Newsletter – Episode 90

Episode 90 – March 8, 2017 (Subscribe)

news SharePoint Framework reaches general availability—build and deploy engaging web parts today SharePoint Team is proud to announce the general availability of SharePoint Framework—allowing developers and administrators to build and deploy parts that are used by Office 365 users in their production environments. SharePoint Framework (SPFx) enterprise guidance This document provides administrators with the background, benefits, and knowledge they need to successfully manage SharePoint Framework-based components within their SharePoint environments. File Security in Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive for Business This whitepaper provides an overview of security and compliance best practices for OneDrive for Business in Office 365. Rencore TechTalks: Episode 3 – Getting to know Feature Pack 1 for SharePoint 2016 with Trevor Seward In this episode, Rencore is catching up with Trevor Seward on what the Feature Pack 1 is and what Trevor’s favorite features are. Rencore TechTalks: Episode 4 – SharePoint 2016 and the BI workloads with John White In this episode, Rencore is catching up with John White on SharePoint 2016 and the BI workloads. Australia Ignite 2017 Videos from Australia Ignite 2017 Conference that was held on Feb 14–17 in 2017. Hyperfish Podcast – Cracking the Knowledge Management nut with Office Delve with Sue Hanley Jeremy Thake talks to Sue Hanley, Office 365 MVP and collaboration and knowledge management consultant, about how Office Delve can help get you closer to the knowledge management nirvana she’s been dreaming about for over 20 years. What the SharePoint Framework means to users with Andrew Connell — Hyperfish Podcast Jeremy Thake talks to Andrew Connell, Founder of Voitanos and Microsoft MVP, about the SharePoint Framework and what it means to users of Office 365.

videos & presentations PnP Webcast – Provisioning SharePoint assets for your SPFx solution Presentation for the SharePoint PnP webcast around SharePoint asset provisioning when solution is taken into use. Deploying and Governing Office 365 Groups Explore how to get Office 365 Groups deployed and setup and how to do this with the most common Hybrid setups of Exchange. In addition, author will also go through the various governance and control options to help keep groups well controlled in a large organisation. SharePoint Patterns & Practices – JavaScript Special Interest Group Recording, 2nd of March 2017 SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) – JavaScript Special Interest Group (SIG) bi-weekly call recording for the 2nd of March, 2017 meeting is now available from PnP YouTube channel. PnP Webcast – Provisioning SharePoint assets for your SPFx solution In this PnP Webcast, PnP team covered different options around provisioning SharePoint assets to SharePoint sites as part of the SharePoint Framework solution package. SharePoint PnP Webcast – Business Value of PnP assets – Why to use reusable components? This webcast can be considered as 100 level introduction to the SharePoint PnP initiative, including objectives and value it’s targeted to provide for the customers and partners.

blogs & tutorials 5 Things SharePoint Client Side Developers Should Stop Doing Immediately (1/5) In this series of articles author will explain what a SharePoint client side developer need to stop doing so that he/she could be ready to play in the new playground. What’s Next for the SharePoint Framework? If you are a SharePoint developer doing any work in SharePoint Online and you have held out on taking a look at the SharePoint Framework, now is a good time to start taking a look. All you never wanted to know about Exchange Online, Azure AD and Office 365 Groups creation Here you will find some insights from Mikael Svenson into the magic of moving the groups when migrating from on-premises to Office 365. Azure AD Group Based Licensing Overview of Azure AD Group Based Licensing. Customize SharePoint from Mac OS In this article author will explain how to save time and how to get access to all the files and folders needed to customize SharePoint sites from your Mac. Move SharePoint Online Files with PowerShell Learn how to manage and automate your SharePoint Online Document Libraries with the Patterns and Practices PowerShell. Understanding the SharePoint Framework Development Toolchain Email Course Over the course of ten days, author will deliver daily, easy to digest emails to your inbox that will peel back the onion and simplify what may be confusing you in this new development model. How to customize search results look by using result types and display templates in SharePoint 20106 SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2010? Display templates are templates used in Web Parts that use search technology (referred to in this article as Search Web Parts) to show the results of a query made to the search index. Display templates control which managed properties are shown in the search results, and how they appear in the Web Part. For more details read the article. Creating Azure Functions For SharePoint Operations Using Managed CSOM In this article, you will learn how to create Azure function apps to test SharePoint operations, using Managed CSOM code. Azure function is a way to run the solutions or piece of code over the Cloud. It helps in processing the data or integrating other systems or even working with the internet of things devices.

Tools SPCAF v6.9 is out with support for SharePoint Framework RC0 SPCAF v6.9 which supports analysis of solutions built with the SharePoint Framework Release Candidate 0 has been released.

SharePoint 101 (Novice Level)

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Newsletter – Episode 89

Episode 89 – February 22, 2017 (Subscribe)

news The NEW Office 365 Roadmap Site The Office 365 Roadmap has moved to a new home. Announcing Power BI Web Part (Preview) for SharePoint The new Power BI web part is an early preview. Creating add-ins gets easier — announcing updates to Yo Office Office Team announced changes to the Yeoman Office Add-in generator with Fabric templates and TypeScript support. Upcoming changes to SharePoint and OneDrive for Business APIs to support # and % in file names The set of supported characters in OneDrive and SharePoint filenames and folders would be broadened over time to support # and % characters.

videos & presentations An introduction to Office 365 Secure score A 4 minute overview of Office 365 Secure Score, a new tool that helps you to automatically assess the security posture of your Office 365 accounts, data, and devices. SharePoint PnP Partner Story – How Solvion is using PnP assets in their customer deployments This video shows how Solvion is using the reusable SharePoint PnP components and patterns in their solutions built for their customers. PnP Webcast – SharePoint Customizations – When to use which model? Webcast around different SharePoint development or customization models. Integrate Power BI reports in SharePoint Online The Power BI report web part is now available for SharePoint Online.

blogs & tutorials How to – Set the body and headers for the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) httpClient The article shows how to make basic http calls with the SPFx HttpClient class. Using Power BI for Additional SharePoint Reporting In this article, author introduces Power BI tool and will cover some reports that can easily complement built-in reports. Episode 117 with Jeremy Thake on Microsoft Teams and extensibility—Office 365 Developer Podcast In episode 117 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates are joined by Jeremy Thake to discuss Microsoft Teams and extensibility. Gaps and differences between a Group 365 Modern Team Site and a plain old Team Site This post outlines some of the differences between an Office 365 Group Modern Team Site and a plain old SharePoint Team Site as of February 7th 2017. 70-339 Study Guide: Managing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 The 70-339: Managing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 exam is the one and only SharePoint 2016 exam required to get your Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) Productivity Certification. SharePoint Framework and Contextual Bots via Back Channel The sample does a good job of explaining the basics of the Bot Framework DirectLine channel and WebChat component (built with React). PowerShell Web Access to Manage SharePoint In this article you will find how you can deploy the PowerShell Web Access Gateway onto one of your SharePoint servers to allow remote users to perform remote PowerShell operations. PnP PowerShell overview SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) contains a library of PowerShell commands (PnP PowerShell) that allows you to perform complex provisioning and artifact management actions towards SharePoint. The commands use CSOM and can work against both SharePoint Online as SharePoint On-Premises.

Tools Search Architectures for SharePoint Server 2016 The attached poster gives an overview of the search architecture in SharePoint Server 2016. It describes the search components and databases in the search architecture and how these interact. It also shows an example of a medium-sized search farm. Excel Bot ExcelBot is a bot built with the Microsoft Bot Framework that demonstrates how to use Excel with the Microsoft Graph API. PnP Starter Intranet for SharePoint 2013/2016 and SharePoint Online This solution aims to provide the fundamental building blocks of a common intranet solution with SharePoint 2013/2016 on-premises and SharePoint Online through a lightweight client side solution. Gd-sprest project updates This post will go over the latest changes to the gd-sprest project. This framework is used to develop against the SharePoint 2013/Online REST API.

SharePoint 101 (Novice Level) Rencore TechTalks Podcast Hyperfish Podcast

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Newsletter – Episode 88

Episode 88 – February 8, 2017 (Subscribe)

news Office 365 news in January—updates to OneDrive, Activity feed and more Happy New Year from Office! Office 365 Team is kicking off 2017 with updates to OneDrive, the Activity feed within the Office apps, Microsoft StaffHub and more. Read on for the details. Site Mailboxes being removed Microsoft is notifying Office 365 customers that access to Site Mailboxes is being removed from SharePoint Online, and no more Site Mailboxes can be created from March 2017 onward. Upgrade Windows Azure Active Directory Sync and Azure Active Directory Sync. Microsoft will be removing Azure Active Directory Synchronization feature from Office 365, beginning April 13. SharePoint PnP JavaScript Core Library v2.0 The latest release of the Patterns and Practices JavaScript Core Library represents an exciting milestone in library evolution. New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – January 2017 The SharePoint Engineering team announced availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model version targeted for SharePoint and Project Online. Episode 115 on January Microsoft and community updates—Office 365 Developer Podcast In episode 115 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates discuss Microsoft and dev community announcements in January. Episode 116 on Sage and Office 365 bundling with Richard Custance—Office 365 Developer Podcast In episode 116 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk to Microsoft Developer Evangelist Richard Custance about Sage and their work building a solution that is highly integrated and bundled with Office 365.

videos & presentations SharePoint Patterns & Practices – PnP Core and PnP PowerShell SIG recording – 25th of January SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) – PnP Core, PnP PowerShell and provisioning engine Special Interest Group (SIG) weekly call recording for the 25th of January meeting is now available from PnP YouTube channel at http://aka.ms/sppnp-videos. Presentation is available from the PnP docs at http://aka.ms/sppnp-docs. PnP Webcast – Introduction to SharePoint webhooks This PnP webcast gives you an introduction into SharePoint Webhooks. SharePoint Webhooks allow developers to build services which receive notifications on specific events that occur in SharePoint. SharePoint Framework Tutorial 1 – HelloWorld WebPart This tutorial will guide you in building a simple client-side web part using the SharePoint client-side development tools. SharePoint Framework SPFx Webinar by Andrew Connell Live Webinar "Introduction to the SharePoint Framework SPFx" by Andrew Connell MVP. Andrew provides a great introduction to the SharePoint Framework and Client Side Web Part development.

blogs & tutorials SharePoint PnP Webcast – Getting started with SharePoint Framework development In this PnP Webcast, you may find all the great resources which are available for SharePoint developers around the SharePoint Framework. Use Microsoft Flow to grab image of the day for SharePoint The default Search Center in SharePoint is quite minimalist- just an empty page layout with a search box. This post will show you how to use the workflow logic of Microsoft Flow to grab a reference to the Bing image of the day, copy its URL to a SharePoint list, and then use client side scripting to set the image as a background to your search center or use elsewhere in your portal. The future of SharePoint Intranet in-a-box customizations Jeremy Thake on how new SharePoint Framework may influence the intranet in-a-box market. Automate publishing of your SharePoint Framework scripts to Office 365 public CDN Elio Struyf shows how to automate the workflow of publishing web part assets by extending SharePoint Framework build chain. Microsoft Teams vs Slack – A Detailed Look [Infographic] A detailed, visual comparison between what both apps have to offer. Authorization considerations for tenants hosted in the Germany, China or US Government environments When your Office 365 tenant is hosted in a specific environment like the Germany, China or US Government environments then you’ll need to take this in account when you’re developing against your tenant.

Tools New SharePoint Online Management Shell (PowerShell) released The SharePoint Online Management Shell is a tool that contains a Windows PowerShell Module to manage your SharePoint Online subscription in the Office 365. SharePoint LegalPortal A portal dashboard application for SharePoint built using AngularJS and Bootstrap. Chrome SP Dev Tool It is a Chrome extension meant to help both SharePoint users and developers. SharePoint bot using the Bot Framework, OAuth2 and Node.js In this sample, you can find how to search for your SharePoint content from a bot using the Bot Framework, OAuth2 and Node.js.

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Newsletter – Episode 87

Episode 87 – January 24, 2017 (Subscribe)

news SharePoint Webhooks is now Generally Available – Build service-oriented processes in SharePoint With webhooks, SharePoint has a new notification capability that makes it easier for developers to respond and react to content updates in SharePoint, within their organization. With these notifications, developers can build their own document processing steps or downstream communications. DOD Level 5 PA granted to Microsoft Azure and Office 365 The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) granted accreditation for Azure and Office 365 to handle controlled unclassified information (CUI). January 2017 CU for SharePoint 2013 product family is available for download The product group released the January 2017 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2013 product family. For January 2017 CU full server packages (also known as Uber packages) are available. No other CU is required to fully patch SharePoint. New AzureAD Module for Office 365 New AzureAD Module for Office 365 is available. Microsoft StaffHub is here! Microsoft announces the worldwide general availability of Microsoft StaffHub—a new application for Office 365 designed to help staff workers manage their workday—with schedule management, information sharing and the ability to connect to other work-related apps and resources.

videos & presentations SharePoint / Office Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) – January 2017 monthly community call recording This is the recording of PnP monthly community call from Tuesday 10th of January. PnP monthly community calls are for covering changes in the SharePoint PnP initiative during past month, provide credits for all the community contributors and for demonstrating new capabilities with community demos. SharePoint PnP Webcast – Localization with SharePoint Framework client-side web parts In this PnP Webcast, Waldek Mastykarz and Vesa Juvonen covered localization techniques with SharePoint Framework client-side web parts. Concentration is around how to localize static content in the web part based on the needed UI language. SharePoint PnP Webcast – Customization options with SharePoint Online ‘modern’ experiences The following topics are covered here: available MSDN guidance, modern experiences – current customization support status, modern site provisioning, what’s customizations are supported currently on modern sites, customizing modern lists and libraries.

blogs & tutorials Avoiding dependency issues in SharePoint Framework (SPFx) development The post by Chis O’Brien covers some pitfals you would want to avoid when developing web parts with SharePoint Framework. Developing SharePoint Framework Web Parts Using ReactJS In this article, you will learn how to develop SharePoint framework webparts using ReactJS. Episode 114 on Azure Functions for SharePoint add-ins with Doug Ware—Office 365 Developer Podcast In episode 114 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk to MVP Doug Ware about Azure Functions and using them with SharePoint add-ins. Introducing Azure Functions for SharePoint Introduction to the first public release of Azure Functions for SharePoint, a powerful but inexpensive to operate open source backbone for SharePoint add-ins. The future of Microsoft collaboration is Microsoft Teams Article contains overview of Microsoft Teams. Using Microsoft Flow for event confirmations In this article author uses Flow and Typeform to create public registration page. Build custom controls for the SharePoint Framework web part property pane This articles explains how you can build custom property pane controls for SharePoint Framework web parts. Build multi-page SharePoint Framework client-side web parts with Angular v1.x When building SharePoint Framework web parts using Angular you might need to implement multiple views. This article explains how to do it without breaking other web parts on the page. Extending Webpack in the build pipeline used in SPFX Extending Webpack in the build pipeline used in SPFX. SharePoint Online Search Isn’t Displaying What I Expect – Part 1 – Trimmed Duplicates The first post in the series about search in SharePoint Online. Build a SharePoint webhook with Node.js A showcase of how the newly available SharePoint webhooks can be leveraged from Node.js. Comics: Office IT Pro Adventure – Issue 1 Comics: Office IT Pro Adventure – Issue 1 SharePoint Framework Reference The SharePoint Framework object model is built in TypeScript. Use this documentation section to learn more about the classes, methods, and other types available for building your SharePoint Framework solutions.

Tools Setting Administrators on all SharePoint Online Site Collections Currently, there is no way how you automatically assign users or groups as site collection administrators in your tenant. And while you can manage the settings per site collection in the SharePoint Online Administration area of the Office 365 portal, doing so for dozens or hundreds of sites is not a productive use of time. SharePoint Client Browser for SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server (on-prem) This tool allows to view a site collection structure, find hidden lists, and documents, view configuration and properties of sites.

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Newsletter – Episode 86

Episode 86 – January 12, 2017 (SUBSCRIBE)

news SharePoint Framework Release Candidate 0 is on its way SharePoint team has published the Release Candidate 0 of SharePoint Framework. A set of changed items and potential breaking changes listed on GitHub. SharePoint / Office Dev Patterns & Practices – January 2017 release SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices January 2017 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was included with the release and what else has been happening in the PnP world during the past month. New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – December 2016 Microsoft announces availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online. New Office 365 ProPlus deployment guide for IT pros now available The Office 365 ProPlus deployment team has been working hard to give IT pros the tools they need to successfully deploy Office 365 ProPlus in various scenarios. Microsoft recently released a new guide focused on making organization’s ProPlus deployment a success. The new Office.com gets first major update Microsoft is now rolling out new changes that will greatly increase the ease of navigating apps and improve access to frequent and recently opened documents. These changes started rolling out in December and will continue through early 2017. New usage reports for SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online are here! Short intro into new usage reports in Office 365. New to Office 365 in December 2016 — accessibility updates and more This post by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team, is the summary for the December updates to the Office apps and more. What’s new in Office 365 administration—December update Recent updates to the Office 365 admin experience include a new OneDrive for Business admin center, new settings to manage Microsoft Teams and GigJam, and improvements to the new Service health dashboard. This article is the summary of the recent updates in December 2016.

videos & presentations Step-by-step guide to building PowerApps for SharePoint Office 365 provides helpful tools to automate business processes including the ability to build new apps without custom code. In this demo bench you’ll learn how to use PowerApps to gather SharePoint list data on mobile devices, Microsoft Flow and the Data Gateway to bring cloud data to on premises SQL and Power BI to build dashboards that you can easily embed in SharePoint SharePoint Is Evolving: Your Customizations Should Too! In the following webinar, Mark Rackley discusses the new possibilities available through the SharePoint Framework (SPFx), and explores existing custom solutions to see if they will carry forward easily. ESPC16 Keynote 3: What is the Future of SharePoint Customizations? In this keynote PnP Core team members will use the history of SharePoint to explain where we are heading and why. PnP Webcast: Using modern web stack with SharePoint on-premises deployments This PnP Webcast covers how to get started on using modern web stack development in on-premises deployments. PnP Webcast – Custom property pane controls with SharePoint Framework This PnP Webcast covers how to build a reusable control as a custom property pane control. PnP Webcast – Cascading property pane drop-downs with SharePoint Framework In this Webcast, Waldek Mastykarz and Vesa Juvonen covered how to build cascading asynchronous drop-downs for property pane of client-side web part.

blogs & tutorials Introducing the Office 365 Productivity Library This article contains introduction to Office 365 Productivity Library. This library introduces the concept of Productivity Cards – resources that help users understand how they can be more productive, provide tips to work faster, and show them various tools, which will assist with making faster decisions. The State of SharePoint and Office 365 Development: An interview with Microsoft’s Vesa Juvonen Rencore company (you may know their SPCAF products) has published an exclusive interview with Vesa Juvonen, a Senior Program Manager within SharePoint engineering at Microsoft, talking about state of SharePoint and Office 365 development. SharePoint Framework guidance: reference third-party CSS styles in SharePoint Framework web parts This article shows two different approaches to include third-party CSS styles in web parts and how each approach affects the resulting web part bundle. SharePoint and Client-side development  – The common build toolchain This article will give an introduction to SharePoint and client-side development and common build toolchain that should be used. Top 6 SharePoint Reports for IT Admins The aim of this article is to give a guidance on reports that will help to maintain, manage, and improve SharePoint deployments. Free eBook: Planning and Preparing for Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid The ‘Planning and Preparing for Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid’ eBook from Microsoft Press has been made freely available for download.

Tools SharePoint framework samples You have probably already seen the Github collection of the code samples and developer content targeted towards SharePoint Framework client-side web parts. Here is some more from Microsoft: https://aka.ms/spfx-samples.

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Newsletter – Episode 85

Episode 85 – December 22, 2016 (SUBSCRIBE)

news Top 25 European SharePoint Influencers for 2016 Announced The Top 25 European SharePoint Influencers for 2016 mark the 6th iteration of an esteemed list of thoughts leaders who showcase the power and value that individuals bring to the Microsoft ecosystem. Patterns and Practices (PnP) December 2016 release is out! SharePoint/Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices December 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. Read this post to overview all the details related to what was included with the release and what else has been happening in the PnP during the past month. SharePoint / Office 365 Dev PnP Webcast – Introducing Office 365 Connectors Office 365 Connectors are a great way to get useful information and content into your Office 365 Groups or Microsoft Teams, which is then available for the end users. Visio is coming to the web and iOS Visio is coming to the web and iOS. New SharePoint Online Management Shell version 16.0.5903.1200 has released in December The SharePoint Online Management Shell is a tool that contains a Windows PowerShell Module to manage your SharePoint Online subscription in the Office 365. December 2016 CU for SharePoint Server 2016 is available for download The product group released the December 2016 Cumulative Update for SharePoint Server 2016 product family. This CU also includes Feature Pack 1 which was released with November 2016 CU.

videos & presentations Microsoft MyAnalytics – a closer look Product lead, Catherine Pidgeon, demonstrates MyAnalytics in Office 365 and how you can use it to assess your time at work, including who you’re spending your time with, how you are using your time in meetings, your overall email habits and the impact of your communications with others. PnP Webcast – Building multi-view React client-side web parts with SPFx This PnP Webcast by Waldek Mastykarz and Vesa Juvonen covers considerations around multi-view web parts, where the presentation layer is changed based on the status of the web part, and includes a demo with a sample web part built with React in practice.

blogs & tutorials Generate an app to manage data in a SharePoint list Learn how to generate a three-screen app automatically to manage data in a SharePoint list with PowerApps. SharePoint & Office 365 Usage: An Industry Study (Infographics) In order to better understand the SharePoint landscape, Sharegate company collected key information on SharePoint and Office 365 usage and deployment worldwide. Modern SharePoint Web Parts updates noticed Read article to take a closer look at modern web parts. How to handle automatic CSS class renaming in SPFx The new SharePoint Framework has a safety net when you develop and style your components. Whenever you write a new style sheet class this will be picked up by a SASS preprocessor that first compiles the SASS file and then applies a special random string to the class name. Read article for more information. Episode 110 with Yina Arenas on Microsoft Graph—Office 365 Developer Podcast In episode 110 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with Yina Arenas about updates to the Microsoft Graph. SharePoint Podcast: ESPC16 Interview with Mike Fitzmaurice In episode 110 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with Yina Arenas about updates to the Microsoft Graph.

Tools Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365 Training This series of 10 videos provides training for implementing Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365. It features Jon Ormond, Paul Andrew, Konstantin Ryvkin, Joshua Maher, Hao Yan, Paul Collinge, and Duong Au.

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Newsletter – Episode 84

Episode 84 – December 6, 2016 (SUBSCRIBE)

news New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – November 2016 New SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version is targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online. Updates for Excel Services and BI in SharePoint 2016 on-premises There are some updates on what has changed with SharePoint Server 2016 BI. Updates include architecture changes to the SharePoint-based on-premises Microsoft BI Stack and how you can benefit from upgrading your BI farms to SharePoint Server 2016, SQL 2016 and Office Online Server with Excel Online. New to Office 365 in November — new collaboration capabilities and more Microsoft team is announcing several updates to the Office apps to help you easily and effectively collaborate with others.This includes real – time co – authoring in PowerPoint, the ability to upload attachments to the cloud directly from Outlook and other collaboration capabilities. SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) repositories moving in GitHub As part of the SharePoint/Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices ownership changes to SharePoint engineering, PnP team has decided transfer the PnP initiative GitHub repositories from OfficeDev GitHub organization to SharePoint organization. SharePoint Framework Drop 6 is available Drop 6 of the SharePoint Framework is now available also with first release tenants.

videos & presentations PnP Webcast – Introducing Office 365 Connectors This PnP Web Cast with Paolo Pialorsi and Vesa Juvonen is around the Office 365 Connectors. PnP Webcast – PnP Core and PnP PowerShell SIG recording – 30th of November This is PnP Core, PnP PowerShell and provisioning engine Special Interest Group (SIG) weekly call recording for the 30th of November meeting. PnP Webcast – Building multi-view Angular 1.x client-side web parts with SharePoint Framework In this PnP Webcast, Vesa Juvonen concentrated on covering the considerations around multi-view web parts, where the presentation layer is changed based on the status of the web part. PnP Webcast – Building real time news feed web part with SharePoint Framework In this PnP Webcast, you will look at the client-side web part to build a real time notification model with SharePoint Framework using React.js, Office UI Fabric React components, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Storage Queue, and node.js. Accessible authoring tips and updates in Office 365 Office 365 Accessibility Product Manager, Malavika Rewari, walks through specific tips and updates that help you to author accessible content with Office 365 and ensure your peers with disabilities can consume your content without any issues. New intelligent Office 365 app experiences Look at this short web cast by Microsoft Mechanics about Intelligent new capabilities in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook, including updates to personal work analytics.

blogs & tutorials Embed a Yammer feed into a SharePoint site For SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server 2013, you can easily add a Yammer feed to a SharePoint with Yammer Embed. This blog post will show how to do it. Should you start writing production code on the SharePoint Framework now? Modern pages are starting to become prevalent (and the default), and users are using them – so if you’re customizing SharePoint or adding new functionality based on web parts, you might run into problems soon if your web part will not work here. Read article for more details. Use smart filters to find your file or list item Smart filters can help you find the file or list item you’re looking for. When you make a filter selection, items that don’t match are removed from the list shown on the page. DIWUG SharePoint e-Magazine #18 The DIWUG SharePoint eMagazine is a free downloadable magazine with articles written by MCMs, MVPs and other authors from the SharePoint community. The target audiences are IT-pros, developers and end (power) users. How to use Masonry in SharePoint Framework client-side web parts Masonry is a popular library frequently used in JavaScript customizations. Here is how you can use it in SharePoint Framework. Unity Connect 2016 presentation slides available This blog post by Waldek Mastykarz where he shares his slides from the recent Unity Connect 2016. Take a look if you are interested in presentation about building productivity solutions using the Microsoft Graph. Modern SharePoint pages and team news pages – how to query/search for them This blog post by Chris O’Brian is about new modern pages (they are also in SharePoint team sites in Office 365 now) and how they are working.

Tools SPCSR SPCSR is a Community driven SharePoint client script library. It contains all of the available Display Template samples provided by the SharePoint community members and javascript libraries that can be used in Display Templates and other CSR scripts. SharePoint Framework client-side web part samples & tutorial materials Code samples and developer content targeted towards SharePoint Framework client-side web parts.

SharePoint 101 (Novice Level) 10 ways to move a SharePoint document 10 ways to move a SharePoint document. SharePoint Basic List Item Operations Using TypeScript In this article, you will learn how to perform basic list item operations in SharePoint using TypeScript with the help of classes and variables.

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Newsletter – Episode 83

Episode 83 – November 22, 2016 (Subscribe)

news New FastTrack offer to migrate SharePoint 2013 customers to Office 365 Microsoft has announced a limited-time offer of migration services from on-premises SharePoint 2013 to Office 365—available at no additional cost to eligible Office 365 customers until March 31, 2017. SharePoint/Office Dev Patterns & Practices – November 2016 release 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 was included with the release and what else has been happening in the PnP world during the past month. SharePoint/Office Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) – Nov 2016 monthly community call recording This is the recording of PnP monthly community call from Tuesday 8th of November. PnP monthly communnity calls are for covering changes in the PnP initiative during past month, provide credits for all the community contributors and for demonstrating new capabilities with community demos. Introducing Outlook Customer Manager – relationships made easy for small businesses The Outlook team is introducing a new Office 365 service called Outlook Customer Manager. Outlook Customer Manager gives you a complete view of your interactions with each customer, helps you track tasks and deals in progress, and surfaces timely reminders. Simplifying SharePoint integration story SQL Server Reporting Services Team presents SQL Server v.Next to make Reporting Services a fantastic BI solution you can deploy on its own – and more easily integrate with SharePoint if you so choose. Feature Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2016 now available Through the November 2016 Public Update for SharePoint Server 2016, several new features are being delivered based on customer feedback, extending support for hybrid scenarios and developer needs, including MinRole enhancements to support small and medium-sized farms, Custom tiles in the SharePoint app launcher, SharePoint hybrid auditing unified across site collections on-premises and in Office 365 and many others.

videos & presentations SharePoint PnP Webcast – Building multi-view Angular 1.x client-side web parts with SharePoint Framework In this webcast, the PnP team covered considerations around multi-view web parts, where the presentation layer is changed based on the status of the web part. Considerations are being also demonstrated with a client-side web part built with Angular 1.x. SharePoint PnP Webcast – Reuse your existing JavaScript libraries with SharePoint Framework In this PnP Webcast, team was concentrated on covering the steps on how you can reuse your existing investments on JavaScript when developing with SharePoint Framework solutions. SharePoint Patterns & Practices – PnP Core and PnP PowerShell SIG recording – 16th of November SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) – PnP Core, PnP PowerShell and provisioning engine Special Interest Group (SIG) weekly call recording for the 16th of November meeting is now available from PnP YouTube channel at http://aka.ms/sppnp-videos.

blogs & tutorials The case of Get-SPOSite This post covers a big change in the naming of SharePoint PnP cmdlets. Implement a real time news feed using the SPFx, Azure Logic Apps and socket.io An example of implementing a live update for a web part that gets data from SharePoint. Working With Web Part Properties Of SharePoint Online Pages Using PnP Core CSOM Library In this article, you will learn how to retrieve and update the web part properties of a page using PnP Core CSOM library on SharePoint online sites. Best practices for SQL Server in a SharePoint Server farm Learn how to implement best practices for SQL Server in a SharePoint Server 2013 farm. Office 365 Groups and Tasks API – ESPC 2016 session resources Office 365 Groups and Tasks API – ESPC 2016 session resources Video demo of Zero Downtime Patching in SharePoint Server 2016 Video demo of Zero Downtime Patching in SharePoint Server 2016 Using Kendo UI in SharePoint Online—The ‘How To’ Series In this guide, learn how to use Kendo UI to boost your productivity and create beautiful custom solutions for SharePoint development.

Tools Microsoft Graph Explorer Update – Revamped and Expanded The new Graph explorer has autocomplete, so as soon as the user starts typing, the explorer presents the options for continued queries. Learn about this and many other cool functionalities from this blog post.

SharePoint 101 (Novice Level) Create connected SharePoint Online team sites in seconds Brief instructions on how to create Group connected SharePoint Online team sites in seconds.

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

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Newsletter – Episode 82

Episode 82 – November 8, 2016 (SUBSCRIBE)

news New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – October 2016 SharePoint team announced 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 contains few updates on the existing SharePoint CSOM assemblies and some maintenance changes. In-depth look at Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams is the chat-based workspace in Office 365 that helps teams achieve more together. Microsoft Mechanics catches up with Dan Stevenson, principal group program manager for Microsoft Teams, who demonstrates step by step how to get started—from user experiences for chat and collaboration to what Office 365 administrators need to do to enable and manage Microsoft Teams. Enhanced control over third-party apps now available in Office 365 Microsoft is announcing App Permissions as part of Office 365 Advanced Security Management to help with that problem. SharePoint mobile apps for Windows 10 Mobile, Android and iOS The SharePoint mobile journey continues, and Microsoft wanted to provide details with a quick update across all SharePoint mobile apps. SharePoint welcomes PowerApps and Microsoft Flow October 31, 2016 Microsoft marks general availability of Microsoft Flow and PowerApps, which enable people to automate workflows and quickly build custom apps that suit their specific needs and both products support integration with SharePoint. Office 365 news roundup This article is a roundup of some key news items from the last couple of weeks from Office 365 team.

videos & presentations SharePoint PnP Webcast – Building a sample search web part with SharePoint Framework using React In this PnP Webcast, Microsoft concentrated on covering sample web part with search capability. This search web part is built using React and implements Flux pattern for the cross-component communications in React. SharePoint Patterns & Practices – JavaScript Special Interest Group Recording – 27th of October PnP JavaScript SIG weekly calls are targeted for anyone who are interested on the JavaScript based development towards SharePoint Online and also on-premises.

blogs & tutorials JS Core now on CDNJS PnP JS Core library is now available at the cdnjs project. This makes it easier to include the library in your projects. SharePoint AMA Post-Ignite 2016! – Microsoft Product Group and MVP’s Microsoft Product Group and MVPs have visited reddit’s ask me anything (AMA). Lots of interesting questions and answers. Migrate SharePoint JavaScript customizations to SharePoint Framework – reference functions from script files When migrating existing SharePoint JavaScript customizations to SharePoint Framework you have to ensure that your script files can be used by client-side web parts. Here is how to do it. Announcing PowerApps environments Environments for PowerApps are spaces to store, manage, and share your organization’s business data, apps, and flows. They also serve as containers to separate apps that may have different roles, security requirements, or target audiences. Build your PnP Site Provisioning with PowerShell in Azure Functions and run it from Flow This article will explain how to build Azure Function and use PnP to provision SharePoint Online sites without firing up Visual Studio. Introducing Data Loss Prevention Policies in Microsoft Flow Microsoft is releasing the Microsoft Flow Admin Center which will enable administrators to create Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies that define which services business data can be shared with when using Flow. Loading frameworks and libraries in SharePoint Framework projects There are a number of ways to reference frameworks and libraries in SharePoint Framework projects. But which one is the best for your project? Read this blog to get more information. Configure Cloud Hybrid Search In SharePoint Server 2016 And Office 365 In this article, will be shown how to configure Cloud hybrid search in SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365. SharePoint Programming With TypeScript – Part One In this article, you will learn the basics and prerequisites to be installed for SharePoint programming, using TypeScript. Visual Studio tool has been used for learning.

Tools How to add a Twitter feed to a SharePoint site This article explains how to create Twitter Widget and add it to SharePoint page. Tiles Menu Web Part The tiles menu web part generates a dynamic clickable titles gallery in your web page. This web part uses unitegallery.js.

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

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Newsletter – Episode 81

Episode 81 – October 25, 2016 (SUBSCRIBE)

news SharePoint/Office Dev Patterns & Practices – October 2016 release 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 what was included with the release and what else has been happening in the PnP world during the past month. SharePoint Framework (SPFx) drop #5 now available with TypeScript 2.0 support The latest release, 1.0.5, of the Patterns and Practices JavaScript Core Library includes some new enhancements and fixes to issues reported since the last release. The largest change is the move to support TypeScript 2.0. SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) assemblies now available as NuGet packages for SP2013 and SP2016 Microsoft has announced availability of SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) assemblies as NuGet packages for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016, which previously was shipped as seperate msi’s. SharePoint mobile app for Windows 10 Mobile now in the Windows Store If you are an owner of a Windows phone, try to install this app to Win 10 mobile OS!

videos & presentations PnP Webcast: Azure AD implicit flow with SPFx client-side web part In this new PnP Webcast you will concentrated on covering current status around connecting Azure AD secured assets from SharePoint Framework (SPFx) client-side web parts. SharePoint PnP Oct 19 meeting recording is now available SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) – PnP Core, PnP PowerShell and provisioning engine Special Interest Group (SIG) weekly call recording for the 19th of October meeting is now available.

blogs & tutorials Creating a SharePoint Strategy This SharePoint strategy template has been created to guide you through the process of creating a workable SharePoint strategy. Introduction to Using Kendo UI in SharePoint Online – A “How To” Series This article series will provide the web developer with a detailed “How To” guide to using the the HTML5 and JavaScript framework Kendo UI by Progress in SharePoint Online. Query the Office Graph in SharePoint Framework client-side web parts Using the Office Graph you can retrieve information and insights that help your users be more productive. To show you how to do this in SharePoint Framework client-side web parts, SharePoint Patterns and Practices published a number of sample web parts. Read this blog post to get more details. Rollout Update: SharePoint Online "team news" begins rollout to First Release customers This post serves both as a reminder of what the "team news" is and provides details of the expected roll out plan.

Tools Setting Administrators on all SharePoint Online Site Collections Currently, there is no way how you automatically assign users or groups as site collection administrators in your tenant. And while you can manage the settings per site collection in the SharePoint Online Administration area of the Office 365 portal, doing so for dozens or hundreds of sites is not a productive use of time. Find the way how to automate those operations and save your time

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

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