, and also a new version of client-side object model which had the execute query agent method, which is actually pretty cool. If you missed our last Thursday's community call, ruddy attentative actually showed how to use the client-side object model and execute query async method in dotnet to have a sink experience, and what does it actually mean? Supercooled call- and there was other demos there as well now, some of the webcast and video is not going to spend too much time on this.

A

One I will listing. Obviously, all of the lists, including these I'm gonna, get one step back. I mentioned a figure, the dev tariffs that comes last blocks. There is the February summary which is listing all of these assets, which were having on their slides and also in our slide share. We have already these slides available if you're interested on them, like that, we had four kind of four different webcasts during January. Slightly them.

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How to be slightly or west depends what I would count for the previous month we had a new PM Bayshore PD around how to migrate from spbm PJs to BM, b @ BM b, a scope, j s version, and there was quite a few community call recordings from a video site. Now on the community site.

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There was a lot of a lot of people once again helping us on this journey, and we absolutely appreciate your contributions, because you are helping this community to CRO and this community to be successful by helping the other people to be as successful as well, by contributing your time either by helping them on our questions or reusable samples or revocable controls, and whatever is your or actually community called image. That's one way of contributing in for the community as well. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your contributions and I.

A

Do apologize I'm not going to answer animation, all of you one by one, because we would simply run out of time from this call. But these are the companies, and this is the the most companies which we have had ever in the BMP.

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In the components- and these are the companies which we have a permission to show their local as part of the our monthly communication, so these are the companies where their employees have been given permission to contribute towards the SharePoint dev ecosystem and the open source initiatives around SharePoint a so thank you for all of these companies for their contributions towards the community as well. Thank you. Thank you. Now huge from a Microsoft side, we had a quite big list as well.

A

There's new people in this list, I'm not going to again mention all of you and I noticed just that I just renamed Shawn's as inquires, so I do apologize shown on that. I've shown it on a call, somehow magically missing an S from the last or third last name on the list, but a lot of people actually contributing on from the Microsoft tonight. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your contributions.

A

Now, let's move into the demo side, I do apologize for not too bad 18 minutes fast, so first one as the demo person would be Paula, P, LRC and and I didn't have really time to watch on the iron window when I was presenting so I'll jump on back and if there's any questions which didn't yet nobody answer, but Paula is gonna. Take the lead and let's have a look on the upcoming third party API or the additional craft scope and how it works in practice. Within the SharePoint framework implementations, you can start.

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Thank you, Miss I'm, stealing, the presentation.

A

Absolutely you don't have to ask permissions on that speakers. Okay,.

B

Okay, it is loading, so let me know when you see my screen so that we can start the demo loading.

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And three dots and a nice circle moving around and I cut your screen, so we should see okay.

B

Cool, thank you. So now we are in the workbench, and now we will see a full round-trip of development for a client-side web part built using SharePoint framework which can consume the Microsoft graph with a custom set of permissions that from an authorization perspective. So, first of all, let me show you the client-side web part, which is the one you already saw, maybe already saw last month when we played with the internal preview of these new capability.

B

But pretty soon, as we just said, it's a matter of most likely of hours or days, you will be able to play with your own hand, on top of these new capability. So these classical part simply allows you to search for user based on the user name in the directive, users that you have in your tenant and it is using the micrograph to search for the user. So if I search for user, one, which is one user and I have in my tenant, I can search and I can get back.

B

The user, with these properties, like the email, the user principal name directly from the micrograph, using any of the options that we have in the SharePoint framework and which we will see pretty soon when we will move to the code the side of this table, so in order to create them, the client-side web part with SharePoint framework and being able to make a query against the Microsoft graph. With the new capabilities, you will simply need to have in the package solution of your SharePoint frame or solution.

B

The Declaration of the web api permission, requests that you wanna have in order to run your solution and keep in mind that this set of permissions that you will need is a solution level not at web part level. So at the solution, level, I am declaring that this solution will need to have access to the micrograph and specifically, I will need to have accessed using the user, dot feed basis, dot all permission as well as I need to lodge taxes still the micrograph with the calendars dot.

B

With permission by declaring these in settings in the package solution of my SharePoint framer solution, I will be able, later on, from the admin UI of SharePoint Online, to allow to consent or to accept to give those permissions to a service principle which will be shared across all of these solutions in my tenant. Moreover, from a development perspective, once I have declared the permissions, then I need that for my application to run, let me move to the source code of my clients at webpart.

B

I can consume the micrograph as long as I have the permission that I requested I can consume the micrograph using two different techniques.

B

The first technique is the one based on the aad HTTP client type, which is a new one which will be introduced in the SharePoint frame when they are coming new release of the SharePoint framework, client-side libraries and the aad HTTP client object can be created using the service cop of the current context, as well as the target resource that I want to consume, which, in my case, is the graph that my shadow comes on the maximum.

B

Using this object, you can consume any any API that you have registered in your issue ad tenant, so it can be the micrograph as it is in my demo, but it can be any third party API that, for example, you registered in your tenant or someone else, and is we gave to you to register in your own? Is your ID tenant? Once you have the ad HTTP client object created, you can simply make an HTTP request using any of the available methods like get poster or any of the other available methods.

B

Http verbs I mean, and you will target the URL that you want to consume so in this example, I'm using the graph in version 1.0 I'm, using the collection of users, I'm, selecting few properties of every single user filtering the user based on the given name of the user or the surname or the display name. So this is just a rest-based and open data protocol based query that I'm running against that the users and point of the my saga version 1.0, once I have my JSON response.

B

I simply go through all of the items in my response and I do the data binding using the react component for training, but this is not really important right now. What is really important is the navy. Http client object. Another option that I have is to use them. If my target is the micrograph, the MS graph client type, which is yet another one that we have in SharePoint framework, we will have a sharpen framework and can use this one to consume the micro graph using a fluent API.

B

In fact, as you can see, using an instance of this type, I can simply say that I want to access the collection of users, so the API for the users I want to use the version 1.0 of the graph API I want to select these properties of the target, object and I want to filter the result based on the same filtering criteria that I was using before in the PID HTTP client. The object once I back.

B

My just response as like as before, I can go through all of the items and I can push them in a collection which will be used for data bank binding in the UI. So once you have created such a solution in which you use a derby, ms graph client or the AAP HTTP client, and once you have declared the permissions that you will need to run your application, you can bundle your solution.

B

You can package the solution and you will get back the SP pkg file ready to be uploaded in the App Catalog of your tenant. So let me go to the app catalog here. It is, and let me show you what will happen during the full round-trip of the solution deployment. So let me simply drag and drop the package in the app catalog and, as you will see, we will have the Brassica prompt UI to select if we want to deploy or not the packet and because this is a tenant.

B

Why deployment we can enable the tenant? Why deployment of this packet and more over here in the lower part of the screen you can see. Please go to the service principle, permissions management page for proof, pending permissions. It means that SharePoint Online realized that there are some custom permission requests in the package, and so an admin will need to approve those permission requests. So let's do that. Let me deploy the packet and let me go to the admin UI of SharePoint Online.

B

We need to go to the new admin UI, which is under preview right now and under the API management section. As you can see here, we have an already approved permission for a custom API, as well as two new permission requests which are pending approval for the Mac so graph for the two permissions that I showed you in my package solution that JSON file, so I can select the first permission for example, and say this one and I can approve or reject the permission request.

B

As you can see here, I have a bunch of detail, information about who is requesting the permission and when it was requested, and so on so forth, and if I'm okay I can approve this permission request. Moreover, I can also approve the second permission, so the one for the calendars read again: I can select and I can click the approve button before doing that, I want to tell you, and we want to share with you that you can do almost the same stuff using PowerShell, if you like, so that you can automate the full process.

B

So you will simply need to connect to the SPO service, providing the URL of the admin URL of SharePoint Online, and then you can get the already assigned permission. Grant I'm already connected with my target tenant right now, so I can get the permissions that I have already granted and, for example, we can see the custom one for the user impersonation, as well as the user dot read basic dot, all which I just approved.

B

That I can also see that I have some pending requests like the one oops or sometimes it fails, but if you still under preview. So when you make the request, you can see that you have one or more pending approvals for pending permissions, and here we have one and we can, for example, approve the permission using PowerShell or we can denied, or we can even revoke a permission that we already assigned whatever will be the tool that you want to use.

B

Once you have approved the permission needed by your application, you will be able to use the permissions in your client code just using the ad HTTP client object or the graph ms graph client object, and in fact here what I'm doing is exactly using those permission through these clients at webpart. Moreover, whenever you enable you approve a permission request, if you go into the azure active directory management, UI of your tenant, you will find a sharepoint online client extensibility application registered.

B

And if you dig into that application- and if you have a look at the permissions of that application, you will be able to see what are the permissions applied and this application is a kind of service principle which is used at the tenant level to configure all of the permissions that all of the sharepoint solutions in your tenant will have. In fact, the permission that you see in this UI are those assigned those approved for any sharpen frame or solution running in your tenant.

B

So if not something a tie to any specific package or solution, but once you approve a permission, a tenant level that permission would be available to all of the sharpen frame of solutions running in your tenant. Of course, you can also remove a permission if you don't like it and it's up to you, you have the web UI or the PowerShell based UI, to manage those permission.

B

Let's say de I think that now we have a full round up fully working round trip. We can fully play with the solution and just to show you one more thing before leaving the stage through my colleagues. If I make a search using either the aad, HTTP, client or the micro graph client, you will see the first time a pop-up dialog window popping up because it viel Jes is the library used under the cover to make the open authorization and shake.

B

And, moreover, if we press f12 and we go in the application in the session storage, you can see that we have a token an access token for the graph. And here, if you want the bar, if you want to dig into the details, you can just extract the access token and see what's inside the access token, one last thing by default at least right now, by default all of the client-side work part.

B

Even if they don't have any permission approved or assigned, they will have a custom out-of-the-box of graph permission, which will be the users dot read dot all. So, if you simply need that permission, you don't really need to make an explicit request in the package solution door to JSON file. While if you want to have any other kind of permission like in my example, you will need to make an explicit request and you will have to wait for the approval for those permission requests.

B

That's it on my side, I think it is really exciting and cool, so I'm really looking forward to having this capability in every 10 and under preview. Anything else visit you wanna harder, Thank.

A

You Paula just to quickly reiterate the questions because well not taking too much time, and that sounds quite a lot of questions. One thing to really understand and Paulo you mentioned that pretty well, so, first of all, there is a default permission, at least for now. This is still preview. The new craft client is replacing the old craft client, and so that's considered deprecated in the latest versions of the code, and that's also marked in the API and all of the settings.

A

What we also see here are not solution specific and that's really important to understand so any other web part which is requesting an access token, using this API so hitting an access token or getting the access token into implementation is getting all of the other access to access and permissions as well. So what you're configuring here is end to end? What's actually supported for SharePoint framework solutions in your tenon? It's not only for a one solution. If you also remove the solutions, we do not remove the permissions, because that would be it's just insane.

A

It would cause you problems with that, but we have two documentation coming up on this one and it will be released in the same exactly the same time as the packages and the server side on the server side obviously need to enable the flights. You do not see the debts admin setting yet within your two normal tenant, because we have explicitly about it.

A

It's not been yet enable it should be lighting up relatively soon and obviously before the functionality is available, but I think that's it for this one AC I think you can start sharing yep orchid orchid. You can start sharing, because what sharing is caring.

C

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It is loading okay, three dots, give me a second and just confirm when I got it yeah and God that we should be then good to go yep. Okay, all.

C

Right cool, thank you. Everybody, so I want to just take a few minutes and talk a little bit about the office. 365 CLI try to do a demo of this a couple webinars ago and I failed miserably I'm trying to do on the fly, so we're gonna have a better experience. Today. At least we hope. First, if you want to find any information about the office 365 CLI the best place to go.

C

Is this link that you see right up here at the top of my screen and the browser just SharePoint github IO / office, 365 CLI, so you're probably wondering what is this thing? So the idea is, is that I mean today we have ways to interact with SharePoint in office 365 that are provided both by Microsoft and the powershell sharepoint, the sharepoint online PowerShell module, as well as from PNP.

C

We have the SharePoint PowerShell as well, but what we've done here is that the community has built another project called the office 365 CLI, with the motivation of giving us a way for us to do the same kind of interaction with that we can do with PowerShell but being able to do it in other platforms as well, such as Mac, OS or Linux. So this is a classic command-line interface I'm, going to show you that's all built on top of node, so you have to have node installed.

C

It is a PNP initiative that is really spearheaded by wall deck master cars, so I'm trying to shadow, be wall deck for the day for you today, which is a very tall order, and the idea is that is drip built by the community driven by the community, for the communities of the whole sharing is caring thing is it's very very core to this, so we have monthly drops of the CLI monthly production drops and in between we also have production or beta drops as well.

C

You can find out how to get either one in the in the documentation on the website. So choose either one and the way it works under the covers is that it's going to have you authenticate I'm, going to show you this in just a second: let's go: have you authenticated it using your azure ad or office 365 credentials, and we use primarily use the REST API either the office 365 or Azure, Active, Directory or SharePoint Online REST API is to do all of our interaction.

C

That's primary, but there are some instances where the REST API does not have an when exposed for what we need to be able to do so similar to how the PowerShell guys do it. We call the see some end points directly, which is not really a hack, because these different end points are all published protocols by Microsoft. So we just mimic the call that see some is end up. Gonna make so the way you're gonna go about getting this I've got I'm just running on one version of node on my machine.

C

I use a thing called node version manager to make easy jump around to install this I would just say: NPM, install dash, G and then or for go global and then I'm going to specify the PMP slash office, 365 CLI tool here, so it's gonna go ahead and download it. I'm gonna save us a little bit of time and I'm gonna switch over to another version of node.

C

That I have that actually has the CLI running so I can just do this we'll see a version of the CLI is going to be listed here now the best place to go to get that's waiting for this to finish up but Wow. There we go so you can see it's listed right up here. I've got the office 365 CLI version 0.5 installed, don't worry about the 0 being the first thing in the version numbers, this is classic classic Cimber notation, so it we are at a v1 or, however, you want to call it.

C

We are a generally release, so you feel comfortable using this stuff. How do I go about getting help for this thing? Well, first thing: I do. Is you have to jump in and actually start using it? So the way you do that is you're gonna use it in an immersive mode, so I'm gonna go to office 365 and what that's gonna do is then open up this immersive mode. So the first thing we do is I'm gonna say: let's just get a status here and it says, am I already connected and sure enough.

C

This one is already connected if I needed to connect to this. So if I wanted to disconnect so SPO disconnect and then, if I do a status the way I'm going to connect to it is by saying SPO connect and then I pass in the end point for the admin part of my SharePoint Online tenant, which is a cio 365 dev 0 0 admin SharePoint com.

C

Yes, this sharepoint is yes. Yes, it.

A

Still appears, oh yes, indeed,.

C

Who needs security, I'm gonna dead? We don't need security. We live IT pros. Do that I'm gonna grab these the device login for azure ad, so I'm just gonna copy. This code go over to device login.

C

It's gonna prompt me to go ahead and login, which I'm already logged into my tenant, so I'll just paste that in copy it wants me to login again this 903 6500 on Microsoft, comm and I will save myself with my password manager and I'm logged in so now, I'm gonna go back over here and prompt, and if I wait a second, it will come back and say: yes, you are connected all right. So now what can I end up doing with this? Well, the way that you can do this.

C

You can always ask it for some help and find out what you need to do by just typing in health. You see we have a couple different things here. We have a ad command groups and SPO command groups. The goal is for this project to ultimately get to full parity, doing things with Excel doing things with planner office 365 management.

C

If there's an endpoint and PowerShell supports that, we want to support it as well, so jump in give us a hand, we'd love to have loved to have some help, but what's the real use that we can do with this, so I'm gonna, say SPO and let me just get some help from SPO and see what or me say, SPO help, we're sorry help SPO and let's see what it can do.

C

It's kind of list out, here's all the different command groups of different things that we can do so, for example, I, can say SPO site list and give me a list of all of my SharePoint site collections inside of my dev tenant. You see here, I'm very busy or I can say, give me all the classic sites by saying SPO site classic list and I'll get a few more there's a couple.

C

Other things you can do too I can even say: I can filter it by saying web template and then say I'm only looking for things using STS pound zero, which you have to be able to spell template. That's a key pre-requisite.

C

There we go so I only have one team site upgrade here: that's using the the team, that's using a team site template all of this help, I'm going to show you how you can get some of the help here in just a minute work. Knowing all these different commands are available to me. You do see, though, that when I, you know fat-fingered something just a moment ago in hearing the options, it does tell me all of these different things of stuff that I can do with this.

C

Some of the other things that we can do too is pretty cool, is I can even say SPO site, app, catalog and I can get a list like say: go ahead, I want to add in an app catalog for a SharePoint site by passing in the URL, say: HTTP a cio 365 dev double-0 sharepoint comm sites 201. This would add a site collection, scope, app catalog to this so right here. The reason why I'm getting this little air here is because three subscribed a SharePoint commish sites.

C

mmm It looks like as I screw something up somewhere, that's okay, it does this. That does actually work. I know that one works because that's the command that I created and they wouldn't- we wouldn't merge it in unless it actually worked. So anyway, they had a little error. There.

C

I'm not gonna, dwell on that I could but I won't I want to take up too much of anybody else's time. Is there another presentation after this some of there's three other things? I want to show you that are pretty cool with this? One of the other things you can do is I can also work with the CDN, so I could say something like SPO CDN get now I did see someone just say plus-one for intellisense. I will tell you that one of the things that we do have with this is command line.

C

Completion I'm, not tabbing through the commands that are available to me, but I could say. Spo, tab and I would see those different things. I don't have that set up on my machine, but it is something that is set up and available to us with the office 365 CLI upon installation, I'm, doing a dev install, and it's not really working on my machine, but for most people wouldn't be a problem. Here, though, you can see back on the screen. I said Espio CDN get so thanks for pointing that out so Yannick.

C

So here I say: SPO. Cdn get, and it's saying we responds back with just true saying: yes, you've got the office 365 I've CDN, enabled on your tent, so that I can say. Well. Let me get some other information about it like origin list, so give me a list of all the origins and there's the common origins. You would normally see plus the fourth one, which is the one that I've added for my list as well now as I'm running through these things, really quick here.

C

You kind of wonder like how do I know all these different commands. Well, of course, I've been using this because at least I hope I am because I'm one of the developers on it, but you can also ask it for these things.

C

You can always go to the website and find these different questions, or these different commands that are available by going to the commands and then I can come over and say, look at the app and say what can we do with the app like listing out all the different sharepoint apps that have been installed or uploaded to the app catalog? You can see the commands that look like this, or the way I prefer to do it is to live in the in the CLI.

C

So let me clear my screen up, make it easier to read this and I'm going to say help SPO app. What that does is it shows when, if I start with the first command being help, then, as I go deeper in adding more commands, it will be. It'll show me more detail about those specific commands, so here it can say, help SPO app and go a little bit further help SPO app ad, and it shows me all the details about this one. So you can see here.

C

It shows me the syntax, a description, all the different options I can put in plus all these different remarks and these remarks are going to mirror what we see on the website as well. In addition, we've also gone through we've added in documentation for references over to the public Microsoft documentation as well for additional information here. So these are the office 365 ALM API is that we can use or the sorry the SharePoint KLM API is that we can use and post and deploy things too.

C

What's nice about these is that we are saving you from having to work directly with those REST API. It's just like the PowerShell, the PMP PowerShell guys have set up for us as well. The last thing I want to show you before I turn over to our other presenter is how every command has some additional things that you can do so, let's say I want to go to the CDN and I normally want to do a CD and get find out the status here. Well, I can do I can say, be verbose about this.

C

Every man supports the verbose command. It will write out additional logging information to the screen or, if you really are curious, you can use the debug command and that will show you all the rest calls with all the payloads, including all the way down to access tokens that we're submitting over to the endpoint.

C

So you want to see how something is being done for, say your own programming that you want to do in the REST API you can throw in the debug command, and you can see that here we're even making a request in this case here to the these see some endpoint that there that Microsoft is using last but not least, here I can even control the way the output comes back so by default, if I don't put anything on here, I'm always gonna get text-based output coming back, but if you are familiar with using a command line and your say like how PowerShell can type objects back, I can pipe JSON back and then use another tool, such as a tool called JQ for querying jQuery to get the data coming back as JSON in this case here that wasn't terribly helpful.

C

So why don't we do how about SPO site list output JSON and get a list of all of my SharePoint sites as a JSON array- and here you go, there's my JSON array- it's a stream!

C

That comes straight back, so you could stuff that into a variable if you're into bash scripting or you get other kind of command line, scripting and then iterate over that, however, you see fit or you could even just take it and say pipe it out to desktop file dot JSON, you know go through and we'll write that file out to my desktop. So that's everything that I want to show about the office. 365 CLI! If you have any questions about it, I'll be answering questions during the next presentation as well. Excellent.

A

Thank you a few things. What I wanted to specifically around this one, there's a future good questions and then, let's talk about this from a user's perspective, Bert, you can start sharing. We don't so you'll be ready on on that side. But now two things let's be super super super super clear. Why are you introducing this one? There's a PowerShell? No, no! This is not a replacement. Let's be super clear.

A

The number one use case where they actually this everything is thought it was Waldeck, was trying in his Mack to configure office, resistor five CDN and was like huh I can't because the configuration of office 365 CDN requires what PowerShell there's no mcmd, let's or there's no model for Mack to actually configure office, resistor, five CDN as such, so while they implemented a first command and obviously in a Mac development world, if you're from a Windows site you might be like here, but that doesn't make any sense.

A

Trust me in a Mac development world, whatever AC, is showing makes a lot of sense and that's a quite typical way how people are then doing this stuff in practice. Now it will. This replace the BMP PowerShell. Absolutely not. Will this provide Pro replace a SharePoint Online PowerShell? Absolutely not that's, not the intention of this. It is providing a choice for as a cross-platform and liberal choice. Now will we have in the future cross-platform level power shop yeah? That could be the case as well.

A

Is that then replacing this one well potentially not because choice is always good, so this is not meant to be a competition between the things there are preferences for people how they use these things. Now there was a good question on the on the ion window, which sauce Haiti will within the PMP category in this in this CLI.

A

Well, technically, potentially, you might see some of the same capabilities as in the PMP PowerShell in the CLI, but most likely we will not name them as a SAP EMP, because again it doesn't really make that much sense anymore. To do that, because the BMP is kind of PMP is part of the ship on SharePoint, Def and SharePoint, so it's kind of a it might be even misleading, but will you see similar capabilities as in the BMP PowerShell yeah? What you should be absolutely, if you need them, you can contribute.

A

Obviously, Irvine is highly highly welcoming all of the contributions in the PMP PowerShell site as well. If you are more windows developer now, let's see if we can get sharing to work for Bert, which apparently trucked from the call which is it has to be a hardware issue. Now they will say one question I'm, not sure which of all of these things is they already answered to multi, authentication, multi of a say already on Snowden.

C

Yes, I did it basically the thing for that is that we don't do off. Yes, like a power, strong, guys, we hand you off to Azure ad to go login, that's what the device login is and once you login over there, we just keep holding as ready and say: did they log into their login and give us a token give us a token and.

A

And again, that's more natural for the Mac and more natural for the CL is the CLI concept itself is not the first time introduced in BMP, there's a lot of CLI out there and that's not sure way for doing that stuff. There again options Burt good to have you back. That was a hardware issue right, no network issue or whatever.

D

Yeah Skype Skype, better just checking and you guys see a screen. No because I'm all good I'll go to Vegas a Airstream, okay, all right. Finally, it's always the same thing with my skype and you know: you're.

A

Using it wrong Burt here using it I.

D

Did anything possible, but the Skype just doesn't like me all right, some, some quick production, all new things we edit in the provisioning engine in the MPP szybko around dealing with the client-side pages.

D

One of the common requests we had is like people want to extract a site with one or more classic pages, including the depending files. So, for example, here we have a communication site showing the upcoming shop on Saturdays, and this is the hero web part that you probably are familiar with containing five images and so some text and of course there is also some nice image from the Belgian. A SharePoint Saturday debug but okay looks great.

D

But how can I extract this one and apply it to a new communication site even outside of this particular tenant? So that's the goal and that's the thing that I'm going to show. You now go to my house hole for fun I'm, using a different shell to this eyebrow gel, which I didn't install module, SharePoint people online. It's faulty power shell in there and that- and at this point you can run your PT PowerShell across any device, because this is just a browser.

D

So let's see how this goes. I'm gonna click give me notes how I, even even iPad and iPhone everywhere so I'm gonna play some commands. Then you connect to this base site.

D

It should ask me for credentials all doesn't support cadential manager in this case, but that's expected.

D

D

All rightie goods I think we should be in hot and on the next is extract the side waist and there, and while this is extracting, we can save some time jump to the other topic. So the pinyin people reading engine is not really a migration tool. We on purpose only extract like a home page. We don't extract list data and we talked about accessibility providers in the past. So you can write your own accessibility provider to enable the searcher scenario.

D

Now then, with the extracting pages, we had the problem that okay, you can write it sure, but you have to essentially copy all the code from P and P in order to kind of make it work, so it was really clumsy and have to do and that's why we did some internal refactoring in the PNP breeding engine to make it easier for you to write your accessibility providers and this accessible provider is available.

D

You can get up I just wish, then today. So it's only on that branch and what it does if I go, have a look at the actual code. Really quick, let's go over here so.

D

The collection of the provider meriting the interface, but what this one does, which is the thing that I want to show, is extract across all the client-side pages of your site and then extract them all in the template. So magic practice is here. So this is the new thing that we added in the bean before using engine. There's some sorry, indian. Besides or library, we do some refactoring, which makes it easy for you to just consume the this extract. Client-Side page method for your own exits really provide us all right.

D

Let's flip back to the show which is done. So, let's have a look. What we got so you see in here that it edit ffs, call xml and.

A

D

Ss folder, so let's go into site assets did at that site assets. Let's see what we have here site pages.

D

We see images, isn't that weird, like we extracted home page, which we get images and that's one of the new things, so we we did essentially do this gap bridging template. We set this branding files, which creates the extraction of all the dependent images. So essentially, the engine is clever enough to see that there are five images here. If there's five images to live in the current site, we will extract them as well.

D

So if we done quickly to the opposites, that's great.

D

See that's based account create a new communication sites which we will connect to once it's done and then I'm gonna apply the template just the CDA and results all right. We have sites based connect to it.

D

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D

See it's my password right.

D

We are connected and let's apply and template.

D

What's that know who demo fields, but maybe because I'm in the wrong folder? Sorry, let's go back, let's go back now. We have this one over here and boom. Now it should work all right supplying, let's open up.

D

So you see it's applying the lists instance creating the site assets list so for communication, psyche to great site ss list as part of the template, and then it should snow very quickly create the actual separating the files, so we exported as files they get uploaded automatically they get referenced. So to enable the scenario. This is the template that we extract it really quick here. You see sample this guy.

D

Let me zoom in so we have a new token file, unique ID that allows to kind of have references to files as part of the template, what works kind of automatically for you and the nitrous all this? That's it apply. You've finished. So, let's see if it will work just a new site, and hopefully we see our same images again and yes, we do great.

D

We see the beer yeah, you even see nice beer I think this is nice screen to stop with Visser it's some. Yes,.

A

So there was a question quickly and we'll flip on the slides. After that, we can have a look on the beer for a while will images get extracted when export it to XML instead of BMP is zipped file or what's the, and in this case it was extracted as XML, so the images were started right.

D

If you expect to a pin view file the same thing, so you just will end up in a PNP file. Everything that you extract ends up in a PHP file. How is it work when you extract web parts? Have properties? Have you some properties which did determine the behavior of the web part? Essentially, there's a generic code that will try to figure out like? Is there a reference to a file based on an unique ID? We are trying to find the file inside the current site. If you find the file, we grab it.

D

So the logic is not just for first party web parts. It can also already work for your third party web parts as well, depending a bit on how you reference files. So if your reference files based on the guiit the file unique ID at that point, it should work for you as well. Yeah.

A

So it really comes down on how the like I said how the properties are defined in the third party web parts and to be fair. We haven't actually documented that right yet so we need to get there and probably give that as a guidance for third party web port. So they should.

D

Just go into the.

A

Same model as the first party web part, so therefore we can then extract, and these things out as well, but this is really really highly useful if you need to replay in quotes replay an existing modern sites or a classic site as well. Actually, but the modern side in this case and within existing web parts, for which have a dependence, is on the images or other assets in the site. So super super super create, are clear and create implementation. Thank you both for that, and that was part of the February release. Wasn't it so?

A

Yes, absolutely cool excellent, but I think we're hitting the hours so therefore learn. Reuse share our SharePoint PMP, let's say quotes and a chemist's spbm be. There was a discussion earlier today, potentially that hey what will happen for that URL. It will be most likely redirect, at sooner or later, to the new SharePoint developer portal, where you will doe see all of the SharePoint PMP assets and everything else, because the the SharePoint dev equals chapman PMP is your NP NP equals your pontiff and deaf community? There isn't really no difference.

A

It's the same people and saying same troupe and same process how we do the stuff, but thank you, everybody thank you, Paula for your great demo around the upcoming whip, API and craft scopes, functionality we have documen and queued up. I was just actually quick and doing quick reviews on the documents when birch was doing his demo. That will be cued up quite soon and available, and then we will get the tenants and the capabilities enabled in a tenant, so things will happen within hours or days.

A

Super super close Thank, You AC for great demo on the office, 365 CLI create stuff as well and and again it's great to have options also, if you are on a Mac platform to do those operations in there as well. Now we'll talk about more and more on those things in the future as well. Bert.

A

Thank you great demo on the visioning, absolutely brilliant stuff, because that helps across the platform well, at least in a Windows platform, because that that's currently supported in the PMB PowerShell and in the season extension to do provisioning of those sites in a consistent way. But thank you. Everybody for joining. Thank you, everybody for watching.

A

We did have more than 100 attendees today, as the peak number with super cool, the the attendee numbers seems to be crowing, and it's great to see that you are feeling that the material is a useful, even though apparently Skype is having a story time, because it cannot display the presentation interesting, but thank you, everybody for joining we'll, have the video recording available into youtube channel within 24 hours.

A

So if you want to share some of the stuff, what we went through today and for your colleagues or friends or your customers and the video will be out in a Kanis SP dev videos within 24 hours and you can actually have to recording them from there. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you and keep the feedback coming and thank you for joining bye-bye.