SharePoint Announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2018 – User Group Presentation

Thanks for everyone that came along to the Sydney SharePoint User Group this month. It was great to be able to deliver so much exciting SharePoint news following all the announcement made at Microsoft Ignite. Given Microsoft Ignite now covers far more than just SharePoint it takes a while to distil the SharePoint specific announcements... Continue Reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Microsoft Graph API, Throttling & SharePoint Lists/Libraries – HTTP 429 Error Code

When developing against the Microsoft Graph you may find yourself experiencing  HTTP 429 Error Codes now that resource throttling is being implemented in different areas of the Graph. I came up against a strange and somewhat misleading one this week which is worth being aware of if you are using the Graph to access SharePoint lists... Continue Reading →

Newcastle Coders Group talk on Transitioning to Modern Office Add-in Development November 2017

I had a great time on my first visit to the Newcastle Coders Group this week. It was nice to meet some passionate developers and hear what people are up to outside of my usual Microsoft sphere. Thanks for having me talk about modern Office add-in development. Here’s the slide deck from the evenings talk.... Continue Reading →

Sydney SharePoint User Group – The Transition to Modern Office Add-in Development

I had the pleasure this week of speaking at the Sydney SharePoint User Group on the topic of transitioning to the modern Office Add-in development model. We discussed: The existing COM/VSTO Office Add-in development model The reasons and drivers for needing a new development model What the modern Office Add-in development is and how it... Continue Reading →

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