Have you ever wondered how many users are launching your Office add-ins? Or how a recent change has impacted your user return rates?

Today we are excited to announce the availability of enhanced … more

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

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on covering the different hosting environment for your code as you do development time debugging. We covered differences and considerations around using the local … more

The Office Add-ins community call is our quarterly event for developers to connect in real-time with the folks who are building the Office Add-ins platform and JavaScript APIs. During this call, we … more

SharePoint monthly community call is our monthly event for SharePoint developers to stay up to date on the latest changes to SharePoint Dev topics from engineering and community perspective. … more

We are happy to announce the availability of additional Site Script Actions for SharePoint Online Site Designs and Site Scripts. These new actions will enable you to further configure automatically … more

SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) April 2018 update is out with a summary of the latest guidance, samples, and solutions from SharePoint engineering or from the … more

Developers all around the world are creating code samples and snippets using the Microsoft Graph with all sorts of languages in very different ways every day. Each of these community contributions … more

Join us on the first Tuesday of every month for the Microsoft Graph API community call. You can download a recurring monthly calendar invite at https://aka.ms/microsoftgraphcall. 

This month's … more

Azure Access Control (ACS), a service of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), will be retired on November 7, 2018. SharePoint is using ACS in numerous areas, but these are not impacted by this … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on how to use Docker within the SharePoint Framework solution development. Docker provides you an easy way to run multiple different configurations for … more

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

The Outlook Add-ins community call is our quarterly event for developers to connect with the folks behind Outlook. During this call, we will provide updates on the new features we’re working on … more

Wednesday, April 18 - Friday, April 20, 2018

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Metro Toronto Convention Centre South Building Level 700, Room 701A 222 Bremner Blvd., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3L9

Microsoft is … more

One of the more common requests we hear from our developer community is that they’d like us to make it easier to get access to the developer tools they need.  We’ve listened to those … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on how to use AadHttpClient component in the SharePoint Framework for calling enterprise APIs securely. Starting from the SharePoint Framework v1.4.1, tenant … more

March 2018

Upcoming events

Tech Summit

Stockholm

April 17-18, 2018

Register

Tech Summit

Warsaw … more

SharePoint monthly community call is our monthly event for SharePoint developers to stay up to date on the latest changes to SharePoint Dev topics from engineering and community perspective. … more

Join us on the first Tuesday of every month for the Microsoft Graph API community call. You can download a recurring monthly calendar invite at https://aka.ms/microsoftgraphcall. 

This month, … more

SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) March 2018 update is out with a summary of the latest guidance, samples, and solutions from SharePoint engineering or from … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on available actions or operations in the Microsoft Graph towards SharePoint Online. SharePoint has a massive API surface, but the most common operations are also … more

The Microsoft Teams community call is our regular event for developers to stay in sync with Microsoft Teams. We’ll share updates, tips, and connect you to the product teams behind Microsoft … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on how to use MSGraphClient component in the SharePoint Framework. Starting from the SharePoint Framework v1.4.1, tenant administrators can configure and manage … more

Today we are releasing a new set of developer templates that extend the Office 365 platform for an industry specific scenario. This sample solutions is designed to let you build your own apps and to … more

We are happy to announce additional community members being included in the SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) team. We are really excited to grow the team, which will help us to … more

Java developers have spoken, and we’ve listened. We’re excited to announce a preview of our new Java SDK for Microsoft Graph. Java developers can use the SDK to integrate with data, … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on the Office 365 CLI, which is cross-platform command line tool to Office 365 settings. This initiative was first started to address challenges for the … more

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

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on covering steps on how to upgrade your SharePoint Framework solutions which are using older SharePoint Framework packages to latest updates. There are numerous … more

With SharePoint Framework, you can build client-side web parts and extensions across Team and Communication Sites. Microsoft Graph provides API access to an ever-widening set of services across … more

Microsoft Reactor

70 Wilson Street

London, EC2A 2DB

Microsoft is pleased to invite you to an exclusive developer event focused on developing Enterprise … more

February 2018

Upcoming Events

Tech Summit

Washington DC, USA

March 5-6, 2018

Register

Tech Summit … more

SharePoint monthly community call is our monthly event for SharePoint developers to stay up to date on the latest changes to SharePoint Dev topics from engineering and community perspective. … more

On the first Tuesday of every month join us for the Microsoft Graph API community call. You can download a recurring monthly calendar invite at https://aka.ms/microsoftgraphcall.

In this month's … more

SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) February 2018 update is out with a summary of the latest guidance, samples, and solutions from SharePoint engineering or from the … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on Dialog Framework, which is part of the SharePoint Framework. This dialog framework can be used to present alerts, prompts or you can design your own custom … more

Microsoft Reactor

70 Wilson Street

London, EC2A 2DB

Microsoft is pleased to invite you to an exclusive developer event focused on developing next generation& … more

Today we announced new features in Teams that make it an even more powerful hub for teamwork – enabling teams to use apps in new ways and allowing them to take quick actions from wherever they … more

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

The SharePoint Patterns and Practices Team is excited to announce the release of the Patterns and Practices Client-side Libraries (PnPJS). 

Introduction

PnPJS is a fluent JavaScript API … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on introducing the new SharePoint Site Design and Site Script capability, which enables you to modify the default out-of-the-box site collection … more

SharePoint monthly community call is our monthly event for SharePoint developers to stay up to date on the latest changes around SharePoint Dev topics from engineering and community … more

We have just published a new version of the Office 365 CLI with more commands, support for building scripts and completing your input when using the CLI directly in the shell.

Office 365 CLI

Office … more

SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) January 2018 update is out with a summary of the latest guidance, samples, and solutions from SharePoint engineering or from … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on demonstrating how to build self-service site collection provisioning solution using an asynchronous pattern with Azure Functions or with Azure WebJobs. … more

We are pleased to introduce a new Microsoft Graph Quick Start experience for Python. This Quick Start walks you through building an application, including registering a new application and … more

The Microsoft Graph Community Call is our monthly event for developers to stay in sync with the Microsoft Graph API. On the first Tuesday of each month, we’ll share updates, tips and connect … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on the reusable controls which are available for your SharePoint Framework solutions. These controls are designed to increase your productivity when you are … more

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

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on the site collection app catalog features, which enables you to have SharePoint add-ins/apps or SharePoint Framework solutions in site collection … more

The Microsoft Graph API provides a unified endpoint that enables you to interact with a wealth of resources and relationships in order to build intelligent apps. Today, we’re announcing the … more

The usage of SharePoint Framework keeps on growing and while there are already great solutions build, we have noticed that a lot of developers try to achieve the same thing. Also, many … more

SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) December 2017 update is out with new contributions from the community to the community. This post contains all the details related … more

The Microsoft Graph Community Call is our monthly event for developers to stay in sync with the Microsoft Graph API. On the first Tuesday of each month, we’ll share updates, tips and connect … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on asset packaging, which is the default behavior in SharePoint Framework solutions starting from SharePoint Framework v1.4. Starting from version 1.4 … more

SharePoint Framework 1.4 tooling and packages are now available, bringing with them a new set of deployment tools as previously discussed in this blog post.

Asset Packaging - Simplify your … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on having a closer look at the steps around transforming or migrating your existing JavaScript-based implementations in the SharePoint Online to be implemented as … more

Developers on all platforms build solutions for Office 365. Using the Office 365 CLI, they can manage the different settings of SharePoint and Office 365 no matter if they use Windows, macOS or Linux. … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on the new SharePoint Application Lifecycle Management APIs, which enable you to manage SharePoint Framework solutions and SharePoint add-ins in SharePoint … more

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

Introduction

Some of the most common questions we receive from Microsoft Teams developers concern authentication to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), single sign-on (SSO) to Azure AD, and how to … more

As SharePoint Framework continues to grow – in users and developers – the variety of different scenarios and styles of development also continue to expand. Through our feedback site, we& … more

SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) November 2017 update is out with new contributions from the community to the community. This post contains all the details related … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on new the different options for defining an icon for the client-side web part, which is visible in the web part picker. There's multiple different options … more

Code, run, share! We love making it easy to develop Office add-ins. Whether you're an experienced developer or a newbie, we encourage you to dive in, explore, and build with Script Lab, our Microsoft … more

I'm thrilled to announce that you can try writing custom functions in JavaScript starting today.

Custom functions (similar to "user-defined functions", or "UDFs") are JavaScript functions that you … more

The goal of the SharePoint Framework is to allow both Microsoft and customers to build rich, engaging, and consistent user experiences on top of SharePoint. Within the SharePoint product, Office UI … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on new SharePoint Online Tenant Properties capability, which can be used to centrally store value-key pairs, which can be then used in your … more

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

Over the last few years, we have been investing in services that help developers access information in Office 365 in a simple and intuitive way. As we make progress in this journey, some technologies … more

Version 1.0 of the Outlook REST API was launched in 2015 to provide API access to mail, calendar, contacts, and other data from Exchange Online, with support for Basic Authentication.  Over time, … more

The Office 365 discovery service is part of a multi-step flow required to locate and call into individual Office 365 REST API endpoints. Now you can use Microsoft Graph to access Office 365 data in a … more

We’ve updated and extended our guidance around throttling behaviors and web services for SharePoint in Office 365 to focus on identification as a path towards reducing throttling in Office 365. … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on new tenant level theme gallery, which is available for group connected team sites and communication sites to apply a custom branding on the site. You … more

In this SharePoint PnP Partner Story, we concentrated on showing how aequos built a SharePoint intranet using the PnP Intranet starter kit. Aequos is Montreal based company providing … more

SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) October 2017 release is out with new contributions from the community to the community. This post contains all the details related … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on deployment options with SharePoint Framework solutions and more specifically how the tenant-scope deployment setting impacts on the solution deployment. Tenant- … more

We are excited to announce the availability of enhanced Office Add-In analytics within the Seller Dashboard. The new report shows a daily breakdown of acquisitions, centralized deployment data to … more

Each year we receive hundreds of nominations for the Office App Awards since the awards celebrate the top apps and add-ins that help customize the productivity experience for Office users. Nearly two … more

At Microsoft Ignite 2017, we are featuring several new and updated components to Patterns and Practices libraries to help you jump start your development environment. Over time, and with … more

The People's choice award is part of the 2017 Office APP Awards, where we recognize the best of partner add-ins and apps that leverage the Office platform. 

Nominations are now closed. & … more

Welcome

We're excited to welcome the 24,000 Microsoft customers from around the world travelling to Orlando, plus the thousands more attending virtually, to Ignite 2017. We're pleased to share the … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on covering the recent release of SharePoint 2016 Feature Pack 2 with SharePoint Framework support. We talk about the upcoming  … more

Office 365 Content Delivery Network (CDN) capability was initially announced for dev preview in September 2016 and Office 365 public CDN was released for general availability during spring 2017. … more

Excel JavaScript APIs, which are part of the Office.js library, provide a rich set of APIs that you can use to build powerful solutions within Excel that run on multiple platforms. We continue to … more

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

The Global Office 365 Developer Bootcamp is a free, one-day training event led by Microsoft MVPs with support from Microsoft and local community leaders. The bootcamps will provide hands-on labs for … more

The Global Office 365 Developer Bootcamp is a free, one-day training event led by Microsoft MVPs with support from Microsoft and local community leaders. The bootcamps will provide hands-on labs for … more

SharePoint Framework (SPFx) lets you build responsive, engaging web parts using the latest developer frameworks and tools. With the release of Feature Pack 2 for SharePoint Server 2016, you can use … more

SharePoint Dev Ecosystem / SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) September 2017 release is out with new contributions from the community to the community. This post contains all the details related … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrated on covering different options which are available for developers around client-side web part property integration with SharePoint. When you are designing and … more

Botkit now supports Teams

We are continually working to make Microsoft Teams more open and easy for developers to build new apps for Teams. To that end, we're excited to announce that Botkit, one of … more

We'd like to give you a heads-up on some changes coming to the People API. We have incorporated valuable feedback from customers during the preview period and will start rolling out the changes … more

It's time for the 2017 Office APP Awards, where we recognize the best of partner add-ins and apps that leverage the Office platform.  Nominations have now closed.  Winners receive … more

With SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Extensions, you can now customize more facets of the SharePoint experience, including standard page elements like headers as well as command sets and list rendering. … more

In this PnP Webcast, we concentrate on new GDPR Activity Hub reference solution. The GDPR Activity Hub is an open source project that you can consider as a starter kit for building a … more

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

Founded in 2013 and based in Australia, Fyrebox makes it easy for businesses to create a quiz for their website or landing page. In 2016, they integrated with Yammer because they saw a shared market - … more