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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 conference, the Ignite Book of News is a good place to start although it doesn’t cover many of the announcements that were made in the Office Developer area – this book covers a lot of the Azure announcements, which most Office developers will have a mild interest in (we have to host our code somewhere!)
Here’s some of my favourite announcements:
Do more with new upcoming SharePoint development capabilities announced at Ignite 2018
- Call Microsoft Graph and Web APIs and deploy Extensions across your SharePoint sites
- Deploy your web parts and application pages to Microsoft Teams
- Connect across components with dynamic data capabilities
- Deliver complete applications with application pages
- Harness more of SharePoint with new Microsoft Graph APIs
- Managed access to Microsoft Graph (data connect to bulk export to Azure subscription)
- Notifications API
- Dynamics is now in Microsoft Graph
- New PowerApps templates
- Security API
- Microsoft Teams, Messages, Calendars, Files, and Folders
Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL)
- In preview but suitable for production use
- Capable of reaching both v1 and v2 services
- MSAL JavaScript library for serverless implicit flow scenarios
I thought this years conference was very well run and the volume of people moving about the conference centre wasn’t overwhelming. I had a lot of fun meeting new people and reconnecting with old friends. It’s great to have such knowledgeable Microsoft staff accessible on the expo hall floor (both from a Marketing and Engineering side) to discuss particular scenarios, technologies, ad bounce ideas off.
Microsoft MVP Award 2018-2019 Office Development
Excited, proud, honoured, humbled, grateful, stupidly happy…. all emotions that hit me simultaneously as I opened the email that gave me the news that I had been presented the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for my work in Office Development.
I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work with some really awesome people both in the community and at Microsoft through my time at OnePlace Solutions. I love sharing knowledge and hearing what others go on to do with that knowledge. While I started this blog very nervously many years ago, it has been a very rewarding effort through which I’ve received a lot of feedback and gratitude. I’m honoured that so many people subscribe, read my blog and see value in it. A big thank you to all those that have given me support, feedback, advice or simply read one of my articles 🙂
This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who share their remarkable passion, real-world knowledge, and technical expertise with others through demonstration of exemplary commitment.
