Microsoft Ignite 2018 – Office Developer Announcements

As the dust settles on Microsoft Ignite for another year I’m left going back over my notes and recalling discussions I had for all those key announcements, advice and snippets of gold that will have a real impact for Office developers.

If you are looking for a high level list of announcements made at the conference, the Ignite Book of News is a good place to start although it doesn’t cover many of the announcements that were made in the Office Developer area – this book covers a lot of the Azure announcements, which most Office developers will have a mild interest in (we have to host our code somewhere!)

Here’s some of my favourite announcements:

Do more with new upcoming SharePoint development capabilities announced at Ignite 2018

• Call Microsoft Graph and Web APIs and deploy Extensions across your SharePoint sites
• Deploy your web parts and application pages to Microsoft Teams
• Connect across components with dynamic data capabilities
• Deliver complete applications with application pages
• Harness more of SharePoint with new Microsoft Graph APIs

Microsoft Graph @ Ignite 2018

• Managed access to Microsoft Graph (data connect to bulk export to Azure subscription)
• Notifications API
• Dynamics is now in Microsoft Graph
• New PowerApps templates
• Security API
• Microsoft Teams, Messages, Calendars, Files, and Folders

Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL)

• In preview but suitable for production use
• Capable of reaching both v1 and v2 services
• MSAL JavaScript library for serverless implicit flow scenarios

I thought this years conference was very well run and the volume of people moving about the conference centre wasn’t overwhelming. I had a lot of fun meeting new people and reconnecting with old friends. It’s great to have such knowledgeable Microsoft staff accessible on the expo hall floor (both from a Marketing and Engineering side) to discuss particular scenarios, technologies, ad bounce ideas off.

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