Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
This isn't new functionality of OneNote/Outlook but I've just re-discovered it. I'd been using the 'modern' OneNote (Win 10 App that you could get from Windows Store). This once represented the future of OneNote until Microsoft changed direction and re-stated that future investment would be in the original desktop version of OneNote. I've now taken... Continue Reading →
Roaming Settings are a feature of the Office Add-in Model (Office.js) and provide a persisted storage object that your add-in can use. The Office Add-in model takes care of storing the settings and making them available as users move onto different devices or different hosts (Desktop Outlook vs Web Browser for example). This works as... Continue Reading →
I was beyond excited at the opportunity to be included in the "Reimagining work with the Microsoft 365 platform" session at Microsoft Ignite 2020 with Yina Arenas and Mike Ammerlaan. It's a small clip where I share how the modern Microsoft 365 development platform is allowing us to deliver real business value to our customers.... Continue Reading →
I joined 365 Days of Cloud podcast hosts Rabia Williams and Mark Powney to discuss the journey Office Add-ins has taken over the last 10 years and why I'm so passionate about the role add-ins play in joining our systems together and delivering real productivity and efficiency gains for our workforce. Listen to podcast https://365daysofcloud.com/2020/09/20/episode-4-cameron-dwyer-talks-office-add-ins/... Continue Reading →
Today I joined Valo's Daniel Anderson on the first episode of the Valo MSIgnite Show to discuss the upcoming Microsoft Ignite 2020 Virtual Conference. You can watch the recording below. Join me at Ignite where I'll be co-hosting the Table Talk 'How do Security professionals sleep at night?'
Office add-ins running in the Windows Desktop version of Office products are hosted using an embedded web browser control within the Office product. Traditionally this browser control was based on Internet Explorer (IE). This has changed recently so that later builds of Office are using Edge as the browser control. The technique used to debug... Continue Reading →
We are living through the age of digital transformation, where businesses are finding new and novel ways to embrace technology to change processes and gain competitive advantages. This has seen almost all of our once paper based documentation make it's way into digital form. The core Office product suite of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork in Office 365. The vision Microsoft has with Teams, of bringing existing products and services together into a central hub and minimising context switching, is a vision I share in and have been fostering for over a decade. Before Teams came along I'd spent over a decade of... Continue Reading →
With Azure Active Directory Application Registrations there are two versions of authentication model available. v1 - all the permission scopes that your app may require must be consented to by the user up front. v2 - permission scopes can be asked for dynamically as your app is running, if the user hasn't already consented to... Continue Reading →
I was fortunate enough to be involved in a 1:1 hack engagement with Microsoft recently where OnePlace Solutions hosted some eager Microsoft engineers for a week long engagement. The intention was to see how we could harness some of Microsoft's new Teams extensibility options and the Graph API, and for Microsoft to identify limitations or... Continue Reading →
