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... Continue Reading →

Office Add-in Manifest Updates – Deployment timing and potential URL issues

One of the critical components of an Office Add-in is the add-in manifest. This is the xml file that describes how your add-in should be activated when an end user installs and uses it with Office documents and applications. This manifest contains references to URLs where your web application resides and also to other resources... Continue Reading →

Allowing different Azure AD app registration permission sets for a single app (user and elevated admin consent) using the v1 auth model

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 →

Digital Workplace Conference – Melbourne 2018

As the Digital Workplace Conference comes to a close for another year I'd like to reflect on what a great event this is for the Office 365 and SharePoint community in Australia and thank the people behind the organisation of the conference, in particular Debbie Ireland and Mark Rhodes. This year I was fortunate enough... Continue Reading →

Wonder what a Microsoft 1:1 hackathon looks like? OnePlace Solutions Teams/Graph Engagement Experience

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 →

Primer for Modern Office Development – start your journey here

Lets start with a little bit of history, the year was 2008, Windows PCs and Microsoft Office had been entrenched throughout organizations around the globe. We saved all our files on a network drive (if we were smart), or SharePoint if we were really smart and had a dedicated engineer that could keep up with... Continue Reading →

Microsoft Insider Dev Tour – Sydney 2018

The Insider Dev Tour is such a great event for Microsoft developers, you get the key announcements and latest news that came out of the Build Conference, delivered locally in a more intimate and interactive environment. Best of all it's a free event put on by Microsoft. I was very grateful for the opportunity to... Continue Reading →

View My Office 365 Apps (add-ins) and remove consent

If you would like to see what add-ins and other apps you have consented to (and what permissions you have granted) you can visit this magic URL https://myapps.microsoft.com You should see a list of all add-in and apps from where you have the option to 'Remove' or 'Get Info'.   Selecting 'Get Info' lists all... Continue Reading →

SharePoint Conference NA – The photos and my takeaways

SharePoint returning to Vegas, would it work like the days of old? There is certainly something special about the SharePoint community and this conference had that tight knit community feel to it. Vegas amazes me at the amount of people it seems to just be able to soak up without really skipping a beat, making... Continue Reading →

SharePoint Conference North America – The Sessions that Interest Me

I'll be attending the SharePoint Conference North America conference, being held in Las Vegas next week. OnePlace Solutions are a proud sponsor and if you are attending I'll be spending most of my time at the OnePlace Solutions booth in the expo hall so please come and say hi. I was looking through the sessions... Continue Reading →

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