What a great conference bringing the Office 365 community together. I really look forward to this event each year. For me, its a great time to take a moment away from the office and listen. Its very easy to get caught up in the day to day of our busy jobs. I do my best... Continue Reading →
Digital Workplace Conference Sydney – My Top Picks
The Digital Workplace Conference is set to hit Sydney next week and is in it's 10th year! This conference has a rich history in the SharePoint community in Australia and New Zealand, and in recent years has grown into an all up Office 365/Azure conference with a focus on getting the most out of the... Continue Reading →
Why I believe Office Add-ins are the underrated productivity enabler
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 →
What are Microsoft Teams Messaging Extensions and why you should consider building one
It's no secret that I think Microsoft Teams is an awesome product. I've written in the past about how I believe Teams is a great enabler for making people more productive and brings the right tools together in a place that makes a lot of sense. What are messaging extensions? Message extensions are available when... Continue Reading →
THE place to start for Microsoft Teams implementation – Adoption Guide (Flipbook)
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 →
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 →