This year again I have the opportunity to speak at the Microsoft 365 (formerly SPS) Ottawa and I’ll be presenting “Introduction To The Microsoft Graph: Getting Started Quickly & Getting The Most Out Of It”.

Together we will cover the basics of Microsoft Graph, the Microsoft Identity Platform, the value it provides to developers and how to get started.

Because of the ongoing pandemic, the event will be digital only and held on Microsoft Teams. This means you can attend the event for free from anywhere in the world! The organizing team had been putting a lot of efforts into making sure attendees get the most of this digital format.

Switching back to the light side of the force: becoming a developer again

I recently transitioned from Program Manager on Microsoft Graph to Software Developer in the Microsoft Graph SDKs team. I’d like to thank my previous team for welcoming me these last 7 months and allowing me to experiment with the role of Program Manager.

I thought I’d share with you some of my experience and learnings as a Program Manager. Before you dive in, keep in mind this is my personal experience, which may differ a lot from team to team, product to product and depend on other circumstances (being remote, cultural, etc…). Do not take this article for a single source of truth, there are other experiences that have been shared out there.

Open-source repositories enable tremendous productivity in software development. Growth in user base usually translates in growth in contributors, which in turns translates in a better solution bringing more users and so on… Maintaining large open-source repositories can be time-consuming as you spend more and more time reviewing contributions. Don’t take me wrong, that time spent reviewing pull requests is mostly well spent as it represents a factor of scale efficiency gain: for minutes spent reviewing any given pull request, the codebase benefits hours of development efforts invested by the contributor.

In case you missed it (and yes I know this post is really late), Microsoft Build 2020 produced hundreds of sessions with great content. The recordings are available on YouTube for free and if you are working with Microsoft Graph, it’s a great way to learn about new features.

I had the opportunity to co-present “What’s new with Microsoft Graph?” with Elise Yang.

Make sure you checkout the Microsoft 365 developer build 2020 playlist.

The countdown is on to ESPC20 Online – only 7 weeks to go!

ESPC20 Online is a new virtual conference offering you affordable, world-class Microsoft 365 learning at your fingertips, from wherever you are in the world. Tune in live Oct 14th & 15th or catch up on-demand across 100+ sessions from SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure experts.

Join me for my ESPC20 Online session: Build Responsive Applications at Scale using Microsoft Graph Change Notifications with Resource Data

Welcome to my new blog!

Welcome to my new blog on github.io, powered by open source. I’ll be shutting down the old one so make sure you update your RSS subscriptions.

10 years of blogging

Can you believe it? I’ve been blogging for 10 years now! At the time I was almost a Microsoft Student Partner and my first blog post (in French) was about cloud computing (which was a new thing back then).

TL; DR

I’ll be starting at Microsoft as a Program Manager on the Microsoft Graph in January. This is an exiting change and I’d like to take the time to thank 2toLead for the amazing last few years.

New role

I’m exited to announce I’ll be starting at Microsoft in January as a Program Manager on the Microsoft Graph (and other Microsoft Identity Platform topics). I’ll be part of the MIP organization and in the extended team of brilliant people like Yina Arenas, Jeremy Thake, Darrel Miller and many more.

I couple of days ago I had the opportunity to animate a workshop with the amazing Franck Cornu at the Modern Workplace Conference Paris.

We decided to make all the labs available under PnP for you to learn new technologies and patterns.

If you follow the steps described in the labs, you will learn about technologies like Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, the Microsoft Graph, Azure Durable Functions, SharePoint WebHook, PnP Provisioning and much more.

I was invited to demonstrate the new Office 365 CLI externalize command during on the of recent PnP calls.

You can watch the full call here

As a reminder this new command allows you to scan a SPFx project and get the external configuration automatically. Doing this reduces greatly the size of your solutions, improving performances for end users.

You can watch the command in action below and read the documentation here.

The ESPC is one of the biggest technology events in Europe and the biggest with focus on Office 365, SharePoint and Azure.

An interesting particularity of this event, they move to a different European capital each year.

This years edition will be from December 2nd to 5th in Prague and I’m honored to be invited to speak again.

I’ll be presenting two sessions:

• How to do DevOps with the SharePoint Framework and why it matters? This session will be an introduction to DevOps practices and an application of the core principles in a SharePoint Framework context.