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I prepared for You the summary of the most important news, announcements and articles about Microsoft 365 from the last week. Enjoy!

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Microsoft Power Up

Looking for new career growth opportunities?

By 2025, 70% of new applications developed by enterprises will use low-code or no-code technologies, up from less than 25% in 2020.

Microsoft Power Up Program enables non-tech professionals to successfully advance into a new career path in low-code application development using Microsoft Power Platform.

How to create SharePoint sites

SharePoint is a native space where you can create sites: team sites, communication sites and hub sites

You will need 2 minutes to create a SharePoint site in Office 365.

Introducing Test Engine: An open platform for automated testing of canvas apps

Testing is an important part of the software development life cycle. Adequate functional testing of applications helps to ensure that business processes stay unblocked, helps to reduce support costs, and helps to build trust in your applications. And as apps grow and become more complex, the ability to ensure that changes do not break or alter the app experience becomes more and more critical. Our mission is to empower all makers of Power Apps to easily create robust tests that can be seamlessly integrated into your organization’s application lifecycle management (ALM) practices.

Create an internal wiki and community

At the heart of growth is a community, a place for people to collaborate, share ideas, and discover new ways to apply technology to achieve more. A community is a safe place to ask questions to share tacit knowledge and expand skill sets. Organizations that have succeeded at creating a growing community of makers provide tools such as Yammer or Microsoft Teams groups, regular events and speaking opportunities, and foster an environment of ongoing learning.

2022 Power Apps Coding Standards For Canvas Apps

Welcome to the Power Apps Coding Standards For Canvas Apps.

In this guide you will find 50+ pages of coding rules, guidelines and best practices I use everyday to create Power Apps Canvas apps. I have spent the last 3 years building Power Apps every day. Now I want to share the knowledge I’ve gained in this set of easy-to-understand, actionable examples.

More options coming soon for the Viva Connections desktop experience

Viva Connections launched just a year ago and is evolving into the next phase of providing the ultimate employee experience and a home for the Viva suite. With the new experience, we've substantially reduced the amount of time needed to deliver employee-centric experiences by starting with rich default designs that you can quickly and easily set up. When the new home experience is released, customers can choose to use the new home experience or an existing home site as the default desktop landing page for Viva Connections.

?? Teams and SharePoint integration: SharePoint sites behind Teams channels

Have a great weekend ??

Szymon