Newsletter – Episode 100

Episode 100 – June 2, 2017

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New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – May 2017 New SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online.

Updated portal and new languages for Microsoft Forms Several updates to Microsoft Forms, including improvements to the Forms portal, more languages and right-to-left reading support

Scale your Office solutions across customer organizations with Office 365 Centralized Deployment Now, using the Centralized Deployment service, IT administrators can deploy Office web add-ins to individual users, groups or an organization, directly from the Office 365 Admin Center or using PowerShell scripts.

videos & presentations

SharePoint PnP Webcast – Common (mis)conceptions about SharePoint Framework

SharePoint Framework – In Wictor Wilen’s Own Words

SharePoint Hybrid Search and Taxonomy Webinar

blogs & tutorials

• Episode 130 on SharePoint developer updates with Vesa Juvonen and Daniel Kogan—Office 365 Developer Podcast
• Stop Phishing Attacks with Mail Flow Rules in Exchange Online
• Microsoft Planner app for eligible Office 365 subscribers lands on iPhone
• Configure Office 365 Groups with on-premises Exchange hybrid
• IT Agility to Realize Full Cloud Value – Evergreen Management

Tools

• SPFx Fantastic 40 Web Parts
• SharePoint Data Generator

People who worked on this episode

Alexander Nichiporovich

Natallia Kalasouskaya

Natallia Makarevich

Dmitry Rogozhny

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Newsletter – Episode 99

Episode 99 – May 26, 2017

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Announcing Microsoft Flow for OneDrive For Business Ability to launch Flow directly from OneDrive is availabla for First Release customers and coming to all tenants over the next few months.

Announcing the public preview of the Office 365 adoption content pack in Power BI The content pack combines the intelligence of the usage reports with the interactive analysis capabilities of Power BI, providing rich usage and adoption insights.

PowerApps and SharePoint – the next wave of creating and running apps Find out the capabilities of PowerApps, which will be rolling out in the coming months.

videos & presentations

Updates to the SharePoint Framework with SharePoint Framework extensions

SharePoint PnP Webcast – Introduction to Visual Studio Extension for SharePoint Framework

SharePoint PnP – PnP Core and PnP PowerShell SIG recording – 17th of May

blogs & tutorials

• Using PowerApps to Build SharePoint List Forms
• SharePoint Framework – In Mark Rackley’s Own Words
• Perform other types of HTTP requests with HttpClient and SPHttpClient in SPFx projects
• Retrieve Office 365 user details with Azure Functions, Microsoft Flow and SharePoint Online

Tools

• SharePoint Online free developer tools list for Windows
• The Ultimate Script to download Microsoft Build 2017 Videos AND slides
• Visual Studio Extension for SharePoint Framework

People who worked on this episode

Alexander Nichiporovich

Natallia Kalasouskaya

Natallia Makarevich

Dmitry Rogozhny

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Newsletter – Episode 98

Episode 98 – May 19, 2017

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Office at Build 2017—announcing new opportunities for developers A post by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team.

Introducing OneDrive Files On-Demand and other features making it easy to access files Office Team released a set of new features that will allow you to see and access all your files on Windows 10, on your mobile devices, and quickly share files on iOS.

Introducing the new SharePoint Admin Center SharePoint team is introducing a completely revamped SharePoint Admin center.

videos & presentations

Watch all the new SharePoint deeper dive demos in the Microsoft Mechanics video playlist

PnP Webcast – SharePoint "Modern" user interface experience scanner

Build bots in Skype for Business

blogs & tutorials

• SharePoint People search gets an upgrade announced at SharePoint Virtual Summit
• The Office Graph is dead, long live the Microsoft Graph!
• A New and Mature SharePoint: 2017 Roadmap
• CollabTalk Podcast | Episode 2
• Rencore TechTalks: Episode 8 – Benefits of using Office 365 PnP in your organization, with Eric Overfield
• A Clever-workaround for Saving Photos to SharePoint from PowerApps
• Modern JSLink, Custom Actions and More coming to the SharePoint Framework
• Using Azure Information Protection (AIP) Labels in SharePoint search
• Share with confidence in Office 365
• Personalize team sites in Office 365 and amplify teamwork using MS Teams and Office 365 Groups

People who worked on this episode

Natallia Kalasouskaya

Natallia Makarevich

Alexander Nichiporovich

Dmitry Rogozhny

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Newsletter – Episode 97

Episode 97 – May 12, 2017

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Build integrated user experiences with new capabilities of SharePoint and OneDrive Office team announced upcoming previews of new APIs and extensible user experiences available for developers across Office, including SharePoint and OneDrive.

Top 10 reasons Day 1 of Build excited developers and Cortana, too Top 10 list of why Day 1 of Build excited developers.

SharePoint Patterns & Practices – May 2017 release SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) May 2017 release is out with new contributions from community for the community.

New MAXPATH limits in SharePoint and OneDrive SharePoint and OneDrive’s Url path length restrictions got increased from 256 Unicode code units to 400.

Microsoft Graph Explorer updated – now with sample queries This update enhances the user experience and makes it easier to explore the Microsoft Graph API from your browser.

SharePoint security fixes released with May 2017 PU and offered through Microsoft Update

videos & presentations

Collaboration updates across your Office apps

How Microsoft leverages Office 365 eDiscovery capabilities

Office 365 Update for May 2017

blogs & tutorials

• PnP JSCore 2.0.5 (sp-pnp-js@2.0.5)
• Office 365 Connectors and WebHooks: Part 1
• Episode 128 on Build preview with Yina Arenas—Office 365 Developer Podcast
• Customizing modern team sites
• SharePoint PnP Webcast – Calling external APIs securely from SharePoint Framework
• How to enable results from private groups on an Enterprise Search Center

People who worked on this episode

Natallia Kalasouskaya

Alexander Nichiporovich

Volha Samusik

Dmitry Rogozhny

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Newsletter – Episode 96

Episode 96 – May 5, 2017

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New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – April 2017 You can find the latest CSOM package for SharePoint Online, including the Project Online CSOM assembly, from the NuGet gallery with an id of ‘Microsoft.SharePointOnline.CSOM’.

videos & presentations

SharePoint PnP Webcast – Debugging SharePoint Framework solutions

blogs & tutorials

• Azure AD and third-party apps: It’s a bigger deal than you might think
• Handling CSS naming conventions in SPFX
• Citizen Development in SharePoint with Marc Anderson — Hyperfish Podcast
• New step-by-step deployment for Office 365 federated authentication in Azure
• Calling an Azure Function from a SharePoint Framework web part (SPFx) – part 1: use of PnP Core, CORS and continuous deployment
• How to integrate PnP JS Core and SharePoint Framework logging systems
• ConfigMgr – Create Office 365 Package through Console

Tools

• Visual Studio extension for SharePoint Framework projects
• SharePoint "Modern" user interface experience scanner
• SP Editor Chrome extension: free open source alternative to Sharepoint Designer

People who worked on this episode

Natallia Kalasouskaya

Alexander Nichiporovich

Dmitry Rogozhny

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Newsletter – Episode 95

Episode 95 – April 28, 2017

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General availability of Office 365 CDN

Introducing Modern Approvals in Flow A suite of new features to streamline your approval processes.

Introducing Microsoft To-Do—now available in Preview New, intelligent task management app that makes it easy to plan and manage your day.

Office 365 ProPlus updates Three important announcements related to ProPlus: changes to the Office 365 system requirements; improvements to the ProPlus update model; and new tools and programs to manage ProPlus application compatibility.

videos & presentations

Getting started with Office 365 CDN

PnP Webcast – What should SharePoint admins know about SharePoint Framework?

blogs & tutorials

• How to generate SharePoint Framework bundles for multiple tenants
• SharePoint, PowerApps, and List View Permissions
• SharePoint time, is not your time, is not their time
• SharePoint 2016 Step By Step Installation
• Email migration to Office 365: Part 6 – Selecting third party products and services
• Guidelines for developing well performing SharePoint Online portals
• How to alert Microsoft Teams from a SharePoint List (with Flow)
• DNS Intrusion Detection in Office 365
• 7 problems you will encounter when using Microsoft Flow (including workarounds)

Tools

• Introducing: SharePoint Online Public CDN Manager
• New Office Visio Stencil

People who worked on this episode

Natallia Kalasouskaya

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Newsletter – Episode 94

Episode 94 – April 21, 2016

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The product group released the April 2017 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server 2016 product family. April 2017 CU for SharePoint Server 2016 is available for download

videos & presentations

SPFx JavaScript SIG – April 13th, 2017

Skype Operations Framework Overview

PnP Monthly Community Call April, 2017

blogs & tutorials

• Overview of labels
• Part Two: Become Acquainted With PowerApps and Flow
• Use Power BI to Help Manage Your SharePoint Sites
• Alternative to innerHTML in SharePoint Framework web parts
• Triggering Azure Functions from Office 365 SharePoint using Microsoft Flow
• Hybrid and Networking Cloud Architecture posters updated for the SharePoint Server 2016 in Azure scenario
• Determine MinRole Compliance via PowerShell Part 2
• Changes to Planner Task API
• Best approaches for branding SharePoint with Eric Overfield — Hyperfish Podcast
• Episode 126 on Outlook extensibility with Andrew Salamatov—Office 365 Developer Podcast

Tools

• Bandwidth Calculator for Microsoft Teams
• A SharePoint REST API Tester with an AJAX and Workflow Writer

People who worked on this episode

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Newsletter – Episode 93

Episode 93 – April 13, 2016

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What’s new in Office 365 Groups for April 2017 Restoring deleted groups, retention policies, label management, and other features have been added.

Announcing the Public Preview of the new Microsoft Graph Reporting APIs The usage reporting APIs complement the existing usage reports by allowing organizations and independent software vendors to incorporate the Office 365 activity data into their existing reporting solutions.

SharePoint Patterns & Practices – April 2017 release SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) April 2017 release is out with new contributions from community for the community.

Announcing Azure SDK for Node.js 2.0 preview This update is packed with features to help you be more productive. 20 modules added for services such as SQL and DocumentDB management.

Announcing New File Viewers Available for OneDrive For Business Now over 250 different file formats are available for online viewing in OneDrive and SharePoint.

videos & presentations

SharePoint PnP Webcast – Provisioning with PnP PowerShell and Azure WebJobs

blogs & tutorials

• April 2017 updates for Get & Transform in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-in
• Writing unit tests for your SharePoint Framework components
• The future of citizen development in SharePoint with the SharePoint Framework
• The SharePoint Permissions Struggles in Office 365 Groups
• Here is what I think is going to be announced for SharePoint in May
• Provisioning SharePoint Content Types Using SPFx Solution
• Episode 125 on Microsoft Teams development with Bill Bliss—Office 365 Developer Podcast
• Validating your Office Add-in manifest just got easier – Introducing the Office Add-in Validator
• Best Practices for ECM in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business
• SharePoint evaluated as a Leader in latest edition of The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Content Management

Tools

• sp-client-custom-fields

People who worked on this episode

Natallia Kalasouskaya

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Newsletter – Episode 92

Episode 92 – April 6, 2017

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Announcing the SharePoint Virtual Summit SharePoint Virtual Summit — a free, global online event — will be on May 16, 2017.

New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – March 2017 This release again contains few updates on the existing SharePoint CSOM assemblies and some maintenance changes.

New to Office 365 in March—co-authoring in Excel and more March updates make the experience even better with co-authoring in Excel, the general availability of Microsoft Teams and more.

What’s new in Office 365 administration—public preview of Microsoft Graph reporting APIs Office 365 team announced the public preview of the new Microsoft Graph reporting APIs, enabling customers to programmatically access the data available within the usage reports.

Big Updates to Office 365 Identity

videos & presentations

PnP Webcast – Programmatically creating and updating modern pages in SharePoint Online

Building Client-Side Web Parts with the SharePoint Framework

SharePoint PnP – JavaScript Special Interest Group Recording, 30th of March 2017

blogs & tutorials

• Getting Started with SharePoint Framework
• The future of SharePoint’s intelligent intranet with Microsoft’s Mark Kashman — Hyperfish Podcast
• SharePoint PnP Webcast – SharePoint Framework and organizational considerations
• Now Available: Mastering the SharePoint Framework – Starter Bundle
• Customizing "modern" team sites
• Correctly reference images in SharePoint Framework solutions
• Microsoft Bot Framework: Contextual authentication with the webchat control in SharePoint
• Episode 124 on getting started with Office 365 development—Office 365 Developer Podcast
• Avoid errors editing SharePoint Framework project configuration with Visual Studio Code intellisense
• Exam Prep: Optimization and Monitoring

Tools

• Desktop Icon to launch Office 365 PowerShell
• Restore a deleted Office 365 Group
• Managed metadata refiner
• SharePoint Online Client Browser v3.2

People who worked on this episode

Dmitry Rogozhny

Natallia Kalasouskaya

Alexander Nichiporovich

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Newsletter – Episode 91

Episode 91 – March 23, 2017 (Subscribe)

news SharePoint Patterns & Practices – March 2017 release SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) March 2017 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. Microsoft Teams rolls out to Office 365 customers worldwide Microsoft Teams — the chat-based workspace in Office 365 is now generally available in 181 markets and in 19 languages. Introducing the new Office 365 profile experience Microsoft rolling out an extended profile card experience across Office 365 to enhance the way user collaborate with colleagues and external contacts. Read more in this article. New Microsoft Teams Training Content Available New Microsoft Teams Training Content Available Announcing Microsoft Flow integration for SharePoint document libraries Announcing Microsoft Flow integration for SharePoint document libraries.

videos & presentations Updates to Conditional Access in Enterprise Mobility + Security Microsoft engineer and identity expert Alex Simons, joins Simon May to demonstrate updates to Conditional Access, part of Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS). Create awesome bots, connectors and tabs in Microsoft Teams In this session you can learn how to tailor Microsoft Teams space with bots, connectors, and dedicated tabs using a simple set of APIs. PnP Webcast – Getting data from SharePoint in SharePoint Framework solution In this PnP Webcast you can learn what are the different options on accessing SharePoint data from SharePoint Framework solution.

blogs & tutorials New open source project: The SharePoint Admin Bot The SharePoint Admin Bot is an attempt to make the everyday jobs of a SharePoint Online Administrator or Power User easier. How to use Handlebars in SharePoint Framework Projects – SPFX In this post author will show how to use Handlebars in SharePoint Framework. The Power of SharePoint Explores how to build out a basic project-management app based on SharePoint lists, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, and Power BI. SharePoint Wiki Bot – How to automate the Azure QnAMaker bot knowledgebase This post shows a proof of concept implementation of an Azure QnAMaker bot that gets its knowledgebase updated by changes in a SharePoint wiki. Walkthrough: Building a Custom Web API for use with SharePoint Online Article describes Web API that is called JavaScript code running in a page in SharePoint Online. Web API is be able to make Client Object Model (CSOM) calls back to SharePoint using the identity of the calling user. Web API is able to authenticate callers to ensure they are members of the Azure Active Directory (AD) associated with SharePoint Online. Perhaps the only SharePoint Framework web part you will ever need An example of a script editor web part that works with SharePoint Framework. Building customizations: Working with the product and not against the product Chakkaradeep Chandran, SharePoint Framework’s PM shares his general thoughts on how to handle customizations. Provisioning modern pages and SPFx web parts Find out how to provision modern pages and web parts using the PnP. What Administrators need to know about the SharePoint Framework Jeremy Thake highlights some scenarios that SharePoint Administrators should be aware of with SharePoint Framework. Active Directory from on-premises to the cloud – Azure AD whitepapers Identity management, provisioning, role management, and authentication are key services both on-premises and through the (hybrid) cloud. Unsurprisingly, identity becomes a service where identity “bridges” in the cloud talk to on-premises directories or the directories themselves move and/or are in the cloud. Azure Functions For SharePoint Operations Using CSOM PowerShell In this article, author will teach how to create Azure function apps for the SharePoint operations using client side object model PowerShell scripts.

Tools SP Editor A Google Chrome Extension for creating and updating files (js, css), injecting files to sites, modifying web property bag values (add, edit, remove, index) and creating webhook subscriptions in SP2013, SP2016 and SharePoint Online from Chrome Developer Tools. PAITSliderSPFX Create a slider in SharePoint using a Promoted Links list, Unslider, and the SharePoint Framework. Correctly reference scripts with Rencore Script Check Using Rencore Script Check you can easily reference external libraries in SharePoint Framework solutions the right way. Clear the Configuration Cache in a SharePoint 2010, 2013, or 2016 farm Here is a script that will clear the SharePoint Configuration Cache on all servers in the farm.

People who worked on this episode Natallia Kalasouskaya Alexander Nichiporovich Dmitry Rogozhny

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