In this PnP Webcast, we cover what are the current customization options around the SharePoint "modern" experiences. This is relatively long webcast with multiple demos, since we wanted to cover … more

In this PnP Webcast, we covered how to build a reusable control as a custom property pane control. Demo uses scenario with cascading asynchronous drop-downs for property pane of client- … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online. This release … more

In this PnP Webcast, we cover how to get started on using modern web stack development in on-premises deployments. SharePoint Framework is currently in developer preview at SharePoint Online and … more

In this PnP Webcast, we covered how to build cascading asynchronous drop-downs for property pane of client-side web part. This is common scenario where lists have a dependency … more

SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) December 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what … more

In this PnP Webcast, we covered considerations around multi-view web parts, where the presentation layer is changed based on the status of the web part. Typically, single-page application solutions … more

Apps and add-ins in the Office Store are optimized to reach the broadest possible set of users. Our Office Store validation policies help to ensure wide reach by requiring that:

The title and … more

Hi Partners and Developers,

We recently deployed a behavior breaking change to Microsoft Graph V1.0 and the Outlook V1.0 & 2.0 endpoints to block a specific class of requests that … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on Office 365 Connectors and more specifically how to create your own custom connectors to send messages to Office 365 groups. It's also important … more

Last August, we announced the availability of the Excel REST API on Microsoft Graph. We continue to explore opportunities for new scenarios and functionality that allows for deeper and richer … more

Put the skills and insight you learned at Build, Ignite and Tech Summit this year to win some great prizes and recognition! There are over $50,000 in prizes, including cash, tickets and travel … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on one specific client-side web part sample available from the SharePoint Framework web part GitHub repository. This client-side web part shows how … more

As part of the SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices ownership changes to SharePoint engineering, we have decided transfer the PnP initiative GitHub repositories from OfficeDev … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online. This release … more

During early November, we had a really rare occasion to have many of the SharePoint PnP Core Team members in one location at the same time, so we wanted to record a special PnP webcast with  … more

Across Office, we’re working to bring relevant information and automatically created insights – the intelligence – together for users so that they can make better decisions … more

In the past setting up a SharePoint Development box was a complex and tedious experience where a little misstep would, most likely, lead to resetting the machine and starting over.  So now we … more

In this PnP Webcast, we covered considerations around multi-view web parts, where the presentation layer is changed based on the status of the web part. Typically single-page application solutions … more

Hi folks! We’re Toby Baratta & Elizabeth Dinella, Office Extensibility Interns who worked on the Graph explorer over the summer. Graph explorer is a web application for exploring Microsoft … more

SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) November 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what … more

In September 2016, the Project team released the Project Online Power Bi Content Pack on GitHub.  This release enables users of Power BI Desktop to customize and expand on the capabilities of … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on covering the steps on how you can reuse your existing investments on JavaScript when developing with SharePoint Framework solutions. Lot of … more

Today we announced the preview of Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365 that brings together people, conversations, content and the tools that teams need, so they can easily … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on covering sample web part with search capability. This sample is available for you from SharePoint GitHub organization in the sp-dev-fx-webparts … more

We have started taking steps to replace the existing preview WorkingWith API (https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/WorkingWith) by the new People API.

We recommend that customers and partners … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online. This release … more

In March 2016, we released add-in commands for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Office desktop and Office Online. Add-in commands were made available in Outlook in November 2015  . Commands … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on showing how we perform integration / scenario testing for the PnP Core Component and PnP PowerShell solutions. These both are widely used by& … more

We are happy to announce availability of SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) assemblies as NuGet packages for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016. Previously we have shipped CSOM only as … more

In this PnP Webcast we concentrated on covering current status around connecting Azure AD secured assets from SharePoint Framework (SPFx) client-side web parts. During SPFx developer … more

SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) October 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on … more

In this PnP Webcast we concentrated on covering SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) Templates Gallery, which is an open source remote provisioning template gallery for PnP provisionign … more

In this SharePoint PnP Customer Story we concentrated on covering how Experts Inside delivered a self-service site collection provisioning solution for Weleda AG, by … more

At Microsoft Ignite 2016, in Atlanta, we proudly announced the availability of the new “PnP Templates Gallery” portal, which is available at the following URL: https://templates-gallery. … more

In this PnP Webcast we concentrated on covering how to perform typical CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations with different JavaScript framework with SharePoint Framework client- … more

Hi all, we want to give you a heads up on some changes that are coming to the findMeetingTimes API which has been available in preview in Microsoft Graph. We are making these changes to further … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online. This release … more

SharePoint is home to many of the critical documents, items, and sites for organizations of all sizes. Our growing Microsoft Graph API set is designed to make working with your data, hosted across … more

In the weeks since we’ve introduced the SharePoint Framework, and the months since we’ve held Developer Kitchens, we’ve seen developers create great things with the SharePoint … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on how to use Office Graph from SharePoint Framework client-based web parts. Office Graph is intelligent grabric, which exposes personalized and … more

Over the last year, Office has gained incredible momentum, with people around the world using our apps and services in the cloud and on all devices to be more productive wherever they go.  Along … more

We are happy to announce that Word Online, in addition to the Windows, iOS, and MAC platforms, now supports the 1.1 and 1.2 requirement sets of the Word JavaScript API, as well as the shared Office. … more

The Office App Awards contest has now CLOSED. Congratulations to our winners!

To view the winning apps, please visit. www.betterwith.office.com/OfficeAppAwards2016

A full list will be … more

We are happy to announce availability of Office 365 Public Content Delivery Network (CDN) capability in the Office 365. This capability will enable you to automatically host static assets, like … more

One of the top feature requests we have heard from developers using Microsoft APIs is their preference to not use the ‘$’ prefix in query parameters. We listened and today we are … more

We are happy to announce worldwide availability of the Bulk UPA Custom Profile Properties Update API cross all SharePoint Online tenants. This API has been in developer preview and … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on covering all the key capabilities in new PnP Partner Pack v2.0 release. PnP Partner Pack is great open source reference solution, which combines& … more

We are happy to announce we have shipped another update to the Property Management Code Sample in the OfficeDev repository on Github.com. We’ve had a lot of success with previous versions of … more

This week we're happy to announce two new Microsoft Graph features for OneDrive files: webhook notifications and large file uploads. This functionality is available on the Microsoft Graph beta … more

The OneNote Web Clipper is an extension for all major browsers that allows you to capture content from the web directly into OneNote. The past few months have seen many highly-requested feature … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on showing how to get use external JavaScript libraries in your SharePoint Framework client-side web parts. SharePoint Framework provides easy way to … more

Office 365 and SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) September 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related … more

SharePoint is home to a vast array of content – from in-progress draft documents on personal sites, to team task items, to official specifications and corporate records.  Our goal is … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on showing how to get started with upcoming SharePoint Webhooks. SharePoint Webhooks allow developers to build service integration which subscribe  … more

Alongside our roll-outs of new developer features, like the SharePoint Framework, we’re working to overhaul our documentation and resources that help developers get started with SharePoint.& … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online. This release again … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on covering how to use Angular in your SharePoint Framework client side web part. We go throught the steps on adding Angular on the SP Fx web part … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on covering how to use 3rd party JavaScript libraries with SharePoint Framework client side web parts. We'll use simple weather web part as the scenario on … more

During the Future of SharePoint event on May 4th, we talked about the significant investments we are making in the user experience of SharePoint – creating new, modern experiences for core … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on the PnP PowerShell. Key objective was to explain why it exists, how to get started and cover some of the new commandlets which have been … more

(Schema v201605 and new capabilities)

In this article we introduce the new features and capabilities that we provided in the PnP Provisioning Engine, since the release of the new XML schema version 2 … more

There has been a change on how to provider permissions to SharePoint adding using ACS authorization model (appregnew.aspx and appinv.aspx), when tenant is requesting tenant level … more

In Office 2016, we have added greater depth and breadth to the Office Extensibility Platform. This ranges from hundreds of new APIs in Excel and Word, to Add-In Commands that let developers customize … more

We’ve heard your feedback around needing more localized content.  To make our samples more consumable by people around the world, we have started to localize the README files.  Going … more

Office 365 and SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) August 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on … more

In this PnP Webcast we concentrated on how to start using Angular 1.x with SharePoint Framework client-side web parts. Web cast concentrates on a demo where we start from clean client-side … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online. This release again … more

Excel, the beloved productivity tool, now has a powerful REST API as part of the Microsoft Graph that enables developers to build rich and deep integrations with Excel workbooks in Office 365.

Do … more

Azure AD Privileged Identity Management, currently in preview, gives organizations more visibility and controls for Microsoft Online Services roles.  In particular, Azure AD PIM provides “ … more

July 29, 2016

We started taking steps this week to complete the removal of code-based sandbox solutions as part of the phased approach we announced in 2014 when we deprecated the feature.

At that … more

We are pleased to announce that Microsoft is publishing its “REST API Design Guidelines” to the API community: http://www.GitHub.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/. 

These guidelines … more

Howdy folks,

We've seen a few posts recently on Stack Overflow from developers asking whether they should be using Microsoft Graph (graph.microsoft.com) vs Azure AD Graph (graph.windows.net).  … more

This is an update about breaking changes that we are making that only impact Contacts and People APIs on the Microsoft Graph REST API Beta endpoint.

It is a schema change where a few properties are … more

We’re excited about the modern document library experience coming to Office 365, and we’ve seen great response from customers using it in first release so far.  We do know … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on high level steps around converting your existing JavaScript application to SharePoint Framework or to be hosted in SharePoint Framework. Web cast … more

Thank you to everyone who submitted nominations for the 2016 Office APP Awards.

This year, there was a record breaking amount of participation from our valued Business Partners and their … more

In this webcast, we will walk through the end-to-end process of building an Office Add-in for Excel:  from launching Visual Studio, to writing a bit of JavaScript code that uses the new Excel 201 … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on upcoming SharePoint WebHooks capability. This is capability which will be available for first release tenants starting from summer 2016. … more

Hi folks,

Today we’re announcing the introduction of a new preview API to Microsoft Graph: IdentityRiskEvents. This API works in conjunction with Azure Active Directory Identity Protection and … more

Office 365 and SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) June 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint Online. This release again contains& … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on Microsoft Graph or more specifically covering how the .NET SDK for Microsoft Graph can be used in your customizations. .NET SDK for Microsoft … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on sharing how to get prepared for the upcoming SharePoint Framework. We are showing some of the tools used commonly with SharePoint Framework … more

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint Online. This release again contains& … more

We are happy to announce a new and improved process for enabling easier way to make documentation contributions around the Office 365 Dev and SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) MSDN section. … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on Bulk UPA Custom Profile Properties Update API for SharePoint Online, which enables you to update custom profile properties of your end users in batch … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on showing in practice how to get started with upcoming SharePoint Framework. We demonstrated the preview tooling (*) for development and how the … more

Hi all, we want to give you a heads up on some changes that are coming to the FindMeetingTimes API which is available in preview in Microsoft Graph. We are making these changes to further improve the … more

As you may know, Apple has long encouraged application developers to adopt the 64-bit runtime environment, and we’ve been hearing from customers (e.g. here and here) that 64-bit versions of Mac … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on getting started with general web stack in the context of SharePoint or Office 365. This recording was done before the SharePoint Framework … more

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) May 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on how to manage your app and service principals using either code or using PowerShell. App principals have by default life cycle of one year, which can … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on Quick Contacts PnP sample, which was originally released as part of the April 2016 monthly release. This sample shows how you could use the  … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) versioning and how you can take the different SharePoint target versions into account in your … more

When you are developing your customizations using managed code and with Client Side Object Model (CSOM), it's important to understand that CSOM version to be used is dependent on your … more

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) April 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was … more

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on the Office Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) Special Interest Group (SIG) for JavaScript. This is relatively new SIG and virtual team in the PnP … more