Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

SharePoint Patterns & Practices – November 2017 update

November 13, 2017 Nov 13, 2017 11/13/17

Vesa Juvonen

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 to what was included with the release and what else has been happening in the SharePoint Dev ecosystem during the past month.

Announcing Script Lab improvements

November 12, 2017 Nov 12, 2017 11/12/17

Office Add-ins team

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 Garage project.

Custom Functions in Excel: Developer Preview

November 6, 2017 Nov 6, 2017 11/6/17

Office Add-ins team

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

Announcing improved support in SharePoint Framework for Office UI Fabric Core

October 31, 2017 Oct 31, 2017 10/31/17

SharePoint team

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 Fabric delivers a robust and consistent design language across various experiences such as modern team sites, modern pages, and modern lists.

New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – October 2017

October 27, 2017 Oct 27, 2017 10/27/17

Vesa Juvonen

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 release again contains updates on the existing SharePoint and Project CSOM assemblies.

Outlook REST API v1.0, Office 365 Discovery, and Live Connect API deprecation

October 26, 2017 Oct 26, 2017 10/26/17

Microsoft Graph team

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 become obsolete, because they no longer provide the best way to interact with Office 365 data.

Migrating from Outlook REST API v1.0 to Microsoft Graph

October 26, 2017 Oct 26, 2017 10/26/17

Microsoft Graph team

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, we’ve released major enhancements in Outlook REST API v2.0 and Microsoft Graph, both of which provide richer features, and better performance and reliability than Outlook REST API v1.0.

Migrating from the Office 365 Discovery Service to Microsoft Graph to Discover a SharePoint Root Site 

October 26, 2017 Oct 26, 2017 10/26/17

Microsoft Graph team

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 single endpoint.

Updated Guidance around SharePoint Web Service Identification and Throttling

October 24, 2017 Oct 24, 2017 10/24/17

SharePoint team

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. Please read our updated documentation to learn the latest around throttling for SharePoint in Office 365.

SharePoint PnP Partner Story – Aequos – Building SharePoint Intranet for IDRC

October 17, 2017 Oct 17, 2017 10/17/17

Vesa Juvonen

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 services and solutions for Office 365 and SharePoint on-premises.