Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
What is this event? The Microsoft Graph team (the people that actually make the Graph API) are running a 2hr live streamed event on Learn TV targeted at developers wanting to learn how to build apps using the Microsoft Graph and expedite their journey. Microsoft is running this live stream twice to accommodate different time... Continue Reading →
I'm writing this post not because I'm an expert in CDN configuration but because I found the process of setting up URL redirects using Azure CDN (Verizon Premium) incredibly frustrating due to poor/lack of documentation and examples. In my scenario I had an Amazon Web Services S3 (file storage) that contained installation files for different... 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 using AzCopy (Azure PowerShell module) to try and upload files from my local machine to an Azure Storage Container (blob storage) using my Microsoft user credentials. I was surprised to find that I hit authorization and permission issues when I was the owner of the Azure subscription, I created the Azure storage account,... Continue Reading →
When a user acquires an Office Add-in from the store (for Windows Desktop version of Office), a copy of the add-in manifest file is cached locally. Often during troubleshooting it is helpful to be able to verify exactly which version of the manifest is being used, or even inspect the content of the manifest file.... Continue Reading →
I find the easiest way to create (scaffold) a new Office Add-in (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) is to use the Office Yeoman Generator (Yo Office). This is really using 2 things. Firstly its using a tool called Yeoman, which is a generic scaffolding tool (nothing to do with Microsoft or Office). It's the Yo in... Continue Reading →
We all learn and consume our news in different ways and through different sources and mediums. What works for me may not work for you, but for those feeling like they are struggling to keep up with the constantly changing Microsoft 365 developers landscape I've decided to share where I regularly source my news and... Continue Reading →
Recording the PnP Weekly interview was a bit of a pinch me to make sure I'm not dreaming moment. I have so much respect for the shows hosts Vesa Juvonen and Waldek Mastykarz who have provided expert guidance and advice to the Microsoft 365 community for so many years. So it was a bit surreal... Continue Reading →
With modern web development I find I'm using Visual Studio code as my IDE the majority of the time. During a recent developer bootcamp I shared the way I open projects and realised that some of the techniques I use wasn't common knowledge. With web project in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) you need to open... Continue Reading →
While I've been an attendee and speaker at several virtually conferences recently, organising the Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp (ANZ) was the first time I'd really had control over how to structure and run a virtual event. We had 4 Australian MVPs involved in organising the event, we had all been involved for several years in running... Continue Reading →
Cameron Dwyer 